Upload files in a folder instead of an attachment.

[SanchezNuñez]

Good morning,

Is there a way to upload documents in  Survey123 to write in a specific folder.

We have a file server with this structure:

\\[Server Name]\[Projects Path]\ProjectNumber   

When creating a new record in  Survey123, I need also to create a subfolder under \\[Server Name]\[Projects Path]\   with the project number.

How can I do that with Survey123?

Thanks

[DuncanC]

Don't think so. 

Survey123 writes to a database, not a filesystem.  You could script getting photos from the database to your old school file folder. But that hasn't been a good way to do anything for a least a decade in my opinion.  IMO you should fix your workflow so you store and access the photos from a database where they belong.

[MichaelVolz]

What format are the documents saved in within the database?

If it is BLOB format, then how can you easily use these documents in non-ESRI apps where they might also be important?

This was a factor in why my org chose not to save documents as attachments as they were not easily available outside of ESRI software.  Integration with other enterprise apps is very important.  

[SanchezNuñez]

Currently document are stored in a file folder.  The type of document stored in a folder could be a word,  excel, pdf, image, as-built.

[SanchezNuñez]

This is my Plan B. Save documents in the database or ArGIS Portal in a hosted feature class.

But we store images, word documents, PDFs, Excel, tiff images from as-builts

[abureaux]

You can do this with process automations. This is not a native behaviour of S123, which writes to AGO/Portal by default.

You can use something like FME or Power Automate (or maybe Make?) to achieve this.

[SanchezNuñez]

That is a good idea, also to use Survey123 attachments and then, with Power Automate, copy these attachments in a file server.