idea (IMPLEMENTED) Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters in ArcGIS Survey123 Ideas

(IMPLEMENTED) Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:24:15 GMT

I designed two smart forms for my company and leverage the data to be in the dashboards where the end-users could generate the feature reports by configuring the popup in the webmap and adding the URL to generate feature reports.

What I did exactly was using the URL parameters of the report as below:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/surveys/XXXXXX/data?report=templateItemId:XXXXXX;format:pdf;objectIds:all;mergeFiles:nextPage&extent=58.3926,23.5739,58.3966,23.5744&filter=(0.dss_gis_objectid%20is%${dss_gis_objectid})

There might be the possibility to enhance the generating report by URL and adding all the fields in the report panel as a URL parameters of the "report="

report=
Select a template: templateItemId:XXXXXX;
Format: format:pdf;
Choose records to include: objectIds:all;
Output settings: mergeFiles:nextPage;

My sugession to add:

Report name

Save to my ArcGIS account (check or un check)

Generate button

So the users will generate the reports by clicking only on the link through the ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS Field Maps in the popup or any platform!

See the video for more clarification.

(view in My Videos)

@ZhifangWang @ZacharySutherby @JamesTedrick

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

ZhifangWang — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:34:53 GMT

Hi @Hussam_AlJabri ,

Thanks for reaching to us.

I think it is a valid use case where the end-user wants to generate a report directly. I've logged an issue for this in the dev repo, if this is important to you, please also feel free to raise an enhancement via Esri Support Service to prioritize the work.

In addition, can you please share more details in your use case? For example, after generating the report on the Data page of the Survey123 website, is the end-user expected to do more work on the Data page or just grab the report file and close the page?

Thanks,

Zhifang

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 05:18:19 GMT

Hi @ZhifangWang

Thanks for reaching my Idea.

Mainly the end-users will generate the reports only with out needing work in the data page.

Really it will be helpful for us to manage all fields in the report panel by the URL Parameters.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Geoeki — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:56:24 GMT

Fantastic idea! Right now, we have to guide inexperienced and infrequent users through the Survey123 Data page just for generating their reports...that's be such a great addition to automate report generation in an automated way. Have my upvote!

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:08:19 GMT

Hi @ZhifangWang,

You said "please also feel free to raise an enhancement via Esri Support Service to prioritize the work."

from where exactly I can raise it? because I can't find any place in the Esri support to allow me raising enhancements.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Geoeki — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:48:20 GMT

@Hussam_AlJabri I think your local Esri support does the classification...you just create a ticket with them suggesting this as an enhancement request and they should handle the rest

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:45:09 GMT

Hi @Geoeki , brilliant! I raised it to the local Esri Support.

Thanks

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

ZhifangWang — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:52:35 GMT

Hi @Hussam_AlJabri , @Geoeki

Can I ask in your workflow "let another user generate a report automatically", which one of the following is better?

Click a link outside the Survey123 website, open the Data page and generate the report automatically, then the user leaves the page open or closes it directly
Click a link outside the Survey123 website, generate the report directly and open the download dialog for the generated report in the browser, without the need to open the Data page of the Survey123 website

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Geoeki — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:08:48 GMT

Hi @ZhifangWang fewer clicks is always better...so clearly suggestion 2, if there are enough parameters available to actually define what features should go into the automatically generated report.

When following on the suggestion by Hussam, that'd be this parameter: Choose records to include: objectIds:all;

It shouldn't be just all features, but offer a choice on what features (or even layers) you'd like to include: 1.) all features on a specific feature layer, 2.) all features on the layer currently available due to filter settings, 3.) all features currently in the map view, 4.) all features from a table/map selection.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

jessneuner — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:19:20 GMT

This would be useful for us also. Our Neighborhood Enhancement team will be implementing the Special Events permitting solution and have a need to print the applications. Rather than sending them to yet another app for one workflow, it would be handy if they could print the application details directly from the Crowdsource Manager app where they will be doing the review.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:49:55 GMT

Hello @ZhifangWang

Any update about the Enhancement Number: ENH-000142314

Synopsis: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters in Survey123

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 04:25:39 GMT

Hello @ZhifangWang

Any update about the Enhancement Number: ENH-000142314

Synopsis: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters in Survey123

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:25:31 GMT

@IsmaelChivite, any update?

Enhancement Number: ENH-000142314

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

ZhifangWang — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:56:30 GMT

Hi @Hussam_AlJabri ,

Thanks for checking. ENH-000142314 is still under consideration and we don't have a solid plan for it yet.

If this is important to your workflow, please consider raising a defect escalation to Esri Support Service for ENH-000142314 by providing business justifications. This can escalate the priority of this feature in our release plans.

Thanks,

Zhifang

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Kara_Shindle — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:07:18 GMT

Absolutely a need for us. County government, using Survey123 to build forms on existing enterprise feature services. We are converting old databases into GIS, but still need the ability to create printouts for the public who cannot/will not use computers or do not have access to them, but still need the information from the databases.

I see now that I can overwrite a report if I have it saved in my ArcGIS Online Content, but being able to have URL parameters would be lovely. I could then imbed that in a button in an experience builder. I have users who need certain administrative rights to certain applications we develop for them, but they do not want (& I don't want them) to export reports from Survey123.

In my instance, we are moving an Access database of county human services into a geodatabase for creating a searchable experience builder application. But we still need the reports to be generated as needed by less technical users. Instead of having to have my staff do that or give licensing out to those who don't need it or don't want to pay for it, I could use a URL to generate the reports.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters - Status changed to: Under Consideration

ZhifangWang — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:18:38 GMT

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

Hussam_AlJabri — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:05:34 GMT

Great!

I can see now we can add the report name using URL.

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

BKS — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:12:44 GMT

Couldn't agree more that this would be a very beneficial (and I suspect not very difficult) enhancement to implement. Just like @Geoeki , we have inexperienced users and being able to see their data in report form is fantastic, but having to instruct them on how to do so via Data tab in ArcGIS Survey123 website tends to downplay the enthusiasm they have for getting their reports. Some will be intimidated by the Data page on the website. They just want the report.

Per @ZhifangWang options 1 and 2 above, avoiding the need to open Survey123 website data page and simply downloading the report via browser window is necessary to remove users confusion. Leaving them on the Data page for some may be a good idea but for others the confusion will still remain. Thus both choices would be best, but if I had to pick one it would be option 2.

Hope others see the value of this and upvote (via contacting local support).

BKS

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

majidalabrawi — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:23:02 GMT

Hi @ZhifangWang

Any update about the Enhancement Number: ENH-000142314

Synopsis: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters in Survey123

Re: Generate Feature Report directly by URL Parameters

ZhifangWang — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:26:07 GMT

@majidalabrawi ,

We are still evaluating/collecting use cases for this scenario.

Would you mind sharing some info about your workflow? For example:

What is the app the user tries to print a report?
Compared to a dedicated report workflow, e.g. the report panel on the Survey123 Data page or even a report widget in Experience Builder, how can this "click a URL to show a simple web page to generate the report" workflow help?

Note: Based on our current evaluation, it is not suitable to directly generate a report by clicking a URL because it would be difficult to re-download the report if you missed it the first time and also could time out if it takes some time to generate the report. Instead, we are evaluating a new simple web page that can be opened by clicking a URL and on that page, the user can confirm/trigger the report generation, and retrieve/re-download the report file.

Will the above approach work for your workflow?