Latest Contributions by DougBrowning

In the new version you have to add this option manually. Add method=camera,browse to the body::esri:style column. See https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-photos/ba-p/897907  ... View more

@IsmaelChivite  Any chance this 10 MB limit can be upped?  With the new 50 MP cameras out these are going to be over the 10 MB pretty easy.  Also it means even at 720p I cannot send a video of more than 10 seconds!  thanks ... View more

@MathieuBoonen  I figured it out.  Take the video then go into the photos app.  Hit the top left share button and choose Save to Files at the bottom.  There you can create and add to a folder.  Then in 123 pick file, then On My Ipad, then the folder you created above. But then after all that I found out the new 500 mb file limit is only for the web app and the iPad app is still stuck at 10 MB max attachment, which even at 720p is 10 seconds max!   With these new 50 megapixel cameras even photos are getting close to 10 MB so I hope this can be raised in the future? ... View more

Not sure now if you mean filter the drop down list or control a relevant.  For a filter I do not think there is a contains yet.  But for relevant you could use contains() This list contains in the search appearance way but I think that is just points in polygons.  You can test it though  https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/dynamic-choice-lists-using-search-appearance/ba-p/1060838  Sorry you kind of lost me now ... View more

Direction to use 123 code base is here.  https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/introduction-to-arcgis-survey123-for-developers/ba-p/1103808 But again that is for the old Qt which is end of life I believe. ... View more

Anyway to play an attachment that is a mov file right in the popup? ... View more

You can now do this using layer filters.  See here  https://doc.arcgis.com/en/field-maps/latest/prepare-maps/configure-the-map.htm#ESRI_SECTION2_D4A1D89377A3411C8CA25C49F1C28187  From this idea  https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-field-maps-ideas/filter-data-in-field-maps/idi-p/1172111  ... View more

Yes I posted right above https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-set-the-file-name-of/ba-p/1217125  ... View more

@MathieuBoonen I know this is a really old post but did you ever figure out how to add a video from an iPad using a file question?  Like you said if you pick file it shows files on my iPad but no photos or videos are listed at all.  If I pick Photo then I can see the thumbnail of videos even but it filters them out from me picking then at all. So it seems silly but I keep trying and can not find any way at all to add a video from an iPad.  That cannot be right, can it? Or maybe @JamesTedrick how can we add videos from an iPad?  Could there be a video file type maybe or is there an iPad setting to allow this? thanks   ... View more

123 was built on the Qt Framework in the past but it is currently being rebuilt in .Net as Qt is end of life. If you are going to build an app you would probably want to use the SDKs from Esri.  See here https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/sitecore-archive/Files/Pdfs/library/fliers/pdfs/arcgis-runtime-sdks.pdf  This can get you going much faster and can use AGOL as the backend so you can cloud sync data. It will be a ton of work though.  123 has a 9 year or so head start on you and a team of developers.  The last two companies I have been at we developed our own apps using the Esri stack specifically to have better offline support (this was starting back in 2013).  Both of those apps have now been sunsetted and we moved to Field Maps.  Partly because now the offline support is better but mostly that it was just so hard to keep up with advancements at the pace that Esri can do them.  Again its one dev vs many.  Also it was really hard to keep devs around before they got a new job.  Not trying to discourage you, just be realistic.  I would find something 123 or others do not do well and focus on that.  Data entry speed, esp in repeats is one idea.  Or industry specific like MobileMap by MBG. I would also research what is out there now as there are a lot.  I did my masters thesis on all the mobile data collection options out there but that was back in 2011 so its way out of date now. Good luck ... View more

For dup check you put the join inside the repeat with a once like this. once(join(", ", ${Species})) Then add a constraint that checks against this list like (the comma is to avoid matches like PACE and PACE5 for example. ${Species}='' or not(contains(${AllPlantsCheck}+",",${Species}+",")) Note in the latest versions of 123 there is a slight bug where the first repeat acts differently than the rest.  To fix that I added a TempCount field in the repeat with a calc of once(count(${SomeOtherRepeatField})) then change the constraint to  if(${TempCount}=0, 1,${Species}='' or not(contains(${AllPlantsCheck}+",",${Species}+","))) You will see how the first one is a bit off.   For the summary page I just use join with \n and a grid appearance and since the repeats are always in order it just all lines up for you like magic. Other way to do summaries is inside your repeat add a calc of concat(Field1, "  ", Field2, "  ", etc) then on your summary page do a join \n with that concat field. Hope that makes sense.   ... View more

You fix this by using join() to have a running list at the bottom.  Bonus I then use this to check for and stop them from adding dups.  Works slick I also do a summary page at the end In other project I even give them a full table on the summary page with all the attributes of the plants. We collect millions of species a year with these workflows. Hope that helps     ... View more

Is moving to Samsung an option?  The latest Tab Active rugged models have dual band GPS in them getting submeter right out of the box.  Plus can use in the rain, hot swap batteries, etc. We are hoping the dual band from the iPhone makes it to the iPad soon but I have not seen anything on it yet. In our testing we found that a bad elf was no better than the iPad esp in canopy.  You really need something with a big antenna to make a difference in canopy like an Arrow from Eos.   ... View more

This is really where AGOL falls down and is not enterprise ready.  The fact it still has no built in backups of any kind blows my mind really.  They just assume nothing ever goes wrong?  I have never seen a plan for this posted anywhere by Esri.  Even one day lost is thousands of dollars for us. Anyway ... the best I have is I use a Python script to download a backup copy every night to a GDB on the network.  Then I can at least go back to old copies and get the old data if someone deletes or changes something (I use my own relationship keys since if a user deletes and you restore your globalids are all a mess).  Once I get to about 20 GB this starts to fail so then I have to backup all but photos.  Luckily we run a 9 month field season in AGOL and then download and post to SDE at the end of each season.  Long term it would be really hard to keep backing up larger and larger datasets.  I think you could use ArcServer and create a versioned DB and then serve that out but then it is not hosted data and it is a rather complex workflow. Sorry but that is all I have. ... View more

Really confused what you are trying for here.  First I would just use the built in related stuff in the popup.  Easy and looks good. On your code if you know there will be only one result then no need for a loop. Seems like you are just returning these 2 fields?  If so can just send the text back. return("School Policy Area:  " +  First(FI).Sheet1__SchoolPolicyAreaAlt1SPA  + "  Plan: " + First(FI).PlanningArea_Dissolve_4_8_20_Pl) ... View more