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The Atascadero Mutual Water Company (AMWC) recently shared their experience using Survey123 for ArcGIS to meet National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements. More information at: http://www.esri.com/~/media/Files/Pdfs/library/casestudies/survey123-amwc.pdf Survey123 for ArcGIS is included with ArcGIS Online subscriptions and ArcGIS Enterprise. Survey123 is a simple, yet powerful form-centric field data collection solution. For more information about this product: Survey123 for ArcGIS product overview Survey123 for ArcGIS quick video tutorials Survey123 for ArcGIS GeoNet Group ... View more

Public surveys are ideal for crowd-sourcing and citizen-science initiatives because an ArcGIS account is not needed to use the survey. Anyone can submit data. Public surveys are also handy when you need to gather information from the public, measure opinions about initiatives, provide the means to report issues, etc. In the following example, you can see how Frederick County, in Maryland, provided a public survey for citizens and businesses to report property damage and loss after a flash flooding event in May 2018.  Public surveys like this can be put together very quickly and help you gather information right away. A public survey can be embedded in a website as you can see, but can also be setup for people to use in the Survey123 field app. This is ideal in situations where participants will contribute to your survey again and again, or while disconnected from the network.  A good scenario may involve a public survey so a group of volunteers can repeatedly report environmental issues found.  The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) chose to make a survey public and encouraged volunteers to download it into the Survey123 app. The New York Department of Environmental Quality offers a logbook so anglers can report stripped bass catches to help protect the fishery.  The logbook was made with a Survey123 made public, which gets downloaded into the Survey123 app.   This is part of the Stripped Bass Cooperative Anglers Program. In the City of Sharon, Pennsylvania, an army of volunteers mapped thousands of houses using a public survey. How to make a survey public? Making a survey public is straight-forward. First go into the survey123.arcgis.com web site and select your survey from the gallery.  Open the Collaborate tab and share the survey with everyone. If the option to share with everyone is not shown, then either permissions to share with Everyone have been revoked from your ArcGIS account, or sharing with Everyone has been disabled in your ArcGIS organization all together. Ask your ArcGIS administrator for details. Sharing your survey with everyone is just a first step. If nobody knows about your survey, nobody will contribute data to it. Keep reading to understand how people can open your public survey. How to promote and open a public survey? From the Collaborate tab, you can easily obtain URLs to open your public survey. You can use the survey URL to create HTML links in your own web site, or include them in e-mails, blogs etc.  Note that you can obtain URLs that will open your survey in a web browser, or alternatively URLs that will automatically open your survey within the field app. Your survey in a web browser: The use of the URLs to open the survey in a web browser is particularly straight-forward: you can embed the link pretty much anywhere, including a tweet, your facebook page... and contributors will not need anything but a web browser to submit data: It will work in desktops, tablets and even smartphones.  The link to open the survey in the Survey123 field app deserves a more detailed explanation. Your survey in the Survey123 field app: First of all, for the Survey123 field app link to work, you want people install first the Survey123 app. In the next screenshot for example you can see how we encourage people though an invitation email to download and install the app first.  You will also observe that the URLs provided from the Collaborate tab have been embedded in the e-mail as HTML links. If you decide to promote your public survey through a web site, you can follow a similar approach: Tell people to download the app first, and then load the survey. Here is an example from the County of San Bernardino, in California. You can also get creative and describe the process through a video, like shown below. It is also important to remember that public surveys can only be open in the Survey123 field app by using the provided link. It is not possible to download public surveys from the Download Gallery. We did this on purpose, because we do not want people to get distracted with random public surveys in the gallery. How to secure data  in a public survey? By definition, a public survey is accessible to anyone who wants to submit data to it, but that does not mean that anyone should be able to look at the data itself. If your public Survey123 form contains sensitive information, you should configure your survey to prevent users