What is the Router Setup Property?

The Router Setup property is a question property available for Text Field, Text Area, File Upload, and Barcode Scanner question types. You can use the Router Setup to parse (subdivide) long strings of data captured by a question—such as from a barcode scan—into smaller substrings. You can then push the substrings to subsequent questions in your form. This topic describes the options available with the Router Setup property and provides a list of supported source and target question types.

Available on the Intelligent and Elite tiers:

Contents

• What is the Router Setup Property?
  • Router Setup property options
  • Supported question types

Router Setup property options

The Router Setup property provides a way to parse data when substrings within a longer, complex string provide meaningful data. For example, you can use the substrings to:

• Display information, such as an asset manufacturing date, to a mobile device user.
• Perform calculations in the form based on substring values.
• Use Conditional Logic Conditional logic is a tool in the Form Builder that establishes the workflow of a form. By using the "If This, Then That" structure, questions or sections will be displayed, hidden, or automatically populated based on answers to preceding questions. in a form to drive specific workflows.

For example, a barcode string for a piece of equipment might include device number, lot number, serial number, and manufacturing date. You can use the Router Setup property to separate out these substrings and push them to target questions in your form.

Extract values with one of these methods:

• Use a regular expression (regex) to search for values in a longer string and store them in capture groups (also known as capturing groups).

• Use index values to identify substrings based on their position in the longer string.
• Use a JMESPath JMESPath is a query language for JSON that's used to extract and filter data from JSON content. expression to select values from a JSON file in a File Upload question.
• Use an XPath expression to select values from an XML file in a File Upload question.

Supported question types

Source questions

You can route data from the following question types:

• Text Area
• Text Field
• Barcode Scanner
• File Upload (JSON, XML, and text files)

Target questions

You can prepopulate the following question types with the substring values:

• Text Field

• Text Area

• Radio Button

• Date/Time Selector

• Dropdown

• Button Group