Survey 123: Connecting Two Surveys

[MikeOrio]

Hello Everyone,

I am new to survey 123 and I have been asked if two different surveys can be connected to one another because similar conditions in one will start the other?

Regards

Michael

[BarbaraWebster1]

Hi Mike,

It is possible to build two surveys on the same feature layer if you want to be able to use data from one survey in another survey. See the Use Survey123 with existing feature layers documentation, and this tutorial also covers an example where one survey is used for an initial assessment and a second survey is used to collect more detailed information. 

One approach to this kind of workflow would be to configure the surveys so if certain conditions in the first survey are met, a survey will appear in the inbox of the second survey for the user to complete. You could also configure a note question or pop up in the first survey to instruct the user to navigate to and complete the second survey.

-Barbara

[MikeOrio]

Thank you Barbara.

I will review the information/links and give it a try.

[KateZubin-Stathopoulos]

Hi Barbara! 

As always, your answers are extremely helpful. I am wondering if the second conditional survey can then be assigned to another user and if data can be filled out in each survey simultaneously without data being overwritten? 

Thanks!

Kate

[BarbaraWebster1]

Hi @KateZubin-Stathopoulos!

Yes, the second survey can be assigned to a different user.

A few things to consider for the second question:

• Survey123 has a 'last in wins' approach to submitting edits to an existing record.
• Survey123 doesn't submit null/unanswered questions to the feature layer.
• A survey doesn't need to have a question for every field in a feature layer. For example if a feature layer has ten fields, you could make a survey that only includes questions for five of those fields. 
• You can also set questions to read-only in one of the surveys to allow users to see the submitted value and avoid unintentionally editing data.

Hopefully that helps, hope all is going well!

-Barbara