topic Re: Help working with non-spatial records in Dashboard (with data coming from Survey123 web app) in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Help working with non-spatial records in Dashboard (with data coming from Survey123 web app)

KBeardsley — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:43:00 GMT

I'm using the current version of Survey123 (web) to capture data from university staff/faculty about their projects and research related to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. I've created an optional map for them to enter polygons, but many do not submit a shape because their work is global (or just non-spatial). I then want to share this data, and allow users to select and see others' entries, in Operations Dashboard (beta).

1. The problem is that the non-spatial records seem impossible to access on the Dashboard. I tried to query them in the Side Panel with no success. It seems to only operate with feature data.

2. The second issue is that I can not determine how to delete non-spatial records. In my current instance, there are 8 records and only 2 have a spatial feature (polygon) entered. I need to delete some of the non-spatial records because they were created during the testing phase of the development. I can delete the feature-tied records, but have found NO WAY to delete the non-feature records (no Shape_Area or Shape_Length). I have attached an export of the attribute table showing the 8 records, with 2 of them containing polygons. These were exported as a CVS from the Survey123 Data tab.

Thank you for any suggestions!

-Karen

Re: Help working with non-spatial records in Dashboard (with data coming from Survey123 web app)

jcarlson — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:00:48 GMT

We've run into that problem as well. Stick with the standard dashboard for now, and non-spatial data can be accessed without issue. Beta seems to still lack this function.

As for deleting, I haven't found a good way of doing it from the web. You can certainly do it via the REST interface, by submitting a list of objectids to the deletes parameters of the applyEdits command.

https://<server-web-adaptor>/rest/services/Hosted/<your-survey>/FeatureServer/0/applyEdits?deletes=1,2,3,4,etc

You can also manage the data from Pro or ArcMap easily enough. Pro has the added benefit (not sure about ArcMap) of holding your edits in-memory so that they don't apply until you hit save.

Re: Help working with non-spatial records in Dashboard (with data coming from Survey123 web app)

KBeardsley — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:24:14 GMT

Many thanks--I was able to edit the non-spatial records in the attribute table after opening the hosted feature layer in ArcGIS Pro. It was easy and worked beautifully! For others, I'll just add that I opened the original hosted feature layer, not the _stakeholder or _fieldworker versions. Once I edited the original, it updated the others.