Feedback

[CarolineSteer]

Hi there,

I was really excited to see this, especially for our schools customers who want to create forms but struggle to use ArcMap to create domains within file GDBs for drop-down lists. I’ve just spent a few hours playing tinkering and I found these potentially bugs/enhancements, which I’d love to hear your feedback on so I can start showing this off to our customers!

1. Time isn’t a true time field but instead just a string. I think it’d be great if it was a proper time field because it means something like a time-picker could be used rather than manually typing in colons and also could be used straight away for time-slider applications.
2. I saw your comment on schema updates - please can you make it a bit clearer that if you add/change fields then you have to delete the whole application within your ArcGIS Online account? I kept republishing (because I was feeling particularly indecisive and it allowed me to press the publish button again) and the form on the app reflects the changes however when I looked at the webmap I found that underlying feature service hadn’t changed so none of the new data had been added.
3. You can’t seem to change the thumbnail image within the Survey 123 Connect app’s settings.
4. In the Survey 123 Connect bit, please can there be hover help as I didn’t know what each tool did so just had to guess.
5. A little more help on the Settings tab in the documentation would be awesome as it took me ages to find how to change the default basemap

Thanks guys!

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi Caroline,

thanks for your feedback. Here are some thoughts on your comments:

1. TIME questions: We agree that the user experience to define the time is not ideal. We want to work on this. Dustin submitted an enhancement request a couple weeks ago. We are definitively looking into this for an upcoming release.

2. Overwriting Surveys: You are correct. When a new question is added, or a choice list changed... the whole feature service schema chances and hence it should be deleted before publishing it again. This is also in our backlog for the future.  In here you can find further info into how to properly delete a survey across your desktop, online account and device.

3. Change thumbnail within the Connect app: We are hoping to have this fixed very soon. Stay tuned. With the next update of the Connect app you should be able to simply click on the thumbnail in Connect and change it right away.

4 & 5  We will look into this. Thanks for your suggestion!

We really appreciate you taking the time to provide us with feedback. Some of the issues above are in our radar as you can see, but it is always very useful to hear from you directly the aspects of the software where we should put our attention first. We carefully look at input from all Survey123 users and we use this feedback to drive our development priorities. The formal repository of all the software defects and enhancements is located here.  Feel free to add your comments to existing issues that people may have added. Or create your own as well if you feel like it.

  Adding your comments in GeoNet is a perfectly valid way to have your voice heard. Thanks so much again!

[CarolineSteer]

Hi Ismael,

Thanks for replying to my questions so promptly and letting me know about your GitHub issues board which I'll definitely post to if I come across anything else. We have a customer (RHDHV) who is considering using this as part of an imminent project however the repeat functionality is crucial to their project, which hasn't been completed yet according to the documentation. When is the next release date due and if it isn't for a while, is there a chance of releasing a private beta version for them?

Many thanks,

Caroline

[IsmaelChivite]

Hi Caroline,

our plan is to make repeats available in our October release. If you plan to use repeats imminently, we could give you access to a daily build of the software just to make sure that by the time we release in October you have some prior experience and are ready to go.

Repeats are proving challenging to implement so I cannot promise 100% that they will come in October. It is in our plans and are working hard for it... but please make sure you set expectations correctly with the stake-holders.

Ismael