topic Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

ShaneClarke — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:01:56 GMT

Is there a way to open a Survey123 web form and pass field parameters to the web form?
Here is what I want to do: I want to create a hyperlink to open the Survey123 web form and pre-populate fields, including passing the x,y coordinates for the geopoint location. Any suggestions on how to do this?
(Are custom-URL parameters only supported for the Survey123 apps, or are they also supported for the web form?)
Thanks!

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:18:13 GMT

Hi Shane,

Currently, parameters are supported by forms on the web that have been created using Survey123 Connect, with the same basic pattern for field population as exists in the app URL. One of the improvements coming in 2.6 will be to make the web form used by Connect-authored forms the web form for all new forms (surveys previously authored with the Web Designer will need to be republished).

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

TylerGrosshuesch2 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:55:47 GMT

Hi James,

Could you give an example of a working URL? I tried a few things and didn't get it to work yet. This url

https://survey123.arcgis.com/?itemId=a74e3a51a1a34a709fc05bb4e8cf092f&field:station_name=test

just takes me to this page: https://survey123.arcgis.com/ .

Tyler

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

ShaneClarke — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:05:46 GMT

Hi Tyler,

Try this URL:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/a74e3a51a1a34a709fc05bb4e8cf092f?field:station_name=test

The syntax is slightly different to what you had.

Shane

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

TylerGrosshuesch2 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:57:38 GMT

Thanks Shane! That did it.

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

AndrewRyan3 — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:56:47 GMT

Thanks Shane for this answer, it helped me with a problem I was having. Does anyone know what the proper syntax is for sending the geometry to the survey123 webapp. I have Latitude and Longitude that I want to pass to Survey123, but the syntax "&center={Latitude},{Longitude}" doesnt seem to work for when opening the webapp of survey123. does the "?" replace the "&"?

Thanks!

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:02:37 GMT

Hi Andrew,

As Shane's post indicates, the variation between the field app and the web form is that the ID of the form occurs in the main part of the URL (to the left of the ?). In the URL, the ? separates the page address (left) from parameters (right); multiple parameters are joined by using an & . If you are only passing the center location,

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/<formID>?center=<lat>,<lon>

is the correct syntax.

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

AndrewRyan3 — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:09:25 GMT

Hm, I must have something wrong with my latitude longitude attributes, or the way I am passing them, because I can pass other attribute information to the webform fine, but the "center" is not working. My url looks like this right now.

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/SURVEYID?field:PolygonID={OBJECTID}&center={Latitude},{Longitude}

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:53:13 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Can you try copying & pasting the URL from the pop-up and make sure that the values appear as you expect?

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

TylerGrosshuesch3 — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:03:37 GMT

I'm also having trouble with coordinates when using the web form. The URL seems to be good, but instead of being in Minnesota the points are at (0,0). Other fields passed to the web form work as expected. Passing the same coordinates to the Survey123 app on Windows puts the dot in the right place.

Sample web form URL resulting in point at (0,0):

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/152181454a34477885bf5a6052aee95f?center=45.09388309000008,-93.43662747099995

Sample Survey123 app URL resulting in point at desired location:

arcgis-survey123://?itemId=152181454a34477885bf5a6052aee95f&center=45.09388309000008,-93.43662747099995

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

AW_Grove — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:40:47 GMT

I am also having the same issue mentioned by Tyler, but ONLY with the web form of Survey 123. The coordinates (center=) pass without issue in Collector.

Collector url (centers asset on X,Y):

arcgis-survey123://?itemID=afa0d9f8fcfa4751868eec4da2795d31&field:UNITID={UNITID}&field:COMPKEY={COMPKEY}&field:ASSETTYPE:{UNIT_FUNCTION}&center={WGS84_Y},{WGS84_X}

Web url (centers asset on 0,0):

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/afa0d9f8fcfa4751868eec4da2795d31?field:UNITID={UNITID}&field:COMPKEY={COMPKEY}&field:ASSETTYPE={UNIT_FUNCTION}?center={WGS84_Y},{WGS84_X}

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

AdamBakiera — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:35:03 GMT

We are trying to pass latitude and longitude points from a pop-up as well. Here is the syntax we're using:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/6a9fa702496a4ccb966523384ca210cd?center={Longitude},{Latitude}

This doesn't center the resulting map on the lat/long inside of the survey form. Here is what the url looks like:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/6a9fa702496a4ccb966523384ca210cd?center=,

Is there something we need to change in the survey itself?

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:26:56 GMT

Hi Adam,

Just to check, are there Longitude and Latitude fields in the table of the features? Also, the format should be Latitude,Longitude.

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

AdamBakiera — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:47:28 GMT

Good morning James,

So we're using the Serviceability Lookup Solution. We want to capture the lat/long from the address that the customer is inputting. I know that lat/long is stored in one of the layers (Request Tracking) that is included in the solution. The problem I've ran into is that I can't get a second copy of that Request Tracking layer to test with. We have already deployed it once before and it is in full use on our website, so I would prefer not to test on that layer because it will throw our numbers off. Another issue we have to account for is the random ordering of the pop-ups. Because of this, I created an invisible layer in which our Survey123 form is stored. This way, the form always shows up at the bottom. We do not have lat/long data in this invisible layer.

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

RatheeshKR — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:47:13 GMT

Thanks its working

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

CalebAnderson — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:19:45 GMT

I know this is an older post but I have been banging my head against this one for some time... Found this which answered the question as to why the web url was centering on 0,0:

https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2019/02/06/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-web-form-url-parameters

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

ChrisJones4 — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:22:31 GMT

Hi James,

I'm having a issue when I use the Explorer app to create a survey, it doesn't put the point where the pole is and it was created from using a custom attribute config.with a custom URL

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:34:14 GMT

Hi Chris,

Can you provide more details about the URL you are using to open Survey123?

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

ChrisJones4 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:13:28 GMT

James,

arcgis-survey123://?itemID=0d8e8aa764b04b9a886906773f9f1ad9&field:gis_map_number={MapNumber}&field:inspection_feeder={Feeder}&center={Latitude},{Longitude}

Re: Custom URL for Survey123 web form?

JamesTedrick — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:35:14 GMT

Hi Chris,

How many digits are your Latitude/Longitude fields displaying? Can you look at the values (say, by copying the link in the Map Viewer)?