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One of the coolest new features in Survey123 is the addition of cascading selects and external selects. What are cascading selects? Imagine you are collecting information about different plant species. You will have a list of plant genus and a list of species. Each single species belongs to a single genus. In Survey123, you can restrict the list of species using the genus name. The first step is to add an extra column to the choices tab in your spreadsheet to hold the values that correspond to each choice. This example is only using 2 lists, but you can use as many as you need (e.g., country, state, city, suburb) Now to get the cascading select working, we need to set the choice_filter on the survey tab in your spreadsheet. We use this field to hold the expression to match the additional columns on the choices tab (e.g., attribute=${value}). In this example, we will use the expression genus=${genus_name} Now we can see how the species list is restricted using the selected genus in the form: As you can imagine, the lists associated with cascading selects can get quite large and impact on the performance of your forms - which is where we can use external selects. External selects are only designed to work with choice lists associated with a cascading select. You can add an extra tab to your spreadsheet called external_choices. It should contain the same column headings as your choices tab. The values from the external_choices tab will be saved in a separate file and the loaded from this external file into your form as the values are needed. To reference the choice lists on the external_choices tab, use select_one_external to prefix the list name. For more information, see: Survey123 for ArcGIS support for XLSForm and feel free to post any questions below. The Survey123 Team.
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Shane, The best part of using a search string is that the content changes! Imagine I have 5 maps of Melbourne and I have tagged them with 'Hannah's Maps of Melbourne'. Then I create my Map Viewer app using the tag in my search string and push it to the app stores. All good? But then I create another 5 maps of Melbourne that I want to add to my app. I don't need to rebuild my app - I don't even need to update the version of my app in the app stores. All I need to do is tag the new maps with 'Hannah's Maps of Melbourne', and they will automatically show up in my app! This is a simple example, but you can also use the map publisher, item id's, published dates, ArcGIS Online groups or any combination of the above to build a more robust search string. For more information, see Use search—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS You should be able to build a search string that includes the id's of your maps using this approach. This should ensure that your app content is always the same. E.g., id:12345 OR id:54321 OR id:56789 - Hannah
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Hello Survey123 Users! over the past two weeks we have had a series of issues in our XLS Form conversion service. We want to say thanks to all of you that shared with us error reports, which helped us identify the problem. A new version of Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS has been made available. You can download it from http://survey123.esri.com. The latest build number is 1.1.19 and it will address the form conversion errors you observed. The crux of the problem happen to be in some intermittent redirection issues in our esri.com servers. We have moved the conversion service now into the arcgis.com domain. The 1.1.19 version of Connect now uses the service in the arcgis.com domain. Alternatively, you can make the modifications in Connect yourself as explained here: 1. Open Survey123 Connect and select the 'Settings' icon 2. Change the URL from https://survey123.esri.com/api to https://survey123.arcgis.com/api Again, changing the URL is not necessary if you download the latest version of Connect (1.1.19) Thank you, The Survey123 Team
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10-18-2015
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We are working very hard on the next release of ArcPad as we speak - I can't give you an exact date but I would expect the next version will be available in early 2016.
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10-12-2015
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You will not be able to simply change the URL of the feature service - you will need to include two GeodatabaseFeatureServiceTable objects in your project - each pointing to a different feature service. This is the same case for the TiledMapServiceLayer, if you wanted to switch basemaps, you can't just swap out the URL of the basemap service - you will need to include two TiledMapServiceLayer objects in your project. Not very helpful - but I can confirm that what you are seeing is correct and that switching out the URL will NOT work. - Hannah
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10-12-2015
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You are right, Brian. The ability to use external_choices is only available when used with cascading selects. You could create a column in your external_choices sheet that contains the same value for every option. I have not been able to get a default value to be used as a choice_filter with a cascading select, but if you can enter this value in your form, you could create a 'false' cascading select. I have used a select_one field with a choice list that has only one value. Users will have to select the answer - but then you should be able to load the next select_one list from an external file. Let me know if this helps, Hannah
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10-12-2015
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This is a known issue for the current version of Survey123. Repeats in Survey123 do not support data validation for questions within the repeat. (Survey123 for ArcGIS support for XLSForm)
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The title is set when you first create your project. You will need to create a new project to get a new project title. You can browse to an existing spreadsheet when creating a new project to change the title.
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Uninstalling Survey123 is done by running the maintenancetool that can be found in the ~/Applications/ArcGIS/Survey123 folder.
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10-11-2015
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Please see the Rendering Mode Sample in AppStudio. You can set the rendering mode for a Graphics Layer to be Static or Dynamic: GraphicsLayer { id: graphicsLayerDynamic renderingMode: Enums.RenderingModeDynamic } This will preserve or rotate the graphics with the map; Hope this helps, Hannah
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Hello Patrick, The home extent for the Zoom Buttons needs to be a defined envelope. For example, include your home extent envelope in your app qml like this: Envelope { id: mapHomeExtent xMin: -9908547 yMin: -5120850 xMax: 10128960 yMax: 14916657 }
Then, declare the home extent inside the Zoom Buttons like this: ZoomButtons { homeExtent: mapHomeExtent } Hope this helps! - Hannah
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Hello all, Good news, everyone! There will be a new camera module included with the next release of ArcPad to address this issue. The new 'ArcPad System Camera' has been designed especially for tablet devices and uses the system camera (hence the name) to allow users to specify the resolution of their photos. You can expect the next version of ArcPad to be released before the end of this year. - Hannah
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Hello Thomas, There is not much information I can give as I have not seen your custom form, and I cannot think of any reason (apart from changes in the form and/or data) that would cause this change in behavior. Some changes that could have been made include: - Related tables have been added to your data. You will need to enter an ID if the field is being used as part of a relationship key with related tables. ArcPad requires a value for the parent item before it can attach any child records in the related table. - QuickFields are being used to increment the ID. You can set QuickFields (ArcPad Help) in ArcPad to have auto-incrementing ID's, but you will be prompted for a starting value when you collect your first feature. - The form has been updated and the ID field has been set as required. I'm not sure how helpful this is, but I hope it can point you in the right direction. - Hannah
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Hello, Please see the following document: http://trl.trimble.com/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-160913/ProdCompMatrix_September2015.pdf It specifies product compatibility for Trimble products. If you do have any issues using ArcPad with GPS Correct - please contact Technical Support. - Hannah
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