What is coming in ArcGIS Survey123 May/June 2022
We just made available a Beta version of the Survey123 June 2022 (build 3.15) update in the Early Adopter website. Our plan is to release this work before the end of June. Take this opportunity to try new features, validate that your existing surveys work well and provide your feedback. Here are the highlights:
CAPTCHA support for web surveys
The Beta version of Survey123 allows you to enable a CAPTCHA test in web surveys. CAPTCHA determines whether data is being submitted by a person or a spam robot.
If you are using the Survey123 web designer, the Beta version will let you turn on CAPTCHA with a simple click as shown below:
You will also note that the panel of question types in the web designer is now better organized. We hope this will help you find the question type you are looking for more easily!
If authoring a form using Survey123 Connect, you can also add a CAPTCHA test. Check this Early Adopter article for details.
Styled survey social media cards
If you plan to promote a public survey through social media, make sure you check this one out. In any social media platform supporting the OpenGraph standard, survey cards will display your survey thumbnail and description. Take advantage of this to make your survey links look better. A good looking survey card is likely to get more clicks, and that means more data for you.
You can change the thumbnail and description of your survey from the Survey123 designer or Connect. Then, you need to simply copy the full URL (no the shortened URL) of your survey into your social media platform and the card will be created automatically. Twitter, Microsoft Teams, Facebook and LinkedIn are some of the platforms we are testing. If something is not quite working for you with the Beta, we would love to hear through the Early Adopter forums.
Use an XLSForm expression to set the file name of photos and signatures
This one is in response to the Set default photo name in Survey123 ArcGIS Idea. In the screenshot below, you can see how we propose the filename of a photo is set:
You can apply a similar technique to signatures. For example, you can concatenate the name and last name of the person signing and set the filename of the signature that way.
As of now, in Beta, only Connect and the field app support this feature. Check out this Early Adopter article for more details.
New pulldata() properties
The pulldata("@property") function allows survey authors to extract device and user properties that provide additional information about how survey responses are collected. You can for example retrieve, the ArcGIS account name currently signed in, the email associated with that account, the time zone of the user, the language of the form, etc.
We're expanding the list of properties to include nine more:
| pulldata("@property", 'userFullName') | The user's full name |
| pulldata("@property", 'userFirstName') | The user's first name |
| pulldata("@property", 'userLastName') | The user's last name |
| pulldata("@property", 'deviceId') | The unique ID for the device (field app only) |
| pulldata("@property", 'deviceModel') | The model of the device (field app only) |
| pulldata("@property", 'OS') | The device's operating system (field app only) |
| pulldata("@property", 'appVersion') | The version of the Survey123 app |
| pulldata("@property", 'surveyName') | The name of the survey |
| pulldata("@property", 'userAgent') | The user agent string for the user's device |
Learn all the details in this Early Adopter article.
New streaming tools for the Survey123 field app
In the latest 3.15 beta builds of the Survey123 field app we have made a few improvements to the vertex capture method for geotrace (line) and geoshape (polygon) questions. These improvements include the ability to stream the line or polygon vertices as you move around.
This enhancement is a step towards supporting the ability to capture geometry while collecting information for other questions in your survey. However, at this stage it just provides another way to capture geometry in geotrace and geoshape questions.
In this Early Adopter topic you will find a sample XLSForm to get you started.
Fixes to the Survey123 field app
- DE-000005423 BUG-000148675 Polygons shift after ending the edit session of a map question.
- DE-000005422 BUG-000148749 Images not loading in Inbox.