topic Re: Change Apperance based on a conditional statement in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Change Apperance based on a conditional statement

JuanEsquivel — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:06:07 GMT

I am trying to change the appearance field based on a conditional statement. For example, if selected(${more_users},"no") then set the appearance to hidden, else set it to the default value. aside from that I don't know if placing that statement on the appearance field is correct. If not please guide me.

This is what I came up with, not sure if I'm on the right path.

if(${more_users} = "Yes", "", "hidden")

Re: Change Apperance based on a conditional statement

abureaux — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:20:02 GMT

What you are looking for is the relevant or body::esri::visible fields. Just put your statement in one of those two fields.

E.g., if(selected(${more_users},'Yes'), 'yes', '')

Edit. Forgot to give a general explanation of the difference between these fields.

Field

General explanation

Relevant

While hidden, a field ceases to exist.

E.g., User input will disappear and reset to default. Also, a field hidden by 'relevant' that is required will be ignored when submitting.

body::esri::visible

While hidden, the field still exists.

E.g., User input will be maintained. A field hidden by 'body::esri::visible' that is required must contain data.

Re: Change Apperance based on a conditional statement

DougBrowning — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:27:51 GMT

Actually you need a true statement, you do not use yes as the return. Just selected(${more_users},'Yes') does the trick. yes is just for the user drop down but it is any true or false statement. Using yes or '' does not always work.

Re: Change Apperance based on a conditional statement

abureaux — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:30:37 GMT

Right. I usually just copy-paste IF statements around because they work in more than one type of field.

It hasn't been my experience for this to fail. Do you have a specific scenario, or just something you have seen from time-to-time?