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Hi @Anonymous User, When I go to My Settings: Preferences I don't have a Private Messenger option. Oddly, when I click the 'information' button, the guidance points to the Kudos tab for turning messenger on/off (but it is certainly not in there). Is Private Messenger unavailable for some users?
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12-24-2020
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Hi Peter, I have invited you to a group with the feature layer and a sample CSV for updates. I've added details of the issues and steps I have tried in the group description. Many thanks, Rob
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12-21-2020
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Hi Peter, Are you happy for me to add you to a group so you can access the content? Yes the fields show as unique as you demonstrate. Thank you for your suggestion. I have not tried that approach yet and would prefer to get things working through the user interface as there will be other staff who are less specialist needing to perform updates and overwrites to datasets. There are several datasets in question, currently ranging from 10's of features to ~7000. In the longterm however we will be working with some layers containing >500,000 features. Frequency is also variable, but it will generally be fairly sporadic (i.e. once every 1-3 months). I have just created a very simple point layer in ArcGIS Pro and uploaded it to ArcGIS Online to test the Append/Overwrite functionality. After setting a field as UniqueID, when I upload a slightly edited csv, it does give me the option to Update existing features, but the only field from the ArcGIS Online feature layer that it picks up as unique to match to the csv is the OBJECTID. This is despite another field being set as unique. Furthermore it appears to struggle to match numeric (integer) entries from the csv. If I try running the update using OBJECTID as the unique identifier (as it won't let me select any others), I get the following error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". I have also tried running the update with a text (string) field as the unique identifier on this test dataset, but this returns the same error as above. Thanks, Rob
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12-18-2020
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@IsmaelChivite the article suggests that a repeat with no appearance setting should display as being expanded by default, however I have a form where the repeat is showing as minimal by default. No appearance is currently set on the repeat, but there is a relevant expression (see below). The repeat is directly followed by a group (begin group), but I have tested adding a text field between the repeat and the group and the behaviour remains the same. The form uses style=pages if that could also be having any influence. How can I remedy this? Table showing an example of the current format type name label appearance relevant begin repeat repeatName repeatLabel ${SurveyPossible}='yes' or ${SurveyType}='AdHoc' begin group groupName groupLabel Many thanks, Rob
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12-18-2020
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Is it possible to pass the geometry of a shapefile (poly or line) from a layer in a webmap to a geoshape/geotrace question using custom URL parameters? I presume this would require the geometry parameters to be stored as "space-separated sets of latitude and longitude values (in decimal degrees) separated by a semicolon" in a field, with that field then passed to the survey form using the appropriate URL parameter. In this case, is there a workflow for extracting and storing geometry attributes of lines or polygons as comma-separated strings? This is not a problem for point data (e.g. via Add Geometry Attributes in ArcGIS Pro). The intended workflow is that the surveyor selects the feature they are surveying in a webmap/Explorer and launches and auto-fills the survey form directly using custom URL parameters. This blog mentions an option to use Arcade expressions to extract the x and y geometry of a point feature, but I can't work out if and how this could be used for line or poly features. Furthermore we would like to store the geometry attributes in a field from a different layer, so that though the user selects a point for simplicity, that point has associated line or shape geometry from the other layer for use in the survey form. Many thanks, Rob
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12-10-2020
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There appear to be methods to export ArcGIS Online feature services with attachments via a File Geodatabase, but I have not come across a way to batch/bulk export images stored as attachments in a related table. This data was generated from a survey123 form. Is there a way to do this? Or is this only possible if the data are within a feature layer?
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12-09-2020
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The fairly recent addition of guidance_hints in survey123 forms (built in Connect) have great promise, but are currently limited to only 5 lines. Introducing an enhancement where more than 5 lines of text are viewable (i.e. via a scrollbar) would maximise the potential of this function.
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12-08-2020
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Is there any way to secure the media folders (and ideally the XLSForm) from the survey participant? I have a number of surveys developed in Survey123 Connect, primarily for use in the field apps by community users. We would like a way of preventing community users from accessing the XLSForm and media folder contents (in particular, the CSV files used in pulldata() functions) directly. For example, we may want a user to be able to select a site from a select_one choice list, and then the geopoint lat long to be populated from a csv using pulldata(), but not for the user to be able to access the csv which contains a long list of sites and coordinates if they dig around in their files. Is there any way to achieve this using current functionality?
