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We have created this Geonet Place to more easily share with you all news related to Esri Labs initiatives. Through our Blog we will describe new projects and updates to existing ones. This Place is also intended to help solve any technical issues, discuss enhancements and new ideas around Esri Labs projects. What is Esri Labs?  Esri Labs is a brand that Esri uses to make available to you new technologies and collaborative projects that we feel are worth sharing, but not quite ready for full productization. Esri Labs projects are developed by Esri employees and shaped based on customer feedback and validation. While often awesome, Esri Labs initiatives are not official Esri products and as such are not covered by Esri Technical Support. Why Esri Labs? Through Esri Labs we want to share with you innovative works that can be useful for your job, and get your feedback so that we can evaluate if and when these tools should make it into the ArcGIS Product Portfolio.  Early Adopters of Esri Labs have an opportunity to influence the development of ideas and technology by submitting feedback.  On a case-by-case basis, some Esri Labs projects may be entirely or partly productized.   How do I get Technical Support on Esri Labs projects? Esri Labs initiatives are often directly supported by the Esri Development team behind them. In some occasions, the Esri Community also provides support through the Esri Labs Geonet Place. Esri Labs projects are released to the public as non-commercial offerings and are not official Esri products. Esri Labs initiatives do not go through the standard rigorous software development lifecycle and testing as official Esri products do. Esri Labs projects may not be holistically tested or documented, and are not supported by Esri Technical Support. The use of Esri Labs initiatives is governed by the Esri Labs User Agreement. What is the difference between projects in Esri Labs and projects in Beta? Esri makes no commitment towards fully productizing works under Esri Labs. Beta Programs from Esri are setup on top of initiatives for which there is a well-defined product plan and pathway for release as part of a supported production-quality technology or product.   Can I use Esri Labs technology in production?  Yes, at your own risk.  Remember that all the support you will ever get for Esri Labs initiatives is that provided by the Esri team developing it and its community of users.   The Esri Technical Support team does not provide support for Esri Labs products.  Esri does not make any commitments regarding the future of Esri Labs initiatives. Are Esri Labs works licensed under an Open Source License? Not necessarily, but many Esri Labs initiatives offer source code under Open Source licenses. This is by design, so you can take these initiatives to the next level and when appropriate, contribute to them.  Will Esri move Esri Labs project into official Esri products? Full produtization of Esri Labs initiatives is subject to user feedback. Some Esri Labs such as Activity Dashboard and Survey123 for ArcGIS have graduated into official products, or capabilities of ArcGIS. Many other projects however, have been dismantled, or left under Esri Labs for your use. Esri and the teams behind Esri Labs projects do not set as a goal for Esri Labs initiatives to have them fully productized. Sometimes, Esri Labs is the best home for these initiatives. What should I expect from this GeoNet Place? As described at the beginning of this post, we have setup this GeoNet Place so we you can find all news related to Esri Labs in it. We also would like technical questions, ideas and general discussion around Esri Labs projects to happen in this Place.  Thanks, The Esri Labs Team. ... View more

Do you know the difference between a dart and a glider? Well you should, because you will want to make good use of all those paper forms you no longer need. Get ready for National Paper Airplane Day, which is coming up on May 26!  What goes through your mind while folding a piece of paper to make an airplane? What do you feel when it escapes your fingers gliding away? Paper airplanes are truly amazing. Take a moment to enjoy them, if possible with good company. We split our 2.8 update in two. Just a few days ago we released the Survey123 field app with a critical fix for all of you using the app with public surveys. We also included a couple of additional bug fixes. For more details refer to thehttps://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2018/05/16/minor-update-to-the-survey123-field-app-available-28 blog post.  