Latest Contributions by GarrettSmith1

‎10-31-2020

Hello Does anyone know if you can unlink tile packages from the linked content pane in Survey123 Connect? I have three tile packages that I want to unlink from a survey I am working with. Thanks

‎10-29-2020

Hello I am trying to create a vector tile package that I can use for offline use for a survey that I am working on in Survey123. The map contains a polygon and around 1,000 points. In ArcGIS Pro I have these shapefiles overlaid on a vector basemap from the ArcGIS Living Atlas portal. When I run the Create Vector Tile Package tool I continuously get this error: ERROR 001852: Layer type is not supported for vector tile packages. I have tried five different vector basemaps, including vector tile layers, and all return this message. If I remove the basemap, I can successfully run the tool and create a .vtpk. However, I need to have a basemap so that users of the survey will have some sort of spatial reference to where they are at. I have been searching high and low for a definitive answer to the issue that I am having with trying to export a Vector Tile Package with one of the "vector" basemaps from the ESRI portal and cannot find anything. A lot of the ESRI help and/or examples are pretty vague about the usage of basemaps. I have tried to use the online map packaging, however using that method gives me the opposite problem in that I cannot have the feature layers and only the basemap. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated as I have been running this tool all day to no avail.

‎10-29-2020

Hello I am trying to create a vector tile package that I can use for offline use for a survey that I am working on in Survey123. The map contains a polygon and around 1,000 points. In ArcGIS Pro I have these shapefiles overlaid on a vector basemap from the ArcGIS Living Atlas portal. When I run the Create Vector Tile Package tool I continuously get this error: ERROR 001852: Layer type is not supported for vector tile packages. I have tried five different vector basemaps, including vector tile layers, and all return this message. If I remove the basemap, I can successfully run the tool and create a .vtpk. However, I need to have a basemap so that users of the survey will have some sort of spatial reference to where they are at. I have been searching high and low for a definitive answer to the issue that I am having with trying to export a Vector Tile Package with one of the "vector" basemaps from the ESRI portal and cannot find anything. A lot of the ESRI help and/or examples are pretty vague about the usage of basemaps. I have tried to use the online map packaging, however using that method gives me the opposite problem in that I cannot have the feature layers and only the basemap. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated as I have been running this tool all day to no avail.

‎10-27-2020

Hello I have linked two Web Maps to my survey using Survey123 Connect's Linked Content tab to be used for a geopoint question. When I click on the Map tab and look at the Preview and Detailed Map I am able to see both maps in the basemap gallery and have set one as the default. When I preview the geopoint question in Connect I am able to select between the two linked web maps, however I do not see any other of the ESRI default basemaps. My biggest issue is when I test the survey on my mobile phone, using the field app, the geopoint question only has default ESRI basemaps and not the maps that I linked. I am online when I test the field app and my map settings are switched to Standard. I am also not signed into my ArcGIS Online account as this survey will be distributed to volunteers, many of whom do not have AGOL accounts. I want to test it as they would see and experience it to make sure it all works. I will also be creating offline maps, but that is a step removed from the online maps working. Maybe there is something that I need to adjust on the maps in ArcGIS Online? Thanks

‎10-20-2020

Hello I have created two offline maps in ArcGIS Online that have two feature layers (hosted, view) and the topographic and imagery hybrid basemaps. When I define my Map Area the feature layers are present and when the files are packaged they look as though they have been packaged successfully. However, when I try to use these maps in Survey123 Field App all that I am getting when I download the offline maps to my mobile phone are the two basemaps and no feature layers. Is there something that I am missing here? Thanks

‎10-16-2020

Great That worked for me. Thanks so much.

