Latest Contributions by IsmaelChivite

  With the What's new in ArcGIS Survey123 February-March 2022 webinar behind us, we want to share with you the recording, slides, common Q&As and a few links. Recording Slides We hope you liked the webinar. We plan to do similar webinars for upcoming releases. Common questions   Survey123 web designer   It is possible to add calculations to existing surveys? Yes, simply open your existing surveys in the designer and configure your calculations. Can I use any locator with the address question, or just the Esri World Geocoding service? You can use any locator and locator view.  Make sure your locator is shared accordingly. For example, if your survey is shared with everyone, web maps and locators used by your survey should also be shared with everyone.  If you decide to share your survey just with groups within your organization, make sure that your web maps and locators are also shared with those groups. Will the address question consume credits?  It will if you use the Esri World Geocoding service and you also decide to store the address as a point. Otherwise, it does not consume credits. Can I enable image markup tools for photo questions in the Survey123 designer? Not at this moment. Markup tools can only be configured trough Survey123 Connect. Can I share a survey created in the Survey123 designer with the general public? Yes. Once you are happy with your survey, publish it. Then, go to the Collaborate tab and share it with everyone.  At that point, you can include your survey link or QR code in social media, public websites, etc. I have installed the Survey123 web designer locally. When an update to the installer will be available? We typically wait a couple of weeks before making the installer available. Stay tuned, we will release it in a couple of weeks. I want to query a polygon layer using the user provided location to calculate values in my Survey123 form. Is this possible with the web designer? We are working towards enabling this in Survey123 designer, but as of this date, it is not possible. Survey123 field app   Can I use custom annotation palettes with version 3.13 of the field app? Yes, but we recommend using the latest version of the field app whenever possible. How is the Overview folder different from the Sent folder? The Overview folder is designed to help end users visualize all survey records in the device. That is, records from the Drafts, Outbox, Inbox and Sent folders. Records  are displayed as a list, and in a map.  Additionally, you can also use the Overview to create a new survey at a particular location using a map. The Sent folder helps end users understand what records they have already sent to ArcGIS. The author of the survey can allow end users to open and edit already sent records.  Does the Overview work offline? Yes. How do I enable the Overview? In Survey123 Connect, open your survey and go to the Options tab. You will find an option to enable/disable the Overview.   Survey123 Connect   What is the reason why you added support for press-to-locate? The default behavior of geopoint questions makes Survey123 set the value of the geopoint when the form load using the current user location. This works in many scenarios, but not always. For example, say a Survey123 user opens the form in the office and leaves the form open. Once in the field, the user brings up Survey123 again and starts completing the form. Since the form was initialized in the office, the geopoint question is already set to the location of the office, which is incorrect. The press-to-locate appearance allows you to leave the map question without a value. Only when the user interacts with the question, the location of the user is collected.   In most cases, you want to combine the press-to-locate appearance with a required geopoint question.   I liked the new options added in Survey123 designer to control the behavior of the map, how can I model these different options in Survey123 Connect? Start the map centered at a extent of my choice but with an empty value: Use the Map tab to set the initial extent of the map In your survey worksheet set the default column to null for your geopoint question Set a default value for the geopoint question: Set the coordinates using the default colum of your geopoint question Use the location of the user when the form loads to center the map and set its value: In the survey worksheet, add a geopoint question leaving the default column empty Leave the map question without a value until the user touches the question. At that point, get the user's location to center the map and set its value: Add a geopoint question and set its appearance to press-to-locate Can I use pulldata("@layer") without an ArcGIS account? Yes, pulldata("@layer") can be used in public surveys. Respondents are not required to login for this function to work. Why pulldata("@layer") does not work in Connect?  pulldata("@layer") is currently in Beta and not fully implemented. As of today, it only works in the Survey123 web application. You will need to include your pulldata("@layer") expressions in your XLSForm, publish and test in the web app.  Support in Connect and the Field app is planned for July 2022.   How can I configure my maps to work offline? Check Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Configuring survey maps or this help topic. Is it possible to set a custom label for the Collect, Inbox and Overview options in the Survey123 field app? Not at the moment. Kudo this Survey123 Idea and add your commnents in it to raise its priority. Can I have my domain lists updated in the feature layer when I change my XLSForm choice list in Survey123 Connect? This is a strong candidate for 2022. Stay tuned as we make progress with this Survey123 Idea. In the Survey123 Connect gallery, the name of my surveys is cutoff. Please add tooltips or some other way to see the full name of the survey? This is a great suggestion. Thanks for bringing this up. Do I need to back-up my surveys before upgrading Survey123 Connect? No. Even is you uninstall Survey123 Connect, your surveys will not be lost. Published surveys are kept in your ArcGIS account (ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise). Non-published surveys are kept in your local computer stored under your user's directory.   ... View more

