topic Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

CoryLyle — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:30:33 GMT

Anyone have experience with adding photos to an existing survey through the Inbox? Or potential workaround? We have office technicians that will be adding points to our feature layer (in portal), the field crew/inspectors will then navigate to these points, open the survey through the Inbox, and complete the survey including taking photos of the location.

We would like the photos to be accessible through the web map in portal, which is why we chose to use multiple image questions instead of using repeats. I read that you could possibly edit the source code for Survey123 through AppStudio, unfortunately I am not that familiar with coding and couldn't find any documentation.

I would greatly appreciate any recommendations!

Already read through the 2.4 "talk like a pirate release" blog post and saw this...but wanted to see if the community had anything new.

"As of this release, the Inbox lacks support for downloading attachments. That is, you can use the Inbox against a survey that includes attachments, but the Inbox will not populate signatures, annotated images, audio or image questions. All these types of questions will appear empty, as if they had no data. As for the rest of questions, you will be able to download data for them and update them as well.

Also, to play on the safe side, when you edit surveys from your Inbox we will disable editing on these types of questions. This means that if you open a survey from your Inbox to make edits to it, all questions of type image (photos, signature, annotate, draw) as well as audio questions will appear not only empty, but also disabled. This is to avoid people from accidentally attempting to change data in them."

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 22:27:34 GMT

Hi Cory,

As mentioned, we do not currently support editing of attachments via the Inbox. The attachments can not be downloaded via Inbox, and therefore can not be edited. Also attachments can not be added to an existing parent record in a survey, but can be added to new records in repeats.

The best workaround at present is to use a repeat for your image questions. If image questions are in a repeat, even though you are edited an existing feature (parent record), you are adding a new record to repeat, which allows adding a new photo. Note that this may mean you are unable to view the photos in a popup in webmap, as only images in the feature layer parent record will be shown there.

Phil.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

HeatherFollis — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:17:57 GMT

Hi Philip,

We are having the same issue, where I have based a survey off of an existing feature class. The field technicians would like to now go out and select that existing point/survey from the inbox and add an image and then be able to see the image in AGOL. You have mentioned to use a repeat to enable the image questions but then the photos will not be viewable in a popup in AGOL. Is there a workaround to get the images to show in AGOL?

Also, is this issue going to be addressed in future releases of either Survey123 or AGOL?

Sincerely,

Heather

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

CoryLyle — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:24:13 GMT

Heather...depending on the length and setup of your survey, Collector may be an option. We use Collector for various other projects and it is great for editing existing features and adding attachments.

In my situation, our survey has too many conditional questions and is pretty lengthy, so Collector would be really cumbersome for the field inspectors to navigate through.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:28:46 GMT

Hi Philip Wilson‌

I understand why images aren't supported in 'inbox.'

But, is there a way to display the image URLs in it instead?

Thanks,

Gee

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JamesTedrick — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 21:57:26 GMT

Hi Geethaka,

Currently there isn't a way to display the URLs of the images - Survey123 does not make any requests regarding the attachments for the Inbox (to discover the URLs it would need to query the feature's attachments).

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

HeatherFollis — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:48:33 GMT

There are many conditional questions that would be annoying for the field workers trying to figure out which fields need to be edited for which feature, etc... So I have added this dilemma to the ideas page in hopes they can address it with great solution.

https://community.esri.com/ideas/14673

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:08:56 GMT

Hi Heather,

We do not have a current timeline for supporting editing of attachments (images) via the Inbox, as previously pointed out in other GeoNet posts and updates regarding this issue.

As for a workaround to display related table images in a pop up on a web map, I do not believe this is possible due to the one to many relationship and I do not know of any workarounds, however this is more of a ArcGIS Online webmap question, so you may be better off asking the question in that forum.

Phil.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:58:26 GMT

Hello,

I have a quick question that is on this same subject/topic of working with existing features service that has a repeat and photos. However, I would like to allow users to add in multiple photos, but the nested repeats are not currently supported to add a repeat question for photos within the repeat.

So, I thought I could add a couple photo questions inside the repeat; well ok I added like 20 photo questions. I thought this form is going to be very long, but the crews would be able to revisit a site and add in new photos with each new record being added.

On my initial tests, I can add in new records within the repeat, but the images that I am loading up are "not" being uploaded to the feature service?

My initial attempt to add a new repeat allowed for the first three images to uploaded, but none of the additional new repeats have images associated to them?

Running iPad iOS 11.3.1 with Survey 123 v2.8.2 and I am using the established GlobalID relationships between the tables while I enabled the attachments to the related table and I have this within the repeat ESRI parameters "query allowAdds=true allowUpdates=true"

Please help as my crews are heading out at the end of the week. I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks! Mike

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:02:58 GMT

Has this been figured out yet? I have spent 10+ hours figuring this stuff out because of Collector bugs and now I find out that images can't be added to inbox. Very frustrating.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JeffJackson4 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:52:22 GMT

You would think with as much as this is requested, it would have been added by now.

This really needs to be looked in to and added.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JulienCHARBONNAUD — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:01:57 GMT

I'm the same problem with picture and inbox

have you a solution with the next version ?

Thinks

Julien

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:31:58 GMT

Hi Julien,

No, attachments will not be supported in the next version of Survey123, however we have this enhancement in our backlog and something we aim to address in a future release.

Phil.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

PaulDoherty2 — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:36:05 GMT

Philip Wilson‌ Thank you for the heads up on this. Any estimate on the timeline for this functionality?

Use Case

We have some Urban Search and Rescue Teams testing a workflow where "targets" are dropped on the map / S123 feature layer and then they need to find them and update to a different waypoint category. This reduces the amount of data entry and creates a "workforce-like" workflow to make sure they hit all of their assigned tasks. But... then they cannot add a photo to those points which is problematic for when they want to document the damage.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:28:04 GMT

Hi Paul,

No, there is currently no fixed timeline for implementing this feature, still in our backlog, however high on our priority list.

Phil.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JasonJordan00 — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:05:19 GMT

I would like to add that this would be a major feature for us and really hope to see it in a coming release. Currently we get around it by using repeats on signatures however it really gums up the schema.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JulienCHARBONNAUD — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:30:56 GMT

Hi Jason

I share your interest

Can you explain to me your recipe

Thanks

Julien

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

StevenDel_Castillo — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 00:24:03 GMT

Hi Philip,

Any chance a rough estimate on this feature can be shared?

Thanks,

Steven

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

Anonymous User — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:13:18 GMT

Hi Steven,

At this stage there is still no set timeline or scheduled release for this feature. However we have been doing initial work in the underlying framework and database engine being used to be able to support it in the future. We are hoping this is something we can bring to life once all the required components are updated and will be aiming to get it into beta as soon as we can.

Phil.

Re: Adding Images/Attachments to Survey in INBOX

JulienCHARBONNAUD — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:11:40 GMT

Hi Steven

you can use repeat function

it works but you can see if some pictures have already been sent but you can add some

bye

Julien