Using a Survey 123 form in Collector

Question

Greetings!

I know this question has been asked on several occasions but the search is exhausting as I am obviously not typing in exactly what I should to find the correct response/guidance.

I have feature layers; i.e. manholes, etc. that I would like the Collector users to be able to just click on the link in a field an take them directly to the form for inspections/maintenance. The same field would be visible in the AGOL web mapping application.

I thought about just creating the field in Pro and then have the field calculated to just be the URL.

Is there a better way using Arcade? Python? Just as a heads up, not much of a scripting guru as of yet.

Also do it in Pro or just publish and do it in AGOL?

Thanks in advance for steering to the right answer.

🙂

RonaldVanderpool · Answer

In Pro, right-clicked on feature, selected configure popups, added the link to a new field. Just reviewed my workflow and it appears I deleted the existing fields from the popup before I added the text field for the link. I reset everything and now it works like it should. Is it still Monday??? 🙂

Still need to set the configuration to populate the field in Survey.

Katie_Clark · Answer

Weird, I'm not sure why adding a field to your layer in Pro would cause you to lose all of your other fields? Maybe I'm not understanding correctly?

In order to populate a field in the survey (i.e. Asset_ID) from information from the feature in Collector, you'll need to use a custom attribute display.

Example (put this in the "link" portion of the custom attribute display):

arcgis-survey123://?itemID=36ff9e8c13e042a58cfce4ad87f55d19&field:surname={name}

You can read more about it in the link I referenced before.

RonaldVanderpool · Answer

Thanks Katherine!

Good information. This will be a great help.

I do desire to have all features have the same link as my Form is specific to the feature type. I configured popups to have the link in Pro but lost all of my other fields/attributes in the popup so that was not what I wanted. The web map app will also need the link in each feature popup along with the auto-populating of the Asset_ID field just to make sure the field personnel do not use the wrong asset identifier.

Wish I had more time to play with all of the fun ESRI stuff but have to have results in a timely manner, thus,....... I bug the experts!! 🙂