topic Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps in ArcGIS Field Maps Questions

Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

Tom_Laue — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:20:47 GMT

Can you require capturing a photo in Field Maps, as you can in Survey123? If not, is this a planned future capability?

I’d really like to use Field Maps for a portion of my workflow but I need to require a photo be taken. I'll have to use Survey123 until this capability is added.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

Anonymous User — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:30:01 GMT

@Tom_LaueThere are plans to support in-line attachments. However, we have not committed to making these require-able.

Can you describe your use-case for requiring a specific photo?

Do you need to require just one photo, or multiple photos?

Do you work offline?

Are you collecting new features or editing existing features?

What are your expectations if a photo already exists for a feature?

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

Tom_Laue — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:41:55 GMT

Hi @Anonymous User – thanks for the quick reply!

This is for a street cut restoration workflow which has field crews visit a site on two different occasions…

I am using Survey123 for field crews to complete their initial street restoration form including taking a picture of the initial restoration.

Another crew will go out later to complete the final restoration and click the existing point (preferably in Field Maps) and fill in the final restoration width, restoration length, restoration notes (optional) and take a final picture.

So all points will ultimately have 2 photos (initial and final photo).

Trying to edit existing records with Survey123 is not easy but doable. I’d rather the second field crew work exclusively in Field Maps since they can see the points they need to visit in the map. I can hide all the fields except the ones they need to fill out and make those required for them, but I can’t require them to take a picture which we need for our records.

I don’t expect any offline editing.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

BillHeigh — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:04:54 GMT

Hi guys,

I am also interested in this capability. Our use case would be for electric meter change-outs. We currently use paper for out readings and in readings (almost always zero these days). But having a picture of the reading would be good verification and would save time in the field.

We might also require a picture for our joint use communications attachment requests. We currently rely on the inspectors work flow to take pictures of any violations, but they are only human and sometimes get distracted. We also perform pre-attach inspection and then post-attach inspections and their attachments sometimes fail to meet our standards or code violations. It would be a nice feature for the inspectors to get reminded if they forget for whatever reason.

Thanks, Bill~

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

AriLukas — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:58:58 GMT

I am interested in this as well. Has there been any progress towards this capability?

Thanks, Ari

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

LauraBoagey1 — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:22:37 GMT

This would be a great addition. We require this too.....

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

Tolo__AdamTolo — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:53:05 GMT

For us it is also a requirement for proof of maintenance and restorations of assets.

I guess it would be good to be able to setup two photo "fields". Where you could attach 1 or more photos for the "initial photos" field and then be able to capture 1 or more photos "final photos" field.

Or something along those lines.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

CraigM — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:49:02 GMT

Yes! This is very important to any workflow. For ours, it would be inspecting trees or having contractors show their completed work to reduce the need for site inspections.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

tbearb — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:11:44 GMT

I'll add here as well that having an option of setting photo capture as required in Field Maps would be ideal for our organization. Our use case is when a water meter is changed out or has maintenance conducted on it. We have a related work history table that serves as a running log and having those historical photos is necessary.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

BlairMcclenathan — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:22:31 GMT

For a workflow we would greatly appreciate this functionality as well, we are currently working on locating all water valves within our municipality and require photos for every future collected.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

GerberMatthew — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:47:35 GMT

I agree with this request.

The scenario I have is being able to link particular attachments to particular questions like you do in Survey123.

Eg.

Question 1: Intersection Approach Photo

Question 2: Intersection Signage Photo

Question 3: Intersection Safety Barrier Photo

This assignment of photo(s) to a question/attribute then allows the photos to be loaded into report generators and dashboards in their correct filtered position like you can do using S123 managed form attachments

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

GerberMatthew — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:49:32 GMT

PS. This would then also allow for the signature image to be supported in Field Maps similar to S123 which has been requested.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

JaredLewis — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:09:27 GMT

Agreed, this would be a fantastic feature. We have several workflows that require photo documentation/proof for regulatory compliance.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

TaraJahanarai — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:58:14 GMT

Hi,

I am interested in this too. We have contractors out removing tree stumps. We have to have the size of the removed stump proven to us by a photo with scale for the payment since each size category has a different price. Obviously these are existing features and we need multiple manadatory photos.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

najeebhall — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:43:25 GMT

Hi,

Im interested in this too, any updates ?

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

VH_MapS — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:12:07 GMT

I'm extremely interested in this feature. Are there any updates or plans to roll it out in 2023?

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

JustinReynolds — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:26:54 GMT

According to a dev response in Early Adopters, it is a maybe in later 2024.

"Unfortunately some underlying capabilities the Maps SDKs need to provide for us aren't yet in place. There has been some progress here, but full support will require the new 200.x SDKs which won't be in Field Maps until early 2024."

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

VH_MapS — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:42:19 GMT

Thanks for the quick response!

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

MarkEastwood — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:46:50 GMT

This addition would be greatly appreciated. We also have a need for this feature.

Re: Requiring a Photo in Field Maps

AndrewStudley — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 22:43:32 GMT

Just wanted to add another “I could use this”.