Latest Contributions by GarrettRSmith

Hello I am working with a point, line, and polygon file given to me by a client that they would like to use as the geographies for three different Survey123 forms that will be used to collect data related to each.  I am following the advice of @DougBrowning outlined in this post: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-questions/mapping-with-survey123-within-a-polygon-or-admin/td-p/836112 I have followed all the steps but am still confused. My confusion is outlined below. When I publish one of the forms from Survey123 connect the Feature Service has a point feature layer (there is no geography question on the form so this I assume is the default) and the two related tables created from repeats in Survey123 Connect XLSForm. The default point file does inherit three of the questions from the XLSForm because I do not have those questions set up to be repeats, so they attach to the default point feature layer.  When I made my .gdb in Catalog, the polygon feature that I am trying to use as my geography does not have these fields so when I try and link to the hosted feature layer and update the survey it will not allow it because it cannot find the originally created point files table.  Is it advisable to create repeats for all questions and to have the polygon only have a field that will relate to the three tables (two already created plus the new one)? In the two existing repeats I have a parentglobalid field that is populated from Field Maps from the polygon's GlobalID field. Also, can I not include the default point file in the new hosted feature layer? Thanks for any clarification on this matter. ... View more

Hello All, I am having an issue with spatial filtering and I have worked on this for almost three days straight and nothing seems to work. I have four feature layers that have multiple polygon features within them. I have set up a selector widget for each of these that is hosted on the header. If I choose an individual polygon feature from the selector widget and filter the points (what I am interested in) by spatial location, the widget also returns points that are not within the polygon as can be seen below. The green polygon is Fooses Creek and only points within that polygon should be displayed. As you can see from the selector filter from the header, I am trying to filter only those points that are spatially located within the Fooses Creek study area. Each of these study areas was supplied by a different agency and I spent 1.5 days making sure that all of the edges align and that there are no overlapping pixels between the polygons within each of the feature layers as well as there not being any overlapping pixels. When I tried those feature layers, I got points filtered from adjacent polygons. When I looked on the discussion board I found an individual that buffered the polygons by -5 meters to ensure that there were gaps between them and therefore the spatial filter would not return adjoining polygon's features (points). The photo above is from this buffered map. See picture below: Can anyone provide any guidance about what else I should try? This seems like a big limitation of using a Dashboard if you cannot filter points that are completely within a polygon because all the numbers that are returned are not correct. The same goes for using a negative buffer to try and force the spatial filter to work. These areas are no longer exactly correct with the gaps. It seems like this worked fine on the old version of Dashboard, or am I wrong about that? Thank you for any suggestions. I will stop working on this for the time being and wait for an answer because as I stated above I have worked for three straight days on lining up all the edges and then creating the negative buffers. ... View more

Hello Everyone, I have a volunteer that is having an issue downloading the offline maps within Field Maps that have been set up for data collection in the field. They have uninstalled and reinstalled Field Maps multiple times and they continue to get a message that says the "Download failed" when they are trying to download the offline areas. They are able to download an offline map in Survey123 just fine. Some more details on the phone include: Samsung Galaxy S12 model SM-G973U Android Version 10 I assume whatever the latest version of Field Maps since they are directly downloading from Google Play Plenty of storage, the files are not large as you can see. Is there anything that someone sees that I might be missing here or a setting that I am not asking them to check that might be changed inadvertently? It is working on others' Android based devices without issue. What has thrown me off is that they are able to download the offline map in Survey123. Thanks for any advice. ... View more

Hello All. I have an online map that is being used for a dashboard and within Field Maps to direct work orders. The feature layers and attributes are collected using Survey123. Once the feature layer and attributes are collected, field workers use Survey123 to further monitor the sites and these tables are linked to the feature layer via a GlobalID/ParentGlobalID relationship. The tables are condition, agency action, and volunteer action. All of the survey tables are linked to the feature layers via joins and are hosted as view layers. They are subsequently refined using the filters in MapViewer.  There is one question in the condition survey that asks if the site needs an action to be taken, if this is answered in the affirmative, conditional questions asking whether this action is an agency or volunteer action is asked. Right now I have online maps that contain filtered hosted feature layers with the filter set up to look for sites that are answered "Yes" for the action question and not answered "None" for whether it should be a agency or volunteer action. If these conditions are met, the sites show up on the maps and this is how work loads will be determined throughout the season. This all works fine. Field workers go to the sites and perform either an agency or volunteer action through Survey123 and then these locations are shown on the map on a hosted view layer. The issue that I am running into is how to clear these sites once they have been visited and an action has been taken. Each time that workers go out in the field they complete the condition survey. One idea I had is that when they were visiting to perform an action that they would mark "No" for the question that asks if the site needs an action. I thought that this would then be the newest record for the feature layer and therefore would replace, on the map at least, the point showing up as needing an action since the newest table would not be answered "Yes". Unfortunately that does not seem to the case. Right now, what I have done as a work around, is to have the actions taken layer on top of the actions needed layer, but that seems too clunky and surely there is a better way to do it. Is there a way to only have the feature layer be represented by the most recent condition survey submitted? Maybe this is something that I need to do in the joined view layer? Thanks for any and all recommendations. Garrett ... View more

Hello, I have a hosted feature layer (points) and three related tables that are currently being created (points) or added to (tables) by a host of field workers using Survey123. Two of the three surveys will only relate to some of the points within the hosted feature layer, but this will change as the field season goes on. I am creating three new hosted feature layers that joins the points with each of the related tables. If I choose "Keep all target features" when I am performing the join in Map Viewer Classic I will have a host of features that do not have records. For example, there are currently 2,809 point locations that have been created and one of the survey tables is included in Survey123 for this initial data collection. However, for the other two surveys there are currently 70 and 203 related tables collected. Again, this will change as the season goes on, but I worry if I do not click on "Keep all target features" that when table 71 or 204 are collected that it will not carry the point with it to the new hosted feature layer. Is this correct, and if so, should I create a second hosted feature layer from the join layer to filter out those points that have records from the two surveys attached to them? Thanks for any guidance. ... View more

Hello All. I am working on a project that contains one hosted feature layer (points) and three linked tables (surveys) via the hosted feature layer's GlobalID field. Users can either collect a new feature (Survey123) or add the surveys to already existing features (Field Maps).  The three surveys relate to the feature layer's conditions and actions that can be taken by volunteers or agencies. In the condition survey there is a question that asks if the site has actions that need to be taken by agencies (this question is a list of actions agencies can take) and there is also a questions that asks if the sites has actions that need to be taken by volunteers (this question is a list of actions volunteers can take).  I would like to display, on a dashboard or a web application, the sites that need agency and volunteer actions which I think that I can do via a hosted view layer using the aforementioned questions above as the filter. This will be used by work crew coordinators to direct workflow.  I am using Field Maps with the feature layer as points that users will be using in the field. Users can click on the points and the Survey123 surveys are linked via links in the popup window to add the tables to the layer. I am trying to design a workflow that will allow both the agency and volunteer coordinators to see all of the sites that their workers need to take actions at. As stated above, this part seems to be easy by simply creating a view layer and hosting that on a dashboard or web application map. Where I am confused is how can I ensure that these features are cleared from the dashboard or web application map if an action is indeed taken so that they are not visited twice? Can I set an additional filter by date so only the most recent survey affiliated with the feature layer is displayed? Would it be better to set up a view layer for sites that need actions to be taken and then create Field Map offline maps for them? This is really a long question so please let me know if you need any clarification.     ... View more