Latest Contributions by IsmaelChivite

‎01-12-2016

Hi Joseph, an update to the Apple store with a fix for the Map Preview Not available issue has been submitted. We expect this update to be approved by Apple in the next few days. We estimate it will be available the week of January 18. Thanks.

‎01-08-2016

Hi Joseph, yes, this is an issue we have been able to reproduce on iOS. The map control is unable to fetch map tiles from online services. Works fine with offline tpks. We are looking into it and will try to address as soon as possible.

‎12-14-2015

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‎12-10-2015

Hi, the login dialog in Survey123 is case sensitive. Login into ArcGIS Online, go into your profile and take note of the exact capitalization used in your username. Note: we are working on implementing OAuth in Survey123 for ArcGIS. Once we have that in place the login dialog will no longer be case sensitive. Ismael

‎12-10-2015

Hi Shane, a good starting point is the Download Package Sample included with AppStudio for ArcGIS. Here is how you can find it: Open AppStudio for ArcGIS Desktop Edition Login with your ArcGIS Online credentials Expand the Search (top-right corner) and expand the Groups section Check the Sample Apps Group Download the Internal Package and Download TPK samples To run the samples, simply double click on them on your Desktop. Download TPK: When the app starts, it checks to see if a TPK is stored locally. If not, it reaches out to ArcGIS Online and downloads the TPK. Once the TPK is local, it is added to the map. At the moment, you can go offline and use the map. I like this sample because it shows how you can separate the app and the TPK, allowing for easy updates to your TPK without having to touch the app. The sample can be modified to have the app download the package again if the date in ArcGIS Online is newer than the local file. Internal Package: This sample embeds the TPK with your app To open the source code, simply select the sample in the gallery, and push the Qt Creator button. To run the app from within Creator do a Alt-Shift-R. Hope it helps. Ismael

‎12-04-2015

Hi Joseph, we are working on improving the performance issues but will not have any updates on this until Feb 15. If you share the Form with us we will certainly use it to validate our progress with the performance improvements.

‎12-03-2015

Hi Doug, Starting with Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS v 1.1.30, we have changed the publishing workflow to ensure the feature service is always in sync with your questionnaire. In this manner, if you add, delete or modify questions or anything in the choices list you will always have a matching feature service. I would suggest you install the latest version of Survey123 Connect. Now, it is important you understand how your feature service is kept in sync when you publish. In fact, as of 1.1.30 every time you publish (or re-publish) a new feature service is created, and the old one is deleted. This means that if you had any data in your feature service you will lose it. Typically, re-publishing a survey is something you will do frequently until you are happy with it, but make sure you do not re-publish once you have shared the survey with people in the field. Sharing your survey and having people submitting data to it is a point of no return. If you really need to change the survey once people have submitted data to it, it is best to create another version of the survey and ask people to delete the one they had and start submitting to the new one. Finally: 1) If you ever get into a situation where publishing fails due to the existence of a folder with the same name, you will need to log into ArcGIS.com or your Portal for ArcGIS, go to your contents and manually delete the entire folder for your survey. This may happen occasionally. 2) version 1.1.30 has a software defect that causes the survey folder to be called 'survey123-undefined' when you publish a survey for the very first time. If you publish a second time, then the folder will be named appropriately. We will fix this in the next few days.

‎11-26-2015

Hi Michael, I do not quite understand how the text in your label columns could in any way get stored as responses in your feature service. May be I did not understand your question correctly. In any event, I will try to explain how things are supposed to work: - You use the label columns to define the text as it will appear in the form to the end-user. The labels apply to the questions, as well as the choices in pick lists. Labels do not define what will get stored (the responses), but rather how questions and choices will be presented to the user. - The responses, which will get persisted in your feature service come strictly from user input. For example, if the user types a response in Spanish, that exact text will be stored in your feature service. In the case of choices (select one), you will ultimately define what gets stored through the name column in the choices worksheet. It really does not matter what language is used to display the choices... the value in the name column is what will ultimately get stored. And now that I write this and think about it... I think I know where you are going... If what you mean is that the domains in your feature service are persisting the descriptions in Creole, then we can find an explanation: - Geodatabase domains only support one language, which means that Connect will need to pick a default language in your Form and use it to set the description of your coded value domains. Just to be clear, the coded values should always come from the name column in your worksheet, not from the label. In your particular survey, all of your label columns are qualified with a language descriptor. For example, you have label::Spanish, label::creole, label::English. If you would like to force a default language in the geodatabase domain for English, then remove the qualifier in label::English and leave it as simply label. In this manner you will ensure Survey123 Connect picks your English strings for the domain. This will have a negative effect in the end-user experience in that the language drop-down in the app will now say 'default' as opposed to 'English'. And after a second paragraph... it seems like we are closer to the root problem... This begs the question: why the default language in my settings worksheet is not used to set the descriptions in my domains? And that is a great question... on which we need to do some research. It took me a while. Sorry about the long read but I hope it can help find some logic to all of this.

