topic Re: Hide repeat label and minimize spacing? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Hide repeat label and minimize spacing?

kpmcgurk — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:03:47 GMT

I am trying to hide the label of a repeat section to save space on my form and eliminate header redundancy. I have accomplished this by using an empty html tag <b></b> in this case. The problem is that still creates a large blank space where that label would otherwise be printed. Is there anyway to collapse this "whitespace"?

Attached:

Header spacing.png: Red box in attached screenshot of the space I'd like to eliminate
no_header.png: What it should look like
header_xls.png: XLSForm screenshot for this element.

The issue I have is that a lot of my form users are intuitively pressing the arrow button to bring them to the next page instead of the + button to add another repeat element. This is causing confusion that I believe could be alleviated by eliminating this whitespace to ensure the form fits 100% on one screen to make the + button visible without scrolling.

Thank you in advance!

Survey123 Connect App v3.11, Template Version 3.11, Sept 22, 2020

Re: Hide repeat label and minimize spacing?

DougBrowning — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:11:10 GMT

There was talk of adding a way to do this but I have not seen it come out yet.

You could try an HTML space instead of a new line. (remove spaces) & n b s p ;

Hope that helps

Re: Hide repeat label and minimize spacing?

kpmcgurk — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:55:45 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion Doug!

Unfortunately using non-breakable space does not change the behavior in this instance.

I would be very interested in more complete methods for controlling element spacing. I understand if this is outside the use-case intention for Survey123

-Kyle

Re: Hide repeat label and minimize spacing?

IanGallo — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:57:17 GMT

I would also be interested in this functionality!