  Focused fixes are at the heart of the March 2022 update, although we also managed to squeeze  in some new features! Here are the highlights:   Survey123 web designer   With the Survey123 web designer you can visually create your own smart forms, right from a web browser. In this update we added two new enhancements: Address question type now supports 'Do not submit answer'. The 'Do not submit answer' option allows you to configure questions in your form to collect information from the user, without storing it in ArcGIS.  The Address question type now supports this option.   Why would this be useful? Consider a situation where you want respondents to enter the location of an event, but for privacy reasons you do not want to store the exact location. You can now present an address question to the user and configure it to not submit the answer. Using a calculation in another question, you can extract the postal code and city from the entered address. When the survey is submitted, the city and postal code will be stored, but not the actual address. Single choice and Dropdown question types now support 'Hide from survey'. The 'Hide from survey' option helps you add a new question to your form and hide it from the user. Typically, this option is used when you want to calculate a value without distracting the respondent. For example, in the scenario described above, the City and Postal Code questions are automatically calculated, but their values are hidden to the respondent. Starting with this update, Single choice and Dropdown question types now support 'Hide from survey'. In the screenshot above, I added a Single choice question type. Note that I set its default value to 'Submitted' and I also enabled the 'Hide from survey' option. In this way, every time the survey is sent, we get a value of 'Submitted' in the Status field. Respondents will not see the status or be able to modify it, since the question is hidden. The Status values will be useful later, when following-up on data submitted. Since the Status field has three possible values (Submitted, In progress and Closed), data reviewers will be able to easily change the status of records right from within the Survey123 website or a custom web application built with Experience Builder.   Survey123 web app   New URL parameter: ?hide=leaveDialog As you may already know, the Survey123 web application supports a number of URL parameters that you can use to control the behavior of your web form. For any newly published survey, you can now use ?hide=leaveDialog. This parameter will prevent web browsers from prompting the end user with a confirmation dialog when they are redirected to a different URL without having completed the survey.    This parameter will give you extra control in scenarios where you want to redirect users to other web pages, or when you include a link in your survey to change the language of the form. Note: For hide=leaveDialog to work on existing surveys, you need to republish your survey using the latest version of the web designer or Survey123 Connect. pulldata("@layer") in beta Some users have requested the ability to query layers (spatial and/or attribute queries) without the need to use a custom JavaScript function. In this update, and only for the Survey123 web app, we added support for a couple of XLSForm functions: pulldata("@layer","getRecord") pulldata("@layer","getRecordAt") These functions will help you perform point-in-polygon and attribute queries within your form logic. Here are a couple of examples where these functions could be handy: In this form, I use a point-in-polygon query in a question constraint to make sure no incidents outside the boundaries on the United States are submitted. In this form, I use a point-in-polygon query to automatically calculate the UTC offset for the location you submit. The pulldata("@layer") functions are in beta. You will need to use Survey123 Connect to author forms with this capability and the functions will currently only work in the Survey123 web app. Survey123 Connect and the field app will ignore pulldata("@layer") for now. For more details and to provide feedback, refer to the Survey123 Early Adopter Community. Work with CSV data in Survey123 video   Fixes   Survey123 field app BUG-000147388 Prepopulating answers through a custom URL doesn’t work in Survey123 Field App when the questions have a relevant statement BUG-000137679 ArcGIS Survey123 3.11 field app opens the inbox instead of an individual form when the query parameter is used in the custom URL BUG-000136995 Opening a survey via a QR code on a recent Android device using the stock camera app fails BUG-000137186 The ArcGIS Survey123 field app (Android) is unable to enter a phone number in a field with an input mask of (999-999-9999) BUG-000143984 