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  The May 2022 update to ArcGIS Survey123 is now available. This release includes focused fixes and exciting new features in the Survey123 web designer and XLSForm support.  Read on to learn what’s new! Survey123 web designer   With the ArcGIS Survey123 web designer you can easily create forms, right from a web browser. No code skills are necessary: drag and drop questions into your design and visually configure the look and feel and behavior of your form. Once published, you can share your forms for use from the Survey123 web, mobile and desktop apps. Minimum map zoom level for drawing tools A new option in the map question type allows you to specify the minimum zoom level required before the drawing tools are active. This is useful when you want to make sure respondents zoom-in close enough before they set a location or draw on the map. The minimum map zoom level is specifically designed for web surveys. It will not be honored in the field app.   Calculation enhancements Using a calculation, you can populate questions in your survey using data previously entered by the respondent. With this update, calculations can also help you gather information about the signed-in user (first and last name, username and email) and the client (user agent) used to complete the form. When collecting this type of information, you will typically want to hide your calculated questions from the user's view. Choose the 'Hide from survey ' option in your question configuration.   Style survey links in social media (in Beta) Social media is a great way to give your public surveys more visibility. Starting with this update, Survey123 now supports the Open Graph protocol. This allows social media sites to retrieve your survey’s thumbnail and description so an eye-catching social media link card can be automatically created. As shown in the animation above, you can now quickly set the title, description, and thumbnail of your survey right from within the Survey123 web designer. Creating more attractive links in social media has never been easier!  At the moment, this feature is in Beta although we have made it available for you so you can start trying it out.   Accessible PDF output (PDF/A) Starting with this release, the Survey123 report service generates PDF/A outputs.   Survey123 Connect and XLSForm   Survey123 Connect is an advanced smart form authoring desktop tool. When using Survey123 Connect you define the questions, behavior and look and feel of your form using an XLSForm document. Connect will help you preview and test your survey before publishing, and also work with advanced Survey123 capabilities such as offline maps, multilingual surveys, editing workflows, custom JavaScript functions, and more. Extended pulldata("@property") function The pulldata("@property") function is not new, but this update adds some additional options to help you gather information about the device and user collecting data. New properties include: User information: The username property retrieves the ArcGIS username used to complete a form. You can also now also retrieve the user’s email and first and last names, as well as their full name. Device, app and survey information: New properties include OS (operating system), deviceModel, appVersion, surveyName, and userAgent. Use these properties to learn more about the device, Survey123 application and survey used to submit data into ArcGIS. You can check out all the supported properties in the Device and user properties help topic. Return Easting and Northing UTM values with submeter precision You can now extract UTM Northing and Easting values to centimeter precision. The syntax looks like this, where 0.01 represents the desired precision: pulldata("@geopoint", ${location}, "UTM.easting", 0.01) Returns UTM easting with centimeter precision pulldata("@geopoint", ${location}, "UTM.easting", 1) Returns UTM easting with meter precision Minimum map zoom level to capture geometry Using the minCaptureZoomLevel property in the body::esri:style column of a geopoint, geoshape or geotrace question, you can define the map zoom level at which the drawing tools will become available. This is useful when you want end users to zoom in close enough before they can start defining the location or shape of an event in the map. This property is only honored by the Survey123 web app. Additions to the Survey123 Connect community design gallery Survey123 Connect includes a live collection of survey designs shared by the Survey123 community.  These Community designs can be used as inspiration for your own designs or as a starting point. New designs included with this update: Job Safety Observations: Use it to document at-risk behaviors on a work site. This survey demonstrates the use of groups, the table-list appearance and how to dynamically score and summarize data entered in the survey using HTML. FDA Food Inspection Form: This design is inspired in the US FDA Form 3-A Food Establishment Report template. Grid layout, dynamic scoring and the text geocode appearance are used in this design. Gas Technology Institute: GTI has made available 25 new designs that can be used by natural gas utilities to collect, report and share authoritative information internally to oversee field operations. You can find more information about all their designs in the GTI/OT Gas Survey123 Gallery. Fixes   BUG-000148749 Images in Survey 123 field app doesn’t show up intermittently while it is seen in Survey 123 website BUG-000148675 Polygons shift after ending the edit session of a map question in ArcGIS Survey 123 App on Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 BUG-000147370 Unable to edit submitted records of a survey form created from the ArcGIS Survey123 website in the ArcGIS Survey123 Field app after updating to the latest version BUG-000148477 ArcGIS Survey123 field app for iOS crashes periodically when selecting images from the attached image gallery if there is a large number of images attached to the survey BUG-000147381 Unable to update a hosted feature layer view to include newly added fields when the parent hosted feature layer is created with ArcGIS Survey123 Connect ENH-000143506 Requesting the ability to load decimal values for UTM coordinates obtained using the pulldata(@geopoint) function for Survey123 forms in the ArcGIS Survey123 mobile app   What’s coming next   This is the last planned update to version 3.14. With the June update the build numbers will be increased to 3.15 and it will be followed with a first update before the Esri UC 2022 in July.  