Names for new surveys showing item number instead of title
My apologies. It seems I responded to a different question of mine instead of this question. That's the problem with having two related, but separate, questions open at the same time. The Make part of that response is regards to another question I have asked on Community. While we are using Make, this was not intended to be part of the question.
When surveys are created using the web version, a generic name, survey_[item number] is used for the hosted services with no known way to rename them. We have several surveys from testing (for that Make project) that use the naming convention seen in the following image.
The web version creates three new hosted layers, the original, _form, and _results. With such generic names and with the end of the name getting cut off in the Hosting Server Manager, it's hard to differentiate between which service is for which survey, or even which one of the three services is the original, _form, or _results. I am hoping someone has a solution that will either name the hosted feature layers the same name as the title of the form, or a solution that allows me to rename the surveys already published (even if manually).
Gottcha.
When creating items through the S123 Web Tool, that naming convention is the standard.
Looks like you are in Server Manager there. When I go to Server Manager to inspect my items, I also see a similar naming convention for some items. (Example below is viewed in Portal). While I don't use the S123 Web Tool, this naming convention is used by other Esri services as well (e.g., creating View layers, which my example is from).
To break down that name:
- "survey123_" is just a static designation
- The "alphanumeric string" is the back-end Item ID for your survey (this is separate form the name you are seeing, and you cannot/should not try to rename the Item ID)
- And the "_form" is a differentiator to distinguish between the standard S123 components which make up a survey (e.g., form, map, and feature layer).
This "name" shouldn't impact other services (e.g., Power Automate or Make). But if you really want to change it, try:
- Rename a published service in ArcGIS Server (this one worked for me)
- Change the name of a feature service layer
If, for some reason, your Portal name matches this weird name, you can locate the item in Portal and configure the name there (the example below is the same item as my first example, just viewed from a different angle).
If you want to locate this item (e.g., survey123_fcaaaaaaafa_results) in your Portal, search for the Item ID only (e.g., fcaaaaaaafa).
Now, if Make ignores the "Portal name" and instead displays that hidden name, that is likely something to bring up with Esri as a "bug" of sorts. I created a survey through the S123 Web Tool (which resulted in the name format you are seeing), and then located that same survey in Power Automate. I saw the expected "Portal name":
