topic Re: Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pull any options in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pulling any options

MPach — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:11:01 GMT

I've seen the other posts on this subject and I've tried to troubleshoot based on those, but none of them seemed to help me.

These are the 3 I read:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/autocomplete-search-not-pulling-options-for/m-p/1340241

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/search-autocomplete-not-pulling-options-for/m-p/1621912#M62918

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/search-appearance-not-pulling-data/m-p/1178003#M42946

I've attached my Excel spreadsheet for the survey form. The fields that I can't get to function are in rows 8 and 9 of the spreadsheet (AddressSelection and REIDSelection). I'm attempting to allow the user to choose to search our Parcels layer found at the REST endpoint here: https://services2.arcgis.com/G5vR3cOjh6g2Ed8E/ArcGIS/rest/services/Parcels_NEW/FeatureServer/0

by either an address or a REID. I know the layer is allowed to be queried, but it won't seem to populate data. It is a fairly large feature service with ~135k rows so I was wondering if that might be part of the problem.

One thing I wasn't sure about is since I am using the same feature service twice in this survey is if it needs a unique table name each time. I believe I've tried it both ways, once with the same name and once without and neither seemed to work so I don't think it's the problem, but I'd still be curious to know if it matters.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Mark

Re: Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pull any options

Neal_t_k — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:44:21 GMT

What are you seeing? They appear to be working for me. However with 135k options I believe they return 2000 (max record count). So if you are not seeing the search return all the possibilities, that may be the culprit. Is there was a way to filter your searches prior to those questions? Maybe a map question and return a point in polygon to filter the results.

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Re: Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pull any options

MPach — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:55:56 GMT

Good question Neal. So I actually had this survey working fine with a map previously, however, I am being "strongly encouraged" to make the survey ADA compliant because we're a local government and doing this is one way to assure our TS department will approve the use of survey's. I basically I had to reimagine the way I was doing things that already worked, so this is the approach I'm going with.

Neal, what version of Survey123 Connect did you try it in? Did you have to publish it to see it working or was it working in the Survey123 Connect test enviornment?

Thanks,

Mark

Re: Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pull any options

Neal_t_k — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:06:08 GMT

Connect 3.25.27. Just in connect, I didn't publish.

Re: Need help with Autocomplete Search() function not pull any options

MPach — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:12:33 GMT

I think I might have figured the problem out. I think I was logged into our Enterprise Portal account and not our ArcGIS Online account. Seems to have fixed the issue. It's always something silly, ugh! Thank you for your help.