Latest Contributions by DougBrowning

We use a similar one called MobileMap by Mason Bruce.  It allows us to take all of our layers offline using tpks and allows using a sd card.  We have 30+GB covering 2 million+ acres (way beyond what collector can handle).  Data collection uses local sqllite and syncs up with AGO when back online. ... View more

Just wanted to post this funny info. Survey123 is now allowing you to use any TPK or tile cache from a SD Card.  So one group in Esri says no while another says sure!  Imagine if we could ever get the different groups in Esri to talk to each other....... See the bold and underline below.  I tested it and it works - just pointed it to the directory of TPKs I already have on my SD Card.  My large imagery TPK is a bit slow but Survey123 said it should find unzipped ones also (which is what we do for speed in our other app) - it does not so I am asking them on that. -------------- Whats new in this release Survey123 now supports the use of offline basemaps. These basemaps must be of the Esri file type of tile package and web mercator projection. Tile packages can be created using ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Pro. Note:Currently there are many manual steps required to use basemaps in your survey. It is expected that a more streamlined process will be added, but we wanted to make the functionality available as soon as possible. This topic will be updated as the user experience of including basemaps in your survey, evolves. Create a map tile package You can create a map tile package using ArcGIS Desktop or Pro. Once created you can copy it directly to your device for use in Survey123 or share it in ArcGIS for others to use. To create a map tile package: Launch ArcGIS Pro. < li>Open an existing map or create a new map. Ensure your map has a suitable name and description. To edit these, right click the map in the table of contents, and choose properties. In Toolbox, choose the Create Map Tile Package tool and enter the input map name and the output file name. Input map name and output file name are the minimum requirements for this tool. You can optionally enter other properties. Run the Create Map Tile Package tool. A new .tpk will be created in your chosen output location. To use this file in Survey123 you can upload it to ArcGIS to share with others, or manually copy it to your device. Copy your tile package directly to your device If you do not have internet connectivity or are unable to connect to ArcGIS, you can copy your tile package directly to your device, or use it from an external storage card. To copy your tile package directly to your device: Connect to your device If you are using an iOS device, you will need to use iTunes. Copy you .tpk to your ~\ArcGIS\My Surveys\Maps folder. For example, on Windows this would be C:\Users\UserName\ArcGIS\My Surveys\Maps. If you already had Survey123 open before copying, restart Survey123. To use your tile package from an external storage card: Copy your tile package to your storage card and place the card in your device. Launch Survey123 on your device and on the My Surveys menu, choose Settings . Nominate an additional Map Library Folder that represents your storage card. The default path of ~/ArcGIS/My Surveys/Maps will already be shown. You can add additional paths by - Typing the additional path directly into the edit box (use a semi colon to separate paths). - Use the folder browser to select an additional path. Any path selected will be appended to your Map Library Folder. When you next open a survey that has the map append property set to true, tile packages on your storage card will be appended to the list of available basemaps ... View more

Thanks a lot.  Follow up question.  Will minor text changes also cause a wipe of the HFS?  For example to fix a typo or add some static text.  Or adding a hint, etc. So is it ANY change to the form or just schema changes. Thanks again ... View more

Thanks I had 1.0.19 still.  I swear one of the old ones did overwrite. Turns out you changed the name to Survery123Beta.exe and the directory.  Also it installs to the user dir for some odd reason and I have to use a separate admin account to install...but finally got it. Are you going to change the name again?  Why default to a user dir? I think my workflow to keep the name and records would be. 1.  Download a copy of the HFS to a GDB using REST. (or simple export to GDB in AGO) 2.  Publish new survey. 3.  Use a Append Tool in ArcMap to get the GDB records moved to the new HFS OR use the REST toolbox append tool.       Not sure if either of these would work with attachments. Sound like that would work? Thanks ... View more

It could be that it can change the scheme if there are no records in the service but can not if there are records? ... View more

Just had another form I am trying to go back and edit from a few months ago.  It will show new fields I added in Connect and on the app but the Hosted Feature service will not show the new fields.  It will also not send the form now with a Code 400 error. Why can I not add fields to my form? thanks ... View more

Well I deleted the .info and .itemInfo files on my computer in the My Survey Designs folder and the items in the debug folder and that seemed to do it.  Would be nice to know if this is correct or why I can not add fields to a group after it is published. ... View more

I got it to work.  The external MUST be linked to a cascading select (above it just says designed).  But I am not seeing a seperate csv sheet uploaded.  I was hoping to link to one central pick list for multiple forms.  It seems that if I have a pick list common to all forms and I wanted to add an item I would have to add this item to each form one by one and republish each one.  Then have the users redownload each form one by one.  Please tell me I am wrong because this is extremely clunky. It may work that I can just copy and paste the itemsets.csv to each form directory but i would then still have to republish each form and have each user redownload. It would be really nice to have the list link to a URL of a table on AGO.  That way I just update in one place. ... View more

When I try to add a external list it just keeps saying it can not find the list in the choices sheet.  Not sure what else to try.  I have 1.1.19. Anything else I can try? thanks ... View more

Not sure if I can post that here but you have no PM info in your profile so....  It is MobileMap by Mason Bruce & Girard - talk to Kerry Halligan he is the developer (they are a Esri partner and it does use the Esri API). If you go with it let me know and maybe I can share some of the scripts I use to build all the TPKs each weekend.  I have 4 or 5 open Esri bugs on the TPK tools so I can help with the tricks needed. ... View more

We are using a Android app by a vendor that uses TPK files on a SD card allowing us to take very large areas offline (3 million+ acres down to L16).  We have no performance issues at all running 30+GB of caches/TPKs - 12+ unzipped caches and 80+ TPK files.  Some tpks are 600+MB and still no issue.   We also can put any shp files we want on.  We do unzip that larger TPKs for the imagery (3+gb) since it can get slow but other than that it is as fast as we can pan on Tab 4 and newer.  I ran a high res test last week and was running a 16GB imagery cache no problem.  We have had it running for over 2 years on tablets as old as Samsung Tab 2s.  We go buy the faster SD cards. I did a lot of performance testing on internal and SDcards for our app.  I found the speed to be the same on a SD card if not faster (maybe because the app is local splitting the load).  So I am always very surprised when I hear Esri say this.  It has been our main reason for not using collector.  I wish they would open it up and let us at least try it. ... View more