Efficient field work requires a mobile GIS app with the tools and capabilities team members need to achieve their workflows. Different users and workflows have different needs, so this session sets out the mobile apps available with ArcGIS: ArcGIS QuickCapture, ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS Survey123 and Sweet for ArcGIS. Choosing the right app can not only improve the accuracy and quality of your location data, but it can empower users and improve field team productivity.
With these mobile apps, users can rapidly collect location data with a big-button experience, inspect and edit assets using form-based methods, configure location sharing and geofencing capabilities amongst much more.
Okay brilliant I think we’ll kick things off good morning everyone and Welcome to our April webinar mobilizing your location data with arcgis so before we kick off firstly we’ll just start with a quick introduction so I’m Claudia Hodgson I’m a customer success consultant here at edsbury UK
And I work closely with our fellow presenters Eve Selby and also a customer success consultant and James Findley one of our graduates here at esri UK just to quickly cover the housekeeping side of things as always this webinar will be recorded and shared in the follow-up email
For you to have a watch later on or you can share with colleagues as well in that follow-up email there will also be a handful of useful resources for each of the topics that we’re covering today for again you to take a closer look at and there’ll also be a survey
Linked in that email as well where you can provide feedback on today’s webinar and help us to to build future webinars to suit you guys as well and as I mentioned for those of you that came in a little bit earlier there will
Be a q a at the end of this webinar so please feel free feel free throughout to submit questions all throughout and we’re going to get to as many of them as we can at the end so uh keep posting as many questions as you have on there the
Q a will be hosted on slido so you can either scan you up the QR code that’s on screen now with your mobile or you can head to slido.com and you can enter the event code which is esri1904. there will also be some polls available on slido and which will become available
A little bit closer to the end of the webinar and there will also be some feedback polls as well so we’d really appreciate your response there and as I mentioned if you’d like to provide any additional feedback the survey Linked In the follow-up email gives plenty of opportunity to do that as well
So in today’s session we’re firstly going to introduce all of our mobile applications before then focusing on three of the core mobile apps so that’s arcgio’s quick capture arcgis field maps and arcgis survey123 and then through three different technical demonstrations today we’re going to show you how these mobile apps
Can help you to efficiently collect data in the field hopefully show you a number of tips and tricks to make that data collection as easy as possible for the mobile worker and something that suits your workflows as well so let’s go ahead and let’s dive straight in so these are all of our
Mobile offerings we currently have six apps suited for field operations now with um the first of which really being arcgis field maps which is increasingly becoming our all-in-one application for both data capture and editing as well it’s already combined the capabilities of an collector Explorer and tracker and its integration of arcgis Workforce
And Navigator is also in the roadmap for field maps arcgs survey123 is our mobile app that’s focused on the form Centric collection method and then arches quick capture is all about the kind of big button experience so rapid data capture so essentially what it says on the tin
Suite for arcgis is our app that’s dedicated to rule-based editing so this means you can collect accurate data the first time and every time with those rules built into the app that you can configure it also supports the mobile worker with offline use and location sharing capabilities as well
But today we’re going to be taking a look at the apps that are included within our mobile worker user type so that’s field maps survey123 and quick capture if you are interested in learning more of sweet about sweet for arcgis it’s going to be showcased in one of our
Webinars later in the year so do keep an eye out for that and it’s also going to be um we’re sending out some useful links in the follow-up email for you to take a closer look at those as well so let’s move on to our first app
Now arches quick capture is the fastest way to collect field observations it provides a really simple application where field workers can rapidly collect data including all of its fields from it could be a moving car a bike on foot or even from a helicopter or with the touch of a button
Both its desktop configuration and its mobile application is incredibly intuitive so you don’t need any training at all to configure or use this application uh use this application and you can implement it almost immediately as well it also allows for the recording of um workers current locations out in the
Field or where they’ve been or you can actually collect both of them as well so just to show you how straightforward both quick captures configuration and its data collection is we’re going to go into Quick captures uh projects page so let me just share my screen
Brilliant so here we are this is the kind of the first page that you’ll see when you open up quick captures configuration from here you can go ahead and create a um project from either an existing layer or from a template already made now when creating a project quick
Capture gets to work and it’s going to build not only the application um project but it’s also going to create a web map and a dashboard for you to configure and visualize all of that data if you’re creating a project from a template quick capture is also going to