The Microsoft Power Automate webhook does not trigger if the survey is edited and submitted from an inbox Press-to-locate appearance is now supported in the field app for geopoint questions. This appearance will recenter the map when the respondent interacts with the map question. Survey123 web app BUG-000143259 The ArcGIS Survey123 web app does not recalculate the horizontal accuracy of a manually edited location in a geopoint question BUG-000129577 The read-only Date question field type can be edited in Survey123 on Safari on iOS devices BUG-000139766 The '?mode=edit&globalId=' parameter does not work when using basemaps with the ETRS1989UTM32 or UTM33 coordinate systems Survey123 website BUG-000143505 Filtering survey submissions in ArcGIS Survey123 website based on a select_multiple question does not load the choices in the drop-down list when the 'is' or 'is not' operator is used BUG-000145589 Unable to share results from the ArcGIS Survey123 website hosted on a virtual machine   Learn more and next steps   As usual, you can find more information in our What's New documentation.  Our plan is to release a new update with fixes before the end of April and new features in our May-June release.  There is tons of new exciting features for Survey123 coming up this year, including: Support for location tracking in the Survey123 field app Floor-aware smart forms and support for ArcGIS Indors and IPS Integration with RFID readers and more laser range finders Captcha for web surveys And much more! . Check the latest through the Survey123 Early Adopter website! ... View more

  The ArcGIS QuickCapture mobile app has just been updated in the Apple, Google Play and Microsoft app stores.  Highlights include: Enhanced location tracking capabilities Show map immediately after data capture  Share location coordinates  Other enhancements Do you want a quick overview? Check this 3 minute video. If you want more details, read below!   Enhanced location tracking capabilities   Location tracking is an organization-wide extension. It allows you to record where users are and where they have been. In 2021 we added support for location tracking in ArcGIS QuickCapture. It is also available today in Field Maps, and soon in ArcGIS Survey123.  Whatever ArcGIS mobile app people use, we want to make sure you can leverage location tracking! This release includes a couple of key enhancements: Collect the last known location only   Ordinarily, location tracking will allow you to monitor the last known location of users, as well as log where they have been. In some workflows, you just need to know where people are. With this update, you can now configure your QuickCapture project to collect just the last known location.   Why would you want to disable the collection of location tracks? As a general rule, you should not collect more information than you need. In many workflows collecting location tracks is of great value, but sometimes you just need to monitor last known locations.  By disabling location tracks you will reduce network bandwidth requirements and lower load on the back-end infrastructure.   Thematically render your location tracking data   Did you know that location tracking layers include a category field?  With this update, you can choose what information to store in it. This is useful because the category field can help you thematically render your location tracking data.  For example, you can use different colors to represent tracks based on team, or activity. In the QuickCapture designer, you will now find a new option to specify what value should go into the category field. Select between a fixed value, device variable or project user input.     Show map immediately after data capture   It is not news that within QuickCapture you can use a map to adjust the location of any observations you made. Right after a feature is collected, QuickCapture temporarily shows a toolbar so you can delete or update your last observation. In this release you can have the map appear immediately after a feature is collected, and without user intervention. This is useful because in some workflows the features you collect may not be be located exactly where you are.   You can choose what buttons within your project will always open a map. Similarly, you can also choose what specific instructions will be presented to the end user when the map opens. For example, 'Use this map to locate your observation exactly on top of the building'.   Share location coordinates (including USNG)   Of course you can always use location tracking to share with others where you are, but sometimes, you need to share your coordinates over the radio, or over a text message. This is of particular importance to emergency response teams, for example. Starting with this release, as shown below, you can share your location coordinates with others by simply tapping on the bottom of the app.   As the author of the QuickCapture project you can configure what coordinate notation should be used. You may want to choose USNG, or MGRS, decimal degrees, etc. All these options are available in QuickCapture designer. Simply go to the project settings dialog.   Other enhancements   New Conservation template When working in side by side view, you can now adjust the size of the map and data collection button dialog New device variables: activity type (stationary, walking, cycling, driving...) , logged-in user information (first name, last name, full name and email) More icons in the designer gallery Various performance and stability improvements   ... View more