topic Re: Automatically Populating Surveyor Name from Sign-In Credentials in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Automatically Populating Surveyor Name from Sign-In Credentials

HariharNepal — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:23:26 GMT

How can i grab users name from the AOL aign-in credential?

In my survey, the “Surveyor’s Name” field used to a free‑text field, which allowed users to type their names manually. However, this often leads to inconsistent formatting—such as lower/upper case variations or including/excluding middle names.
To avoid these inconsistencies, is it possible to automatically populate the surveyor’s name directly from the AGOL sign‑in information? Since members must sign in to their AGOL accounts to use the survey, this would ensure accuracy and reduce manual input.
At the moment, I’m using a pulldata() function with a list of members stored in the media folder, and users select their names from a dropdown list. But if I can pull the name directly from the sign‑in credentials, I wouldn’t need to update the media file every time staff changes.

Re: Automatically Populating Surveyor Name from Sign-In Credentials

Neal_t_k — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:33:52 GMT

You can use the username question type to pull in the signed in user

Looks at the question type tab in your xlsx. You would just have to calculate your question to the user name as username question type is hidden.

Otherwise pulldata("@property", 'propertyname') if you want to calculate directly

Prepopulate a Submitter’s First and Last Name Using the Pulldata() Function in ArcGIS Surv

Prepopulate answers—ArcGIS Survey123 | Documentation

Re: Automatically Populating Surveyor Name from Sign-In Credentials

AlfredBaldenweck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:27:35 GMT

To piggyback here, this is my calculation I use

concat(pulldata("@property", "userFirstName"), " ", pulldata("@property", "userLastName"))

This yields "John Smith"