Latest Contributions by DeanMostad1

I am using tablets and the field crews use PDF Forms as well to gather information. I cannot get SURVEY123 to attach any files whatsoever... besides photos. If I take a photo with the survey no problem. If I gather information and then try to add an attachment I cannot. Are attachments currently supported? Did I miss something. Can you add an attachment to your survey? Any help would be appreciated. Dean More info: I can add an attachment to the desktop map that I had added for the survey data. When I go to add an attachment from my tablet all I get is a blank screen that says "Photos" on top with an arrow in the upper left that brings me back to my survey. Shouldn't the attachment button open up a dialog box to pick your file?  This scenario can be repeated on multiple tablets. Also, I created a survey that only contained one text note field and one image field. Same result as above. This issues is the same on Samsung Tab2, Samsung Tab4, and Samsung Active phone. ... View more

I have created a Survey with the following date fields (I have other fields of course, but that's not the issue). And I re-post this because an additional item was closed without being answered correctly in my mind. I have... Type=Date Type=Start Type=End for date fields. Respectively I get... From the same records Type=Date... 3/22/2016 5:00:00 AM (ALWAYS CURRENT DATE AND 5:00 AM.) Type=Start... 3/22/2016 7:15:05 PM Type=End...3/22/2016 7:19:38 PM Notes for this record from the person collecting the data showed 2:16 PM Can you see my concern here? Where are the times coming from. Granted the hand entered 2:16 pm may either be central time or mountain time as we work in both zones, but again that is not the main point. Where are these times coming from, the Arc GIS online Server? Somewhere in England? The variance in my dataset between the DATE and the START and END times is consistently 5 OR 6 hours off. I'm OK with that point but How can I change it. Our standard since we commonly work in both time zones is to collect all of our data in CENTRAL STANDARD TIME, is there any way I can set Survey123 to collect data in that specific time? Again, I really just want to know WHERE the Start and END times come from? Suggestion to my fellow Survey123 users is to use a START time for the survey along with Date and then do some sort of conversion as I have yet to see DATE give anything but the date and an hourly time. Any Help would be appreciated. and also this is consistent with several different tablets in the field and all tablets are set to the current local time. Any Ideas? ... View more

I have updated Connect to Version 1.2.18 and my Samsung tablet to 1.2.49. Also, new survey created today as well. Since the update I am unable to add an attachment to my survey. Taking a photo works just fine, but when I try to add an attachment all I get is "Pictures" at the top of the screen with no choices and no where to go? Any ideas? Prior to the update I was able to attach any doc I wanted (mainly want to attach PDF files). Help! BuG? or user error? Dean Mostad ... View more

I have spent several hours the last month or so to test some of the limits and workarounds of Survey123. And have created a survey called “Fun Facts”.. I cannot wait to see what enhancements/improvements will be accomplished over the next months and years with Survey123. My efforts in coding this survey was not necessarily to create a real working document, just to test the programs response and find some work arounds.  If you look at the code it may seem a little heavy but it works and I share this because some of the examples given do not go into how to work around certain situations so I “coded” until I got stuff to work, again some of it isn’t that pretty, and the program is not 100% complete but it works, and its a fun survey to take. I share it in the hopes that it will help you in coding some of your Survey123 programs. Here is what I wanted to do with the survey. I wanted a Survey to ask questions one at a time until the person gets one wrong. (i.e. do not show questions until they have answered the previous one correctly) Total a score for the survey. Question 1 being worth 50 points, questions 2 being worth 100 points… adding 50 points to the previous questions value so that the value of question 10 is worth 500 points. Gather their contact information only after they were through with the survey I wanted to test the use of various picture/images to see how they responded I wanted to test as much of the syntax as possible Calculate the time it takes to take the survey Make a fun survey. (Excel sheets are color coded for easier program synthesis) I have zipped up the file and attached it to this post. I believe that if you unzip it to your “My Survey Designs” in your ArcGIS folder it will show up and work in your Survey23Connect.  It is important to note that the background image is Stars2.png and that Text color is set to Gold, background colors set to black. Message me if you have any questions. ENJOY! Dean Mostad ... View more