What's new in ArcGIS Survey123 (February 2024)

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The February 2024 update to ArcGIS Survey123 is now available! Find what is new in 3 one-minute videos:

Copy visibility rules in the web designer

You can now copy visibility rules across multiple questions in the Survey123 web designer. Say for example you have a survey where you want the respondent to take a photo before any other question in the form is shown. You can create the visibility rule once, and then apply it in bulk to other questions in your survey!

Check out the video below for details.

Translate your surveys into multiple languages with the click of a button

Do you need help translating your survey designs to different languages? Good news! The February 2024 release of ArcGIS Survey123 includes auto translate features in both the Survey123 web designer and Survey123 Connect. 

Auto translate in ArcGIS Survey123 leverages the latest advancements in machine translation. With the click of a button, Survey123 translates question labels, choices, hints, constraint messages and all text in your form design into languages of your choice.

Machine translation is not perfect, so you should always review your forms before they are shared with others.  This feature has been labeled as Beta, as we are still refining it, but we believe it can be of great benefit to all of you who need to translate surveys into multiple languages. Give it a try!

Kick-start your survey designs with generative AI (Web designer)

The Survey123 web designer now includes a new experience to help you design surveys through a conversation. Think of this as a chatbot designed to help you create a draft of your survey design.  Watch the video below to learn the basics.

To try the new Survey123 assistant, ask a user with administrative privileges in ArcGIS to activate it for you. Here are the steps:

1. Login into survey123.arcgis.com with ArcGIS admin credentials.
2. Click on Organization
3. Click on Settings
4. Open the Extensions tab
5. Activate the Survey123 assistant (Beta) and Save

Check out the What's new in Survey123 help topic to review other features added in this and prior updates.

Other enhancements

• Run the Convert choice lists to CSV tool in Survey123 Connect to automatically migrate specified choice lists from the choices worksheet to new .csv files in the media folder. The tool also modifies the corresponding questions in the survey worksheet to use select_one_from_file and select_multiple_from_file question types.
• Esri field types esriFieldTypeTimestampOffset, esriFieldTypeDateOnly, esriFieldTypeTimeOnly, and
  esriFieldTypeBigInteger are supported
• The Barcode question type is now supported in the web app. In an upcoming update, we will be adding the barcode question type to the Survey123 web designer too.

 

Critical fixes

• BUG-000161944 After saving and editing survey drafts in the ArcGIS Survey123 field app and web app, the app allows required multimedia fields to be submitted as empty.
• BUG-000163810 ArcGIS Survey123 Connect's bind::esri::field::type column allows using null values for file/image questions.
• BUG-000157426 In the ArcGIS Survey123 iOS mobile app, when using copy or paste, the value on the clipboard gets overridden by the integer value on the box with calculation functions.
• BUG-000160532 In ArcGIS Survey123 Connect, when a group is configured as a table-list, select_one questions within the group do not retain their conditional required statement when filling in the form using ArcGIS Survey123 Connect or the ArcGIS Survey123 field application.
• BUG-000163663 When clicking on the "Sign In' button on page https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-survey123/overview, it redirects user to an error page.
• BUG-000163618 In ArcGIS Workflow Manager, sometimes the web app submits without issue in the user interface (UI) but has an extra retry when sending the webhook, leading to one ArcGIS Survey123 record triggering two webhooks (The webhook of one submission sometimes gets successfully triggered twice or successfully triggered once but returns error)
• DE-000007123 BUG-000163249 The ArcGIS Survey123 website Analyze tab returns the "Cannot display results for this question. Unable to find the field in related feature service." error message for numeric questions (Decimal, integer, and range) in the related table