topic Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

BonnieWeller1 — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:38:56 GMT

I have a repeat section that records details about a species sighting at a particular location. If this location has multiple sightings, the user has to enter a separate record for each sighting. Under these circumstances, many of the fields would most likely be the same. Is there a way that I can have a yes no question asking if they want to load data from the previous entry, and if Yes, populate some of the fields with this information? It would be a tremendous time saver.

If so, how?

Many thanks in advance.

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

JamesTedrick — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:29:04 GMT

Hi Bonnie,

Currently Survey123 does not support this. To implement this feature, the indexed-repeat function will need to be supported, this will allow a repeat to reference another repeat within a form.

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

BonnieWeller1 — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:34:12 GMT

Bummer, I expect to hear lots of complaints from our field biologists on the absence of this feature. Is it on your to-do list? If so, what is the estimated time for implementation?

Thanks for responding. I appreciate it.

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Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

JamesTedrick — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 19:36:13 GMT

Hi Bonnie,

Yes, it is on the enhancement list, though we don't have a solid timeline for implementing this feature.

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

Anonymous User — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:08:29 GMT

id love to see this feature as well.

thank you

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

NathanDulfon — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:05:21 GMT

Hello James,

I too am trying to prepopulate species names from a previous repeat into the next repeat....

I am trying to build a survey that is used to collect plant cover by species with frames along transects... so there are a lot of repeats in the form... I would like to drag species names from the first frame or transect to the rest of the repeated sections...

Is this possible?

And thank you for all your support...

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

JamesTedrick — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:47:31 GMT

Hi Nathan,

This is currently not possible to do with Survey123.

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

Anonymous User — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:38:39 GMT

James,

what is the max character length we can use in the url submission in passing data from Collector to Survey123? I am trying to pass through ~60k characters, but it always breaks down. when I pare that down to 5 or 6 questions (~1800 characters), the data goes through just fine.

thank you

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

Anonymous User — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:56:38 GMT

This would be a great feature, any updates on implementation?

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

DougBrowning — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:01:49 GMT

We do species also (for LPI). They wanted a "same as last" button like Access had. Of course cannot do that but we did something else that they like it.

Make a Defaults page where they can config a "default" pin drop like this

Then on the real pin drop have a Use Defaults Yes/No

This will allow for auto populate

Before

After

You can then use or not use a default for each drop. You can even change the defaults half way in and then use those. You can also use defaults then delete say lower1 really easy and it is still faster. Data team likes that they still have to specifically choose the default so that we know it was on purpose.

Add a calc like this

if(${UseDefaults}='Yes',${TopCanopyDefault},'')

Our crews love it so far. Hope it helps.

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

DataOfficer — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:45:40 GMT

I also need this functionality for our wildlife survey programme (see my community post here). Have there been any advances is this?

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

LauraGreen — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:31:13 GMT

Hi James,

I was just wondering if there has been any progress with the index-repeat function? I'm trying to pull entries from an earlier repeat, but I'm struggling to find a way to make this work.

Thanks

Re: Is it possible to auto-populate previous data into current data within a repeat?

PrachiPatel — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:04:15 GMT

Hey Doug,

When you say "Make a Defaults page where they can config a "default" pin drop like this" does it mean you made a separate survey for default values that folks fill out? or is it a page in survey 123 connect xls form?