Error?: Link to Survey123 Field-App (Windows) from WebEditor only opens new empty browser tab

MauriceSchwoy

Hi,

i am attempting to access records in the Survey123 field app from the WebEditor in Windows 11 via a link in the popup. The link to Survey123 is created using the following expression:

var surveyLink = "arcgis-survey123://?itemID="ID of my survey"&";

 

var params = {

 action: "edit",

 folder: "inbox",

 update: "true",

};

 

return { 

type : 'text', 

text : "<a href=" + surveyLink + UrlEncode(params) + ">Bestehenden Survey aufrufen!</a>" 

};

 

The resultung Link looks like this: 

arcgis-survey123://?itemID="ID of my survey"&action=edit&folder=inbox&update=true

 

According to https://doc.arcgis.com/de/survey123/get-started/integratewithotherapps.htm 

the link should open the field app on my tablet (Windows 11) but instead it only creates a new empty tab in my browser (Edge). The field app is installed and the survey is already downloaded to it.

 

Anyone here who can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

TylerGraham2

Have you had it put the url to a string and tested it manually by copy/pasting?

Have you previously told your browser not to open links of that type?  If you have, it will give you just a blank window. You can clear or change those settings, you'll just need to search for how to do it on your browser. 

Your item ID is outside the URL encode, so it may not be being properly encoded. Also, I had issues using '+' to build links in arcade, I use concatenate instead. I haven't used WebEditor, but this is pulled from arcade I have in a web map to open Survey123 and it works both from Field maps and directly in the pop up of the feature in the web map on a Windows PC.    

var item_id = '<your item id>';

var disp_mess = Text('Bestehenden Survey aufrufen!');

var surveyLink = 'arcgis-survey123://?';

var params = {

itemID: item_id,

action: 'edit',

folder: 'inbox',

update: 'true'

};

var fullURL = Concatenate([surveyLink, UrlEncode(params)]);

var not_zelda = `<div style="text-align:center;"><a href="${fullURL}" target="_blank">${disp_mess}</a></div>`

//using the ` ` at either end of the html was important, I can't remember exactly since it was a few years ago //that I first wrote this, but I think it was the only way to capture the entire html formatting and have the "" //inside work.

return {

type: 'text',

text: not_zelda,

//this property supports html tags

};