‎11-23-2015

Hi Michael, I am looking at your Parking Survey. We are planning to address the slow loading time in February 15. I understand that is too late for you. Let me look and see if we can optimize your form in any manner or look for an alternative solution. I will get back to you. Ismael

‎11-20-2015

Hi, there have been multiple requests from people asking us to create a tool to create a survey on top of an existing feature service from ArcGIS for Server. Have a look at this issue in our public repo and add a comment if you want to promote the idea At the moment, we do not have a straight-forward solution to this, although it is technically possible. You just need to be extremely careful to make sure the questions in your Survey match the fields in your feature service. What comes next is for you to experiment at your own risk 1) Publish your versioned featureclass as a feature service and enable write permissions in it 2) Publish a a survey where your questions match the featurelayer in the service. To do this properly, you really will want to read the Mapping XLSForm questions into ArcGIS Feature Service fields blog post. It is OK to have more fields in your feature layer than in the survey, but every question in your survey should match a field in your featurelayer. Make sure the name and compatible field type match properly. If you have domains, you will want to create the corresponding choice lists in the survey. 3) In ArcGIS.com (or Portal for ArcGIS, if you are using Portal for ArcGIS), go into your Contents and look for your Survey folder. In it you will find a Code Sample item. Download it locally and open the .info file. Find in there the URL of the feature service that Connect created automatically and replace it with the URL of your feature service. 4) Upload the zip file back into the Code Sample item 5) Download the survey into your mobile device, cross your fingers and try submitting an entry... Just a few additional notes: This will work well if your ArcGIS for Server service is NOT secured. Feature services on versioned featureclasses are significantly less performing than non-versioned featureclasses. I hope this makes sense.

‎11-20-2015

Survey123 for ArcGIS is no longer an Esri Labs project. We have transitioned Survey123 for ArcGIS into Beta. With this move, Esri commits to fully productize Survey123, adding it into the core suite of apps included with ArcGIS. This means full localization, documentation, Esri Technical Support, formal Training from Esri Educational Services as well as a Product Life Cycle statement. It also means a much tighter integration with the rest of ArcGIS including Portal for ArcGIS, other apps, content etc All of this will happen progressively, starting today with a Beta and with a plan to release in the first half of 2016. We have still a long way to go, but we are pleased to announce to you that Survey123 for ArcGIS is here to grow and stay, with full commitment from Esri. Thanks to all of you that during our Esri Labs journey helped us with your feedback! Today, we also want to look in retrospect at what we have learned during our time in the 'lab': First, we wanted to experiment with the idea that a form-centric approach for capturing data in the field made a lot of sense, even in the context of the ArcGIS platform. Over the past few months, we have been able to validate that the majority of field data capture projects do not have a map at their heart, but forms. We have learned that building forms, just like building maps, is an art: so much to learn! The experiment turned out great, proving that Smart Forms are a great way to capture data in ArcGIS. In the lab we wanted to play with the idea of reversing the traditional way of building projects in ArcGIS. The traditional way is bottom-up, where you first think about the data model, and then the map and the the app that will support it. With Survey123 for ArcGIS, you think about the questions and the logic you want to put into your app, and leave it to the software to create the data model for you. You don't need to worry about domains, subtypes, attachments or related tables. This is essentially what Survey123 Connect for ArcGIS does: it transforms your questions and logic into a survey, connected to an ArcGIS feature service, with the full support of the ArcGIS platform at the back end. This experiment also brought good news: a whole new group of people, with little to no GIS skills were able to setup complete data collection workflows in ArcGIS. With Survey123 for ArcGIS, we wanted to try technology that would enable us to release an app simultaneously on as many platforms as possible. So far, Survey123 is supported on smartphones and tablets (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) as well as desktop platforms (Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux). We achieved this by building Survey123 for ArcGIS on top of AppStudio for ArcGIS: a cross-platform development environment for building GIS applications. AppStudio for ArcGIS has its foundation in technology from a cute company called Qt. Without AppStudio for ArcGIS and the underlying Qt framework, we would not be here today. Such an amazing technology! There are other lessons we have learned from our time in the 'lab'. Since our initial launch in May 2015, we have released an update every month. Some bigger than others, but always trying to resolve the issues you have been encountering. What we learned is that updating frequently and across all platforms is not just a good thing, but it is expected. Releasing often is something that we have enjoyed and want to keep doing as we move forward. The best of our Lab journey has been the fast paced, community-driven development that happened. We want to keep that spirit. We are more excited than ever about Survey123 for ArcGIS! Take Survey123 for ArcGIS into the field, use it, give us feedback and together we will build great things. Next update coming around December 15: OAuth support, a first cut for offline basemap support and miscellaneous fixes. The Survey123 for ArcGIS team.