‎10-16-2020

Hi Doug, I just presented the survey using the calculation key that you mentioned above. We had a drop-down questions for area and then I passed the lat and long for "areaname_lat_long". Unfortunately the powers to be were not too pleased with this solution. Here is their issue. And again, we do not have a budget to use Collector, even though that is functionality that they want to be able to have in this project. They are hoping that sites can be resurveyed over time. However, there are two issues that we are running into with using a large group of volunteers and using Survey123. First, there is no way to make sure that we have a standard naming convention, beyond the solution above. Second, if a site has been surveyed, you cannot interact with the feature layers in the survey to resurvey them. I think that you can display the features (points) on a custom basemap, however this does not seem to be possible for offline maps? About 90% of the sites are outside of cell phone range. Also, I am not sure if you could display the name of the points on the basemaps, be they online or offline, so that people would be able to enter the name and choose resurvey from the options of survey types. Alternatively, there is the option to try and find a post processing option, that would look for points that are within a certain range of one another, sort by dates, etc... My brain is not working right now and cannot think of a way to bring the data into ArcMap and do something that would allow you to see if sites have been previously surveyed. Maybe there is not a resurvey option and everything is just a survey and there is a post processing solution. I feel like I am grasping for straws here and not really having any brilliant ideas, though it is Friday. Thanks for your help and have a great one.

‎10-16-2020

Hello In my survey I have a number of questions that are labeled with text and then categorized in the from 0 to 3 in the name column in the choices worksheet of my xls form. I am trying to add up these categorized values to get a total site score and have created a hidden value using a calculation for each of these questions using the "+" sign between each of the questions. When I test this out, I am getting wild answers. The total should add up to no more than 15, five categorized questions with a max value of 3, but I am getting valued in the 10,000s. Is it possible that it is not working because I have categorized numerically text based names that are used for the answers? If so, is there a workaround for this in the form, or is it something that I have to do outside of Survey123 post data collection? Thanks

‎10-09-2020

Hello, I am trying to create a way to name geopoints in my survey so that volunteers do not have to come up with their own naming conventions and so that volunteers can go out and resurvey sites based on these names. These names will show up on a dashboard. My thought is to have the names generated based on three questions within the .xlsx form. I have the following questions that I would like to include in the naming; areaname, latitude, and longitude. Hopefully there is a way to combine the three to create a name for the sites. For example maybe a name could be: "Burmac 38.480795, -106.099375" I am attaching the start of the survey below that includes the questions referenced above. Thanks and have a great evening.

‎10-08-2020

Hi Ismael Thanks for this info, this sounds like it could be a great solution. Would the users be able to interact with the map when they are in the field without cell service? For example, if I was out in the field standing at a site, would I be able to look at my location on the map and be able to tell if the site had previously been sampled based on my GPS location that may/may not show up on the map? Does this make sense? Thanks again Garrett

‎09-22-2020

Hello We are working with a group of around 100 volunteers on a citizen science field collection project. In our study area we have upwards of 5,000 sites that are going to be surveyed by the citizen scientists in the field. We are hoping that these sites can and will be tracked over time so we can identify sites that have changed for the better and sites that have changed for the worse over the years. We are running into two main issues and/or limitations with using Survey123 that I am not sure can be solved. With so many volunteers that will be engaged in the project, we do not have the budget to use Collector, which would probably offer more functionality. Below are our two biggest issues. We do not know how to successfully implement a naming convention for the sites. We are mostly concerned with users naming multiple sites with the same name. For example, if I were to go out to a site and name it Burmac_001, how could we ensure that someone else did not name their site the same name? Is there a way to have a list of names that have already been created attached to the survey? Or a more efficient way to do this. I can imagine that if we have Burmac_001-Burmac_100 already in use, it would get annoying for people to try and input 101 names before they get to Burmac_101. We are not aware of a way to be able to re-survey sites in the field. It is important for users, when they go out, to see if the sites they are at have been previously surveyed and if they have how they re-survey the site using Survey123. From our understanding, the maps that can be embedded in Survey123 can only display the points on a basemap and not the attributes affiliated with those points, mainly the name. Users would not therefore be able to be in the field and identify a site that they might be standing on or alternatively could not use Survey123 to navigate to sites that have already been surveyed. Please let me know if this is clear and if you need any clarification on these issues.

‎09-22-2020

Hi Doug Thank you for idea. We are unfortunately limited in budget and cannot adopt Collector as a solution. We are expecting to have upwards of 100 volunteers collecting field data and cannot afford to sign all of them up for Collector subscriptions. Even if we figure out how to name the sites in a manageable way, the issue that we are running into now is being able to re-survey the sites that have been previously surveyed so that we can track changes over time. As we understand it, Survey123 does not offer the user the ability to actually click on points on the map, navigate to those points, and then edit the feature layer as you can do in Collector? I am going to post a separate question about this re-surveying issue that we are having. Thanks again for the naming solution.

‎09-11-2020

Hi Brett Sorry for the late response, the project was put on hold but is now back on with a couple of changes dictated by the funders. To start, the survey will be public. There are currently six study areas identified where the study will be taking place, with about 85% or more of the sites residing in areas that have no cell phone service. One of the issues and/or roadblocks that we have run into is that we are having a hard time coming up with a feasible way for users to name their sites. We are working with a large group of volunteers, some of whom are lot local and not familiar with the study areas, so this has been a bit of a headache. Our initial thought was to have the users simply name them based on the study area they were in, however that is something that the project constituents do not want because in the end there will be ~5,000 sites or so. What we need then, is a way to both name the sites based on the study area and by assigning a unique identifier to them. The survey will also be used to re-survey sites so it is important to have a unique number or some other identifier so that we can track the sites over time. Another issue that we have run into, again related to our volunteers and maybe not knowing where they are, is that people may conduct surveys at sites that have already been surveyed. As I understand it, there is no way for users to interact with the feature layer (created from the initial surveying period) within Survey123 to (1) see if the site they are at has previously been surveyed and (2) to ensure that they are resurveying the right area? This may be a bit scatter brained so let me know if you need more clarification. Thanks

‎09-10-2020

Hi Tina Thank you so much, it is now working as I would like and only showing the attribute fields in the feature layer that will be useful for the users. On another note. I have been modifying the MapViewer and QuickReport templates and I am now at the point where I want to combine the two. My hope is to take the MapPage from the MapViewer template and apply it as the first screen (page) of the QuickReport template. Do you have any suggestions for a way to efficiently do this? I know that the MapPage references other pages, controls, and images within the MapViewer template and I am not sure how to copy and/or apply these to the QuickReport template. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and thank you again for the help with working out the legend.

‎09-09-2020

Hello All. I am working on a project where sites are going to be tracked over time. There are approximately 5,000 sites, of which 1,000 have been previously surveyed using paper-based surveys. We are working with a large group of volunteers so we are worried about how to ensure that sites are named the same throughout the project. We are hoping to come up with a way that we can name the sites, possibly based on the geopoint locations. Ultimately we would like for the volunteers to go out and re-survey the sites. Based on the above, I am not sure if there is: a good way to name the sites collected in the field based on geopoint locations a way to query if the site, based on the geopoint location, has been previously surveyed so that people do not perform multiple surveys at the same location and so that the sites can be re-surveyed Basically I am looking to see if anyone else has addressed this issue before, or if there is an efficient way for us to manage the names of the sites.

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Latest Contributions by GarrettSmith1

Remove Tile Packages From Linked Content in Survey123 Connect

Vector Tile Package Creation With Vector Basemap

Vector Tile Package with Vector Basemap for Survey123

Linked Content Web Maps Not Showing in Field App

Feature Layers Missing From Packaged Offline Map

Re: Summing Categorical Questions

Re: Unique Site Names for Re-Surveying

Summing Categorical Questions

Naming Geopoints Based on Other Questions

Re: Ways to Name and Re-Survey Sites (Points) in the Field

Ways to Name and Re-Survey Sites (Points) in the Field

Re: Unique Site Names for Re-Surveying

Re: Study Areas In Survey123

Re: MapViewer Template Map Page Questions

Unique Site Names for Re-Surveying

Remove Tile Packages From Linked Content in Survey...

Vector Tile Package with Vector Basemap for Survey...

Feature Layers Missing From Packaged Offline Map

Linked Content Web Maps Not Showing in Field App

Capture in Survey123