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Cannot attach images in Public Survey

Anonymous User

Hi all,

I have created a public survey with the following settings.

And, whenever an user attempts to attach an image the survey wouldn't submit (sits in outbox with an error).

But, when I change the settings to "editors can see all features;" it works properly.

Can you please look into enabling images with the above settings. As I'd like to keep all survey results private from the public.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Gee

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IsmaelChivite

This issue has been addressed, through a patch to ArcGIS Online that works in combination with the latest version available of the Survey123 native and web apps.

More details at:

https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/08/30/minor-update-to-survey123-available-august-30-2018

https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/07/31/minor-update-to-survey123-available-july-31-2018

Thanks for your patience.

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JamesTedrick

Hi Geethaka,

Can you please check which version of Survey123 you are using? When we released 2.4 initially, it was affected by this issue; 2.4.72 should have resolved that. Additionally, the next update to ArcGIS Online will have better support for surveys with the permission settings you are applying.

Anonymous User

Thanks James for getting back to me so quickly.

All of us have version 2.4.72.

I even downloaded the latest app (2.5.44) and the problem still persists.

Thanks for mentioning that the next update to ArcGIS online will better support surveys of this nature.

In the meantime, is there a backend fix that you could deploy to fix this? My client wants this particular survey published sometime this week.

Thanks so much

JamesTedrick

Hi Geethaka,

The ArcGIS Online fix I mentioned is the backend fix that will be able to address it. As a workaround, can you try working with the 'Editors can only see their own features' setting? That should be able to address the issue and still limit the data to only items the submitter would already know.

Anonymous User

Thanks James. I already tried this suggestion.

But, it wouldn't work in my case, as my client doesn't want any of the users to create an ArcGIS online account.

So, there is no way of tracking, and anyone will still be able to see each others submissions if they were to look at the feature layer.

WildlifeMaps

I have the same needs and same issue as Gee...Allow anon submission, with attachments, but keep results private (even from a REST query).

Michael provided an excellent suggested workaround (to not being able to utilize the setting "Editors can't see any features, even those they add" ) but I am still running into the same errors when anon user tries to submit a record with an attachment. (Sent Ismael and James an email about this yesterday before I found this post)

Workflow:

Parent feature layer is shared to authenticated users who can add/update features and edit their own data. No problem when they try to submit a record with attachment.
The 2nd, "Anonymous Collection" view has same editor settings but definition query was changed to hide records that aren't true for the condition (I tried both ObjectID<0 and MyField<0 with default value set to 0 in REST/Admin)
- record without attachment gets submitted fine (and no one can query this record at REST, which is great)
- but a record with photo fails to submit. Error when submitting thru webform is {"layerID":0,objectid:69 filename'mypicture.gif', success:false} and error with desktop app is "Send Error:....Code 405 Invalid attachment parent"
- record with MyField set to -1 and with attachment again gets submitted fine but then anyone can see this record thru REST query
Important to note: I have the same behavior when trying to add a record to a generic webmap, both using the workaround def query and changing to the expected layer setting of "Editors can't see any features", although James said this is working with the December AGOL update, this doesn't seem to be true (for me).

Anonymous User

Hi Treg,

Whilst the December AGOL update addressed the permissions and the query capability for adding attachments anonymously (as James mentioned), we now need to implement the required changes to Survey123 Connect and Field App to coincide with the AGOL changes. We plan to do this in a future release so will keep you updated once released.

Regards.

Phil.

WildlifeMaps

I look forward to the implementation in Survey123 but in the meantime, my questions that followed James's response to Gee, were related to:

1. This new functionality (using same settings as Gee's initial screenshot) does NOT seem to be working in AGOL either, so I'm wondering if anyone has been able to get this to work (in a generic webmap or a geoform)? When I open a webmap in an anon browser session and try to to add pic, the record gets submitted but the attachment isn't there. I tried the same thing in a GeoForm with same results, except the GeoForm generate an error message about the attachment before submitting the record. Can anyone verify that this does or doesn't work? If everyone is having success, then it is something with our AGOL Org settings that needs to be updated?

2. Mikie's workaround is a great idea and it seems like it should would work, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried this out with any success. I've used a very similar method on a ArcGIS Server feature service with success but for both Survey123 and a generic webmap, I couldn't get it to work. Has anyone else been able to utilize the workaround?

I've added some screenshots to show the process for #1...adding a record with an attachment in both a generic webmap and a geoform and also the results (from an admin view with full control from the original, 'Add only" HFL). The table shows that no attachments were added except when I accidentally submitted a geoform in the same browser as being logged in the HFL owner)

webmap add attach.png

webmap add attach result.png

geoform results.png

hfs admin view results.png

geoform attach.png

Anonymous User

Hi Treg,

I am still experiencing the same issues as you

Michael Kelly‌'s suggestion was great. But, it wouldn't work with attachments.

The best solution that I've come up with is - unselecting all View Definition (Define Fields) of the Feature Layer View.

This would hide all fields from the Feature Layer View, apart from attachments.

Gee

IsmaelChivite

A quick update on this one.

A fix is planned for version 2.7 (March 2018).

In the meantime, a workaround consists on enabling ADD and UPDATE permissions in the feature layer.

Thanks for your patience with this.

WildlifeMaps

Ismael,

Again, that is great that you are working on this for Survey123 but it seems I need to reiterate two items:

-The problem does not seem to be limited to S123, both Geet and I found the same issue with AGOL (see Geet's and my last replies)...can you or anyone in ESRI either verify or discount what we are seeing?

-Your workaround (switch to 'Add&Update') is not a workaround that solves Geet's (and mine) original goal to both anonymously Collect AND Hide results . Yes, you can now add attachments but it doesn't prevent an anon from querying REST for any records. Please see attached settings and results or try my example out yourself:

add anon data in webmap:https://arcg.is/HiSrX

add anon data in S123 webform: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/7cc0503bddd24b4ea6c6eb0735e98d47

query results from either:https://services8.arcgis.com/qxgNeb414AvBYKO7/ArcGIS/rest/services/service_8cac2b6810bd4c63817e6dbef2d3186b/FeatureServer/0/query

testHFS_RecordFromWebmap_20180126.gif

testHFS_Settings_20180126.gif

testHFS_RecordFromS123Webform_20180126.gif

JamesTedrick

Hi Treg,

We are researching this with the ArcGIS Online team; we have internally replicated the behavior you are seeing.

ShannonPhilippus

In 2.8.4 this is still not working, any update on when a survey with attachments will be able to select: Editors can't see any features, even those they add.

Anonymous User

James Tedrick‌ - I am getting this error - {"error":{"code":405,"message":"Invalid attachment parent","details":["Unable to apply edits."]}} when trying to add an attachment via rest url in integromat as shown here: https://community.esri.com/thread/228558-push-images-via-rest-integromat-and-survey123 , I have checked the settings listed above and mine are not restrictive. Any insight into what could be causing the issue?

PaulSweeney3

Hi @Anonymous User

I had the same issue this morning, turns out i was passing the wrong object id into my HTTP module. Have you checked your parsing the right Module and using the right object id value?. I somehow managed to skip a module and used a previous object id.

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