What's new in ArcGIS QuickCapture December 2022
One more update before the end of 2022! The QuickCapture mobile app has been updated in the Apple, Google Play and Microsoft app stores. The build number is now 1.16.292. As usual, all your existing projects will continue to work with this new release, but there is a lot more to this release than that...
What's new in ArcGIS QuickCapture December 2022
New Automatically update projects organization setting
The world changes quickly, so it is no surprise that you need to make changes to your QuickCapture projects, even while they are actively being used in the field. Through a new organization setting, ArcGIS administrators can configure ArcGIS QuickCapture to automatically (and transparently) download project updates.
This new organization setting will help you keep all mobile users up-to-date with the latest changes to your QuickCapture projects.
Barcode scanning for user inputs
User inputs in QuickCapture allow you to quickly collect extra attribute information about the observations you make. As the author of QuickCapture projects, you can easily activate the barcode scanner in project and button user inputs, as shown in the animation below.
Once barcode scanning is enabled, mobile users can scan barcodes of different formats to quickly populate GIS attributes.
Faster user inputs
Not long ago we added support for chaining project and button user inputs. With this update, you will no longer need to tap on Done in order to move from one to the next. As soon as you make a selection on your user input, it will jump to the next.
The animation below shows a QuickCapture project used to document rock climbing routes. The name of the route, its difficulty (grade), style and number of pitches are modelled as user inputs. Note how user inputs are presented automatically once a selection is made. Fewer taps, quicker data capture!
Video recording (Beta)
We will officially add video recording capabilities to the QuickCapture mobile app in our next update. However, through a small hack, you can already take advantage of this beta capability. All you need to do is to edit the QuickCapture project JSON as described in the following animation:
Once video is enabled in your QuickCapture button, you will be able to either record video or take a photo when the QuickCapture mobile app opens your device camera.
Learn more
Check the What’s new help topic for more information about this and previous releases. If you have any comments, questions or want to access more technical articles, join our Esri Community QuickCapture group.
Happy QuickCapturing!