Create the layers for that data to be fed into that you’re out in the field collecting so in this case I’ve already got a feature layer which I’ll just show you in my online content here I’ve already got a feature layout in this case called species watch which I’m wanting to
Collect and the location of different species in a certain habitat that I’m going to go and survey so I’ve got a number of different fields here that I’m wanting to collect and I’ve already configured this in with my feature layers you can see here so if I just head back to Quick capture
I can start from an existing layer and I can navigate to the layer that I’m that I’ve just shown and there you’ll notice as soon as I’ve clicked um this layer we’ve got a pop-up along the bottom here giving us the option to create button from a layer symbology
Now what this is going to do in my case is it’s going to create a button for every single species I’ve set out in the feature layer so it’s saving me a huge amount of time in creating all of these buttons for all of the species and it’s
Already done all of that for us so this is a um really basic template of our application already as I said we’ve already got all of the buttons for every species that I’ve specified in my feature layer but we do need to do a little bit of work here before we can
Take it out into the field firstly I actually need to set up what data I want each of these buttons to collect so if I click on let’s click black Grouse to start with I can go ahead to the right hand side and we’ve got these two different Windows appearance and data
If I go into my data Tab and I scroll down a little bit you can see these are all of the fields that I showed in my feature layer and here we can specify how we’re going to collect all of this data so for species name that’s automatically
A fixed value because we’ve already got that in our feature layer so I can go ahead and leave that as is for the date of collection we’re going to make use of the device variable and it’s going to Quick captures automatically going to populate this field based on the um capture time from
My device so it’s automatically doing that for us and we don’t need to worry for the collector again I’m going to make use of the device variable and we can actually retrieve the full name of the user that signed into that quick capture app lastly the location of the species again
We’re going to go ahead and use the device variable and use the location DMs so what all of this means is it’s um four fields that our mobile worker does not need to worry about collecting it’s going to automatically populate all of these fields for us meaning that not
Only it’s making it easier for the mobile worker but it’s reducing the risk of that human error entries as well and you don’t need to kind of fight around trying to find your GPS coordinates and what could be kind of rough conditions out in the field quick capture also gives you the option
To capture photos in the field as well so you’ll see on the right hand side here we’ve got this toggle for capturing an image and as soon as I then turn that on we’ve got this camera icon on our button here so this is all within the one application again so we’re just
Capturing images as soon as we click that button it’s automatically capturing all of the fields and providing us with the opportunity to capture an image of the species as well now Archer’s quick capture um configuration is really straightforward and that is all that we need to do and
To be able to capture the data of our species but I’m going to want to go ahead and actually improve the appearance of this a little bit so with just a few alterations we can better organize and visualize this app to again just make it as effortless a data
Collection method for our team as possible to take into the field so here I have the exact same application we’ve just gone ahead and done a couple of tweaks to the appearance firstly we’ve actually added an image to each of these buttons so providing a bit
Of a visual aid for those workers in the field so that they can identify the species as well we’ve also increased the size of these buttons again just making it easier for the worker and not um giving them a chance to accident accidentally select the wrong button
We’ve also made use of the group buttons option which is just here allowing us to then kind of categorize each of these buttons and break it down into a simpler format for our mobile worker in this case we’ve made use of categorizing them into the habitat in which each of these species reside
Quick capture also has location sharing capabilities as well so when you’re dispatching your field teams out into especially remote and isolated environments it’s essential as a duty of care that we know where our teams are so under the additional um settings button which the three dots up here
We can head to the location sharing tab now as soon as I turn this on we’re then given the option to be able to ask for the user’s last known locations or to collect their tracks as well and we can do both of those as well if we want both pieces of information
Now it’s important to say here that the user themselves has to authorize sharing their location so when they open up the quick capture app on their mobile they’ll then be asked whether they’re happy to share their location if they do authorize that we can then gather all of this additional
Information using the devices location and it can help us to Monitor and ensure the safety of my field team as well as also actually providing an audit Trail to understand the area that’s being surveyed as well and all of this is automatically being captured so it really is making it a
Really easy straightforward process for our mobile workers so just to show you how this app can be used by our mobile workers I’m just going to head back to the slides and here we’ve got um the app in action now you might recognize a couple of these furry friends from our annual
Conference last year but here we had a team going out into a nature reserve in the Scottish Highlands and they were able to monitor the abundance of wildlife capturing all of the details automatically by touching the button as well as also capturing images to support that data
