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Biggest source of confusion for my users is that they see data displayed in charts when they open the dashboard. They have no idea what it is because nothing is selected. This needs to happen for not only guages and indicators but for charts and the details element as well.
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11-02-2020
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I'm making a dynamic dashboard to show the subsistence resource harvesting data in remote Alaskan communities. Each community has multiple years of data. I have a selector drop down for each community in the state that uses a table named Community, another table named Details with various details such as the year, population size, number of households, and total harvested pounds and per capita harvested pounds. The third table is called Harvest, and it has the community, year, and subsistence resource (fish, moose, plants, etc), total pounds and per capita pounds. Each table can be linked to the others by a field combining the community code, year and project code that we called UCommID. The selector uses the Community table, the Details table is used for a detail element. When a community is selected using the selector, we can scroll through the details for each project that took place in that community. Some communities have 1 project, some have 20, and you can scroll through each one like a book. There's a corresponding pie chart for each project using the Harvest table. The only problem is, I can't figure out a way to link the detail element to the pie chart element. Right now I have the most recent year's data showing up in the pie chart for each community, but it is generating a lot of confusion by my coworkers. Is there a way to change the pie chart as the user scrolls through the details element?
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10-23-2020
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Hi Laura, Thank you for your response - I appreciate the effort you put in. I wanted to give you a little background on what I've tried to make Collector work for us. When I first set up the Collector app for our field data collection, I used Collector Classic and hosted feature layers in AGOL. The problems we had were 1) the data is confidential, and the respondents were resistant to show where they searched for food. 2) Data is collected during interviews in people's homes. These interviews are extensive, and in order to minimize the time we spend disrupting their day, we collect a "rough draft" of the data at the time of interview, and then edit it in the evening. After collecting hundreds of records of data, the result was a spider web of features which we couldn’t edit in the field because the field crews couldn’t find or isolate the features they were looking for (see attached image for a small selection of our collected data). This left editing to me, who didn’t collect the data, and months after it was collected it was difficult for the field crews to remember any details that were in question. I then looked into the new version of Collector to see if we could use views. This option was workable for data collection in that it allowed for only one household to be shown at a time. Unfortunately, that didn’t help with editing by our field crews, as we would have had to have a second map on the iPad for them to work on, showing the spider web of features. I tried using offline map areas for each household, which would have solved both problems. But this created two new problems. 1) The tile package map that we use as a base map could only be used in 2 offline areas, since it is about 18 gb in size. I tried using other base maps, but we need the resolution set to state level, and when zoomed in to draw a feature in a specific place, the detail wasn’t there. 2) offline map areas disappeared from the iPad. My boss mentioned it to me, so I investigated. I had 5 offline areas on the iPad. I put it down and worked on something else. When I came back there were only 3. This was a deal breaker with using offline areas. The other problem with the “new” version of Collector is that the location point doesn’t move. Field crews would have to move the map to draw a line of polygon. This is problematic for people who aren’t tech savvy, as not only are our field crews, but also the Native Alaskans who are being interviewed. This just won’t work for us. In the end, I set up the classic version with multiple maps for each community visited. Each map was for 10 potential households, and with anywhere from 2-5 iPads for each survey, there is likely to be only a couple of households on each map. While this does create more work for me, and a data management challenge, it was the best workaround that I could come up with. Using the classic version also allows us to use our tile package, which gives us the resolution we need at every level from statewide to local. What would be ideal for us is to continue to use the classic version (hopefully you don’t stop supporting that), with a simple filter on it so that our field crews filter by household (attribute). Specifically, this would look something like “Household ID = 15” utilizing a drop-down menu or some other relatively easy method of filtering. In this example, only household 15 would show up on the map for both data collection and editing later in the day. That’s all I foresee us needing in order to make this viable for us. I understand that we are unique in our requirements. Our field crews work for weeks at a time in areas without wi-fi, or if it is available, it’s slow and unreliable. Certainly not something we will trust for syncing data. We require a base map with high resolution at many different scales that covers an area essentially the size of the Lower 48. For now the work around I came up with works, although it adds a lot to my workload. I've heard that there will be a new Field Apps product which will replace Collector. I'm both excited and concerned about what this will mean for my particular needs. If we lose the functionality we have, then we will have to look for a product elsewhere.
