Adding image information in a Survey123 Form

[jcstew]

As part of my job, I am often on project construction sites and put together construction observation reports to send out to engineers and other project staff.  In the reports I send out, I include photos taken throughout the day and give each photo a caption with the location where the photo was taken and a brief description of what is going on in the photo.  

I'm switching over to using Survey123 to make those reports and have a survey123 form set up that is going to work great.  I don't know if it's possible, but I would love to be able to add a feature to the survey form that would allow me to add a caption or a note for a photo when I upload it.  Currently, I just add captions in when I run my report at the end of the day, but does anyone know if there is a way to add captions in survey123?  

[AlfredBaldenweck]

I generally do it as 

Type	Name
begin repeat	Photos
image	Photo
text	Photo_comments
end repeat	endPhotos

The repeat adds a bit more complexity to the process, but you end up with a nice table containing the caption for each photo, and that's what has the attachment table connected to it.

It looks like this in S123 website, and you can make that field get printed in your report.

[Neal-Kittelson]

I will second @AlfredBaldenweck recommendation and add that you can expand upon the information in the repeat and potentially make your survey form a lot more compact.  You could even do some things in the repeat like assign a rating to each picture say for level of importance, and then when it comes to the report, use that rating to separate out your finding into section level of importance.

To expand further, you could also add headings to the specific areas your are inspecting to further categorize and use those in the report to do the same as the rating described above.

[DougBrowning]

A repeat is a little more taps for the user but better than multiphoto in the end.

You can also add comments as watermarks but then it is forever so mistakes by the user can get you.

I asked 123 to add writing comments into the exif and its on the list.  I personally add the comments to exif when I download them using exif.exe and a python wrapper and its slick.  I got a post on it somewhere on here.

[MobiusSnake]

If you create an image question with the "Annotate" appearance, users can sketch on it after they take the photo, including a textbox type thing.