topic Making changes to S123 feature service after creation in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/making-changes-to-s123-feature-service-after/m-p/794596#M9135 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>This follows on from a question I had earlier about issues I was experiencing in trying to create a local copy of data for editing. I suspect it is to do with field aliases (which are sourced from the Label column in XForms).</P><P></P><P>I've made some changes to my&nbsp;Xforms document and republished the survey (deliberate changes so as to not force re-creation of the feature service). The changes are primarily to the Label field to shorten it up and remove any special characters that may be causing issues.</P><P></P><P>My question is - will these changes flow through to the feature service, or will the FS remain static with the original schema that was generated on initial upload?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:28:09 GMT AnthonyCheesman1 2017-08-15T03:28:09Z Making changes to S123 feature service after creation https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/making-changes-to-s123-feature-service-after/m-p/794596#M9135 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>This follows on from a question I had earlier about issues I was experiencing in trying to create a local copy of data for editing. I suspect it is to do with field aliases (which are sourced from the Label column in XForms).</P><P></P><P>I've made some changes to my&nbsp;Xforms document and republished the survey (deliberate changes so as to not force re-creation of the feature service). The changes are primarily to the Label field to shorten it up and remove any special characters that may be causing issues.</P><P></P><P>My question is - will these changes flow through to the feature service, or will the FS remain static with the original schema that was generated on initial upload?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 03:28:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/making-changes-to-s123-feature-service-after/m-p/794596#M9135 AnthonyCheesman1 2017-08-15T03:28:09Z Re: Making changes to S123 feature service after creation https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/making-changes-to-s123-feature-service-after/m-p/794597#M9136 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Anthony,</P><P></P><P>If you are only making changes to the labels, then you aren't technically making schema changes- that normally refers to the addition/deletion of fields/questions. &nbsp;That being said, Survey123 Connect currently does not update the aliases when the labels change. &nbsp;</P><P></P><P>If special characters in the label (alias) are an issue, I'll point out that there is a column in the spreadsheet called bind::esri:fieldAlias, which will specifically override the question label for the alias.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:56:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/making-changes-to-s123-feature-service-after/m-p/794597#M9136 JamesTedrick 2017-08-15T15:56:50Z