What's new in ArcGIS Survey123 (April 2022)

[IsmaelChivite]

A new update to ArcGIS Survey123 is now available. The April 2022 release includes focused fixes, minor functional enhancements and Bulgarian language support. To learn what’s new in this and prior releases, you can also check our What’s new archive.  

Documentation

Some question types in XLSForm have additional parameters that allow you to control the style or behavior of questions in a survey. In some cases, these parameters complement the appearances that a question type supports. The new XLSForm parameters help topic describes all of them in detail.

Survey123 website and web app fixes

• BUG-000144856 When filtering Single choice questions in the ArcGIS Survey123 website by unique values, blank drop-down entries are displayed in place of removed choice options.
• BUG-000147917 Survey123 web app does not enforce the count-selected(${image_question_name}) constraint for an image question with multiline appearance if the survey title contains any upper-case letter when publishing the survey for the first time.
• ENH-000140973 Provide a confirm button in Survey123 website in a mobile device while filling a geopoint in survey to make it similar to Survey123 Field application
• BUG-000137843 When the ArcGIS Survey123 web app returns the error message, "Error: Initializing form...", due to failure to load the CSV file, the error message does not fit in the dialog window.
• BUG-000147360 Performing statistics on a nested repeat layer outputs unexpected results if the main record does not have any nested related records
• ENH-000138984 Allow user to retrieve the number of unique values from a field in a survey report
• BUG-000134460 The ArcGIS Survey123 web app does not correctly display the starting day of the week in the calendar when the survey is published with the default language set to Español (es).

Survey123 Connect and field app fixes

• BUG-000145239 Unable to download public surveys with anonymous access disabled in ArcGIS Enterprise has been fixed.
• BUG-000147656 The ArcGIS Survey123 field app does not show the existing values properly for a select_one question with the autocomplete appearance and a default value has been fixed.
• BUG-000147935 A question field with an autocomplete appearance within repeat navigates to the name of the choice, instead of a label has been fixed.
• BUG-000147451 Relevant expressions using fields based on previous questions with default values in Survey123 field app do not populate as expected has been fixed.
• BUG-000147571 Default value used in choice filter fails to load choice lists on subsequent repeats with autocomplete appearance has been fixed.
• Relevant or calculate expressions that null a value and do not get updated in the feature layer has been fixed.
• Leading zeros being truncated when submitting from the Inbox has been fixed.
• An issue causing images collected with the Spike app not displaying correctly has been fixed.
• An issue with .mp4 attachments being uploaded with the incorrect content type has been fixed.
• An issue with select_one_from_file selections not being visible in the Inbox when choice labels are integers has been fixed.
• Added ability to connect to a GNSS receiver using an output baud rate other than 4800.

Next steps

Our next release is planned for May 2022.

XLSForm syntax

We hear again and again that you want to set the file name of photos using an XLSForm expression. We will share this very soon through the Early Adopter Program with the aim to make it available in May 2022.

In this upcoming update we want to expand the pulldata() function in XLSForm to help you more easily retrieve the survey title, full name of the signed-in user, version of Survey123 app used to submit data, and the operating system and device model that the app is running on. All of this is important if you want to understand where your data is coming from.

We will also continue working on the pulldata("@layer") functions we announced earlier .

Survey123 designer

Many of you create surveys and share your URLs in social media. In this upcoming update we want you to be able to customize the thumbnail and survey description that appear in the social media card. This will help you make your survey links more appealing. More appeal, more clicks.

If everything goes according to plan we will also make available, as a beta feature, CAPTCHA capabilities for your forms. Some of you have requested this feature to protect your public surveys from automated robot attacks.

We are also looking at adding new configuration options to the map question types so you can better constrain how people add data. For example, to improve the accuracy of data you may want to force users to zoom in to certain map zoom level before they can submit.

Survey123 field app

We are working with some of you to test alpha versions of new streaming tools to support field data collection workflows. We will have this work ready in beta in May. Our target is to make this available no later than June 2022.

We are also working to improve the audio recording capabilities of the field app. We want to reduce the size of the audio files created, allow you to record for longer, and give you options to control the output quality and codecs used.

Survey123 reports

Enhancements to the report engine to make PDF outputs more accessible are in the works and scheduled for release in May.