in the public domain from downloading, querying or changing already submitted data. If you published your public survey using Survey123 designer check the https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2020/05/11/securing-data-in-public-surveys-survey123-web-designer blog post. If your survey was created in Survey123 Connect, check https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2020/05/11/securing-data-in-public-surveys-survey123-connect . How to track contributions to your public survey? In most crowd-sourcing projects and certainly in citizen-science initiatives, it is important to track who is contributing what. It is important for a couple of reasons: First, to help out curate the data. Second, to recognize the work of the best contributors so they can be recognized and rewarded.    In a typical Survey123 survey, you will always know exactly who is contributing data, when and what data is contributed by whom... as long as they use ArcGIS accounts. In a public survey, however, you are granting permission to anyone to contribute so all of those submitting data without an ArcGIS account will be counted as one: as the general public. It is always possible to include a question in your survey where contributors can provide their identity. The new e-mail question type included with Survey123's Web Designer is perfect for that. You can track the activity of your survey' contributions by using the Survey123 website. The Overview tab will give you key stats: The screenshot above illustrates one of the several ways in which the Survey123 website will help you  understand contributed data. The line chart shows the number of surveys submitted over time. Below a view of the Analyze tab, which summarizes every question added to your survey.  There are multiple options to control how the information will be visually represented (as a bar, pie or column chart as well as maps) as well as filters to display the specific questions and time windows to be summarized. From the Survey123 website you can also download the data of your survey in CSV, Shapefile and FileGeodatabase formats. I got the data I needed. And now what? First of all, you may want to stop accepting data from contributors. Unsharing your survey from the Collaborate  tab is a definitive way to stop incoming contributions while preserving your data for further visualization and analysis. The Survey123 website gives you several options to understand contributed data, but at some point may want to also share the results of your work. I personally like the use of Story Maps, Web AppBuilder and the Configurable Application Templates included with ArcGIS.  All submitted data to a survey is kept in a feature layer, which you can use from any of this apps. This quick video can give  you some ideas to get started. One of my favorites to make  the results of your survey shine is Story Maps.  We hope you enjoy public surveys.  Go play! ... View more

Around 11:30 A.M. on November 7, 1492, a young boy saw a large stone plummet from the sky and land in a wheat field near the town of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. This fall is the earliest one witnessed in the Western world from which meteorite samples have been preserved. Our Survey123 for ArcGIS 1.9 release celebrates the luck of this boy, who was fortunate enough to see the meteorite close… but not too close. As usual, to experience the best out of the newest release you will want to keep your Survey123 components up to date: The build number of Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS is now 1.9.24 and can be downloaded on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux. The latest Survey123 field app is now available in the app stores (Google Play, iTunes, Windows and Amazon) and its build number is 1.9.24 as well. The Survey123 website is all up to date for you, but you will need to clear your browser cache before you can see all the goodies!. Public Surveys: Many of you have been awaiting this one for a long time, so we are particularly proud of announcing that as of Survey123 1.9 you can now share your surveys publicly!  This means people can submit data to your surveys without having to login with an ArcGIS account. This is ideal for crowd-sourcing and citizen science projects where you work with non-sensitive data and where understanding who is submitting what, is not critical. This is our first cut at Public Surveys. We know we need to add some refinements, but we did not want to hold anything for you and get your feedback early. To learn about Public Surveys in more detail you can have a look at this blog post: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/11/10/getting-started-with-public-surveys  Enhancements to the Survey123 website: The Survey123 website can be accessed via survey123.arcgis.com. Through the website, you can create your own surveys, manage who can access them and analyze contributions.  