topic Re: Passing feature attribute Code value instead of Label value in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Passing feature attribute Code value instead of Label value

mingster — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:40:05 GMT

I am using a custom URL scheme to prepopulate survey questions using the attributes from a selected feature in a web map. My question is, how should the Survey123 custom URL scheme be written so that it passes the Code value of a feature layer's attribute and not the Label value?

Thank you.

Re: Passing feature attribute Code value instead of Label value

jcarlson — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:42:32 GMT

How are you generating the URL? If you use Arcade, you'll be able to pull in the actual value, but other popup elements are actually calling DomainName($feature, fieldname) in the background. An expression lets you explicitly ask for $feature['fieldname'] instead.

Re: Passing feature attribute Code value instead of Label value

mingster — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:53:40 GMT

Hi Josh,

I used a basic URL scheme: arcgis-survey123://?itemID=227a34602bb44d309b24f5f06dfac989&field:location_type_ind_fs={sitetype}&field:wma_nm_ind={wma}. I need the Code values for sitetype and wma to prepopulate in Survey123.

I did not think about using Arcade! So I should create Arcade expressions to ask for $feature['fieldname'] for these fields and replace the values within the curly brackets with those expressions?

Thank you for your help!

Re: Passing feature attribute Code value instead of Label value

jcarlson — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:27:53 GMT

Yes, you've about got it. You can do it a number of ways, but I like using template literals to build URLs, like this:

var field1 = $feature['some_field'] var field2 = $feature['another_field'] return `survey-url?itemid=someID&field:field1=${field1}&field:field2=${field2}`