Problem: In Survey123 I have cases where users often want to copy and paste rich content into a text field. This includes things like links, images, symbols, tables, charts, formatting etc. But there appears to be no Rich Text field type yet in S123 Connect or Web.
Solution: Allow for the creation of Rich Text field types in S123 Connect and Web forms. I've got no idea how feasible this is but if you don't ask....
Why do we want this: In situations where efficiency is key, such as public safety, this would make it much quicker and easier for users to upload content from various sources and mediums (social media, email, text, web, other apps, databases, documents) to Survey123 regardless of content type or formatting. In public safety this would strengthen S123's ability to be the central repository for intelligence, not only collected directly using S123 field app and web forms, but also as the tool to collate all intelligence into from any source.
In order to support comments being gathered in surveys conducted across FGDC agencies and deliver that content into Feature Reports for publishing to meet various requirements, having rich text formatting available, or copy and paste that would retain formatting would save significant time resources and improve the quality of the published reports.
Absolutely on board with this idea! As someone working for the local government, I've received a complaint from a user spending ages formatting text in Survey123 (public web form), only to see it turn into one big blob. It's super frustrating for the end users! Adding rich text would be a game-changer for our public inquiry web form. Plus, it'd work wonders when we push data to SharePoint using webhooks through Power Automate. I'm stoked to see this getting so much support already. Survey123 is great, but this would make it even better. It seems like such a simple add, but it'd make a huge difference in our day-to-day work. Esri folks, if you're reading this - please make it happen! It'd save us a ton of headaches and really boost our data quality. Thank you so much for posting this IDEA! 👍
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