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12-04-2020
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Despite following the guidance I have been unable to update existing features using Append data to layer from the Updata data button. I have tested this with multiple hosted feature layers, each with a unique ID field defined (see screenshot) . I have tried appending from csv, xlsx and zipped shapefiles but in all cases, the update existing features option is greyed out (see attached screenshot). The guidance suggests that the enable sync option has to be disabled, which it is. The fields also match exactly. Can anyone give ideas as to why I am unable to use this tool as intended?
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12-02-2020
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Hi @Anonymous User , I am experiencing similar issues as those described by Jenny. I am trying to update (not just append) several hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Online but the update existing features checkbox is greyed out in all the layers I have tested. This is despite following this guidance and ensuring that Sync is disabled, that there is a unique identifier present in both the feature layer and the dataset being used for the updated. I am struggling to work out what is preventing the update existing features option from being accessible. Do you have any suggestions? Furthermore, is there an alternative tool in ArcGIS Pro that allows for update, rather than append? Many thanks, Rob
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The solution to this (at least for us) was to change the iFrame height, as it had been set to a size larger than that of some devices (e.g. iPhone 6). Following advice from ESRI support we modified the embed html and have had no problems reported since.
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Hi, No I'm afraid it has not yet been resolved. I had to resort to removing popups from the map to avoid this issue for the time being. Thank you for the suggestion @Anneka_France. The layer is already a hosted view of another dataset. Do you mean testing whether setting the visibility range in the hosted view Visualization settings prevents the issue from happening? (in contrast to setting it in the webmap).
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11-23-2020
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@IsmaelChivite is there any way to achieve the following? Outside of a repeat, a user fills in values relating to quantities for different species, e.g.: ${Species 1Quantity}: quantity ${Species 2Quantity}: quantity ${Species 3Quantity}: quantity ... For each species filled in, a repeat is generated (controlling the repeat_count parameter). (If it helps things to work, I could set it up where every species option has a repeat option but those where a quantity is not assigned is left as 0). Each repeat is indexed Each repeat uses pulldata() to pull in appropriate data based on the index (e.g. each index number is matched to a Species name, setting each repeat with a different Species name) Each repeat is auto-filled with data from the values entered at step 1, e.g.: Repeat 1 (Species = Species 1) Quantity = quantity for Species 1 This approach would make data entry much more straightforward for our users whilst breaking the data up in to the repeats as we need them for the back end. From reading this and other excellent posts (including those with input from @DougBrowning who may have some thoughts here) I think at least part of this may be possible using the once(count) formula to assign each repeat a unique ID, and position() but I don't believe the latter is yet implemented? *EDIT: I've now managed to set up repeats with unique ID numbers each, and to use a pulldata function to bring in the majority of the data I need from an external csv. However the point I am stuck on is step 5 above. I've been trying to use the pulldata function to pull in a formula from the external csv in to the repeat, which would then call the appropriate field to get the value (e.g. ${Species1Quantity}). However, for obvious reasons this just calls the formula in as text. Is there any way that pulldata could be used to bring in a formula and then use that in a subsequent calculation? Or a way of building a calculation formula within a repeat from text components? Other threads covering similar topics I have been referring to: Survey123 functionality: calculate position in rep... - GeoNet, The Esri Community Number each repeat - GeoNet, The Esri Community Auto populate answers in repeats from previous rep... - GeoNet, The Esri Community Many thanks, Rob
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11-20-2020
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We have URLs of several external websites/pages stored as Document Links in our ArcGIS Online content. We would like to link to these URLs from gallery cards on our ArcGIS Hub Premium pages. Currently however, if we add the content item (the document link) to the gallery card, rather than opening the URL of the target webpage it opens the ArcGIS Online item which the user then has to click 'Open' on to get to target URL (see attached screenshot). Is there a way to open external URLs directly from a gallery card? The current setup looks messy to our users and requires an extra click. This also limits our ability to integrate the hub sites in to our existing organisational website. Many thanks, Rob
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