Hi,
The option "Set as favorite answers" is quite different than the new option that Ben is talking about available in Collector:
- It saves all the answers of one survey and copy all of them in the target survey
- Only one set of answers can be saved
We would really appreciate to have the equivalent of Collector "Reuse entry field" in Survey, as the use of the "set as favorite answers" is very limited and not much appreciated by our field staff. It is only relevant for informations that are common for all the surveys (weather of the day, date, name of user…) but not for more specific questions.
We think the "Reuse entry field" as an extent of lists, or as an history function: each project may have its own objects to inspect but those objects are not necessarily known before going on the field, so it is not possible to prepare a choice list.
As an exemple, during asbestos inspections, each building may have their own objects that should be assessed, and those objects can be encountered several time (pipes, glue on floor tile, specific painting...). Currently, it is not possible to group them by type while processing the data as the user need to rewrite every time the name of the object (time consuming), leading to many typos.
We have many other projects where this will be relevant: when we want our observations to refer to another one made before,
recurrent measured values… This would be a really functional enhancement for field users.
We were excited to see that this was implemented in Collector, hope this will be implemented soon for Survey123 (maybe we should create an ArcGIS Idea for that?).
Léo
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