idea Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123 in ArcGIS Field Maps Ideas

Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

PaulSweeney3 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 12:24:13 GMT

It would be useful if attachments could be named via the form similar to survey123.

Also to add to this it would be good if attachments could be viewed but not deleted

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

Mike_Koutnik — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:08:49 GMT

It would also be good to be able to use Arcade to calculate the intended file name for an attachment. For photos the name might be an asset name/code appended with a date/time or a date and an automatically incremented integer (for the sequence in which the photo was taken during the current data collection session).

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

TiffanyTuro — Mon, 10 May 2021 17:16:11 GMT

An option to date-stamp photos collected in field maps would be very useful, as would the naming convention mentioned above by Mike_K. This ups the value of collecting photos tremendously.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

AllisonHoskin-Kain1 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:23:12 GMT

Having a unique photo name would be beneficial as we now have an issue of associating the correct photos with other associated datasets.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

cbp-geus — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:24:38 GMT

Having this option combined with an expression using the other suggestion of Sequential values for Field Maps - Esri Community would be a great way to keep all your photos uniquely organized when extracting them from the fgdb.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

KenW — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:37:31 GMT

What I would love is that you can setup the Photo to auto name to a field in your point file so it would name ex: BigBearUnit1_Photo1. "BigBearUnit1" is being auto pulled from the point that your adding in collector/field maps.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

jyh — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:24:02 GMT

This is a critical function for us. We have to extract all of the photos from Field Maps in order to use them in our project reports and to archive them. The only way to do that currently is using a script in Pro (that's another issue). But it needs the photos to have a unique name. Otherwise, you get a folder of jpgs and no way of knowing which point feature they correspond to and you have to spend a lot of time opening photos and clicking on points to find matches, then rename the photos.

Jill Halchin, National Park Service

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

MapsInRaleigh — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:22:45 GMT

I would prefer even if you could select a field from the feature class from a drop-down list, where you could select a field such as "Name" or "ObjectID" and it would auto-name the photos with the corresponding field. The result would be similar to featurename_1, featurename_2, so that when photos are exported into file explorer or etc, is it easy to know what feature you are reviewing.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

NourSalamJMT — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:06:43 GMT

This would be very useful!

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

DavidSolari — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:59:41 GMT

Our team has a project that requires all attachments have a very specific name based on a field in the parent feature. We currently "solve" this using a Python cursor to ensure all attachments are named correctly. Not only does this take several hours to chew through the table but every renamed attachment creates a new record in the archive table, effectively doubling the size of every attachment. Enforcing the proper name via Arcade at the database level would solve all of these issues.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

HollyTorpey_LSA — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:32:52 GMT

I really like @MapsInRaleigh's suggestion above. We have created a tool that exports and renames attachments in Pro based on a field in the parent attribute table, but it would be better if we could name them appropriately from the start. That way when users save individual photos themselves from a dashboard or Attachment Viewer or whatever, they'd already be named something meaningful and they wouldn't end up with a bunch of copies of photo1.jpg in their downloads folder.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

CSHEEHAN1983 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:23:29 GMT

Its 2024, when is this feature coming?? Off the shelf GIS apps have the ability to have photo/attachment fields. At the very least can attachments be given a GUID?

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

PaulSweeney3 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:16:17 GMT

Midterm "Attachments within forms" can only assume it refers to attachment control so good to see ? Now what does midterm mean? 🤔

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

TD1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:43:42 GMT

We are in 2025. When is something so simple like preventing users from deleting attachments in Field Maps going to be implemented? I need this feature like yesterday. Users shouldn't be able to delete attachment if the service is set to only allow updates.

Ideally I would allow more granular level controls where I can control if a user can edit, delete, add attachment independent of the other editing controls for the features themselves.

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123

SCVOSAGIS_Program — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:13:45 GMT

Not having this is a major roadblock! Linking duplicate suggestion that suggests an arcade pathway https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-field-maps-ideas/name-attachments-programatically-using-field-s-or/idc-p/1397080#M1667

Re: Allow attachments to be named and made required similar to survey123 - Status changed to: Needs Clarification

SarahSaint-Ruth — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:06:53 GMT

You can try attachment keywords and making attachments required now in our Early Adopter Program - we would love to hear your feedback!

https://earlyadopter.esri.com/key/ArcGISFieldMaps

See what else is planned for the June release:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-field-maps-blog/arcgis-field-maps-early-adopter-program-is-now/...