Today, we are making available an update to our Survey123 website. It comes with some bug fixes, but also brings a few interesting new features. Here are the highlights: Survey123 Web Designer Enhancements Survey123 Web Designer lets you visually build your own surveys, right from your web browser. In this update, we have added features particularly useful for those of you who plan to publish surveys for exclusive use from web browsers (Web Forms). New Single Choice Grid questions: Survey123 web designer now includes a new type of question called Single Choice Grid. This question type lets you to arrange a set of single choice questions in a table.  The only condition is that all single choice questions in the table use of the same choice list. There are multiple scenarios where Single Choice Grids are useful.  A classic one is checklists, like the one presented below for a Fire Safety inspection. Single Choice Grids will help you compact questions within your forms allowing users to enter data more easily.  As you add Single Choice Grid questions into your form, keep in mind the following: Horizontal real estate is going to be limited, so keep the number of choices in your lists and labels short. You cannot set rules against the Single Choice Grid or any of the individual questions in it. If you choose to flag the grid as required, then all rows (questions) within the grid must contain an answer. Single Choice Grids are only supported in Web Forms (in our Survey123 Web App). The Survey123 Field app does not currently handle this type of question. [Updated Sep 26, 2019] As of version 3.6, the field app also supports single choice grids. Custom Thank You Notes: Thank You notes are presented right after a survey is submitted from a Web Form (from the Survey123 Web App). It is good practice to control the text presented in this dialog.  This is of course the right place to thank respondents for taking time to complete your survey, but also a great place to acknowledge sponsors of your project or direct respondents to your website, next actions etc.  Starting with this update, we added a rich text editor widget so you can better control the look and feel of your Thank You notes. You can add links, images, define the size and color of text and more. From within Web Designer you will be able to preview your Thank You note and also control if a link should be included to allow respondents to submit the survey again. Geosearch for Geopoint questions at design time: Through the new geosearch widget included in geopoint questions, you can now more easily set the initial extent and zoom level of your map. This is particularly relevant for online surveys where people will submit data through a Web Form.   When your survey is open from a web browser, you cannot assume that the map will be centered automatically at the user's location, because often location services are disabled in browsers for privacy reasons.  With this new geosearch widget there is really no excuse for you to leave an initial map extent that is not relevant to your project! Note: The geosearch widget uses the default locator configured in your ArcGIS Online organization.      Survey Collaborate Tab Through the Collaborate tab in the Survey123 website, you control who can submit data to your surveys, and who can view their results. Restrict Viewer Access: Through the Viewer category in the Collaborate tab, you define which Groups within your ArcGIS organization can visualize the results of your survey. We have added a new option that lets you control if access to the survey results is restricted to survey entries submitted by the logged-in user, or all results in the survey. As the owner of a survey, this option gives you tighter control over what data can people see in your surveys. Here is a scenario where this new option will be handy:  Pretend that you have published a survey for a group of Building Inspectors. Through Collaborate/Submitter you have already granted them access to your survey, so all Building Inspectors are happily submitting their work to you.   Next, you would also like Building Inspectors to have access to their own submitted data through the Survey123 website.   Through Collaborate/Viewer you will next grant the Inspectors Group with access to the results of the survey, but since you do not want inspectors to see someone else's  work, you will grant visibility to 'Only their own submitted records'.   At that moment, inspectors can log into the Survey123 website and access their own records. For example, they can use the Data tab in the Survey123 website to export all their inspection data into Excel, generate high quality printable reports of their inspection records or even look at trends across their own inspections through the Analyze tab. Administrators of the ArcGIS organization and owners of the survey will always have access to all records. Shortened survey URL links (ArcGIS Online only): If working against ArcGIS Online, the next time you share a survey URL with someone or include it into a website or e-mail, you will note that the Survey123 website will shorten them for you.  