topic Create a table or question with multiple text answers? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Create a table or question with multiple text answers?

TarynBrahmsteadt — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:52:43 GMT

My team and I are trying to transition our botany data sheets to use on iPads. We have several questions formatted as tables, including one for recording species, where our columns are species, height class, % cover, and vegetation type. Is there a way to format this type of question on Survey123? If so, can you add lines out in the field so you can have as many or as few rows as you need? If not, is there a way to link a simple table within a different app or something?

Re: Create a table or question with multiple text answers?

DougBrowning — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:02:38 GMT

Yes and no. You can create grids now that have multiple fields on one row. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-groups-grids-and-pages/ba-p/895267

But you cannot grow the repeat down yet. You must use the plus arrow to add each one.

Update the idea here

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-ideas/table-view-for-repeats/idi-p/938544

Hope that helps.

Re: Create a table or question with multiple text answers?

AngelNicoleAlvaro1 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:58:39 GMT

Hi, Doug. Can you please send the XLS form that you used for your example above? I'm still new in learning the grids in Survey123. Thank you.

Re: Create a table or question with multiple text answers?

DougBrowning — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:54:45 GMT

Sorry I cannot. But all you do is start a group and give that group the total width you want. Then each field you can tell it how much of that width to use. Each time you hit the max width you get a new line.

Use the appearance column for this.

Here is the width at 14 then a 2 + 12 = first group, 2 + 4 +4 +4 is second group and so on.

Hope that makes sense

Re: Create a table or question with multiple text answers?

AngelNicoleAlvaro1 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:12:11 GMT

Thanks, Doug! Understood this completely.