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Attachments when Editing the Inbox

ErickWiggs2

When I go to edit a survey from my Inbox it seems that I can not add attachments?

I seem to remember reading something about this somewhere, but I'm having a hard time finding it.

I'm trying to bring in an already created survey to update with additional data and photos.

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BrandonArmstrong

Hi Erick,

It is not currently possible to edit attached photos via the Inbox. We do hope to support this in the future, and I will add your request to our existing logged issue. Please refer to the links below which provide documentation related to this limitation.

Enable editing

Talk Like a Pirate Release (2.4)

"As of this release, the Inbox lacks support for downloading attachments. That is, you can use the Inbox against a survey that includes attachments, but the Inbox will not populate signatures, annotated images, audio or image questions. All these types of questions will appear empty, as if they had no data. As for the rest of questions, you will be able to download data for them and update them as well.

Also, to play on the safe side, when you edit surveys from your Inbox we will disable editing on these types of questions. This means that if you open a survey from your Inbox to make edits to it, all questions of type image (photos, signature, annotate, draw) as well as audio questions will appear not only empty, but also disabled. This is to avoid people from accidentally attempting to change data in them.

We are considering adding support in a future release for editing attachments."

Regards,

Brandon

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HélèneTouyéras

Here's another ArcGIS Idea on the same topic:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-ideas/survey123-allow-photo-s-to-be-viewed-and-added-to-sent-surveys/idc-p/936701#M541

BenSmith6

Would viewing in Field Maps not be an option?

BenSmith6

Hi Brandon,

I notice it's been nearly 3 years since this was noted, is there anything in the development pipeline to solve this?

Thanks,

Ben

KevinLambeth1

I was really excited to look at moving some projects over as well, but they almost all use images so we are going to have to kill the transitions without a timeline for adding this functionality in.

JasonJordan00

Is there any update on being able to view images in the inbox? I have had to turn down a dozen projects because they want to be able to view images in the field while using Survey123.

JoãoFernandes2

Hi,

I have the same problem and need a solution.

Have you found a solution?

Thanks

JeffJackson4

There are several of us, that I know of, and propbably many more that I don't, who are pushing for this inbox functionality.

Hopefully they are taking note and getting ready to roll it out.

We do site monitoring and have to track recurring issues and have a single form with repeats for each site. But without a picture able to be downloaded (it is there, just not able to be gotten) it makes things difficult.

JoshHabel

I hope this is added soon. I believe this would be a superior work flow for my utilities inspections and data collection processes. Currently I am trying to maintain a GUID link between the inspection and my gis electric model to make updating the model easy with a simple import. My current workflow requires me to do lookups based upon the pole id to bring in the model GUID. The problem is this only works some of the time due to the many duplicate pole id numbers we have. If we had the ability to use the inbox I could simply load all the pole we have in the model into the inbox. This would also serve as a check to make sure the inspectors do not miss any poles and would help locate false poles that are not actually in the field. However this all hinges on being able to add pictures to the inspection.

Josh

cmoore499

Does esri know when support for this will be available? I have existing features that I'd like field personnel to verify using Survey123, and add a picture to the feature in the process.

Tensio_TSAdmin

Hi Erick,

Did you find any solution on this issue?

ErickWiggs2

Brandon,

I am interested in the workflow for adding images. Ultimately I don't care to be able to edit existing attachments to the survey, just be able to take and attach photos when editing the Inbox.

I already have enabled attachments in my SDE. Is this as simple as creating a repeat for the photos taken? (like below) What would I use for the name to direct the attachments into the ATTACH table?

Or are you saying that I will need to create a new related table that then has attachments enabled to just hold the images?

BrandonArmstrong

The current Beta does not address this issue.

BrandonArmstrong

If you are familiar with modifying the source code of Survey123 using AppStudio, it may be possible to enable uploading of existing images in the Inbox, and then ultimately adding new ones. There are no listed steps or documentation related to achieving this, and please keep in mind that the modification and risk of using the resulting app would not be supported by ESRI.

A more accessible workflow may be to utilize repeats in order to add images within related tables to the existing feature (via the Inbox). Although you would not be able to edit existing images, you would be able to add a record to an existing repeat question which would then allow for attaching an image to the new record. Let me know if you have any questions related to this workflow, and keep in mind that it does present other limitations if you are looking to reference the images in other ESRI applications as, again, they will be stored within their own related table.

ErickWiggs2

The current Beta version doesn't happen to support this does it?

ErickWiggs2

ESRI disabled editing in the types of questions.

Does that mean if I open up my Survey in AppStudio I might be able to turn them back on? Maybe?

BrandonArmstrong

Hi Erick,

Enable editing

Talk Like a Pirate Release (2.4)

We are considering adding support in a future release for editing attachments."

Regards,

Brandon

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