Launch Field App from URL on Desktop Directly, No Browser Window

Question

Maybe there's something out there I haven't seen but, we're using the custom URL scheme to open surveys from Power BI when something needs to be edited, currently I am using the scheme:

https://survey123.arcgis.app/?itemID={itemID}&action=edit&update=true&folder=*&filter=globalid:{globalID}

That one opens up the browser to a page to download the app, or if you have it already, to Open the Survey.

I know there's also this one that will open the app immediately:

arcgis-survey123://?itemID={itemID}&action=edit&update=true&folder=*&filter=globalid:{globalID}

However, when we try to add this to Power BI as the link, it does not recognize it as a hyperlink to open the app, does anyone have any thoughts on how to make this work, skipping that browser page and opening the app directly? I would want this to work on Desktop and on iOS.

RobertAnderson3 · Answer

I'll have to send this to the person working on our Power BI stuff and see if they can get it working with this strategy.

This would be the only scheme that opens the app directly right? Would it work on both desktop and mobile?

RobertAnderson3 · Answer

When you say blank do you mean the "Download Survey123" page, or just nothing at all?

abureaux · Answer

It should, because you would be bypassing PBI's built-in link detection (which is the issue here) and manually specifying the URL via HTML <a>

The issue then becomes how do you add that HTML. There was an old add-in for PBI called HTML Viewer that would have some this, but it was removed from the PBI Store some time ago. Apparently HTML VizCreator Cert by BI Samurai (formerly HTML Text Styler) can also render HTML and thus work for this purpose. Check out this thread where they discuss both HTML Viewer and HTML VizCreator (They also provide a Google Drive link for the older HTML Viewer if you wanted to try that instead of HTML VizCreator).