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What's new in ArcGIS Survey123 (July 2022)

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07-28-2022 09:03 PM
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The July 2022 update to ArcGIS Survey123 is now available. This release includes focused fixes and a handful of useful new features in the Survey123 web designer. Read on to learn what's new!

 

Snapping in the Survey123 web app

The web app now supports snapping in Map questions. With snapping enabled, the cursor will snap to all point, line, and polygon features that are visible in the web map. If you're drawing a line or polygon feature, you can also snap to the feature you’re currently drawing. The line and polygon drawing tools have also been enhanced to provide guides for constructing parallel and perpendicular line segments.

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Survey123 web designer improvements

Question types on the Add panel are now grouped into categories, making it even easier to build a smart form on the web:

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The calculation builder in the web designer allows you to calculate values from other questions and properties in a form. For numeric calculations, you can now set the desired number of decimal places:

Calculation_dec_places.png

 

Survey123 Connect enhancements

Navigation in the New Survey dialog in Survey123 Connect has been improved to make the browsing of templates and samples smoother. In addition, you can now click the Information button to view the item details page for a sample or template, where you can view the item's full description, summary, and so on.

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We've also added a new RIPA Form Template to the community samples in Survey123 Connect. This XLSForm template was designed by Esri's Law Enforcement Solutions team. The Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) mandates that California law enforcement agencies collect and report officer-perceived identity information including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and nationality of subjects of police stops. RIPA is used as a tool to monitor and ensure accountability and transparency among the 500+ police agencies in California. Check out the Racial and Identity Profiling Act: Data Collection with Survey123 video to learn more.

We're also working on a formal process for you to submit your own survey designs for inclusion in the Survey123 Community gallery. Stay tuned to the Survey123 blog and social media channels for details!

 

Improvements to Survey123 reports

A couple of enhancements to reports in the Survey123 website should make managing report tasks easier and more efficient. On the Report panel on the Data page, a report task can be cancelled or removed; and there's also a new option to handle conflicts with existing report names.

Plus, for those of you that like to automate your report tasks, the two new options above have also been added to the Survey123 Report API. For more information on these new parameters, see the Report API Reference.

 

Image enhancements and fixes

A number of minor improvements have been made for image questions in the Survey123 field app:

  • The image preview window has been improved so you can now pan and zoom intuitively on Windows, iOS, and Android.
  • We've fixed a bug on iOS where enabling rotation lock caused landscape photos to be saved as portrait.
  • We've also fixed a bug where the EXIF orientation value was always stored as 1, regardless of the orientation of the camera when taking the photo.

 

New calculation mode in XLSForm

The calculationMode parameter is used in the bind::esri:parameters column to control when calculations are triggered in the Survey123 field app. In addition to the existing auto, always, and manual modes, a new whenEmpty mode can now be used to trigger a calculation only when a non-empty value is returned. This is useful for controlling calculations for read-only questions when loading existing records from the Inbox. Learn more about the calculationMode parameter here.

 

Reordered options when closing a survey

Based on user feedback, the options on the Close Survey pop-up in the Survey123 field app have been reordered to make it less likely that users will accidently close and lose survey responses. This change may initially catch out seasoned users, until they get comfortable with it. You may want to advise users of this change to ensure their data is saved as expected.

Close_Survey_pop-up.png

 

Fixes and enhancements

Survey123 Connect

  • BUG-000144210 The scroll bar returns to the top after releasing the mouse-click under when browsing the 'Community' style XLSForm.
  • BUG-000149513 Domain Names loaded from feature services are not sanitized for XLSForm rules.

Survey123 field app

  • DE-000005585 DE-000005449 BUG-000148858 The custom URL scheme does not open the form for the selected feature if the previous form is closed by clicking 'Close and lose changes'.
  • BUG-000148047 Enabling rotation lock on iOS causes landscape photos to be saved as portrait.

Survey123 website and web app

  • BUG-000149232 Surveys created in the ArcGIS Survey123 website using non-required drop-down questions display 'Choice #' in the survey data when a null response is submitted and, when designing the survey, a default response is selected prior to filling in the response options.
  • BUG-000150648 ArcGIS Survey123 geotrace or geoshape question intermittently does not load basemap when opening survey in a web browser.
  • BUG-000148769 When editing a record within the ArcGIS Survey123 web form, the start time is removed from the record either from the table or the form view. Editing within the field app does not produce the same result.
  • BUG-000144214 Setting an input mask in ArcGIS Survey123 Connect give error "hubErrCheck.inputFormatInvalid".
  • BUG-000149623 When the same name is used for more than one report, the report item displays with the same name in the ArcGIS Online content page while the actual report has the current timestamp, in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format, appended to the report's name.
  • BUG-000136143 When creating ArcGIS Survey123 reports using the Microsoft Word template, the following error message is returned, "word found unreadable content", when an annotated photo is added to the report template.
  • ENH-000140382 Include an option in the Survey123 Report user interface to cancel an ongoing feature report export job.
  • BUG-000149913 In ArcGIS Survey123 Connect version 3.14, when calculating from a feature layer for the relevant table, information is written to the first record, but not to another record after the first record.

 

What's coming next

Join our Survey123 Early Adopter Community to read about and test upcoming beta features. Some exciting features we're making progress with and would love to get your feedback on are as follows:

  • CAPTCHA for web surveys: Originally planned for release in July 2022, we will likely postpone general availability until September, but you can start testing this today.
  • Spatial calculations: Currently supported through custom JS functions, we are going to make spatial calculations available through plain XLSForm and even in the Survey123 web designer. Also available for testing now. Targeting the October update.
  • Location sharing: Currently supported in QuickCapture and Field Maps, location sharing is also coming to Survey123! Late 2022 or early 2023.
  • Smart assistants for the field and web apps: Machine learning for image classification and object detection. Head on over to EAC for more information.
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