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Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

HélèneTouyéras — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:08:24 GMT

Good afternoon,

Is it possible to use some smart syntax in Survey123 report templates to avoid attachment piling up on top of each-other?

My survey has its "image" field within a repeat, so people can take several pictures of the feature they are surveying, for instance to show the different issues on the same feature.

I downloaded the report template and reused the part about the attachment without modification:

${#attachments}
${attached_item | size:250:0}
${/attachments}

When creating the report for a feature with several attachements, all the attachments are ported in the report, but they are all placed on top of each other.

EDIT: the above syntax will place each picture on its own line, it is okay. I realize I did wrong when actually using:

${#attachments} ${attached_item | size:250:0} ${/attachments}

I was wondering if there is a way to iterate through the attachments, so that I place the first one found on the first page, and all attachements (to make it simpler) at the end of the document, that is, all of them side by side or each on its line, but not on top of each other.

Any help greatly appreciated!!

Hélène.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

Anonymous User — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:28:25 GMT

You can add a table to the print template and add an attachment to each cell.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

HélèneTouyéras — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:29:29 GMT

Thanks for your reply, Robb! I am not managing it, tough.

In the XLS used to design the survey, the field used to store attachments is called attached_item

Inserting ${attached_item1 | size:250:0} in the template returns "undefined" in the report.

I tried this line alone first , and then as :

${#attachments}

${attached_item1 | size:250:0}

${/attachments}

in the latter case, I obtained as many "undefined" lines as I have attachments. The attachments where taken with the phone's camera, their have long suffixes, such as "attached_item-20180622-072455.jpg".

Not sure what I am doing wrong - What do you think I shoudl try?

Many thanks again!! & a good week-end!

Hélène.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

Anonymous User — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:24:30 GMT

I’m not using a repeat for photos since I am limiting the photo section to 4 photos, this can be increased to whatever. I have each photo section compacted until a question is asked. This way each photo is individually labeled.

I don’t think this can be done with repeats since each photo has a random name.

Here is a photo capture template and the print template that goes with it.

Hope this helps.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

Anonymous User — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:51:23 GMT

Hélène,

Looks like you can use the table for repeats also

I included a quick photo repeat form and the print template

Robb

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

HeleneTOUYERAS — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:35:02 GMT

Thanks Robb, I like this approach, which makes it much easier on the report side.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

HeleneTOUYERAS — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:07:57 GMT

Thanks Robb, I edited the print template as follows:

Deleted two of the three table cells: the use of the reapeat will create as many cells as there are photos. With 3 cells in the template, each picture is inserted 3 times.
Added the end of loop marker just below the table, else the report creation throws an error: ${/Start_Photos}

The resulting template is attached.

Using the repeat is convenient for users, but can make the report design more complex when you have to deal with many pictures. I still wonder whether there is a way to catch the first photo in the repeat to illustrate the report's first page, and put all other pics in appendices. In that regard, your solution of inserting several "single photo" questions is better than mine - the print template is easier to design. Thanks for your help !!

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

DebsGray — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 19:09:25 GMT

Hi, I was wondering if anything has progressed from this? I'm trying to put my photos (repeat question) side by side, but they just go on top of each other. Is there anything we can change in the syntax so that they can be displayed side by side?

Thanks

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Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

JamesTedrick — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:51:15 GMT

Hi Debs,

This has been taken down as a possible enhancement to the feature report service but no work has been done to implement this to date.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

MichelleWilliams1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 22:39:05 GMT

Thank you, Robb, for your excellent attachments; it looks like I have to set my photos up this way too.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

BryceHancock — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:54:26 GMT

Hi James,

Is there any way to show photos in a Survey123 report side by side from a repeat yet? Thank you.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

pangue — Mon, 15 May 2023 16:47:04 GMT

Hi, sorry this is an old thread, however images in repeats can be put side-by-side in a tile view by formatting the repeats in a text box in the feature report template. This allows data content to be added with the photos. Below is what we have been doing for our photos when we want them in a tile view.

Side by Side Photos

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

KristenPonak — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:03:48 GMT

Hi @pangue - this is exactly what i'm trying to achieve. Would you be able to share your template?

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

CSDING_GIS — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:32:57 GMT

Thank you so much! I spent a while finding a solution to this problem and I'm glad I found it.

I think this should be the accepted answer.

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

Stephanie1 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:49:54 GMT

Hi there! Do you have the template for this shared somewhere by chance? This is exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. Thanks!

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

DeborahDennison — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:17:58 GMT

Hi Pangue,

I'm looking for help on this problem too and would like to know how you made the side by side images.

Can you share the code Word doc or provide some tips so we can see how it was achieved?
Thanks!

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

ssweat — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:50:58 GMT

Hi Deborah,

I have also been struggling with this. I have found that using the following syntax in a text box gives me the desired side by side photos. Note the spaces matter in between to give you photos space! Good luck!

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

JordanWade — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:46:00 GMT

Hi Pangue,

Thanks for this. Can you please share the script / word document ?

This is exactly what i need for my project

Cheers

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

jiangmingyue — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:13:21 GMT

Hi,

An easy solution that works for me is that instead of writing

${#attachments}

${attached_item | size:250:0}

${/attachments},

place them in the same line :

${#$attachment} ${$file| size: 250:0} ${/}

Re: Survey123 Report: placing attachments side by side (or each on a different line)?

jmaxwell_braun — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:15:20 GMT

Old thread, but hopefully this helps anyone who ends up here. I got the text boxes thing to work for displaying pictures and captions in a repeat horizontally.

Insert a text box in Word, set the text wrapping to "in line with text". That part is important. Put your opening repeat tag in front of the text box and the closing tag directly behind the text box on the same line. That part is important too. In the text box put the image and any data attributes on separate lines.

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