Survey123 web app field calculation

[Alba_Page]

Hi everyone!

I think I'm missing something and maybe any of you can enlighten me.

I've seen this video of the past UC (https://uc2021.esri.com/live-stream/19775151/ArcGIS-Survey123-An-Introduction-and-Whats-New) and I understood that the filed calculations are already available the Survey123 web designer.

I've also seen this Story Maps with the same information in the What's new section (https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/213b214a74a0489dae915ab46677adf1)

But when I try to do it myself the option is not available neither the hide field option.

As I said, probably I'm missing something, but I don't know what 🙂

Thaks a lot in advance!!!

Alba

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi Kevin. That is right. At this moment, the web designer  does not let you use data from a dropdown question in a calculation. This is something that we will resolve in the future. In the meantime, you will need to use Survey123 Connect.

[KevinMWright13]

As always - thank you for the quick response.  Thanks for confirming my suspicions.  We will use Connect for this one.

I also just want to say thanks for all the great additions to the Web Designer that your team has implemented lately.   Great tool already, better with every iteration.

[ZachESpencer]

Hi Ismael,

I'm actually working along with Kevin on this and wanted to chime in a thanks for the quick response and also mention that if there were a way we could concatenate the date into a contrived field as well it would be pretty sweet. Thanks!

[ZhifangWang]

@ZachESpencer,

Would you mind sharing more details for how you want to utilize the date info? For example, concatenate a date from Date question into a string like "Incident observed on 4/28/2022"? Is that important to control the date format or just use default (like in the example) is enough?

[KevinMWright13]

As far as the date formatting, that sure would be nice, but please don't let it get in the way of releasing a first version, if the formatting is an issue.

thanks as always!

[KevinMWright13]

Hi @ZhifangWang,

Absolutely - and thank you for asking.  In my case, our organization has several sub orgs.  We have those sub orgs in a Dropdown.  The user selects which sub org they are a part of.  We want to use that sub org, the current date and their name to create a ticket number.

where:

AGENCYABC_ joins<sub-org>joins<date>joins _  joins<username>

such that the ticket number looks something like:

USDHS_CARR04292022_KWRIGHT

I hope that is helpful.