Survey123 Hosted Form Views Should be Optional When Publishing Surveys

RyanUthoff — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:12:10 GMT

Starting at Survey123 Connect v3.22, surveys published using Survey123 Connect now automatically creates a hosted view along with the hosted feature service. Documentation for that here and here.

While I understand Esri is doing this for "data security" reasons, I believe this should be up to the organization to decide. There is already documentation on how to use hosted views for survey submissions, so the capability is already there for organizations who wish to use hosted views instead of the underlying hosted layer for data collection.

This just increases overhead for organizations who do not wish to use hosted views as it is an additional item in Portal that we have to manage.

My idea is that we make this optional so organizations aren't forced into using hosted views for data collection. Perhaps it could be an option to check/uncheck when publishing the S123 form here:

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Survey123 Hosted Form Views Should be Optional When Publishing Surveys