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It seems that after this update my conditional statements within my reports page are no longer working. They all start with ${conditional statement} and end with ${/} and none of them appear within the report page at all anymore. Can you please provide some assistance.
Ismael Chivite: Great work on this release! The polygon/line support will go a long way to solve some non-starter workflow issues that some folks have had.
Unfortunately, I'm writing to report what looks like a regression in 3.6 possibly caused by the fix for BUG-000124014. The issue is that repeats with required fields appear as minimal, no longer showing when the relevancy is met. This is critical to one of my client MDOT SHA's most used forms. The use case is, "when rating condition is dire (3,4,or 5), require at least one photo in a repeat." In the past, selecting a dire rating would immediately show the first repeat with all the required fields within it shown. Now, only the minimal-appearance-looking plus-sign shows up. No appearance is set for the repeat. Here's two GIFs showing the before and after conditions.
Before
The required photo appears when the relevancy is met
After
The required fields don't show up and I can submit without validation errors
Elliott Plack Thanks for your comment. I had a preliminary look at this and I confirm that the behavior in 3.6 is different than in previous versions, in that a repeat in 3.6 will show no records if its previous state was non-relevant. In previous versions, the repeat would show one record (unless the appearance is set to minimal).
You were taking advantage of the pre-3.6 behavior of having one record show in the repeat automatically added when the repeat was relevant. You made questions in the repeat required,forcing users to complete the information in the record that was automatically added. The approach works except if a user deletes the record that was automatically added. Without a record in the repeat, the required flag on the question was useless for your purpose.
I am not negating here that the behavior has changed. This was done to address a number of other issues and we need to discuss internally if more adjustments are needed. We appreciate your note.
Back to your form, I believe that if you need users to submit a photo within the repeat when the condition is dire, a better approach would be to complement your required repeat questions with a constraint to check that you have at least one repeat record. As shown below:
type
name
label
required
constraint
select_one rating
rating
Rating
if(${rating}>2,count(${photos})>0,true)
begin repeat
photos
Photos
text
comment
Comment
yes
image
photo
Photo
yes
end repeat
You could also add a note question with the following relevant expression to warn users about the need to add a photo:
if(${rating}>2,count(${photos})<1,false)
Having the repeat show an empty record like prior to 3.6 was handy, no question, but again we need to discuss internally how much trouble that would create somewhere else.
Single choice grid is blowing my mind! I am going to use that immediately. Thanks for the update. Excited about all the bug fixes. Also, I didn't realize I could like your implementation of relevant statements more than I already do, but I think that's what just happened.
Great work, team! Happy Hobbit Day! May Samwise be with you.
I can't seem to get the single choice grid to work on a survey with multiple pages (groups with appearance type 'field-list'). I added a group within page 3 of my survey and configured the subsequent questions to be a single choice grid, and the questions don't appear at all in the survey. When I remove the 'field-list' appearance from my survey making it all one page, the single choice grid works great. Can you have a 'table-list' group within a 'field-list' group?
Do you have the style set to theme-grid pages? (and not just theme-grid)
Also be aware that when you go to grid the entire form goes grid. So you have to set sizes everywhere. The easiest way is just set to w1 then all questions get their own line.
I don't have grid set at all. I didn't think these question types require a grid theme? The single choice grid works properly when I remove my 5 page breaks (field-list appearance) and just have a survey with 1 page.
Unfortunately, there is a limitation in working with the single choice grid and pages - both use the 'field-list' appearance (for the single choice grid, it's behind the scenes).
I'm not familiar with what PAG is; that being said, if you are looking at a form that has already been published, you will need to update it to use the current version of the web app. You can do this by either:
A) Republishing the Survey with the 3.6 version of Survey123 Connect or the website
or
B) In the Survey123, click on the form and then go to Settings. In the 'Version' section, select 'Always use the latest version'
"BUG-000118801An existing secured ArcGIS Server feature service added to ArcGIS Online with credentials saved is not be able to attach images when using the web browser to submit the survey (the data is submitted, but not the attachments)."
I was pleasantly surprised to see this issue fixed with the new update. However, I updated Survey123 and the issue still occurs. When I submit the survey using the web browser, the attachment does not go through. I am getting the "Failed to submit - Object is missing" error. The rest of the survey data submits with no issues.
We will want to make sure your web form is using the latest version (3.6). Did you publish the survey again? If you did, please open an official Esri Technical Support incident so an analyst can gather further information. This particular bug is a cross-over between ArcGIS Online and Survey123 so we will need to look at the details of your particular case to diagnose properly.
