topic Re: Default value in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Default value

deleted-user-Qx7R82cjFYrM — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:21:39 GMT

I am evaluating that when the question is not answered a predetermined value is entered, the option default is the only option, ? the field already appears filled

Re: Default value

JamesTedrick — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:13:17 GMT

Hi,

Default values are used to pre-populate a value, which can then be changed later. Is there an impact to the collection procedure if that is done compared to what you describe (if a question is blank on submittal, then provide a default value)? It is possible to simulate that workflow by having 2 fields:

1) The field for manual entry. This, however, would not be the field that submits data and would have a value of null in the bind:esri:fieldType column. For reference below, call this q1.

2) A hidden field to store the value. This would use the coalesce() function to provide a default value only if q1 is empty. The function for this is coalesce(${q1}, <DEFAULT_VALUE>).

Re: Default value

deleted-user-Qx7R82cjFYrM — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:18:17 GMT

Hi James Tedrick happens is that some questions in the survey should not be left blank, but rather with the value '0' when no data or numerical value is entered in some questions ( areas) so that it does not affect the calculation of the statistics after the data collection.

Thanks.