topic Re: Populate form fields from embedded Survey123 within web app / dashboard in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Populate form fields from embedded Survey123 within web app / dashboard

CPoynter — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 05:19:59 GMT

Configuration:

Web app / dashboard with map featuring a region/district dataset. Survey form embedded in the web app/dashboard to capture information to populate form fields.

Process:

Users search for a locality. Once the locality is found, the user clicks on the map and has both the locality name and the region/district name populate respective fields in the form.

Issue:

Is this process possible and can the question be repeated, such as, 'place I would visit first', and then 'place I would visit second'.

Re: Populate form fields from embedded Survey123 within web app / dashboard

DerrickWestoby — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:27:31 GMT

I do not believe it's possible exactly as you described. Pre-filling the form is done by a constructed URL with parameters, which can't be done when drawing from more than 1 feature layer. You could accomplish the 'place I would first visit' (IE: One place) by enriching your "district" dataset with another field that contains the "region" name (instead of trying to pull the respective values out of 2 different layers).

I cannot think of a way to let people pick a second place, though.

Here's one that I have embedded in a dashboard, with the "UAS Mapping (Completed)" list on the left being used to pre-fill some of the fields in the "Add New" S123 form (Could accomplish the same thing with pop-ups in that feature layer to launch in a new tab)

And here is how it's set up in the dashboard (highlighting that it's only drawing from one feature layer)

I suppose you might be able to accomplish drawing from more than one layer using the arcade expression functionality that's in there now, but I haven't ever tried.

Re: Populate form fields from embedded Survey123 within web app / dashboard

BrandonArmstrong — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:54:25 GMT

Something that might be of use, considering you'd like to be able to click on a layer in the map and have information transferred to the form.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/experience-builder/real-time/using-experience-builder-and-survey123-to-pass-attributes-and-geometry-from-one-layer-to-another/