Now we weren’t too lucky seeing all of these species so hopefully you will appreciate our imagination here and you can see how simple and intuitive quick capture can be and its strength as a simple rapid data collection method for our field operations so we hope today
Um we hope you’ve seen here with quick capture just how simple it can be and how efficient it can be as a data capture method so with that I mean I’m going to pass over to James who’s going to intro introduce arcgis field maps thank you Claudia field maps is a comprehensive field
Navigation and data collection app within the arcgis ecosystem it provides a streamlined data collection experience through smart forms and a simple user interface in addition with location sharing you can alert alert workers to hazards out in the field by creating geofences and sending alerts directly to their phone
Lastly arcgis field maps Works in disconnected environments meaning that you can capture data offline then sync your updates back to arcgis online when you restore internet connection field maps is perfect for workflows where workers need to navigate to locations in the field and perform data collection or regular inspections
Here I’m just going to show you a hypothetical scenario of a map of hydrants and their statuses across Aylesbury in order to keep a map like this up to date with the information about all the statuses of the hydrants we need to send workers out to perform regular inspections
The great thing about field maps is that we can transform this map and all of these layers into simple to use forms for our users to go into the field navigate to the hydrants and perform their inspections to do this we can hop over to the field maps designer
Here we can choose the map that we’ve previously configured and once it opens up we’ll see all the layers and the related tables that we’ve configured on the map the easiest way to start configuring a form against a layer is to convert a pop-up that you’ve already configured so
If I convert the hydrants pop-up we can see some of the fields that we previously used however we might not want workers to go out and edit all these fields such as choosing what the pipe ID is who it’s owned by or the latitude and longitude while they’re out in the field
We can also make Fields non-editable so they can still see it but they can’t edit it lastly we don’t need to stop here if we want to provide some more detail for our workers such as allowing them to better understand how the form operates we can add some more information so we
Can rename kind of the field Alias or the display name to something that gives them a little better information and we can also add a little description in case they need it to help understand what they should be doing with that field this all looks good and this is all the
Information we would want for our workers to collect new hydrants and edit existing ones while they’re out in the field so we can go ahead and save that layer but we don’t just want to capture new hydrants we also want to capture inspections at each of the hydrants as
Well to understand what’s going on here if I open up the inspections form we can see that I’ve configured a few more features that I didn’t have previously such as using such as setting fields to being required and using arcade Expressions to set conditional visibility conditional requirements and
Kind of Auto calculations such as the date so however this looks pretty good but we don’t want to just we don’t just want to configure information about the hydrants defects we also want to take information about any hazards that might appear while we’re out looking at the hydrants
To do this we can use the field we can use the designer using drag and drop elements to create a new group called Hazard information here we can start adding adding Fields into this using the form Builder and selecting different elements the first thing that I want to do is create a
Simple switch that’s yes or no on whether or not there’s a hazard at each of the each of the hydrants to do this we can just simply start editing the display name and this will create a new field in our table here we can select the field type we’ll
Do a string and we’re going to use the on and off switch for off let’s put no and for on let’s put yes here we can choose a default value for our switch and my default value is going to be no lastly if they collect uh if they say
There’s a hazard at each of the hydrants we want to know what kind of Hazard it is so to do this we can create a choice value here in the hazard information group I’m going to do a one just a simple radio box that’ll give them a few
Options to look at so I’ll do Hazard type and then we’re going to go ahead and do a string here when we create list we can either add all the options manually or if we have a csb already configured on our computer with the options we can drag
And drop it into the list here this all looks good so I’m going to go ahead and click done this is all the information we’re going to want them to use while they’re out in the field for inspections for it’s not completely done because I
Want to configure this form to make it a bit more streamlined for example when they select Hazard is yes we only want the hazard type option to pull up to do this we can use arcade Expressions to determine whether it’s conditionally visible and conditionally required so to
Do that I’ll select the form logic here I’ll create a new inspect I’ll create a new expression and we can call this something simple like Hazard with a little question mark and to do this we’ll just go in select the field that we want and we’ll say
Hazard is yes very simple but you can use arcade and the arcade Editor to create much more complex expressions let’s go ahead and click done so that set the conditional visibility but I want to make sure that they say that they fill this out whenever there
