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On this day 48 years ago, Apollo 11 moon-landed Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin. They spent a bit over 2 hours outside their lunar module Eagle and gathered 20Kg of rocks. The moon-walk and the rocks were of marginal importance: What mattered most was to be the winner of a race that started on November 3, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2.  The Race to the Moon, if you ask me, looked like a perfect way to sort out the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union.  Much better anyways than how rivalry played out down here in Earth. 2.3 is for the most part a maintenance release but it has a couple of nice surprises... Before we start, as with every new update: Clear your browser cache!  Custom branding for your forms in Survey123 Web Designer The Survey123 Web Designer lets you easily create smart forms in ArcGIS using a graphical user experience. With every update we extend its functionality so you can build more and more sophisticated forms. Many of  you have requested better control over the look and feel of the survey.  With this update you can now add a custom header to your own surveys. The header can include rich text and even images.  This is a great  feature if you want to brand your surveys to fit the corporate colors and logo of  your organization or initiative. On top of this, through the Web Designer's Appearance tab you can also now toggle the survey description, footer and header as well as better control the font and content of your question hints through a Rich Text Editor control. Last by not least, the new Note question type lets you add rich content anywhere within your form. You can add images, html links and much more. Notes are a great way to spice up your forms, but they are not just about the looks: Through notes you can include useful tips for users to properly complete the forms. Open your Survey123 Connect forms in a web browser (Beta) With this release, you can now open your surveys authored in Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS from a web browser. This is a feature that has been on the works since November 2016 and we feel it is pretty much complete at this moment. Following a conservative approach, we have flagged this feature as Beta, but made it available to all of you from the Survey123 website. To open your Survey123 Connect surveys from a web browser, open the Collaborate tab in the Survey123 website.  You will now always  find a survey link available, even if  your survey was published from Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS. You can also launch your Survey123 Connect forms in your browser right from Survey123 Connect. Once published, you can open your survey in a web browser, through the button intermediately below the Publish in the Survey123 toolbar.  While the new Web Form can handle the vast majority of the XLSForm features supported by Survey123 Connect, there are some exceptions: Barcode questions. media::audio, body::esri:inputMask and body::accuracyThreshold columns Signature appearance on image questions Compact appearance on Groups Autocomplete appearance on select_one questions Extraction of X,Y,Z values from a geopoint  using the pulldata() function Property() function Other than the above, your web browser should  be able to handle anything you author in Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS: Groups, Repeats, Notes custom expressions in Constraints, Relevant and Calculation columns etc There are some known issues and things to be aware at the moment: The Print functionality is limited to one page. This issue is on the works. Concatenating strings in calculations requires you to use the concat function. You cannot concatenate strings just by using the + operator. If you find more issues, please report them through Esri Support Home. We are looking forward to refine the new Web Forms and move them away from Beta! Custom Form Reports (Beta) This is an experimental feature at the moment, but given how badly many of  you have  been asking for it we have brought it forward in Beta so you can try it out.  The basic requirement is to be able to generate a printable document out of the data submitted via Survey123 smart forms.  Ideally, one should have total control over the look and feel of the printed document: headers, footers, the map, tables, size of photos etc. The approach we propose lets you author Form Report templates in Microsoft Word. Following a series of simple rules, you define placeholders in your Word document which our Survey123 report engine will replace with values from the forms submitted.  As the owner of a survey you can associate one or more Custom Form Report templates with a survey, which can be used later to either print specific surveys submitted, or may be to back-up the captured data digitally or on paper.   This workflow is conceptually close to Microsoft's Office Mail Merge functionality, although the exact syntax is specific to Survey123. I will describe briefly how to get going with this: In the Survey123 for ArcGIS website, open the Data tab for one your surveys. Expand the data table and select one of the rows. One the panel on the right, look for the 'Custom Print (Beta)' label and then click on the pencil icon. A new dialog will describe what placeholders you can use in your Form Report Template. Note that you can even download a bare bones Report Template specifically built for your survey.  That is a great starting point. Once you have your Template  in place, upload it so it gets associated with your survey. Use the Print button to generate a report for the selected  survey. We are at the very beginnings of this, but you will get an idea of where we  want to go with it.  