How to edit a securely published public survey?

Question

Hi Survey123 Users,

I created a new survey for fisheries data collection and published it securely as a public survey following the post below by Ismael Chivite (really helpful post!);

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/securing-data-in-public-surveys-survey123-connect/ba-p/898436

The survey is for a specific group of users and I trialed the survey with a subset of users to make sure the forms had everything they needed. After the trial, I need to make some changes but it says in the post "If your survey is configured with views, Connect will not be able to change the schema of the source layer."

I have tried to add a question and I can save it with no problems but when I go to publish it, a warning appears;

Does anyone have any experience with this or possible solutions? I could create Version 2 of the survey but this is not ideal.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Emma (new user)

KyleSmith2 · Accepted Answer

You have two options.  First, if you're using Connect, you can temporarily remove the submission url, republish, then replace the submission url.  You might be able to do this in the web builder by unsharing the survey, but I'm not sure.  Or, you can add the fields and domains to the table manually in ArcGIS Online/Enterprise.  As long as everything lines up you should be able to republish.

abureaux · Accepted Answer

I have tons of surveys with view layers that I update all the time. You can always update the parent layer, but the child surveys (i.e., ones with submission_url specified) will always result in what you are seeing (i.e., "Fields not found in the feature service: ##")

One survey should be your parent, which you can update at will. Once an update has been made, you can replicate the change in the child survey without issue.

You can also modify the Feature Layer directly in Portal, but that shouldn't be necessary if you created the survey in Connect.

Example:

Parent layer is secure. Child layers are shared with external companies.