Following the Trek2There app as a sample I'm trying to create a Launch hyperlink in my survey123 using a mobile app called Foreflight.
This is the URL schemes of the two apps next to each other.
| Mobile app | mobile URL Scheme (both works in i) | Calculation field of survey |
|---|---|---|
| ETrek2There | arcgis-trek2there://?stop=38.133453,-117.223455 | concat('<a href="arcgis-trek2there://?stop=',${Lat},',',${Lon},'">Launch Smart Compass</a>') |
| Foreflight | foreflightmobile://maps/search?q=36.01N/75.67W | concat('<a href="foreflightmobile://maps/search?q=',${latitude},’,’,${longitude},’">Launch Foreflight</a>') |
For Foreflight, I purposely removed the characters "N/" & "W" to match it with theTrek2There sample and see if it would work.
I get the error message below.
It seems like my <a href >statement is not being parsed correctly. I hope someone with sharper eyes can see what's wrong. I'm also curious what to do with the character "N/" when I add it back. I'm afraid that the forward slash character will also cause an issue.
Any help would be appreciated.
ichivite-esristaff any suggestions.
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I tried that but it did not work either. I change the curly bracket to paren and the validation came out okay but the link came out as text. I tried a different approach. Please see attached.
Everything looks okay until I test it on the device. Looks exactly like that but the link does not launch. I tried double tap, single tap, press and hold but it stays as colored underlined text.
So how do I manually tweak a file? from the survey's sub folders? what are the pros and cons of doing this?
Hi Renato,
Altering and updating the form manually is possible, but is a fairly advanced workflow.
The file that would need to be tweaked is the <survey name>.xml file. For this particular tweak (altering the text in the node), it should be possible to do this with minimal risk of breaking the form. After that, you would need to update the survey:
1) Place all survey files into a director named 'esriinfo'. Zip the esriinfo directory up and make the name of the zip file the same as the survey
2) Update the zip file. This is best done using a program like Postman, which is designed to help you manually construct requests that otherwise are automated.
- You'll want to get a token from ArcGIS first. This can be done by using the developer's tools in your browser to get you token from the Esri login cookie or be requesting one directly:
- The URL for updating an item is https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/<username>/<folderID>/items/<itemID>/update
See ArcGIS REST API for reference.
