Hide Geopoint Map in Survey123

joerodmey · ‎07-12-2018

Looking to hide the Geopoint map in Survey123. Need to collect the location of the user from the coordinates that I'm passing to Survey via the custom URL. I do not want the user to see or edit these coordinates.

Any solutions out there?

ClaireProctor · ‎07-12-2018

What might be possible, although this involves more knowledge of Web App Builder than I have, is to extract the latitude and longitude values of the point separately, and use them to populate hidden questions added through Survey123 Connect (the web app supports questions of the 'hidden' question type added in Survey123 Connect, it's just that the web designer has no ability to add them itself). This won't be filled in as a location for the survey, however, on a map view the results will still show at latitude 0, longitude 0. You'd just have the X and Y values in a text field on your app.

I don't think this would work for you, and you're better off with just a read-only (and hide-input, you're right on that one!) geopoint, possibly with a comment in the label or hint for the question that it's a read-only value that you don't need to worry about.

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ClaireProctor · ‎07-12-2018

Hi Joe,

If you don't include a geopoint question in your survey, the field app will still capture a coordinate behind the scenes. This doesn't work for the Survey123 website, however, which only captures a location if a geopoint question is in your survey.

joerodmey · ‎07-12-2018

Can I hide geopoint in the online form and still pass in the coordinates? Any other options to allow for this?

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Re: Hide Geopoint Map in Survey123

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Hi Joe,

If you don't include a geopoint question in your survey, the field app will still capture a coordinate behind the scenes. This doesn't work for the Survey123 website, however, which only captures a location if a geopoint question is in your survey.

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BillSimper · ‎07-12-2018

You can set the 'relevant' attribute of that geopoint field to some false condition to hide the geopoint. I think it will still hold the value you pass it through a custom URL scheme (test it to make sure) but I believe that it won't work if you're using something else like a calculation to obtain that value (through a pulldata or other function).

ClaireProctor · ‎07-12-2018

Unfortunately, functionality has recently changed so that questions that didn't display due to not being called as relevant now don't record values. This changed for the field app in 3.0, but may have been true before then in the website, I'm not certain. I will raise this with the website team, though.

What I can suggest is that you experiment with setting the geopoint question to read-only through Survey123 Connect and then loading it in the website; while users will be able to see it, they won't be able to write values to it. I will warn that I couldn't get this to work in my case, though.

joerodmey · ‎07-12-2018

Thanks for the info. Read only locks down the map so the coordinates can't be changed. This is great but I would rather not show them at all. I also tried setting the geopoint to hide input which shrinks down the window but still shows a "set location button"

I'll provide some context on my question. Basically I'm creating a form that has the coordinates passed in from a Web app builder application. From here I want to have the coordinates recorded but not show them to the user as to not confuse them.

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