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09-24-2020
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I'm having some trouble with a survey in survey123. I've got two questions that I've set rules for that aren't working properly. The first one asks where a person lives and has a drop down menu of choices. There is "Other", and the rule is 'If Other, show 3. If Other, please specify'. This rule is sometimes disappearing, but not all of the time. The other rule is when asking if a person fished on a specific river. There are 2 rules, one for yes and one for no. The yes rule is working fine. The no rule is supposed to go to the end of the survey, but it is actually going to the last question. And yesterday, it apparently took one of the researchers to a different question half way through the survey. While the first rule problem we can live with, the second one is problematic. Has anybody else had these issues? I wonder if it has to do with adding that question after the survey was originally published. That will also be a problem for us.
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08-21-2020
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I'm getting this same problem, but it's sporatic. I also have another rule set for a "no" answer to go to the end of the survey, but it in fact goes to a different question. This is a serious problem - we can't use the survey if we can't trust the rules.
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08-21-2020
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Hi Shwu-jing, My apologies for a late response. it's been a busy week! So I changed the ownership of the original survey, which I could do as an administrator. I was able to then make a copy of the original survey and it worked just fine. We are close to being able to deploy it! It was my first time using Survey 123, and I have to say that I like it! Thanks, Gayle
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08-14-2020
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Hi Shwu-jing, I couldn't get it to work in a different browser. I made a copy of the original survey and was able to make the change in that. So maybe it was because I wasn't the original owner of the survey? Or maybe there was a problem with the original survey. Thanks for your quick response!
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08-10-2020
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I've taken over the design of a survey in survey 123. I'm trying to add a question to the second page of the survey. It allows me to do that, and it confirms that the change is saved, but when I close and reopen the survey form the new question isn't there. It hasn't been published, we are still in the design stage. I must be missing something - can somebody help me out? I haven't used survey 123 at all and have a short deadline.
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08-10-2020
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I've set up a dashboard with a list of communities and selectors set up to select from different layers in my map. The layers are boroughs, game management units, watersheds and subsistence regions. I've got the map set up to zoom to the selected polygon and filter the list of communities spatially to the map extent. The problem is that it doesn't zoom in far enough to make this useful. I've attached a couple of pictures. The first is the full extent of the map. The second is how the map zooms to the northern most polygon, which obviously isn't zoomed in very far at all. There are far too many communities (points) outside of the selected polygon and they all still show in the list. I've tried changing the zoom level in the JSON but haven't been successful. I've also tried adding the names of the polygons to the points layer so that I could filter by feature but that didn't work because the communities layer is from a query layer. Does anybody know how to change the zoom level of polygons?
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06-09-2020
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Michael, I've got all of my data coming from a view in a database as a query layer. My concern is that when we update the database, if I have to export the data from the view as a query layer I'll have to add the data to the dashboard again, essentially remaking it. I haven't found any documentation on updating query layers for Operations Dashboard. Do you know of any, or do you have insight into this? T Thanks, Gayle
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I'm trying to put together information for an operations dashboard. Our data almost exclusively comes from query layers from our database, which gets updated 3 or 4 times each year. Even our symbology is based on age of the data: Within 5 years, 6-10 years old, 11+ years old. That's got me wondering about updating the data on the dashboard. How easy is it to update the dashboard when the data source is a query layer? Will I have to rebuild the map using new query layers as the data comes in?
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03-12-2020
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Did you ever figure this out? I'm running into the same problem.
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03-12-2020
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Derek - thanks, I fully agree with Alyssia on the widget. I had no idea it existed! I'll be giving it a try!
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