The animation below shows the difference between the shortened and original URLs. We feel like shortened URLs are easier for most people, but if you are a nostalgic, purist or you simply want the original URL, all you need to do is to copy the shortened URL into a web browser and navigate to it. You will see that the shortened URL is simply a shortcut that gets redirected to the source (and long) URL of your survey. Survey Analyze and Data Tabs Photo Galleries in the Analyze report:  Up until now, Image and Signature questions in your survey were not  included in the Analyze report. Starting with this update, photo galleries will be used to display data submitted into Image and Signature questions. The new galleries will let you more quickly scan large collections of photos submitted to your survey and if needed, by clicking on them, get more details on the photo itself. Sort surveys by date in the Data tab table: The Data tab shows your survey results as a map and a table. Some of you suggested that data in the table should show the newest surveys on top by default. We think this is a good idea too, so rows are now sorted by the Edit Date column, in descending order. If you would like to sort using a different column, all you need to do is to click on the column header and set your sorting preference.  Barcode question support in Individual Response reports (Data tab): The individual response report shown when you select a record from the survey table now supports Barcode questions as well, which are treated similarly to Text questions. Survey Gallery Launch Connect directly from the survey gallery: You can now easily launch Survey123 Connect from the survey gallery to make updates and re-publish your Connect surveys. This option will only work if you have Survey123 Connect 2.7 or newer.  I trust you will have Connect in its latest release. Right?  You would actually not believe how many people out there are still running 1.x versions of Connect! Major Bug Fixes and Enhancements Survey123 Web Form (aka Survey123 Web App): BUG-000108086 Field values are missing in questions within repeats (Web Form) BUG-000109787 Pulldata caculations within a repeat do not update note questions if the survey is open from a web browser. BUG-000108785 The message "Surveys published by Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS are currently not supported" appears when attempting to open a survey published with Connect from a web browser, if the hosting portal is configured with Integrated Windows Authentication. Survey123 website: BUG-000113180 Unable to share a survey with a group when the user is a group manager of that group in ArcGIS Online and the group setting 'who can contribute' is set to 'Only group owner and managers' BUG-000113270 With Portal 10.5.1 configured with IWA, surveys published using Survey123 Connect do not show data for users in https://survey123.arcgis.com BUG-000113054 The data tab of the survey123.arcgis.com website does not have appropriate logic to prevent attempting to export data that comes directly from ArcGIS Server BUG-000107294 Incorrect German translation of "Please input a number less than xx". BUG-000113741 When deleting a survey that is created from an existing feature service in Portal for ArcGIS, the behavior is different between Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS and the Survey123 for ArcGIS website Static content in the Survey123 web site is delivered leveraging Content Delivery Network Services to reduce loading times. This will be particularly noticeable outside the United States. Survey123 field app and Connect: Regression on Public Surveys: Our 2.7 release introduced an issue that prevented the use of Public Surveys if no user was logged into the Survey123 field app. This is now addressed, allowing the use of Public Surveys in the field app even if there  is no user logged-in. Thanks to all of you who promptly reported this problem and helped diagnose it through this GeoNet Group. I am having problems with some users getting "unpacking errors" while opening a survey. What causes this?  Problem with public survey  Check for offline conditions on Windows: This update includes a fix that enhances Survey123's ability to detect if your device is connected or not, when working on Windows. We have observed some reports of Survey123 on Windows not detecting offline conditions when working on very specific network configurations. The offline check is much better now. BUG-000107663 Features do not display in webmap after submission by the field app: Some of you have reported that ArcGIS Online Web Maps with a refresh interval set, were not automatically showing new features added from the Survey123 field app.  The problem was caused by a combination of issues in both ArcGIS Online feature services and the Survey123 field app. All problems are solved now! An Archive of What's new in Survey123—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS is available in our product help documentation. Beyond 2.8   Our next major release will be 3.0, which we envision shipping around July 2018.   