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Reporter results able to be private

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08-12-2025 11:27 AM
Status: Open
VladimirB
Occasional Contributor

The Reporter Instant app should have a way that members of the public can fill out a Form , but not see all of the results of that form from other users. As it is now, there is no way to have a publicly available form in the Reporter tool that does not have the results also exposed to the public. I wish it worked like survey 123 where people could submit a survey and only see the results of a view layer that doesn't have sensitive fields like name, address, phone number, email. I love the interactivity of the reporter app with likes and comments (although this too is flawed in the reporter app as the layer needs to be set up in Pro to work properly with related tables), but if there is any sensitive info in the fields that are being filled out, it becomes unusable due to privacy concerns. Please add a way for users to be able to submit a survey, see the results of other submissions with chosen hidden fields for sensitive fields. Thanks!

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BethRomero

@VladimirB The visibility of layers and data in Reporter is set in the webmap. It is possible to set up a reporter to only allow for submissions and hide the other data. One way to do this is to set a default value on a field in the report layer. An example could be a field, "Public Visibility", with a default value of "False". This field would not be part of the form and would be auto-populated when someone submits a report. If you already have your data set up and don't want to add a field, you could filter the map based on a required field. Creating a filter to hide all features that are not blank in the map used in the Reporter app. In the future, we can look at adding an app configuration option to hide all map features. Hope this helps!