Note that you should be able to handle all types of questions  including photos, signatures and repeats. For more details on this, please read Tega's blog post on it Developers AppStudio for ArcGIS 2.3 now includes the Survey123 field app and Survey123 Connect source code. Note that in order to extend or brand Survey123 you will need an AppStudio for ArcGIS Standard license. Other fixes and enhancements Survey123 website The Data and Analyze tabs are  now available for  surveys published on top of pre-existing feature services BUG-000105667 In Survey for ArcGIS, it seems to be impossible to switch Rating style back from "Label" to "Icon", as it locks to "Label" once selected. BUG-000106171 Survey123 for ArcGIS, when a survey created on survey123.arcgis.com website contains a required number question and you enter a value >10, all other preceding answers will not submit to the service. BUG-000105700 Signing onto survey123.arcgis.com website using SAML authentication does not work after updating to Survey123 for ArcGIS v2.1 release. Survey123 Connect  Now available for download on Windows, Mac  and Linux. This update improves publishing of surveys against ArcGIS Server Enterprise feature services, particularly when these services have related tables. Note that  starting  with  this  version, any survey published  against ArcGIS Enterprise Hosted feature services using the ArcGIS Data Store must include all question names in lowercase. This is to ensure  that names of questions in your XLSForm match exactly feature  service field names in your feature service (The ArcGIS Data Store does not  support upper case characters in field names). When working against existing feature services (in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise), Survey123 Connect will validate at publishing time that all XLSForm question names perfectly match field names in your feature service. Survey123 field app Now available in the Apple, Amazon and Google Play stores.  Its build number is 2.3.29. The most  significant fixes include: Signatures are no longer submitted cropped in iOS devices. Note that the signature image will still appear to be cropped in the field app in iOS, but the signature will be submitted correctly to ArcGIS. Barcode scanner now beeps when a successful read is  achieved. Surveys in the Drafts, Sent and Outbox folders will no longer disappear when the field app is updated from the  iTunes store. BUG-000103801 Photos cannot be taken or submitted in Survey123 for ArcGIS field app on iPhone (6 or 7) using landscape view; everything is rotated an additional 90 degrees. Distress appearance on integer type of questions now displays  correctly on iOS devices Slider used to  control the label size setting in the Survey123 field  app now displays correctly in Android devices BUG-000104998 Attempting to modify and resubmit a survey using the Survey123 for ArcGIS field app returns the following message, "Code 1000. Must declare the scalar variable '@ObjectId'." BUG-000105055 Unable to send edits to service from Survey123 for ArcGIS Inbox if the OBJECTID or GLOBALID field contains capital letters. Next Steps Our next release is planned for late August or early September. Our focus continues to be focusing on quality improvements as well as: Adding support for feature updates on surveys with repeats Delivering a setup experience for the Survey123 website and Survey123 API We update  our builds  of Survey123 in the Early Adopter  Program nearly every Friday, in case that you want to test new features coming up. For more details on What is New in this, and prior releases, check out our What is New help topic. ... View more

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Between 24 April 1895 and 27 June 1898, Slocum, aboard the Spray, crossed the Atlantic twice, negotiated the Strait of Magellan, and crossed the Pacific. He also visited Australia and South Africa before crossing the Atlantic (for the third time) to return to Massachusetts after a journey of 46,000 miles. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone and we devote this release to him, his journey and wonderful book. Here are the highlights for this update: Critical Fixes and Enhancements Survey123 field app and Connect: BUG-000105552: This bug caused the autocomplete appearance to stop working and prevent submits on select_one questions with a choice_filter set. In other words, autocomplete would no longer work on cascading selects.  This bug was a regression introduced in version 2.1 and now fixed in 2.2. BUG-000103217: This software defect caused the Survey123 field app to hang when attempting to submit data to a survey if the logged-in user had been revoked permissions to access the underlying survey's feature layer. In version 2.2, the Survey123 field app will report a descriptive error message when this situation is encountered. ENH-000104223: This enhancement was submitted to request a x86 compatible  version of Survey123 for Android devices that require it. As of this version, a x86 build of Survey123 will be installed automatically to x86 devices. Android: Photos taken with the Survey123 camera on OPPO F1 Android Phones are now of better quality. iOS: Addressed issues preventing links included within a survey to launch other Esri apps such as Navigator, Trek2There and Explorer for ArcGIS. You can download the latest version of Survey123 Connect and the Field app from our Survey123 Download page.                              Survey123 website: BUG-000105700: This bug prevented logins via SAML into the Survey123 website. Problems have been resolved for Chrome and Firefox. Internet Explorer and Edge will need to wait until our 2.3 release. It is always recommended you clear  your browser cache to make sure you get the latest updates on the survey123 website.                              Survey123 configurations from Esri Solutions This update coincides with four new ArcGIS for Local Government Esri Solutions configurations using Survey123: Homeless Point-In-Time Counts: Homeless Point-in-Time Counts is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS that can be used by health and human service agencies and their network of volunteers to conduct sheltered and unsheltered homeless surveys. Homeless Activity Reporter: Homeless Activity Reporter is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS that can be used by the general public and engaged organizations to report the location of homeless individuals and encampments in the community. Drug Activity Reporter: Drug Activity Reporter is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS, Crowdsource Manager, and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS that can be used by the general public to report suspected drug activity in a community. Drug Activity Reporter helps law enforcement agencies work hand-in-hand with the public to fight crime