If needed, we may squeeze in 2.9 as a maintenance release with critical fixes. Here is what we are planning for our next updates:   Custom Form Reports: Our Leveraging Custom Form Report Templates in Survey123 for ArcGIS blog post  anticipated this feature, which is currently available to all of you in Beta.  We are working hard to move this feature into general release and incorporate into it bulk report capabilities. Support for nested repeats: This feature is available for testing already through our Early Adopter Program and allows you to author surveys that have repeats within repeats. This will be part of our 3.0 release in July. Enhanced support for external GNSS receivers: At the moment, you can use external GNSS receivers with Survey123, but only in a limited way. For example, you cannot extract key metadata from the receiver such as  VDOP, HDOP, Number of Satellites or the Fix Type...  With the 3.0 update our intent is to extend the pulldata() function so you can also extract this important metadata and store it along with the features you capture.  We also plan to provide support for RTK corrections. We are working towards having this feature available for testing in our Early Adopter Program around June around July, but will not be part of 3.0. Webhook integration: An earlier post Sneak Peek: Survey123 and Webhooks (Integromat) described this work in more detail. Available for testing today through the Early Adopter Program.  Planned for our 3.0 release. GeoSearch in the Survey123 field app map widget: Check out this video in our Early Adopter Program for details. Available for testing now and planned to be part of 3.0. Support for Web Maps, Vector Tiles and Mobile Map Packages: This is  a big deal as it will make maps for geopoint questions much better looking, useful and lightweight.  Looking at having this available for testing around June. Postponed until later in 2018. Pages: While Pages are not officially supported yet, we continue working on improving this feature.  Starting with 2.7 you will notice that the page navigation has been vastly improved, although there are multiple areas that still need more work before we can call it 'ready'.  If you are into pages, do not hesitate providing your feedback via the Beta forum in our Early Adopter Program. Portal support: As of version 3.0 of Survey123 for ArcGIS, we will no longer support working against version 10.3.1 or older of Portal for ArcGIS. iOS support: Following Apple's announcement regarding end of  support for 32 bit devices starting with iOS 11, our 3.0 release will also drop support for 32 bit devices.  Having said this, we understand that many of you still have not, or don't  plan to upgrade your Apple devices in the short term. Therefore we will make available a 32bit compatible version of Survey123 in the Apple store for a period of time to assist you with your transition. We will be naming this 32-bit compatible version of the app, Survey123 Classic and it will include only 2.8 functionality. Android support: The minimum version of the Android operating system with Survey123 3.0 will be 4.4.   The Classic flavor of Survey123 will support Android back to 4.1, but will only include 2.8 functionality.   A lot in the plate as  you can see for 3.0. Our focus however it is not going to deviate from listening carefully to all your feedback through this GeoNet Group, so keep your questions and suggestions coming! ... View more

Here we are once again, so close to the Esri User Conference!  Below is a list of the many places where you will be able to learn more about Survey123 for ArcGIS while in San Diego. The Esri Events App: If you are coming to San Diego, I recommend that you download the Esri Events app. It  will help you create your own schedule and keep track of last minute changes to sessions. You can download the app from the Apple and Google Play stores. Technical Sessions: Technical Sessions are one UC's favorites. Always well attended, Tech Sessions run for about 60 minutes and cover technical aspects of Esri products.  We always try to keep a good chunk of time at the end for a live question & answer section. Tech Sessions start on Tuesday morning and run until Friday.  They all take place in the second floor of the San Diego Convention Center (also known as SDCC). Survey123: An introduction: This session covers the basics of the Survey123 website, including designing smart forms with Web Designer, publishing and sharing surveys, generating high quality reports for submitted data and other capabilities available through the Survey123 website. The session will end with a sneak peak of smart form capabilities going beyond what is possible through Web Designer.  