topic Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

MaazaMekuria — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:34:54 GMT

I made an informational form and wanted to disable the or at least make invisible the Submit button. Anyway I can do that without resorting to creating the form outside Survey123?

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

Anonymous User — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:55:34 GMT

Hi Mazza,

Are you referring to the field app or web app? Can you expand more on the use case of not allowing the user to submit a survey? Are you displaying previously entered data or passing information via url scheme? Or are you just displaying notes and using it as an informational html web page?

Currently it is not possible to hide the submit button in field app or web app as a survey is designed to collect survey responses. If you think it is a good idea and other users may benefit from it, I suggest you create it as an idea on the ArcGIS Ideas page and hopefully other users vote for it and we can access this as a new enhancement.

Phil.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

MaazaMekuria — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 02:31:48 GMT

Yes, I want to show some relevant information to an existing Survey, and may need to pass something to the user, but even if it does not pass information, the ability to have an informational form without the submission URL link would be very useful to us. I don't want to clutter the survey or make it more complicated to the average user. But those who need special information I wanted to add a link to another form where the relevant details can be queried. I would like to have the ability to create informational forms that draw-out data from any dataset just like a survey form, but they are only for informational purposes and donot collect information.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

PrachiPatel — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 22:22:33 GMT

@MaazaMekuria Did you find a solution? I would definitely thumbs up this idea if you have it on ArcGIS Ideas.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

AaronPDXPaul — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:05:30 GMT

We have a Survey123 that if conditions are not met, then we don't want the user to Submit. If they try to Submit, an error message appears at the top. Saying that required fields weren't entered. But that's by design. If they answer no to certain questions, we purposefully hide the other questions. Is there a way to grey out or hide the Submit Button?

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

Anonymous User — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:24:17 GMT

Hi @AaronPDXPaul

It is possible to hide the submit button in the web app using URL parameters when launching the web form. The parameter to use is hide=submit. Please refer to following documentation:

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/reference/integratewithotherapps.htm#GUID-D38D44E2-8CBA-4030-8925-AD8A9F68D4F3

As for the Survey123 field app, there is currently no way to disable or hide the submit button. However you can use a relevant/conditional question at the end of survey, right before the submit button, that has a constraint on it, so that when the value doesn't match, the constraint throws a custom message and/or displays a note in big red letters that says "This survey can not be submitted". You can build up the constraint to be based on several other questions or values in the survey that must be met for it to be submitted.

This can also be done for web app too if you want the submit button to be conditional versus hiding it all the time using above URL parameter.

Regards,

Phil.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

m3 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:34:10 GMT

If anyone is looking to disable their submit button, the accepted solution sort of gives you what you are looking for but it's more complicated than that.

In my case I want to disable the button if they select "Private" in a question named "public_or_private"

I added a text row to Connect that contains

Name: disable_submit

Label:   (if you don't want a visible label)

Required: yes

Readonly: yes

Calculation:
if(selected(${public_or_private}, 'Private'),${public_or_private},'')

Plain english calculation translates to:
if selected is "Private" return what it says - which happens to be "Private", otherwise return what's between the '' at the end

In my case what's in the '' at the end happens to be a unicode zero width space because a space didn't work, you can put a - or * or . or whatever you like in there, I just need my submit to not work when it's "Private" and don't want it to say anything in the area otherwise

Constraint:
${public_or_private} != 'Private'

constraint_message::default
The submit button is disabled because the property owner type is:

Then the rest of the survey has
relevant:
${public_or_private} != 'Private'

except one field that I want show when the select "Private"

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

ShariF — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:26:51 GMT

If possible can you provide your xlxs form as an example? I'm trying to do the same thing. Thank you.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

m3 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:20:23 GMT

Sanitized spreadsheet, let me know if I messed it up cleaning it up

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

ShariF — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:44:17 GMT

Thank you so much! I followed your logic but it took a bit of trial and error. Brilliant solution. Thank you.

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

AaronPDXPaul — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:59:50 GMT

I also got this to work.

Brilliant.

Now, can esri please implement into the core of the product somehow?

Thank you

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

AaronPDXPaul — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:12:38 GMT

Can the error message be styled to look "better"?

Something besides red box and red lettering.

Thank you

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

m3 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:32:14 GMT

At the time I figured this out, that part of the form accepted very little HTML, if any. Unless ESRI updated S123 to allow more CSS or HTML, then probably not still

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

ZachBodenner — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:35:24 GMT

This is such a nice solution, I was able to use this to deny submission if the drawn-in feature intersected with some areas that we don't want people working in. I used three questions:

1. Name: getNoBuild, Label: No Build Area (not important, since it's hidden), Appearance: Hidden, bind::esri:fieldtype: null, Calculation: pulldata("@layer", "getValueAt", "attributes.AreaName","<Service Name>", ${polyline})

2. Name: calcNoBuild, Label: Calc No Build (not important, since it's hidden), Appearance: Hidden, bind::esri:fieldtype: null, Calculation: if(string-length(${getNoBuild})>0,1,0)

3. Name: denySubmit, Label: Notice:, Required: Yes, ReadOnly: Yes, Relevent: ${calcNoBuild}=1, bind::esri:fieldtype: null, Calculation: if(string-length(${getNoBuild})>0,1,0), Hint: Row work in this area is currently not allowed. Please contact city staff for more information

Thank you!

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

AaronPDXPaul — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:22:44 GMT

@ZachBodenner Can you provide a link to the live sample or some screen shots of what the solution looks like?

I'm wanting to format the "Message" to not be a Red Box with Red Text.

Or, do you know how to format the message that says what the Form can't be submitted?

Re: Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form

ShariF — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:09:35 GMT

You could create a note then use relevancy to show the note, for example, when another field is left blank, for example: string-length(${otherfield}) <1). However, even the note doesn't have a whole lot of html customization that I found.

This is the solution I came up with for people to type in their address and find out when trash pickup is for their location. When at least 6 characters are typed into the address bar, several notes will show below: