topic Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

swayte_e911 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:14:17 GMT

I have a parcel layer within my interactive map to assist submitter in locating requests location. This allows my staff to confirm the correct property is in the request and makes it very easy for us to zoom to the point w/o using a locate tool. The Question is tagged as required. However, submitters are seeing the map zoom to the location and a "pin" is present and they are not manually clicking the pin to create the georeferenced point. This was not happening prior to the May 9th update to survey. Essentially, even though the question is required, the submissions are coming through without the data. Why? Any thoughts on forcing the constraint in some manner beyond just "required". I have updated the question to say you must manually click... but you know how that goes. Thanks for any recommendation's.

Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

DougBrowning — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:17:49 GMT

What I do is set the default of the geopoint question to 0,0 then it starts blank like this

Have not tested in the web app but worth a shot.

Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

swayte_e911 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:27:37 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately the submission went through without geometry captured when default was removed. I don't see an option to set to (0,0).

Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

DougBrowning — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:37:27 GMT

Sorry I thought you said it was defaulting to current location and you did not want that. My bad. In your screen shot though the long value is 2.8? That seems odd.

Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

swayte_e911 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:04:58 GMT

It was defaulting to Center of the map extent...and yes the Lon in snapshot is odd. Not sure why that happened. However, based on your suggestion I switched to No Default Location, thinking that if no geometry is captured the question would be considered as unanswered and thus not adhere to "required". Not the case. Apparently by typing anything in the "find address or place" box the question is considered answered and submits accordingly without the pin drop and without the geometry captured.

Re: Required Interactive Map Pin not prohibiting submission of form

ZenMasterZeke — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:51:23 GMT

Possible (untested) things you could try:

Add a check in the constraint column that values can't be null
Add a required question about whether the user clicked the map
If users are on site, just capture the location yourself
Arcade, as of Enterprise 11.3 and AGOL, has a variable called $userInput that can capture the location. Not sure exactly how that would work in S123, just throwing it out there