I recommend attending this session even if you are already familiar with Survey123, because there are many new things that have been added to the Survey123 website in the past few months.  Philip Wilson, Brandon Armstrong and Derek Law will be presenting this session, and there is always tons to learn from them! Tuesday, July 10 10:00 am - 11:00 am SDCC - Ballroom 06 D Tuesday, July 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Room 32 A/B Wednesday, July 11 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm SDCC - Ballroom 06 F Survey123 for ArcGIS: Creating Smart Forms Using XLSForms and Survey123 Connect: Join this session for an introduction to designing smart forms following the XLSForm specification with Survey123 Connect.  With Connect and XLSForms you can create the most sophisticated smart forms for the Survey123 native or web apps.  If you want to become a Survey123 Ninja you really need to make it to this session. James Tedrick and Jonathan Hasthorpe will take care of this one.  Wednesday, July 11 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SDCC - Room 09 Survey123 for ArcGIS: Advanced Topics: This session will introduce advanced workflows with Survey123 including editing existing features and designing surveys on top of existing feature layers, workflow automation with Survey123 and web hooks, working with external sensors in Survey123 and other exciting features. There will be lots of live demos and time for live questions.  Ismael Chivite, Elvin Slavik and James Tedrick will present this session. Thursday, July 12 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSDCC - Room 05 A ArcGIS Apps for the Field: An Introduction: In this session we will describe how all ArcGIS mobile apps work together. A great place to learn how Survey123 works along with Workforce for ArcGIS, Navigator for ArcGIS, Collector and even Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS.  Scheduled presenters include Chris Lesueur, Ismael Chivite and Jeff Shaner.  Friday.Tuesday, July 10 10:00 am - 11:00 amSDCC - Ballroom 06 C Wednesday, July 11 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmSDCC - Room 31 C Friday, July 13 9:00 am - 10:00 amSDCC - Ballroom 06 F ArcGIS Apps for the Field: Working Together: A more technical perspective on making ArcGIS apps work together. Custom URL Scheme's described. Wednesday, July 11 10:00 am - 11:00 am SDCC - Room 08 Survey123 User Group Meeting We are happy to announce that this year we will have our own Survey123 User Group Meeting. It runs on Tuesday at lunch time from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, but no lunch is provided. This is for the ones with a strong Survey123 spirit!  Our User Group will be a great opportunity to meet other Survey123 Ninjas. This is fundamentally about connecting with other people and the team.  We will have a couple of 7-minute lighting talks to warm-up and then the rest of the time is for group discussion and networking. Survey123 User Group Meeting: Tuesday 10,  11:30 AM - 12:30 PM  SDCC - Ballroom 06 D Demo Theaters You can think of Demo Theaters as mini-Tech Sessions. They are shorter, always focused on very specific workflows and run in a small setting were questions can be handled throughout the presentation.  The Demo Theaters take place in Expo area (first floor), close to the Product Islands. Improving Utility Field Workflows in ArcGIS (by Claire Price) Tuesday, July 10 11:15 am - 12:00 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 14 Integrating Laser Measurement Solutions with ArcGIS Apps (by Ismael Chivite and Doug Morgenthaler) Wednesday, July 11 10:00 am - 10:45 am SDCC - Demo Theater 12 Survey123 for ArcGIS: Extending the App  (by Elvin Slavik and Erwin Sorekianto) Wednesday, July 11 10:00 am - 10:45 am SDCC - Demo Theater 09 Damage Assessment Using Survey123 for ArcGIS (by Jess Neuner) Wednesday, July 11 11:15 am - 12:00 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 17 Survey123 for ArcGIS: Printing Survey Records (by Calvin Jung and Brandon Armstrong) Wednesday, July 11 11:15 am - 12:00 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 09 Understand the Resiliency of your Community Using ArcGIS Apps Wednesday, July 11 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 16 Invasive Pest Surveys in ArcGIS (by Aziza Parveen) Wednesday, July 11 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 14 Public Safety Field Data Collection: Best Practices (by Fern Ferner) Wednesday, July 11 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm SDCC - Demo Theater 11 Troubleshoot Like an Esri Support Pro: ArcGIS Apps and GPS/GNSS Connections (by Collin Lawrence and Kiersten Hudson) Thursday, July 12 10:00 am - 10:45 am SDCC - Demo Theater 04 User Presentations User Presentations are a great way to learn the details of how Survey123 is applied to specific workflows. A good opportunity to learn