Is there anyway to use an alternate camera app in Survey123?s

JimTolbert

There is an app for iPhone and android called Solocator.  This app prints the street address or gps location of the camera on the face of the photo.  You can also add the direction the camera is facing and the elevation to the 8mage face, along with the project name etc.   This would be ideal for the Damage Assessment, Public Works, and Welfare Check apps I am working on.

Is it possible to write a python script that would call Solocator rather than the native camera app?  

Does anyone have another suggestion for a way to approach the problem?

Many thanx......jt

#Solocator. #Survey123. #AlternateCamera

JohnHasthorpe

Hi Jim 

It is possible to launch another camera app from Survey123 by putting a url in the calculation field of a note question.

This is an example from the Trek2There sample availble in Connect.

concat('<a href="arcgis-trek2there://?stop=',${lat},',',${lon},'">Launch Smart Compass</a>')

However, IOS requires the whitelisting of the apps that Survey123 can launch, and at the moment we have not whitelisted any external camera apps. At the moment your best option is to open the Solocator app, take the photo and save it to the device. You can then use an image question in Survey123 to open, attach and submit the photo with the survey

Please note that we do have an enhancement request open that would provide the ability to save text in the captured image and I will add your request to it.

Thanks

John