Spaces in choices name

[BrentKinal1]

When having choice names with spaces in them my form converts with warnings, I get that it is probably best to not have the spaces in the choices especially for select one questions, but in the case of a select multiple (where the answer is saved as a text field) or where the bind::esri:fieldType is set to null, would it be OK for my choices names to have spaces or would this cause issues in my form?

[JohnathanHasthorpe · Accepted solution]

Hi Brent

It it is not actually possible to publish a survey through Connect with a select_multiple question that references a choice list with spaces in the name values. So having no spaces is a requirement.

Thanks

John

[BrentKinal1]

Thanks John,  Just to clarify would it be OK for a select one? It seems to be working fine where I have a select one that is set to field type null where the selected value is used in a calculation with in another field.

Cheers,

Brent

[JohnathanHasthorpe]

Hi Brent - spaces in a choice name will work for a select one. However it is not best practice for the XLSform spec that Survey123 uses, and that is why you get a warning (as opposed to an error).

[LeonardOlyott]

Thanks for confirming this John. Just ran into this now where a select_one was working fine with spaces, changed it to a select_multiple and it fails.

Cheers

Len

[JustinDonaghy]

Can you explain why this is , kind of strange I cannot pick multiple answers and they can't have spaces. currently doing a safety and can't write full answers

[RistoYlem]

I have the same problem. I want to populate text field with comma separated values from multiple coice question, but I cant have correct values into my field because of this limitation. I want my values to be with spaces to show them to end users properly. Quite weird limitation, select one question does not have this limitation. It shouldt be programmatically super hard to concatenate multiple choices with spaces into one field with commas between. @IsmaelChivite