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Allow users to overwrite calculated expressions in Map Viewer Forms/Field Maps

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09-16-2024 12:32 PM
Status: Open
ChristopherJStrong
Occasional Contributor

Currently, you can use Forms in web map viewer to auto-populate fields, which is very slick and works great.

However, if you use a calculated expression to, say add today's date to a field, the user cannot override that date entry to enter something different.

Yes, there are a number of workarounds for this, but they have annoying downsides.  This article suggests adding an additional "Change Date?" field, which when toggled uses logic to allow editing a field that was previously locked because it was using Calculated Expressions.  This works, yes, but now we have to manage this new field - values must be reset after each use to reapply the calculated expression.  This is not ideal, and further, adding schema just for a simple override is also not ideal.

Can we just build functionality that allows users to update a field with Calculated Expressions?  Like how default values are used, generally?

There is another Idea which is marked as Solved, but it is not solved, as it uses another workaround of adding fields instead of addressing the actual issue.