Latest Contributions by JoeFlannery

Jay: To add to Carmel's suggestion, I would FIRST download your survey data as a FGDB from ArcGIS Online so that you have a backup of your earlier survey work. Carmel: Thank you for the insightful workflow for adding a field in an ArcGIS Online feature service table to match a simple modification coming in Survey123.  However, if one's Survey123 modification includes a new Group, then that creates corresponding new related tables and relationship classes in the hosted feature service.  New related tables and relationship classes cannot be created via AGOL, correct?  If this is true, then readers of this thread should take note and understand the limitations. Thank you ... View more

Philip: I'm intrigued - Are you connecting to a file geodatabase directly with MS-Word? Joe ... View more

Note: Our ArcGIS Online subscription uses enterprise credentials to authenticate named users. In order to get James' stand-alone command line code + script to work, I needed to open ArcMap and sign into AGOL as a named user then run the command line script.  Also, to get not only new records from Survey123 additions, but also get any attribute or geometry modifications, I wrote a python script to rename the existing on-prem FGDB, create a new FGDB with the proper name and then populate the new FGDB with S123 features using James’ script. ... View more

Andres: Have you tried: Method #1: Log into ArcGIS Online (AGOL) as the named user who owns the Survey123 survey Go to "My Content" Go to the "Item Details" page of the Survey123 "Feature Layer (hosted)" Click the "Export Data" button and choose your export format Name the export and choose a folder location When the export process has completed, click on the "Download" button   Method #2: Go to your Survey123 Portal - http://survey123.arcgis.com/ Sign-in as the named user who owns the Survey123 survey Click on the survey of interest under the "Show surveys I own" area Click on the "Data" option in the upper right-hand corner In the bottom right-hand corner, choose a data format and then hit the "Download" button ... View more

James:   This is a fantastic script – thank you for sharing with the user community.   I have successfully used your script to populate an on-prem FGDB from the ArcGIS Online hosted feature service.  I used Survey123 to create new survey records and, when run again, the script added/appended those new records to the on-prem FGDB.   Then, via ArcGIS Online, I added the Survey123 hosted feature service to a map and moved two points, thus altering the geometry and the value in the “EditDate” field.  I ran your script again and the featureclass in the FGDB was not updated to reflect the moved points.  Via ArcGIS Online, I then altered the values in some attribute fields of existing records, ran your script again and the FGDB was not updated with the attribute changes.   So, if I understand this blog and my test results, your script will only bring down new survey records if the “CreationDate” is newer than the current “SYS_TRANSFER_DATE” and not update/overwrite existing records if the “EditDate” reflects a change in geometry or attribute values.   Might you consider modifying your script to update edited records from the hosted feature service in ArcGIS Online to the on-prem FGDB?   “Append” new records if the CreationDate is newer than the current on-prem SYS_TRANSFER_DATE “Overwrite” existing records if the EditDate is newer than the current on-prem EditDate     Thank you again for sharing your script. Sincerely, Joe ... View more

Tara: I think that there are as many field survey scenarios out there as there are field surveyors.  Each need is different.  In your case, where seeing and editing earlier collected data is useful, then, yes, having Survey123 and Collector on the mobile device is the perfect solution.  We have the ArcGIS Explorer, Collector and Survey123 apps on our mobile devices for that reason.  And, they are all Free to download and install. ... View more

Tara: When you Published your Survey123 survey form, a folder for the survey components was created in your ArcGIS Online account in your My Content area.  Go to your Survey123 folder in your My Content area and click the drop-down next to the Feature Layer and choose the Add layer to new map option.  Your survey points layer will be added to the map. Now Save your map.  Go back to the Collector App and look for your new survey map. ... View more

Tara: How about adding your Survey123 data to a map in ArcGIS Online and saving the map in your Survey123 folder in My Content.  Then open the map in the Collector app.  Your Survey123 points and attributes (Comments field) are editable in Collector. ... View more

To refresh the Collector App, I double-press the Home button on the iPad, swipe up or down to close the Collector App, go back to the Home screen, re-enter the Collector app and you should get a Refresh of your maps. ... View more

"View Item Details" from the map's drop-down in your My Content area. ... View more

Bryce: Have you Enabled Offline Mode in the map setting properties? ... View more

Joseph: For our GIS "Instance" on the SQL Server in our shop, our DBA created two seperate DB users, one that has read/write/modify privileges and one that has read-only privileges. In ArcCatalog, I create two SDE connection files to the database (server name\instance, user name and password [using Database Authentication]) - one that our data editors use (the read/write/modify user) and one that data viewers use (read-only user). Match the appropriate SDE connection file with the user's needs.  We don't use versioning - it's too complicated and overkill for what we are doing. ... View more