I have made several surveys in the web engine, and have shifted towards connect. Is connect able to accommodate forms like pdf's and word docs?
Hi Alex,
Survey123 Connect won't display the file question properly, but will preserve it in the form - when you republish, it will still be available in the web form.
Hi, James! Is there a limit to what file types are allowed by the File Upload question? We've successfully set up a File Upload with Connect but we can't select an .xls or .xlsx file with the question. The file is under 5MB so the size shouldn't be an issue and the support text on the button says * which I would think means any filetype is supported. How can we attach .xls and .xlsx files?
To give some more info and context, we're attempting to submit these surveys along with an Excel spreadsheet from an iPad. We have Excel installed on the iPads and the File Upload option is not restricted to any single file type ("*" is listed) but, for some reason, we can't select an Excel file.
Hi Derek,
We are seeing some issues with the most recent versions of iOS and the file question in mobile Safari; we are looking into it.
Thanks, James Tedrick. Let me know if I can assist or help test in any way.
Do we know if this is an iOS issue or is it a Survey123 issue? I know that WebKit is the browser engine on iOS and, as expected, both Chrome and Safari on iOS do the same.
Hi, James! Just wanted to follow back up to see if there's a solution to this or, at the very least, a workaround that we can use in the meantime? This issue is keeping us from being able to use the forms we created in the field.
The reason for this issue is that on iOS 13 the MIME type of "application/*" won't work, which will happen when no file types specified in the xlsx form. For a workaround, you can specify one or more types in the body::accept column in xlsx form, i.e.
application/pdf,application/msword,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document,application/vnd.ms-excel,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet,application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation,application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,text/plain
and republish your survey.
Thanks,
Jody Zheng Liu
Hi, Jody!
Is this documented anywhere on the ESRI help docs or site? My XLSForm doesn't have that column. I'm sure I can add it but I'm curious how I would have ever gotten that as an option if you hadn't saved me and responded with that.
Thanks!
Glad to hear that it works for you! This column is not documented yet since File Upload question type is not officially supported in Survey123 Connect and Field App yet (but it will soon be supported, you can join the Early Adoper Community of Survey123 to enroll beta functions). Currently, if you author your survey in the web designer with File Upload question, the specified MIME types would be explicitly added.
Jody
Hey Jody,
Thanks so much for your suggestions, they are very helpful. I've added the extra column to my excel spreasheet within S123 Connect called "body::accept" and I can now upload PDF/Word/Excel files. I'm working on an survey that is published from Connect that needs to support PDF/Word/Excel/text and jpeg/png files. I'm now finding that when I put in your suggestion of:
I can no longer upload the image (jpeg/png) file types. Is there a way to allow for both?
Can the standard MIME types be called for using S123 Connect?Thanks, Chris
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