topic Re: Change geopoint marker in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Change geopoint marker

mikaël — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:37:09 GMT

Yet again trying to decipher esri's cryptic and convoluted documentation!

Can anybody help me trying to change the default marker when creating a geopoint question in Survey123 Connect?

From what I gather here, it seems to be possible to change the icon with one of these without having to download it and put it in the media folder, but I cannot seem to manage this task, probably reserved for our best and brightest.

Thanks for your help!! 🙂

Re: Change geopoint marker

IsmaelChivite — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:15:17 GMT

Create a PNG file (dont make it bigger than 512 by 512 to keep the size low

For example: I downloaded gardener.png from FlatIcon

Copy it into the media folder of your survey

In the body::esri:style, for your geopoint question, reference the PNG file as shown below

Download and test in the mobile app

Gotchas:

You were looking at the wrong help topic section. The correct help topic section is called Geopoint symbology here: https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/desktop/create-surveys/geopoints.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_DF5D4AC0546B4DACBBCA6B11F12090E9 Geopoint symbology and overlays are different things.
The above will work in the mobile app. Will not work in the web app
Make sure the name of the file you reference in the XLSForm matches exactly the name of the file you copied to the media folder
The PNG file is placed horizontally centered at the location but vertically, it uses the bottom of the PNG. If you want to center your PNG exactly at the location, use the x y parameters as follows:

symbol=gardener.png?x=0.5&y=0.5

Re: Change geopoint marker

mikaël — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:17:07 GMT

I wished it was possible to do without setting a custom image in the media folder, but I guess that's not an option right now.

Thanks for a great answer!

Re: Change geopoint marker

SLowman_NCE — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:36:20 GMT

Does this change the marker in a report that's generated from the survey?

Re: Change geopoint marker

ahargreaves_FW — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:15:02 GMT

@IsmaelChivite what if I already have something in body::esri:style such as 'map=xyzxyzxyz' ?