Latest Contributions by AndrewRyan3

We have field staff collecting data with laptops, and one of the most requested features is the ability to view all of the question responses in an easy-to-read word document. Since the information is all saved in the autosave.json file, it should be possible for someone to create a tool to do this. With repeats in the form, it would be so nice to be able to evaluate everything in a list before the data is submitted to the webservice. Has anyone else tried creating such a thing? I would love some feedback on ideas for how you would go about doing this. My initial idea is to get it into word, and build some type of macro around reformatting the json. I am not experienced with macros at all, and foresee many long days ahead... Alternatively, writing something in python would be easier for my experience, but either way parsing json is going to be totally new for me. Thanks for ideas and discussion. Andrew ... View more

I am having a strange issue with the way that Survey123 is displaying answers within repeats in the survey123 app on windows PC's. I have tested this on several pcs and run into the same issue. Basically, I have a repeat for entering multiple events that occur throughout the day. Most of the questions are answered for each event, but there are a couple that sometimes are left blank. The answer to these questions are used to calculate other answers within the repeat, but they are not strictly necessary from a data collection stand point. What happens is that the first several repeats will leave these questions blank. Then an event happens that requires them and the field staff will fill them in. Then, when a new repeat is created with the "+" sign, the last entered values will show in the new questions. They will also show up if you scroll back to the previous blank questions. If you add new values in a different repeat, then those values will show in the blanks until you scroll to a repeat that has entered values. The one nice thing about all of this is that the values that weren't entered, but display in blank answers don't get written to the service when the form is submitted. That is the expected outcome based on the fact that no values were entered for the questions, but it is difficult to tell which questions have actual answers and which were meant to be blank. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I didn't see this behavior with previous versions of the survey123 app, and think it might be related to the update. Other notes: The repeat contains a geopoint question Two of the fields that are showing this behavior are numerical, and are for staff to enter latitude and longitude in degrees decimal-minutes and then several calculations convert them to decimal degrees to populate the geopoint question. Other questions in the repeat that behave this way include an integer value, and a choose_one, so its not just one type of question that is having issues. Attached is a screen capture of the portion of the form that is having issues with displaying repeat answers. Just so you have an idea of what the reppeat looks like. Thanks for any help! ... View more

My survey has two repeats for recording data that changes from day to day. Outside of these two repeats there is a large amount of information that is maintained across several days, so I need to be able to give my users the ability to load all of a previous day's data into a new survey. I am now able to do this from the sent surveys > copy to a new survey. I am using the bind::esri::parameters (query allowUpdates) for loading data into the repeats. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to allow users to delete out old repeat attributes. I am able to add new repeat responses and edit the loaded responses, but I do not have the option to delete out unnecessary records.  I dont remember this being an issue in previous versions, but then again repeats had other issues. thanks for your help! Andrew ... View more