Reuse offline map file across multiple surveys

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

Is it possible to use 1 map file (vtpk.) across multiple Surveys for use offline? Many of our new surveys will need to be offline enabled and I'd rather not have to make our users download an offline map file for each survey they download.

[abureaux · Accepted solution]

No.

That behaviour is controlled by the application. It is much like shared External Selects where several surveys use the same external select, but they all download their own file.

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

I did find that the only way to do this at present is to sideload map files directly to the device for use across any survey. Unfortunately we can't do this with devices with Mobile Device Management enabled because they have locked out access to the folder structure containing the relevant Maps folder. 

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA]

Idea to add this functionality: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-ideas/allow-offline-map-files-to-be-reused-across/idi...