‎11-15-2015

Thanks Ronald for pointing out the need for an out of the box geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS to export attachments from a featureclass. Please feel free to vote and comment here too: ArcGIS Idea - Batch attachment export Our friends from Esri Technical support also pointed me to this KB article: 41763 - Batch export attachments from a feature class

‎11-09-2015

[Updated February 8, 2022 to reference a Python script that downloads survey data with attachments] In this blog post I will describe how you can download data captured with Survey123. There are three basic scenarios where downloading your survey data is useful: Analysis in third party tools: Stata, SPSS, SAS, Tableau or Microsoft Excel are just some examples of the many tools out there that people use to analyze data. You can download data captured with Survey123 for ArcGIS in formats that these tools understand such as CSV. You can also download your data in shapefile and FileGeodatabase format in case you want to use GIS tools compatible with these formats. Back-up: Download the data you capture to have an extra copy. Just in case! Enterprise integration: Download your data so you can load it into your own database (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle etc) or massage it before you bring it over into your own enterprise system. I will describe a few different techniques to download your data: Manually downloading your data from survey123.arcgis.com The easiest way to download your data is using the http://survey123.arcgis.com web site: Log into http://survey123.arcgis.com with your ArcGIS credentials In the Survey gallery, click on your Survey and go to the Data tab Scroll down, select the output format you want (CSV, Excel, Shapefile or File Geodatabase) and download your data. Manually downloading your data from ArcGIS Log into your ArcGIS organization and go to Content. For every survey you have published, you will find a folder and within it, a Feature Layer. Open the details page of the Feature Layer and select Export Data. [Updated February 8, 2022. Included link to Python script to download data and attachments] Downloading data manually as described above is fine except when you want to: Download data at regular intervals. Scripting is the way to go if you want to regularly download your survey data. A classic example is when you want to pull data from ArcGIS daily, or hourly, into your own database for further analysis or QA/QC workflows. Download attachments in their raw format (as opposed to embedded within a File Geodatabase) Downloading your data with Python The Survey123 developer documentation includes a Python script that illustrates how to download data. This script can be scheduled to run at regular intervals using ArcGIS Pro tools. The script also is useful if you want to download all attachments locally. If you are new to Python, I recommend you follow the step by step instructions in this blog post.

‎11-09-2015

Hi Jarom: Issues previewing your Survey results in the map: This is a software defect. We are planning an update to the web site on November 17 to address this. In the meantime, you will need to open the Survey Feature Service in ArcGIS.com. Go into your Contents, then search for your Survey folder, and add the feature service directly into a new map. Attachments: You should be able to see the attachments as links in your popup in ArcGIS.com. If you do not see the links, try adding the Feature Service into a new Map. Exports: Please also wait for the November 17 update. Thanks, Ismael

‎11-09-2015

Hi Daniel, not your fault! The survey loading time has increased since we updated to v 18. We are working on getting this back in track. Ismael

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