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Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:15:08 GMT

I'm new to Survey123, and I'm using Connect for ArcGIS Survey123. How can I set up my form so that when I have my list of items instead of using a checkbox to check an item ON, I use a text box so the field user can enter a quantity.

So in the attached example, I want to place a "3" in the box to the left of "Bench" to request three benches and "100" in the box to the left of "Brick" to request one hundred bricks.

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

BrandonArmstrong — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:50:43 GMT

Hi John,

A method that you can use to accomplish the desired design of your survey is to use grid style groups. You can see how they can be applied in the animation provided below. I have attached the XLSForm that I used in order to design this survey so that you can review it as an example. In addition, we have a 'Grid Style Groups' sample available in Survey123 Connect.

Find documentation related to 'theme-grid' here...

Appearance—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS

Hope this helps!

Best,

Brandon

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:45:35 GMT

Brandon Armstrong‌ I need a little more help. I'm trying to figure out how to add a page to my survey. So I want to start off with Date, Name, Incident Number and Location. Then I want that page to go away and have the new page {material; Bench, Bin, Block} page come up. I think I understand the begin/end/repeat groups - but how do I manage pages?

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

DougBrowning — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:40:30 GMT

First change the settings tab style to 'pages' (or 'theme-grid pages' if you want to use grid and pages). Then for each group if you want it to be a page give it a appearance of field-list.

See the help for more Appearance—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:27:00 GMT

Doug Browning‌ Thank you for the response.

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

DougBrowning — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 20:33:57 GMT

You can mix and match pages and grids. You just have to set the page to w1. That way each field gets its own row. You will still see grid lines around everything but 123 team said they are working on a style to take those out.

To collapse groups use the appearance of minimal or compact I forget.

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:53:17 GMT

Doug Browning‌ thank you for the response.

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

Anonymous User — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:02:14 GMT

Within the "appearance" column you want to make sure to keep the width of the grid-theme by entering it like this "w4 field-list"

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:16:33 GMT

Mike Bruening Doug Browning Brandon Armstrong I'm stuck. When I answer a yes_no with yes, I want to go to a different page and ask another question. I have that set up and working, except that the shows up in the page the numbers. Let me rephrase that, along one branch of questions there should be 6 pages, along a separate branch there should only be 4 pages. However, I always have 6 pages. Any suggestions? When I enter "field-list" in the 'appearance' column is the page going to show up no matter what - or - can I make the page optional based on a reply?

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

DougBrowning — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:21:38 GMT

You cannot hide full pages. They will just be blank.

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

John_RMellor__GISP — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:22:55 GMT

Would there be a better option than blank pages?

Re: Survey123 using XLSFORM, quantities

Anonymous User — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:57:02 GMT

John, it is true that you cannot hide a full page, but this sounds like a very useful idea and should be added as an https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas page. I have a form which contains a series of pages that are driven by relevant questions and it would be nice to skip over the pages that do not require answers.

You could simply place a not on the page that states this is just a place holder and to please proceed to the next page. You should be able to use a note question with an if() that is relevant to the answer of the page limiting question in terms of the note displaying at the top of the page or not?

The other option would be to have your survey setup as a series of "Groups" that would be visible based on the answer to the question leaving you with 4 or 6 groups of questions that could be answered. The only issue would be the number of questions that you had on the original pages and how far down the user would have to scroll down to answer all questions.