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Management of surveys after field activities

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4 weeks ago
LaurieVIDAL
Emerging Contributor

Hello Esri community,

We have recently started using Esri field applications a lot more, especially Survey123. I am still learning how it works, particularly how to manage data once field activities are complete. 

For example, I have a survey that is only used during the summer. When all the information is collected in the field, I export the data (+ images) and transfer them to my colleague (for analysis). After that, the survey becomes useless until its next use. However, I realized that this was consuming credits unnecessarily. 

How do you handle this? Do you delete all the surveys you receive to have an empty feature layer? Do you delete everything, including the survey? Or is there another way to avoid consuming credits while still keeping the data on ArcGIS Online?

If option 1, how do I delete all the surveys received at once? (I haven't seen the option to do this other than one by one).  

I know this is a pretty basic question, but I hadn't really paid much attention to it before. Thanks in advance for your advice 🙂

Laurie.

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KellyLevely
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We typically download the data as a geodatabase to a local server so that we have it as a backup for each summer season, then delete the data from online.   When we download the following years' data, we can either append it to the existing database or save it as individual years.  

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ChristopherMask
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Typically, I get the URL of the survey123, add the layer to ArcGIS Pro using the add data from path function, paste the URL, and finally select all features and delete. However, I am not familiar with the credits question.

 

Chris

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KellyLevely
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We typically download the data as a geodatabase to a local server so that we have it as a backup for each summer season, then delete the data from online.   When we download the following years' data, we can either append it to the existing database or save it as individual years.  

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LaurieVIDAL
Emerging Contributor

Thank you for your responses.

I think that's what I'll do. A copy on our server and deletion of online data after each season.

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