I have a geography type question. Just a “point” and input mode is manual.
Just to have a visual display that the question is already answered, I want to put a static text showing the actual value of the variable i used in the geography question (which contains lat/lon).
I used this in the static text:
Coordinates of the new building: %A08_Coord%
where A08_Coord is the variable of the geography question.
Upon compiling and error message saying - “Substitution references an item that is not supported in substitutions.”
Tried other options like %A08_Coord.Latitude%, %A08_Coord.1%
but I’m not successful.
This article describes how a geography question may be used in the syntax. Afaik individual points are not addressable in the syntax, and as per this article geography question is not available for substitutions.
Use IsAnswered() function to examine whether the question has been answered.
If you need the coordinates to return to that building - use a GPS location question. If the objective is different, please explain.
I’m sorry, my suggestion doesn’t work for the Geography question. It works for GPS questions and I falsely assumed that single point Geography question would have a similar structure as a GPS reading.
I cannot find any documentation about the structure of the Geography (“Georgaphy”) object. Maybe someone from the developer team could give a hint about its structure.
Listed directly in the “Data types” article of the documentation:
Recent changes in 22.12 added .RequestedAccuracy and .RequestedFrequency properties and the full set is described again in the Use in Syntax subsection of the Geography Question article:
Apologies, I stand corrected. The Geography class is documented in the Data Types document.
The fact that the point coordinates are not shown in the documentation could mean that this field is declared as private. If this is the case it would be useful to make it public (like Latitude, Longitude, etc. in the GPS class), so the coordinates can be used in validation expressions like GPS coordinates can be used.
which are two very different requirements and without explanation for the transition.
– What will the interviewer do with the coordinates?
– How does this affect the quality of data?
– Which project(s) need(s) this?
– What are the available workarounds?
Just want to have some more visual indicator that a location has been tagged by displaying the coordinates on the screen. The putting in the variable is just for more flexibility, for whatever reason.
here are my answers
– What will the interviewer do with the coordinates?
just to see that question has been answered, kindly refer to my illustration above
– How does this affect the quality of data?
again to make sure that question is answered
– Which project(s) need(s) this?
for tagging the roof of the new building that was not there a few years ago
– What are the available workarounds?
i think i see something like, “Show Coordinate” like if you use Q.PointsCount, maybe that would work, will still check
