Latest Contributions by DavidNicholls1

A crucial difference is that when I copy from selected rows in the attribute table (despite been told that the selected rows are copied to the clipboard) it fails to activate the Paste  icon, (Katherine Clark 2020-01-06, above, warns on this distinction). Selecting the features in the map window and copying (with the clipboard tools (top left) does activate the Paste (Paste Special). Is the logic that coping from the attribute table copies the attributes but not the spatial geometry - and sensibly you cannot paste attribute(s) alone into a map? ... View more

Thank you for these points.  Well that makes sense - BUT I can select and copy rows (my required features) to the clipboard but despite making sure that I have selected the map frame - I only have one map window and the thin blue line is across the top of the map window.  Yet, the Paste icon remains stubbornly greyed out. ... View more

James Thank you. Much appreciated. I used the wrong terminology. My “header” is the top part of a typical form where these are attributes common to a set of child records. My “footer” is really part of the header or parent file but it contains attributes that are not known till the end of the survey. And I would have liked to include geometry for this file. I wanted multiple child records linked to the above parent files. Each of these desirably should have geometry. In the context of Survey123 survey-record - Arc GIS Online feature, I have to think differently. You confirmed a survey or record or feature can only have one geometry, one geopoint. I get the idea and the technique whereby I can store a location as an attribute (not geometry) but the down side is that the tools to aid decsion making in Survey123 are unavaible for these child records, I have to extract and process these via an event layer, and I do not know in advance how many child records there will be. So I began to think of my survey as three Survey123 surveys, each with a single geometry. Two parents and multiple children. To implement that in Survey123, I will have have three survey forms. I wondered if I could have the child survey records linked to their respective parents. Idealy the user would see just one survey form but Survey123 would have to process it as three different surveys. Do you see a way forward in the latter approach? Am I right to see this as a limitation of Survey123 relative to iFormBuilder or Fulcrum where my approach is standard or easilly implemented? Regards David PS. I attach my paper version of the form which I’d like to improve on in Survey123 version. David Nicholls davidgnicholls@optusnet.com.au M 0411 098 240, W 035990 7166, 03 9822 4555 ... View more

James Got it. Many thanks. I can see this would be a neat way to store the start point for each of many points of interest including it as an attribute for each of the point of interest records. I cannot yet see how I how do a survey-header (the information available at start of the survey) multiple survey-pointOfInterest, and a survey-footer (information only available at end of the survey) in what a user would see as a single survey. Can you help, please? David Nicholls davidgnicholls@optusnet.com.au M 0411 098 240, W 035990 7166, 03 9822 4555 ... View more

James I cannot make your link “Here's a sample with a start and endpoint.” David David Nicholls davidgnicholls@optusnet.com.au M 0411 098 240, W 035990 7166, 03 9822 4555 ... View more

James, Excellent, that is a relief. My aim is to have a start and finish geopoints. And of course, you need to fill those in at the beginning and end of the survey. And I was expecting to be able to create points of interest along the route. I read your The Power of Nothing but I ask for a little more help. I can see there might be a tool but I am very unsure on how to use it. I get the idea that ArcGIS Online has only one shape point per record but its attribute table might have many text locations. But at best that is clumsy. Can I collect a start point with attributes, then, Collect child records with a GPS way point of interest with attributes, then collect a finish point with attributes. The user see one survey but Survey123 processes two parent records-surveys and many child Records-survey each of which has a link back to the start-parent? Regards David David Nicholls davidgnicholls@optusnet.com.au M 0411 098 240, W 035990 7166, 03 9822 4555 ... View more