Latest Contributions by ColinCampbell

Be able to calculate/record the zoom level of the map when a user manually selects a location in a geopoint question. We've found that some users of our surveys select locations manually from the map at zoom levels that aren't appropriate for what they're recording.  If we could record the map zoom level at the point they manually selected their location we could measure how often this was the case and exclude the records if necessary. This would be especially useful for surveys aimed at the general public, where there may be large numbers of participants submitting data who may not appreciate the need for accurate locations. An alternative/extension of this would be to limit the maximum zoom level of the map at which a location can be manually selected and/or be able to provide a warning for people to zoom closer in (in a similar manner to the GPS accuracy threshold settings). ... View more

Is it possible to calculate the zoom level of the map when a location is manually selected by a user? We've had some users of a survey entering poor quality locations and our suspicion is that they're manually selecting the location on the map at an inappropriate zoom level (i.e. they're zoomed out too far to be selecting an accurate location from the map).  If we could record what zoom level they were at when manually locating on the map we could identify if this was indeed the case (or whether there was another source of the poor quality records).  Ideally we would also then be able to add a constraint that meant they could only manually select a location when zoomed in to within a certain range. Is any of that possible? ... View more

Hi, Is there any way to alter the tolerance on the select action when using the Smart Editor widget?  At the moment when a user selects an object to edit it often selects multiple objects some way away from where the mouse was clicked (and not objects a user would intuitively expect to be selected). To compound this issue, out of the multiple records selected it often fails to highlight the one that exactly intersects the point of clicking as the first/primary record of the selection.  Which is even more confusing to the user. The image below shows an example of this.  The central polygon is selected by the cursor.  It and two adjacent polygons are also selected, but the 'primary' one (the one showing first in the form, highlighted in blue), isn't the polygon intersecting the cursor. ... View more

Hi, I've just updated the Survey123 field app to the latest version (3.2.265) and noticed that the +/- buttons on 'spinner' fields no longer work if the field is blank.  They become active again if you type a value into field, but this obviously adds an extra action the user must take and makes the spinner much less useful.  I've older versions of the app on other devices and they work fine (i.e. the buttons work when the field is blank). Is this a bug or is how spinner fields are intended to work now? Defaulting the spinners to 0 is a half fix, but in some of our surveys a blank and a zero represent different things (the former representing something that wasn't looked for, the latter being something that was looked for, but not found). Can the functionality be restored to how it was?   Many thanks ... View more

Hi, I have a survey intended for use by the general public that, amongst other things, allows images to be taken/attached.  The public users access the survey directly in the Survey123 app by clicking on a link sent to them (i.e. they don't log in to ArcGIS Online with an account username and password).  Due to the nature of the survey I have modified the settings on the survey's Feature Service to that shown below - I want anyone to be able to add data to the survey but for no one outside my organisation's administrators to have access to it once submitted. Everything works fine until records are submitted with an image attached.  This gives a code 400 error and says the record has not been submitted (although I think the non-image bit of the record actually has).  If a record is submitted without an image it goes through fine.  If I log into my ArcGIS Online account and submit a record with an attached image the record is submitted without error (although I can't seem to preview any of the data from the survey when I log into the Survey123 website and look on the 'Data' tab for that survey). Is this a bug or something I'm doing wrong with the permissions?  I've tested this on both an Android tablet and an iPhone and I get the same issue. Many thanks in advance. ... View more

Hi, I wanted to post a couple of issues that I’ve come across regarding the ‘Editing’ options for a hosted Feature Layer being used by a publicly shared survey. I’m not sure that they’re bugs as such, but they are not at all obvious and may impact on the security of people’s data. When I create a new survey using the web designer the editing settings for the related ‘fieldworker’ Feature Layer are as below: If I choose to make the survey public, my interpretation of the above would be that an anonymous user (i.e. one not signed into ArcGIS Online), would be able to add records to my survey, but only view the features they had entered (or not see any features that had been entered, including their own, if that’s how you interpret ‘What access do anonymous editors (not signed in) have?’ when set to ‘Only add new features, if allowed above (requires tracking)’). In reality though, when an anonymous user goes to view the data held within the Feature Layer through ArcGIS Online they don’t just see the data they’ve entered, but all the data entered by anyone anonymously (i.e. not signed in). I guess that anyone entering data anonymously is being recorded in the data as ESRI_Anonymous (see here) and that the security is allowing a person not logged into to view all of that data collected by ESRI_Anonymous, but this isn’t made clear anywhere if it is – indeed interpreting the settings for anonymous users is clouded enough by the phasing used in the settings page.  In some use cases you can get around this by changing the ‘What features can editors see?’ to ‘Editors can’t see any features, even those they add’, which then stops any user seeing any features. This approach is fine, but I’ve also noticed that if you republish your survey at any point the settings revert to their default settings (it goes back to ‘Editors can only see their own features (requires tracking)’. Again this isn’t made clear and means you need to re-set your settings each time you publish. This is inconvenient, but more importantly in the time between you publishing and re-setting the edit settings your anonymously entered data are essentially publicly viewable. If you’re not aware of these two issues it can be very easy to make data available publically in a way you had not intended. If this is how things have to work, is there any way this could be made more explicit in the guidance? ... View more

Hi, I was wondering whether Collector supported custom images as point symbols?  I have a web map that correctly displays a range of custom images for a point layer's symbology, but when this is opened in Collector they are only displayed as a 'prohibited' symbol (a red circle with a diagonal slash through it).  If it's is not currently possible is it something on the to-do list? Many thanks Col ... View more