topic Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:42:31 GMT

Good morning everyone

I would like to know if there is a way to generate Qr code through a survey form field.

Greetings to all!

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Buenas a todos

me gustaría saber si hay alguna forma de generar código Qr a través de un campo del formulario de survey.

Saludos a todos!!!

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

Gerhard — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 05:36:44 GMT

Hola @JavierCMartínezPrieto,

I don't believe Survey123 natively holds this capability. You could try using an API like https://goqr.me/api/ to generate a QR code, then pull the image into your form. There may be a more elegant way to do this but I simply concatenated text from an input (easily customised to your requirements) to create a url for the API. I then just added an image tag to query the API and show the resulting image. Please see attached. I've only tested this in Connect but hopefully gives you a starting point!

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:29:38 GMT

thank you very much for your reply, I will try the method you propose.

Best regards Javier

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:41:54 GMT

Good morning, @Gerhard

It works perfectly and generates the Qr code in the survey, but how do I get that Qr code in the reports.
Since I do not see the image but the url.

Greetings

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

Gerhard — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:01:57 GMT

Hi @JavierCMartínezPrieto,

You'll just need to create the API URL again in the report template. You can use an expression like this:

${$image | src:"https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?size=150x150&data="+input}

This is documented here: Report templates – ArcGIS Survey123 | Documentation

Strings can be concatenated in an expression by joining them with a plus sign. This expression uses this concatenation to pass the contents of a question called field_0 to a QR code-generating service, creating a QR code for the question's response.

${$image | src:"https://barcode.tec-it.com/barcode.ashx?code=QRCode&data="+field_0}

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:10:03 GMT

Good morning @Gerhard

Thank you very much it works perfectly.

Regards javier

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:49:47 GMT

Good afternoon @Gerhard
everything you have proposed has worked perfectly, my question now would be:
Is it possible to do the reverse operation, i.e. if you have a QR code you can fill in a survey questionnaire with the information in the QR code.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards Javier

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

Gerhard — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:05:18 GMT

Hi @JavierCMartínezPrieto,

A similar question has been answered here Solved: Barcode/ QR code to populate field in Survey123 - Esri Community and there's a related blog post here Understanding Barcode Questions in ArcGIS Survey12... - Esri Community.

Another way you could go about this is using Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Web form URL parame... - Esri Community and creating a QR code from the custom URL. There's an article about this here https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000017982.

There's also a sample form in Survey123 Connect I suggest taking a look at. You'll find it in the desktop app by going to ArcGISSurvey123Connect > New survey > Samples > Barcodes.

Hopefully that isn't too many links to check out. Good luck!

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:40:50 GMT

Good afternoon @Gerhard

thank you very much, I will try it this week

Regards

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

JavierCMartínezPrieto — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 07:59:19 GMT

Good morning @Gerhard!!!

is there any way that the image generated in the Qr survey can be inserted as an attachment in the survey.

I have tried to create an image and row type field using the default column and calculation but it does not save automatically.

thanks for your time

Regards javier.

Re: Generate Qr code ||| Generar codigo QR

Gerhard — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:10:34 GMT

Hi @JavierCMartínezPrieto,

I don't believe it is currently possible to add attachments to surveys from a URL. You'll probably need to introduce another tool to accomplish this task. Here are some ideas:

Power Automate / Make (formerly Integromat) – note this wouldn't show attachments in your survey feature layer, they'd be stored in OneDrive, for example.
Custom JavaScript functions in Survey123 – there are some comments on this post asking the same question as yours, see this answer. I'm not sure it is possible for JS to interact with attachments.
Add Attachments (Data Management) – ArcGIS Pro | Documentation – this is probably going to be your best bet. You could use Python to get the image from the URL and attach it.

Let me know your thoughts and what tools you have at your disposal.