directly from users like you! Using GIS to Prepare for a National Level Radiological/Nuclear Response Sunday, July 8 Hilton - 9:10 am - 9:30 am Sapphire Ballroom B/C/D/F/G/H GIS Supporting Data Driven Homelessness Solutions Tuesday, July 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Room 29 A Improving Human Services Through GIS Tuesday, July 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Room 29 A Public Transit GIS in the Field; A Tale of Two Apps Tuesday, July 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Room 24 C Lessons from Hurricane Harvey Response Tuesday, July 10 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm SDCC - Room 28 B ArcGIS Enterprise for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Tuesday, July 10 2:30 pm - 3:30pm SDCC - Room 24 A Mobile Applications in Stormwater Wednesday, July 11 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm SDCC - Room 26 A Citizen Scientists Using Survey123 to Collect Lake Quality Data Thursday, July 12 8:30 am - 9:30 am SDCC - Room 26 A Utilizing Survey123 and ArcGIS Online to Improve Damage Assessment Thursday, July 12 8:30 am - 9:30 am SDCC - Room 28 B GIS and the Eclipse: A New Tool for Emergency Management Thursday, July 12 8:30 am - 9:30 am SDCC - Room 29 B Expo The Expo area is opens Tuesday and closes on Thursday afternoon. It is located in the first floor in the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) and features different areas including Partner Exhibits, Esri Industry Neighborhoods, GIS Product Areas and Customer Care booths. Product Areas (Islands) at the Expo:  You will always find someone from the Survey123 team in there. This is the place to go when you want to have a one on one conversation to address specific ideas or issues you may have. We often refer to the Product Areas as Islands. The Survey123 team will have a station under a big sign that says 'Apps'. It will be a big sign... you will see it. Partner & Sponsor Exhibits: The Survey123 software is only a third of the story. There are two good reasons to visit the Esri Partner and Sponsor Exhibits. The first one is that many of them are now experts building smart forms with Survey123 and know the tricks of the trade when implementing solutions. Swing by their booth and ask them about their own experience.  The second one is that through the Partner Exhibits you will find many hardware vendors that can teach you the benefits of using their offerings with Survey123. Think Laser Measurement Solutions, GNSS receivers, ruggerized devices and much more. Just to name a few: EOS Positioning Systems, booth 1019 GIS Inc, booth 719 Leica, booth 517 Microsoft, booth 2227 SSP Innovatons, booth 619 Bad Elf LLC, booth 2330 Blue Raster LLC, booth 2408 Frontier Precision Inc, booth 2027 GeoDecisions, booth 609 GPS-it ltd, booth 708 Handheld, booth 530 ikeGPS, booth 2231 Juniper Systems, booth 1815 Vestra Resources, booth 2314 International Association of Fire Chiefs, booth P1 (Public Safety Kiosk) NAPSG Foundation, booth P3 (Public Safety Kiosk) Customer Care and Esri Tech Support: Our Esri Customer Care and Technical Support teams will be represented in the Expo. You can also swing by their stands with your Survey123 technical questions. Esri Industry Neighborhoods: Everything from Public Safety to Defense, Local Government, Utilities and more.  The Industry Neighborhoods are a good place when you want to connect with people that understands how to put Survey123 in the context of your own workflows.  Ask for a demonstration of Survey123 focused on your problem or for examples of organizations using Survey123 in your industry. Esri Education Summit The Esri Education Summit takes place between July 7-10 at the Marriott Marquis & Marina Hotel. You will need to register separately for this one! Using Survey123 for Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Initiatives (by Ismael Chivite) Saturday, July 07 10:00am - 11:00am  Marriott - Point Loma Mobile Field Data Collection with Survey123  (By Joseph Kerski) Sunday, July 08 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm  Marriott - Cardiff From Story Maps to Survey123: GIS in K-12 Education (by Michael Jabot) Sunday, July 8 8:30am - 9:30am Marriot Newport Beach Introducing Web-based GIS using Survey123 and ArcGIS Online (by Dan Farkas) Sunday, July 8 Hilton - 10:00 am - 11:00 am Marriot Coronado Pre-Conference Seminars By now, many Pre-Conference Seminars are sold-out, but I thought I would include info about this for those of you who are planning to come next year. You need to hurry before all seats are  taken.  Survey123 will be highlighted in the Field Operations and ArcGIS PreConference seminar: Field Operations and ArcGIS A full day hands-on seminar covering the complete suite of ArcGIS apps: Workforce, Navigator, Survey123, Collector and Operations Dashboard. Sunday, July 08 8:30 am - 5:00 pm ... View more