topic Dynamically set group and note label, or hint contents in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Dynamically set group and note label, or hint contents

Trippetoe — Mon, 22 May 2017 20:27:06 GMT

Is there a way to set dynamically the label content for a Group or note, or even the hint contents?

Below is an abbreviated version of my test survey. The survey compiles and loads fine, but there is no content, i.e. there is just empty space, where the Group header and note should be.

When i try to use dynamic content in the hint field, i get some different behavior depending on where (or if) a variable is used in the string.

Re: Dynamically set group and note label, or hint contents

MichaelKelly — Tue, 23 May 2017 07:43:25 GMT

I don't believe it is possible to dynamically set values in the label field just yet, but you can use a note combined with a calculation to dynamically display text:

type	name	label	calculation
text	someText	Enter some text…
decimal	someNumber	Enter a number…
note	note	Summary	concat("This is your text:\n\n", ${someText}, "\n\nThis is your number…\n\n", ${someNumber})

Re: Dynamically set group and note label, or hint contents

Trippetoe — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:19:27 GMT

Thanks Michael.

I have been toying around with calculated note contents. It works OK. The approach still requires (at least) two separate lines of screen space - one for the note Label and one for the note Contents. I've been trying to preserve screen space by having the note take up a single line, and i mostly convinced that that isn't possible.

On a tangential note - any idea how to format the calculated text of a note's comments? I've tried adding the html formatting within the 'concat' function, but it seems to be ignored. For example, this has no impact on the color or size of the text:

concat("<font color=blue size='small'>",${starttime},"00 - ", ${starttime}, "14</font>")

and inserted the concat function between the <font></font> tags forces a compile time error.

Thanks again.