topic Re: Photo Annotation Control in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Photo Annotation Control

Th_re_B_Christensen — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:06:24 GMT

Did the photo annotation "break" in Survey123 Connect v3.2.35 (Alpha)? I was doing a demo where I deleted the "annotate" from the XLS schema to show how the camera icon changes. When I went back to reverse this, I can no longer enter the word annotate in the Appearance column. It also does not appear as a choice in the pull-down list. What changed?

Cross reference to this article: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2017/09/20/talk-like-a-pirate-release-24

Re: Photo Annotation Control

JamesTedrick — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:15:21 GMT

Hi Thöre,

There hasn't been a change to the XLS file template. I believe what you are experiencing is that the Data Validation has become mis-aligned - this can occur if rows get copy/pasted around a sheet or between sheets. A symptom of the latter is the XLS file opening gives a message about links being broken. You can reset teh validation by going to the Data tab and selecting Data Validation.

Re: Photo Annotation Control

Th_re_B_Christensen — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:25:35 GMT

Thank you James. If I understand this correctly, there should be a row on the types sheet within the XLS. When I go to view the types sheet, under the appearance category, annotate is not listed in. I honestly did not intentionally delete this.... I don't know what it would have disappeared.

Re: Photo Annotation Control

JamesTedrick — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:34:52 GMT

It might be that the survey pre-dated annotation being added; in that case, simple insert a row in the middle of that list and add 'annotate'

Re: Photo Annotation Control

Th_re_B_Christensen — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:49:13 GMT

Yep, that was the culprit. I updated the older XLS with date from a newer XLS in the types sheet, redid the data validation and it's working now. Thank you James!