[October 31. HotFix release announced]
[October 27. Updated step-by-step video to configure custom templates]
[October 28. Added a note about planned HotFix for November 1]
The Survey123 web designer gets better in our October 2022 release: A new audio question type, enhanced calculations, and organization templates! Read on to learn more...
The Survey123 web designer lets you visually build your own forms. Once published, you can securely share them with people within your own ArcGIS organization, or with the general public. Surveys created in the Survey123 web designer can be completed in a browser or in the Survey123 mobile and desktop apps.
If you are not familiar with the Survey123 designer, you can start using it right away. Once you are signed in to ArcGIS, you are just a few clicks away:
A key new feature in this update relates to calculations. Calculations allow you pre-populate questions in your form using data previously entered in the survey, an ArcGIS layer, and so on.
Calculations are useful because they can streamline data entry. Calculations make your surveys smarter.
Calculations have been available for a while in the Survey123 web designer. With this release, you can now configure geo-calculations. This will help you make your forms geographically smarter! Below is an example where a geo-calculation automatically gets the APN (Assessor Parcel Number) of a parcel, when the respondent clicks on it.
To retrieve the APN, the form uses the location from the map to do a point-in-polygon query against the parcels layer. Parcels are just one example. You can configure point-in-polygon queries to hit any polygon layer you may already have in ArcGIS. You also decide the value from the intersecting polygon that you want as an output for your calculation.
The video below shows, step by step, how to get started with geo-calculations.
As you play with this new option, you will soon discover that you can do attribute queries in your calculations too. This is useful when you want to simply take a value and do a lookup search on a table or layer to bring some additional data into your form. Below is an example where I take a customer number and automatically retrieve the full name and email contact of the customer. That's all done through a simple attribute query calculation.
I bet you will figure out how to do that with designer! 🙂
As more and more users in your organization are granted permissions to create new surveys, providing direction and guidelines for survey design becomes more and more important. Starting with this release, you can configure a set of surveys as templates for Survey123 authors within your organization.
The animation below shows what an organization Survey123 template gallery looks like. Note that when the survey author chooses to start a survey from a template, 6 custom survey templates appear.
Your organization templates can include common survey designs that people will want to reuse again and again. Why should survey authors have to start from scratch? Survey templates will save time, and also bring consistency.
The following video demonstrates how you can configure Survey123 to present a custom set of templates to all Survey123 authors in your organization.
The audio question type is designed to help you record audio within your surveys. You can either record audio right from within the form, or browse for an existing audio recording on your device or computer.
Drag and drop the audio question type into your form design, publish, and you are good to go!
Audio files are stored as ArcGIS attachments. You can play the recordings from other ArcGIS apps or download your audio files along with the rest of your GIS data.
[Updated October 28] This update introduced the following regressions, which we expect to fix through a quick patch by November 1:
You can test the fixes already at: https://survey123beta.arcgis.com/
[Updated October 31]
Hot fix released to address the following issues:
Other than minor updates with fixes, our next planned release is December 6, 2022. The main features in the works include:
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