Is there a way to add a Captcha or a Captcha like thing to a user created survey in survey123? Thanks
Hi Samuel
This functionality is not supported in the web form, but we will add this as a potential future enhancement.
Thanks
John
Also could you share your use case? It would be good get an understanding of what you are wanting to do. There may be other options.
Ah, okay. Thanks a lot
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Johnathan Hasthorpe <geonet@esri.com>
Ya for my case we are publishing a document to the public and my supervisors in the government want to have a captcha so as to prevent any bot use. The survey will be posted on a government website so they are concerned about bot usage
Has this been enabled? We're interested in having a Survey123 form as part of a public-facing website, and the previous website's crowdsourcing efforts resulted in a lot of bot junk.
Hi Kellee,
We are still examining this. In your previous experiences, were you able to tell if the bot junk was coming via the form page or from direct submissions to the form's submission endpoint (in ArcGIS terms, the feature layer's Service URL)?
I wasn't involved in the previous website, but received this info from a colleague:
"I think that most of the spam was coming from the 'contact us' form (which does not require sign-in). We were also getting spam submissions for PADDD events, which does require log in."
The Survey123 form would be for reporting these events.
Hi there,
The new EU Regulation regarding the gathering of personal data (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679) means we now have to add captcha to every public survey which collects nominative information.
Addin a captcha, regardless of how effective it is, will be mandatory for such surveys.
Hi,
Can you provide details on what part of the legislation you believe requires CAPTCHA? I am admittedly not a lawyer; I did a scan of the English translation of the document and it seems to pertain to the processing and storage of personal information. CAPTCHA is concerned with ensuring that the data being submitted comes from a non-automated system, so it doesn't seem directly applicable.
Does anyone know if the issue about adding Captcha to Survey123 has been resolved? My government organization also requires that I add Captcha to my survey, as it is part of a Citizen Science project.
Hi Patricia,
Currently we are still investigating requirements and alternatives. Does your agency have a description of the requirement for a CAPTCHA-like system?
No, they simply asked for Captcha.
James Tedrick is right, it is more related to security against bots than anonimity.
Anyway we found a solution by asking our webmaster to add a captcha before displaying the Survey123 iFrame.
Hello,
This would be a valuable addition to Survey123. Especially useful for weeding out bogus submissions to the local government agencies.
Is there an existing enhancement request for adding this?
I don't see an existing Idea or Enhancement request for this. That being said, currently a CAPTCHA would be of limited use in that it would be able to protect the web page from loading automatically but would not protect the feature service submission endpoint, which can be reached outside of the Survey123 application. This is still a topic of research for the Survey123 team; if a solution to that issue can be found, it would make a CAPTHA implementation a viable enhancement.
This should be an absolute requirement. Public facing surveys for government use typically also have email notification embedded in the workflow and not having captcha or similar antibot prevents tainted data along with potentially compromising the organization’s emailing service.
Here's a cross-post from @ZacharySutherby outlining the issue and a potential work around, if acceptbale to your IT team.
This said, @JamesTedrick and @IsmaelChivite , Zachery's work around is not accetable to my own IT. This means I'm dead in the water with an awesome use case that would expose Survey123 to upper management in my organization and open its use to many, many other workflows.
Does anyone know if the issue about adding Captcha to Survey123 has been resolved? I have tested a small solution public facing and it got flooded with bot submission very fast.
@ChristopherKreuter the use of CAPTCHA within surveys made in the web designer (only) was released in the BETA v 3.16 release. I've tested it and it works great. Kudos to @IsmaelChivite , @JamesTedrick and the Survey123 team.
Where do you see what release you are on? i do not see anything about a CAPTCHA in my web designer.
It's the web designer so technically you're always just on the latest version, but again it's only released in the BETA site here: https://survey123beta.arcgis.com/surveys/
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