topic Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:12:11 GMT

Hello,

I created a survey using Connect, but want to collect data using the browser.

The geopoint question requires the responder to drop on the point on the map, but when I click on the survey map in the browser, nothing happens. When I do the same operation on Survey123 app (android), it works fine.

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

Neal_t_k — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:03:15 GMT

Can you share any more details or screen shots of the behavior? Can you still pan/zoom the map? Are there any calculations on the geopoint question?

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:29:26 GMT

Hello @Neal_t_k

The following are the settings on the geopoint:

appearance: press-to-locate
default: null
constraint: pulldata("@layer", "getRecordAt", "https....", ${location}) (appears as blue outline polygon on the map)

Despite these settings, the map attempts to detect the location of the device.

Gives more error messages when it shouldn't.

Then when I try to click within the blue line to drop a point, this is what happens.

(view in My Videos)

Thanks for your help.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

Neal_t_k — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:04:25 GMT

It appears your constraint isn't setup quite right according to the following post: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/constraining-a-geopoint-answer-to-a-given-area/td-p/1226819

getRecordAt pulls a json so you either need another helper to pull the attribute you wish to match or include it in your pulldata: pulldata("@layer", "getValueAt","attributes.YOURFIELDNAME", "https....", ${location})

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-pulldata-quot-layer/ba-p/1224415

Then you need to match it to something. So if I am understanding correctly, you should move the pulldata into a helper field. Create another helper field for your match, I am guessing it could be static. And then in your constraint, set the two helper fields equal to eachother

helperfield1 = "MatchingTermtoPolygon"

helperfield2 = pulldata("@layer", "getValueAt","attributes.YOURFIELDTHATMATCHES", "https....", ${location}) with location will be your geopoint question.

then in the constraint ${helperfield1}=${helperfield2}

Hope that makes sense.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:26:53 GMT

Thanks @Neal_t_k. I did look through the posts that you shared before I started working on this solution.

I modified the getRecordAt expression because I was not trying to pull any value from the polygon layer, but only to use it as a kind of geofence. And, as I mentioned, it works in the Survey123 mobile app without any problem but fails to work in the browser version.

I will try to figure out how incorporate the original expression and make it work.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

Neal_t_k — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:18:21 GMT

@dsinha So you just want to make sure that the capture is inside the blue line. what if you did something like this:

constraint: string-length(pulldata("@layer", "getValueAt","attributes.ANYFIELD", "https....", ${location}))>0

I changed it to getValueAt instead of getRecordAt, and you should be able to put any field that is not null. This should pull the content of a field and evaluate as greater than 0 if inside the polygon and should evaluate as 0 if outside the polygon.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

Neal_t_k — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:16:47 GMT

@dsinha Did some further testing, the constraint in the geopoint question is causing your original issue, if you remove it, it should work, Then you will have to configure a constraint on a separate note field, it should act the same, not letting a user submit until the constraint is validated.

Edit: Added Example (Could use some fine tuning, but should be working) I used a watershed polygon feature for an the example. If in the US should work, outside of US should trigger the constraint. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5bbefdcd2511472ea9abd0afedb85c7e

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:17:18 GMT

Thanks @Neal_t_k, took your suggestion to pass on the constraint validation to different fields using this example

Now its working in the browser version.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:04:28 GMT

Just wanted to add that I ran into a "Failed to submit error". Followed the suggestion here and set bind::esri:fieldLength to 50000 for the first pulldata field, and the error disappeared.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

Neal_t_k — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:10:16 GMT

You could set bind::esri:fieldType = null for that question, if you don't need to capture it. Then you don't have to worry about it.

Re: Cannot enter location on browser, works on app

dsinha — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:21:12 GMT

Thanks @Neal_t_k. This solution is more elegant.