topic Re: Required Questions that Prevent User from Submitting until the End of the Survey in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Required Questions that Prevent User from Submitting until the End of the Survey

emoreno — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:35:42 GMT

Good morning,

We had an interesting request from an end user that I'm not too sure how to accomplish nor have found any documentation on if it is possible.

Essentially, we have a survey that has multiple pages, and each page has multiple required questions. The end user wants to be able to go through the different pages of the survey without having filled out the required questions on the page, as sometimes they need to move forward before they can respond to the questions on the page they are currently on. Ultimately, however, almost all questions on all pages will need to be filled out before the survey is submitted.

Is there a way to allow the end user to move to different pages without filling out the required questions, and just prevent them from submitting should a required question not be filled out?

Thank you!

Re: Required Questions that Prevent User from Submitting until the End of the Survey

ZenMasterZeke — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:55:12 GMT

They should be able to click through, or click the page number, in the footer area. You may also want to reconsider the order of your pages or questions, if possible, if answers depend on one farther along.

Re: Required Questions that Prevent User from Submitting until the End of the Survey

Neal_t_k — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:48:49 GMT

What platform, field app or web app are they using. If the field app, then as @ZenMasterZeke said, you can move to any page without filling out required questions.

If they are filling out the web app, on each page you have to fill out the required fields. If you wanted you could make all the required fields conditionally required and put the question you are basing that on at the end of the form. Make a required question like "Ready to Submit" and have only "yes" as an option. Then make all the other required questions conditionally required on that question being yes. That should allow users to move freely through the prior pages, and then have them turn on the requirements prior to submitting which would force them to go back and fix any requirements they missed.

Re: Required Questions that Prevent User from Submitting until the End of the Survey

abureaux — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:48:59 GMT

This sounds like web. The field app lets you to from page to page without filling in all required fields. Conversely, the web app requires each page to be filled in before going to the next.

Use a question on the last page of the survey. E.g., "Survey Complete?" As a "Yes/No".
Then make a calculate that uses this question
Reference this calculate in each question's "required" column that you want to be dynamically required.

E.g.,

and