An update to ArcGIS Survey123 is now available. Along with a helpful new feature, snapping in the web app, it includes focused fixes in the website, web designer, Connect, and the field app.

Snapping in the web app

Let Survey123 connect the dots for your users making it much faster to capture geographic features. With snapping enabled in a map question, when drawing a point, line, or area, you can now snap to existing features that are visible on the map by clicking on them. Orange construction lines – perpendicular angles and parallel line indicators – automatically appear to help guide the drawing. Toggle on “Enable snapping” to activate this helpful, time-saving feature.

Fixes and enhancements

Survey123 Connect

• BUG-000144210 The scroll bar returns to the top after releasing the mouse-click under when browsing the ‘Community’ style XLSForm.
• BUG-000149513 Domain Names loaded from feature services are not sanitized for XLSForm rules.

Survey123 field app

• DE-000005585 DE-000005449 BUG-000148858 The custom URL scheme does not open the form for the selected feature if the previous form is closed by clicking ‘Close and lose changes’.
• BUG-000148047 Enabling rotation lock on iOS causes landscape photos to be saved as portrait.

Survey123 website and web app

• BUG-000149232 Surveys created in the ArcGIS Survey123 website using non-required drop-down questions display ‘Choice #’ in the survey data when a null response is submitted and, when designing the survey, a default response is selected prior to filling in the response options.
• BUG-000150648 ArcGIS Survey123 geotrace or geoshape question intermittently does not load basemap when opening survey in a web browser.
• BUG-000148769 When editing a record within the ArcGIS Survey123 web form, the start time is removed from the record either from the table or the form view. Editing within the field app does not produce the same result.
• BUG-000144214 Setting an input mask in ArcGIS Survey123 Connect give error “hubErrCheck.inputFormatInvalid”.
• BUG-000149623 When the same name is used for more than one report, the report item displays with the same name in the ArcGIS Online content page while the actual report has the current timestamp, in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format, appended to the report’s name.
• BUG-000136143 When creating ArcGIS Survey123 reports using the Microsoft Word template, the following error message is returned, “word found unreadable content”, when an annotated photo is added to the report template.
• ENH-000140382 Include an option in the Survey123 Report user interface to cancel an ongoing feature report export job.
• BUG-000149913 In ArcGIS Survey123 Connect version 3.14, when calculating from a feature layer for the relevant table, information is written to the first record, but not to another record after the first record.

What’s coming next

Some exciting features we’re making progress with include:

• CAPTCHA for web surveys
• pulldata(“@layer”): A new XLSForm function to help you query feature layers and tables without requiring the use of custom JavaScript functions.
• Location sharing, similar to what is in QuickCapture and Field Maps.
• Smart assistants – Machine learning for image classification and object detection.

About the authors

Marika

Marika Vertzonis is a product engineer at Esri focusing on the research and development of field apps. After studying environmental engineering at university Marika spent the early part of her career working in local government, regional water authorities, and engineering consulting as a GIS professional. Her own time in the field has made her a passionate advocate for using the most suitable technology available in scientific and engineering fieldwork. She is also the author of Fieldwork Handbook: A practical guide on the go (Esri Press, 2024).

Jacqui Newell

Creating meaningful experiences for everyone in person and in the digital world is Jacqui's passion. She is an avid traveller who loves to learn and teach others. When she's not working on her fixer-upper home with her husband in Waterloo, Ontario, you can find her at a concert, playing golf or curling.