topic Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

AndySchmidt — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:28:19 GMT

I am having an issue with Survey123 calculating a geopoint which defaults back to GPS location. I am using Collector to launch the survey and pass values to the survey including a Latitude and longitude value then calculating the geopoint using concat(string(${LATITUDE}), ' ', string(${LONGITUDE})). It initially takes the calculated point then zooms to my current device GPS location. I can get the location back by pressing the refresh button on the map in survey123. This worked in the past but with the recent updates in version 3.0 this is no longer working for me. I want it to default to the calculated location so it shows the location of the asset vs the location of the device where the survey is taken at

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

JamesTedrick — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:21:37 GMT

Hi Andy,

To pass the location to be used in the map, you should use the center=<lat>,<lon> parameter instead of calculating from fields. That being said, I do see the behavior you are describing and will file an issue to fix.

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

ChaimSchwartz4 — Mon, 20 May 2019 19:34:27 GMT

Hi James Tedrick, I am having the same issue, however, I am already using center = (lat, long) to pass the coordinates from collector to survey123, but now need to once again pass the same coordinates to a related table (repeat) within the survey. I tried to do so using a similar "concat" to the above, but it doesn't work (it actually seems to be working when testing in the survey123 connect app, but then doesn't work in the actual (iphone) app. Is there a fix/workaround for this?

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

JamesTedrick — Wed, 22 May 2019 18:01:24 GMT

Hi Chaim

Are you using the pulldata('@geopoint') function as part of the calculation? This sounds similar to an issue that is being worked on. We will be releasing a release to the early adopter community that should address this soon (3.4.119); could I ask you to test once it's available?

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

ChaimSchwartz4 — Wed, 22 May 2019 18:43:09 GMT

Hi,

Yes, I am using the pulldata("@geopoint", ${....},"y") function. I also saw elsewhere that there is a more general issue with coordinates not auto-captured in related tables, so perhaps this is a related issue. If this is to be addressed in a short release that is great news, and I will certainly be happy to test.

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

JamesTedrick — Thu, 23 May 2019 22:59:29 GMT

Hi Chaim,

The updated versions are now available at the Early Adopter Community.

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

ChaimSchwartz4 — Fri, 24 May 2019 01:54:40 GMT

Works like a charm!! Tested on the windows version since IOS is still pending. Thank you for this this is great!!

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

JuulDaemen — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:51:40 GMT

Hi Chaim,

Looks great! And exactly like what I'm looking for.
I'm still wondering how you managed to use the x and y fields as input in the geopoint field in the XLSX?

Thanks.

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

ChaimSchwartz4 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:24:28 GMT

Hi,

In my form I have a geopoint field called "inspectionLocation" and then two fields that capture the coordinates through the calculation column:

inspectionY:	pulldata("@geopoint", ${inspectionLocation},"y")

inspectionX:	pulldata("@geopoint", ${inspectionLocation},"x")‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

And then I pass that into a geopoint row in the repeat once again through the calculation column:

${inspectionY} + " " +${inspectionX}‍‍

Hope that helps.

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

JuulDaemen — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:28:55 GMT

Thanks Chaim, it works perfectly now!

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

NaeimBabaii — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:13:18 GMT

Hi James, I'm having similar issue with the Pull data function for my lat and long- however my issue is temperamental,meaning some of my coordinates comes from Pull data and some get the device location coordinates somehow. i found out that my excel data dump from Survey123 have an extra X and Y field at the end with Coordinates coming from the device location. I'm not an early adopter and wondering if this issue can be fixed by the update on that version? more than happy to share the XLS form with you if required.

Appreciate your help

Re: Survey123 calculating geopoint defaults back to GPS

RobertAnderson3 — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:36:19 GMT

Hi James,

I'm having this issue now, where the coordinates passed from a point in my map are overwritten by the device GPS. Has this bug crept back up? The coordinates pass properly when I use the map on the web on my PC, but not when I use them on my phone, both in the apps (Explorer, and Field Maps) as well as mobile web browser.

It does this for one of my Surveys, but not 2 of the others, I can't see any difference in the URL schemes that I'm using to pass the coordinates.