Did something change with grid layouts?

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03-18-2022 02:40 PM
Katherine_Clark
MVP Regular Contributor

Hello,

I've used grid layouts in surveys before, and I thought I understood how they worked...not that complicated of a concept. But today I was trying to start a new survey and none of the grid settings were working. For instance, if I set a group to have appearance w6, and then the next two questions to have appearance of w3, (so that only those two questions would be on a single line), it doesn't change anything and the entire group still shows 6 questions per line.

I even opened the sample Grid Layouts survey, and when I look at the preview in Survey123 Connect it looks extremely "wonky".

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This is what the preview looks like.

 

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This is the XLS form it's based on, provided by Esri.


What's going on?

 

Best,
Katherine
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IsmaelChivite
Esri Notable Contributor

May be you are running an old version of Connect? This is what I see:

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Also, if working with old forms, please check the style values in the XLSForm settings spreadsheet.  Theme-grid is supported for backwards compatibility, but it is recommended to use either the fixed-grid or dynamic-grid styles.

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IsmaelChivite
Esri Notable Contributor

May be you are running an old version of Connect? This is what I see:

IsmaelChivite_0-1647641254596.png

Also, if working with old forms, please check the style values in the XLSForm settings spreadsheet.  Theme-grid is supported for backwards compatibility, but it is recommended to use either the fixed-grid or dynamic-grid styles.

IsmaelChivite_1-1647641406174.png

 

 

LeonardBarnhill
Occasional Contributor

This has me worried also.  Is there a blog or training material on the difference between the new types of grid layout.  How will selecting a new grid layout affect previous forms - forms that look good in v3.13 and 3.14 for example with the theme-grid option?

Katherine_Clark
MVP Regular Contributor

Thanks Ismael. I updated my version of Connect to the latest version (3.14) and the grids appear to be working. Not sure why it would have stopped working in a previous version though, because it used to work...

I admit I was a bit "scared" to upgrade, as I've heard about so many issues after upgrading to 3.14. But, fingers crossed things will be fine since it's been a while now since the new version release. 

Thanks!

Best,
Katherine
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LeonardBarnhill
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I am glad to here it worked for some but I upgraded to v3.14.261 today and still do not have the new grid options.  Is there a newer version?  I am opening a form created in 3.13 that was set to theme-grid.  I am having the same "challenges" identified in the original post - appearance values in XLSForm are not reflected in the Survey123 form preview.

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