There are three key enhancements in this release of the Survey123 website: You can now share your surveys publicly (as described above) Added support for e-mail type of questions. Analyze and Data tabs now include a date range filter to more easily create reports and understand submitted data. This filter option is quite handy if you want to better understand data captured. Your date filters will also be honored  when you export your survey results in pdf format. Easier sharing of surveys using direct links and QR codes If you cannot see the above changes in the website make sure you clear your browser cache. Survey123 field app, Support for Enterprise Logins: This is the first release of the Survey123 field app that works against ArcGIS organizations setup with Enterprise logins. Support is limited to authentication via SAML providers. Windows Integrated Authentication and PKI authentication are not supported. If you want to use Windows Active Directory credentials to login into Survey123, you will need to configure your ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS to use Enterprise Logins through an ADFS SAML as described in this topic. Survey123 field app, better support for Leica and Juniper Android devices: The Survey123 for ArcGIS field app now runs on Leica Zeno 20 and Juniper Cedar CT7 and CT4 devices. This is great news for organizations who want to use Survey123 with high-end rugged field devices. Previous versions of Survey123 could not run on Zeno 20 and CT's due to specific limitations in the Android 4.1 operating system installed on these devices. To make it easier for users of these devices to download Survey123, we also have published the Survey123 app into the Amazon app store. Survey123 field app, enhancements: Now supports three new appearances: spinner, numbers and calculator. More about these in an upcoming blog post. Other fixes and enhancements.  BUG-000100131    When a cascading select question is set as repeating in a Survey123 for ArcGIS survey, navigating between multiple data points within the question deletes the information from previously answered questions  ENH-000099729    Optional fields that contain response constraints that are left blank restrict users from submitting survey responses in Survey123.  BUG-000099277    In Survey123 for ArcGIS, using the uuid() operator with repeats in a calculation only populates on the first record collected within the repeat.  BUG-000098967    Survey123 Android and iOS - wrong position of the arrow_HE  BUG-000098966    Survey123 for ArcGIS app page is LTR on iOS and Android_HE platforms.  BUG-000098833    In Survey123 for ArcGIS v1.7, answers to cascading selects are removed when a survey is saved as a draft and then reopened.  BUG-000098492    Default date and time values do not auto-populate when using repeats in Survey123 for ArcGIS.  BUG-000098360    When downloading data from a Survery123 survey that was made using Survey123 for ArcGIS Hub, the field names are converted to {field_1}, {field_2}, ... instead of honoring the name in the data table.  BUG-000098205    The Survey123 for ArcGIS app fails to launch on Leica Zeno 20 running the Android 4.2.2 operating system.  BUG-000097678    Enterprise logins do not work for iOS and Android devices in the Survey123 for ArcGIS app.  ENH-000097137    Documentation for Survey123 for ArcGIS Supported Operating systems is unclear as to what is considered a supported configuration  BUG-000096040    MOR_LOC_LT: Truncated string in Settings-Map in Survey123 Connect  BUG-000095634    MOR_I18N: Untranslated Settings tabs in Survey123 for ArcGIS Connect  BUG-000095604    MOR_I18N: Untranslated buttons "Cancel" and "Choose" when browse for Library Folder  BUG-000094990    MOR_I18N: Untranslated buttons "Cancel" and "Choose" when browse for Library Folder in Survey123 for ArcGIS app.  BUG-000094965    MOR_I18N: Untranslated string "Map Library Folder" in Settings  ENH-000093961    Enable auto populating for repeat questions based on the initial entry in Survey123 for ArcGIS app.  ENH-000092045    Add Survey123 for ArcGIS (Android) app to Amazon Marketplace.  ENH-000099729    Constraints are being evaluated against empty fields. What is coming next? We are now working towards our 1.10 release, which we plan to make available before the end of the year.  In this upcoming release our main goal is to: Overhaul our support for submission_url, which at the moment is quite limited. This work in 1.10 is for all of you who want to configure Survey123 smart forms on top of existing ArcGIS feature services. Expand the Collaborate tab in the survey123 web site so you can let specific groups of people look at the Analyze and Data tabs. We have also started work to address a few other big items which will be made available in early 2017: Support for editing workflows Streamlined setup for ArcGIS Enterprise users (setup for on-premises deployments including the survey123 web site) Complete localization of the help and survey123 web site We all hope you enjoy this release. As usual, please keep reporting any issues and successes through the Survey123 GeoNet Group or Esri Technical Support. 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