Putting aside the discussion of degrading the user experience by allowing hundreds of choices on a phone in a select_one, is there a limit to the number of choices a survey designer can add?
Along the same lines, is it possible to have the data source for a select_one be in external csv file? I see you can do that for cascading selects...
But let's just say - for the sake of discussion - I want my users to select one from a couple of hundred choices (e.g., utiliity poles). Good? Bad? Or just plain ugly?
TIA
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Hi! You can handle a few thousand choices in your lists, even in low-end devices. Here are a few tips:
Hi! You can handle a few thousand choices in your lists, even in low-end devices. Here are a few tips:
Thanks Ismael!
I'm confused. auto-suggest is not an option that's available on the release of Survey123Connect (most current release so far as I know).
BTWI created a choice list with 200 values and set the appearance to minimal and the results were acceptable.
What happens if I change values in the choice list and republish the survey with no other changes? Will the inspectors only have to download the new survey and they're good to go? The existing survey data won't get affected?
Thanks!
The proper appearance name for is autocomplete .
If the only modification is the list of choices, the existing survey data won't be affected and your inspectors will only need to download the new form.
If you are using ArcGIS Tools to work with the survey results, be aware that there are some issues with subsequent changes to select lists- those values are stored as domains in the feature service on initial publish and are not updated when modified. Publish your survey—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS
i have a inventory list of over 2000 choices. I want to use a "Select_One" field type for this inventory list. When I added the 2843 items to my choices tag and save the spreadsheet Survey123 crashes. Then I created a external_choice tag and added the items here and used a external_select but i couldn't seem to get that to work. Im sure im doing something wrong.
Hi Jevita,
Can you share the XLS file?
yes i can, but how?
You can either email it to me directly (jtedrick At esri.com) or attach it via the 'advanced editor' to a GeoNet post.
OK i just sent it, i got it working now.
Jevita Webster and James Tedrick,
We are having this same issue except we are trying to use a scientific name selection list with 15,000 choices. How were you able to get this to work and/or is there a known choices limitation?