Looking forward to diving into some of these new features. I just downloaded and installed the new version (3.6.137) and wanted to play with some of the new options (grid theme, table-list etc) on an existing survey because we'll likely want to incorporate a few of them on it. I created a new survey from the existing one, but when I open the XLSForm, none of the new options are there. I had thought that since I am using the new version of the software, the XLSForm would automatically open with the updated setup but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is there any way I can fix this without recreating the whole thing?
Hi Tara Boswell If you create a New Survey using the Advanced template, you will see the geotrace and geoshape questions listed in the type column dropdown. The field-list appearance is also present in the appearance column. In the case of theme-grid, you need to manually type it in the style column of the settings spreadsheet.
The new question types and appearances will NOT automatically show in old surveys. It would be too error prone for us to attempt to update your own spreadsheets. The link Doug Browning shares above will help you bring contents from your old survey into the new template. Alternatively, you can also add the new question types and appearances into your old form as described in https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2019/09/15/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-microsoft-...
If you want to see some of these new features in action I recommend you try the Survey123 Connect Samples: "Geotrace and Geoshape" and "Grid Style Groups".
We have had other customers respond that the symptom of failure to submit using a proxied page is not working with BUG-000118801 resolved. Could I ask you to review Survey123: Web Browser "Failed to submit. Hide details - Object is Missing."? This thread describes the specific error message seen; currently, this has been diagnosed as an issue with the ArcGIS Server. I would encourage you to open a support ticket with Esri to either troubleshoot if this appears different or add yourself to the bug regarding this specific behavior.
1. Is there any way to invert the single choice grid? For example, put the choices vertically on the left and the question label across the top? I have a a couple situations where I have 2-3 questions with the same 10-ish choices, so using a long inverted grid format instead of a wide format would fit better.
2. Will an equivalent single choice grid be available for select_multiple questions in a future release?
Thanks for this update. The scanner functionality is something that has plagued us. We will be deploying 100 tablets in early November. Do you expect any more releases prior to that? I ask because I expect to have to go into each tablet and uncheck all the scan code types except the one we are using.
I love the idea of the single choice grid but can't get it to work. I don't have any styles set and am not using field-list. I have a bunch of yes/no select one questions so I started a new group, and in the line of "begin group" I added "table-list" to the appearance. I added a row for each question, then end group - I still don't get the single choice grid format - what am I missing?
I'm implementing single choice grid on a new form, which is a checklist style form. It's a perfect fit.
One question comes up. When my list of questions is long, sometimes the user needs to scroll past where the options are visible at the top. In excel, you can set the view to always include that top pane with your column labels. Is there something like that formatting available? That is, I want my select_one choice labels to be visible, not just the radio buttons, for questions that are lower down on my table-list.
Please let me know if I am missing something. Thanks in advance, and still love it, regardless of how this turns out.
You can find the full description on the range question at Range—Survey123 for ArcGIS | Documentation . One thing to note is that this question type uses the parameters column, not the bind::Esriarameters column. The example above is produced with:
Thanks for the feedback. Our next release is planned for after November. Based on your description, it sounds like you would like to be able to set which encoding to use, correct?
Thanks for the feedback- you are correct that if the list of questions is longer than the screen, you can't see the labels for some questions. As a workaround, you could break up the question into blocks to ensure the header is visible- in most situations we've seen, it's often the case that questions can be grouped into sub-blocks based on what they are asking.
Is there ever going to be an option to allow for email notifications to be sent to an email list when a public user submits a survey online? I understand there are work arounds for those with server, but that is not an option for us. I am currently running a macro, three times a day, on a dedicated computer with the single purpose of checking for new records and emailing those records to those that need the information. This works, but presents it's own hassles. Thanks!
This is good information and I appreciate the response, but we are not able to use webhooks for a variety of security and financial reasons. So I'm still looking for an integrated approach.
Webhooks can be used with internal resources (you can develop an in-house receiver for the web hook payload to process the data), so that may be a solution if there are concerns with using an external system. In general, this would be preferable for most customers; if Survey123 were to implement an e-mail notification directly, the person receiving the e-mail would receive it from 'survey123 AT arcgis.com' or similar e-mail that may not be directly linkable to you and likely interpreted as spam.
Really? If you have Microsoft 365, then Power Automate (which contains Flow) is included.
I use the webhooks to email certain email addresses with Flow, and the email comes from me (my email address). It costs nothing, and it works perfectly.
Actually the system is blocking the connection to the email servers when trying to setup the flow. I probably just need to get help from IT.
REST API is not yet supported for this mailbox. This error can occur for sandbox (test) accounts or for accounts that are on a dedicated (on-premise) mail server.
Yes, the view and edit modes are available for surveys hosted on enterprise. That being said, attachments cannot be viewed or edited in the context of the form.
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