Some of the 3.15 features in the works include: CAPTCHA support for web surveys. Set the filename of signature, audio, and photo files using an XLSForm expression. Optimizations to the audio question type to help you record longer audio files. pulldata("@layer"): A new XLSForm function to help you query feature layers and tables without requiring the use of custom JavaScript functions. New streaming tools for the Survey123 field app. The above and more features  are available for beta testing through our Survey123 Early Adopter website. You should also be aware of the following: 3.14 will be the last release with support for Windows 32 bit operating system. This was announced in May 2021, but since 3.15 is coming soon, I thought I would bring it up again. As stated in this deprecation notice, we will stop support for Android 6 and Android 7 sometime in 2023. 2023 looks far away, but it will be with us before we know. Plan accordingly! The exact date when support will stop is not clear. Stay tuned.             ... View more

  The Esri Developer Summit 2022 proceedings are now available: Over 150 technical workshop recordings with their slides. To access this content you can use the same account you already use to participate in Esri Community. Links to Survey123 sessions: ArcGIS Survey123: Intro and what's new ArcGIS Survey123: Advanced XLSForm design ArcGIS Survey123: Modelling routine inspection workflows ArcGIS Survey123: Reports ArcGIS Survey123: Workflow automation ... View more

  We just made available a Beta version of the Survey123 June 2022 (build 3.15) update in the Early Adopter website. Our plan is to release this work before the end of June.  Take this opportunity to try new features, validate that your existing surveys work well and provide your feedback.  Here are the highlights:   CAPTCHA support for web surveys The Beta version of Survey123 allows you to enable a CAPTCHA test in web surveys. CAPTCHA determines whether data is being submitted by a person or a spam robot. If you are using the Survey123 web designer, the Beta version will let you turn on CAPTCHA with a simple click as shown below: You will also note that the panel of question types in the web designer is now better organized. We hope this will help you find the question type you are looking for more easily! If authoring a form using Survey123 Connect, you can also add a CAPTCHA test. Check this Early Adopter article for details.   Styled survey social media cards If you plan to promote a public survey through social media, make sure you check this one out. In any social media platform supporting the OpenGraph standard, survey cards will display your survey thumbnail and description. Take advantage of this to make your survey links look better. A good looking survey card is likely to get more clicks, and that means more data for you. You can change the thumbnail and description of your survey from the Survey123 designer or Connect. Then, you need to simply copy the full URL (no the shortened URL) of your survey into your social media platform and the card will be created automatically. Twitter, Microsoft Teams, Facebook and LinkedIn are some of the platforms we are testing. If something is not quite working for you with the Beta, we would love to hear through the Early Adopter forums.       Use an XLSForm expression to set the file name of photos and signatures This one is in response to the Set default photo name in Survey123 ArcGIS Idea. In the screenshot below, you can see how we propose the filename of a photo is set:    You can apply a similar technique to signatures. For example, you can concatenate the name and last name of the person signing and set the filename of the signature that way.  As of now, in Beta, only Connect and the field app support this feature. Check out this Early Adopter article for more details.   New pulldata() properties The pulldata("@property") function allows survey authors to extract device and user properties that provide additional information about how survey responses are collected. You can for example retrieve, the ArcGIS account name currently signed in, the email associated with that account, the time zone of the user, the language of the form, etc. We're expanding the list of properties to include nine more: pulldata("@property", 'userFullName') The user's full name pulldata("@property", 'userFirstName') The user's first name pulldata("@property", 'userLastName') The user's last name pulldata("@property", 'deviceId') The unique ID for the device (field app only) pulldata("@property", 'deviceModel') The model of the device (field app only) pulldata("@property", 'OS') The device's operating system (field app only) pulldata("@property", 'appVersion') The version of the Survey123 app pulldata("@property", 'surveyName') The name of the survey pulldata("@property", 'userAgent') The user agent string for the user's device   Learn all the details in this Early Adopter article.   New streaming tools for the Survey123 field app In the latest 3.15 beta builds of the Survey123 field app we have made a few improvements to the vertex capture method for geotrace (line) and geoshape (polygon) questions. These improvements include the ability to stream the line or polygon vertices as you move around. This enhancement is a step towards supporting the ability to capture geometry while collecting information for other questions in your survey. However, at this stage it just provides another way to capture geometry in geotrace and geoshape questions. In this Early Adopter topic you will find a sample XLSForm to get you started. Fixes to the Survey123 field app DE-000005423 BUG-000148675 Polygons shift after ending the edit session of a map question. DE-000005422 BUG-000148749 Images not loading in Inbox.             ... View more