and neighborhood disorder. Naxolone Deployment Reporter: Naloxone Deployment Reporter is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS that can be used by public safety staff to inventory where naloxone was used to treat an opioid overdose during an emergency incident. All the configurations above have also been made available in Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS under the Community surveys. New Decimal Date Time Format As described in the https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/04/17/dates-and-time-in-survey123-for-arcgis blog post, you can manipulate date and time objects in Survey123 working with their EPOCH representation, also known as Unix Time. Starting with this release, you can also work with Dates using the Decimal Date time format, also known as  French Revolutionary Time. We initially incorporated support for Date and Time handling via EPOCH format because that is how DateTime objects are encoded in ArcGIS. Other products out there using the XLSForms specification work with Decimal Date time, so we decided to bring support for this format as well.  The new Decimal Time format will be of your interest if you want surveys authored in Survey123 Connect to work in a web browser.  Our next-generation Web Form engine, which we plan on making available this summer will support surveys authored in Survey123 Connect, but it will expect you to define DateTime calculations using the Decimal format. Just to be clear, your existing EPOCH calculations will continue to work as usual in the Survey123 field app. Now, if you want in the future to have your Connect surveys also work within a web browser you will want to consider a change to French Revolutionary Time. In truth, this change should be absolutely irrelevant to most of the surveys you may have authored. Using either EPOCH or Decimal Date calculations is only necessary in a handful of situations. For example: You want to calculate a date in the future or in the past You want to calculate the time elapsed between two dates You want to take a birthday date and calculate the age of a person etc For the most common uses of Date and Time objects in Survey123, you do not need  to do any EPOCH or Decimal Date Time calculations.  For example: Set the default of a question to today's date Validate that the user is providing a date in the past or the future Ensure that a date is before  or  after another date etc For those of you that you will be using Decimal Date Time calculations, here is a quick guide to time, according to the French: In Decimal Time, dates are always expressed as whole numbers (integers). Calculate a date by simply finding the number of days elapsed since January 1 st 1970.  Dates older than 1970-01-01 are negative and more recent dates are positive. Adjusting for leap years, you can assume that a year on average has 365.25 days. To get the decimal number out of a date or time, you can use the decimal-date-time() function.  This function returns a number that  represents the  time elapsed since January 1st 1970.  The whole part of the number represents the number of days, and the decimal part of it, the remaining portion of the day (according to the French, of course!). A day has 10 hours in Decimal time. An hour has 100 minutes and every minute 100 seconds. Get familiar with equivalencies between the Decimal and the 24 hour-day system: Noon is at 5. 30 minutes are 0.5 hours and 15 minutes are ¼ of an hour. The following table describes what different expressions look like using the EPOCH and Decimal formats: EPOCH Format Decimal Date Format 2 weeks into the future now() + 14*24*60*60*1000 date(decimal-date-time(now()) +  14) Calculate age from birthday int((today() - ${birth_date}) div (1000*24*60*60* 365.25)) int((decimal-date-time(today()) - decimal-date-time(${birth_date})) div 365.25) Minutes spent for lunch int(${LunchEnd} - ${LunchStart}) div (1000*60) int((decimal-date-time(${lunchends}) - decimal-date-time(${lunchstarts})) * 24*60) 15 minutes from now now() + 15*60*1000 date-time(decimal-date-time(now()) +  0.0104166675) In general, if you really have to use Time calculations as in the table above, I would recommend that  you go with Decimal Date Time as opposed to EPOCH milliseconds. The reason is that working in this manner you will  ensure your surveys work in both the native and web flavor of the Survey123 app. You never know when using a web browser may be handy, so getting things done in Decimal Time will prepare you for the web right away.  Of course, you can continue using EPOCH if you feel more  comfortable, but just remember that your calculations will not work on the web in the future. As you play with the new Decimal Date Time format, I also wanted to point you to a couple of resources: Our Decimal Date Time help topic. The Dates&Time survey sample in Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS. Next Steps The next release with functional enhancements will be 2.3 in late July or early August. Some of the features we are working on include:   Next Generation Web Forms: Our goal in 2.3 is to be able to render in a web browser any survey regardless of its  sophistication. At the moment, you can only render surveys in a web browser if you authored them with Web Designer. 2.2 will extend support to surveys authored in Survey123 Connect. Enhanced printing of drill-down reports: At a high level, we want to give you options to make survey reports the way you want. We will let you author report templates in Microsoft Word and have them be used from our Survey123 website reporting tools. On-premises deployments of the Survey123 website:  We want to deliver a solution for those of you who want to deploy Survey123 entirely in your own infrastructure,even if working completely disconnected from the internet. This is at risk for 2.3, but we will share what we have shortly in our Early Adopter web site.   Expanding support for editing with repeats is planned for 2.4, which will most likely come in September. If you are eager to try the above  features and others  planned for the 2.3 release, you can access  them as Beta through our Early Adopter website.   We will continue looking closely at your comments in this GeoNet Group and our Early Adopter Community Website.   Keep your feedback coming! BUG-000103217 ... View more