Is a hazard so we can just go ahead and copy that exact same expression over to the requirement box so now whenever they say Hazard is yes they’ll see this box and they have to fill it out that’s perfect so we can go ahead and save this form
So we’ve configured the forms we all we want to alert workers to any hazards while they’re out in the field to do this we can create geofences on our map and what this means is when they enter certain areas of the map they can be alerted with a simple message telling
Them that there’s a hazard to look out for so since everything seems to be a hazard today we’ll call this hazardous hydrants and we can choose a layer from our map to create the buffers around and the geofences I’m going to select hydrant status however I don’t want to select all the
Hydrants I only want to select the hydrants that are currently hazardous so just like we did previously we’ll go in and replace Hazard is yes now let’s just add the buffer make it a little bigger so we can see what’s going on and this will create small buffers
Around each of these hazardous hydrants lastly we want to configure a small message that will appear on a worker’s phone we’ll say please take caution and alert public to the nearby Hazard at location and Street and these are two Dynamic fields that are populated from our from our table this gives our
Workers a better understanding of exactly where these hazards may be will they get the message to their phone so they know what to look out for let’s go ahead and save that lastly we want to configure an offline area to ensure that our workers can keep updating their data and navigating to
Locations even when they lose internet connection to do this let’s go ahead and create a new map area here we have the option to draw a custom area around our data so that we can ensure that our workers have access to all the hydrants they need to inspect
But they’re not over burdening their phone with extraneous information to do this we can go ahead and we can create a new polygon and we’ll do it so that we have access to all the data that we might possibly need but no extra let’s go ahead and like and do it like this
However we also want to set the level of detail in this case we’re going to want the maximum level of detail because we want to be as precise as possible so let’s go all the way up but then we’ll probably never use the map Beyond here so we can go ahead and
Change our slider to just right there and that will set our level of detail for in and out let’s go ahead and click save now we’ve configured everything that we want to in the online view of the field maps however we want to check out how this
Looks to our mobile worker well they’re out about on the phone on their phone using the offline version of our map to do that I’m just going to jump back to our slides and share a quick video about how this would all work here we are in the phone View and we
Open up the field maps app we’ll see both an online map as well as the offline map that we configured just a little while ago if we click on the offline map and it pulls up we’ll see the extent of the map that we configured earlier as we zoom
Out we don’t have any information but as we zoom in we can get quite a bit of information all that we’ve configured previously we can also go into our layers tab see all the existing layers and then turn layers on and off if we choose to
If we zoom in and select a hydrant we can see some information about it such as where it’s located its ID the street the area and who it’s owned by we can also update the point so we can edit the points location on the map similarly we can use the form we
Configured to edit information such as the proximity field and help our workers understand exactly where it is when they configure a new inspection that’s great and we’ve submitted a new edit for that hydrant however since we’re here we want to create an inspection so let’s go ahead and add
Inspection and see how the smart form works when I select yes there is a defect the defect type and defect information are going to pop up as two new Fields below when we click on defect type we have one of six options which is really nice
Because we can just select one of those and we don’t need to type it in on our phone similarly if we toggle Hazard on we’ll see the hazard type and Hazard information pop up on the fields below that will work just like the defect type lastly if we say inspection difficulty
Is easy we’ll no longer have to put a reason for it and then as we did before we’ll Auto populate the field of date with the phone’s computer date and time let’s go ahead and submit that however since we’re working on an offline copy of our map what we want to
Do is sync our local updates back to our arcgis online when we have internet access to do this we’ll just go ahead and sync our data what this will do is it’ll send our data directly into our arcgis online allowing us to share the edits that we made while
We’re out in the field and that’s the power of field maps you can capture data anytime anywhere and sync it back to your arcgis online so you have up-to-date web maps and applications with that I’m going to pass over to Eve who will be talking about survey123 thank you so much James
So survey123 is a form-centric application for data collection it makes it easy to author surveys in a browser or from your desktop and then utilize these in the field within our mobile application but what exactly does this mean and what are some potential applications so let’s say that you work for an
Organization with a lot of green space or other land parcels and you also have a wide network of volunteers who are willing to report updates on these sites on your behalf creating forms that are easy to design and to use regardless of the mobile user’s experience with the interface is really important
So using both of survey123’s interfaces we’re going to be authoring a survey which captures information on Parks and garden sites within the United Kingdom so let’s start with our web application survey123 has a web designer which is its web interface and this is a visual based form Builder
The big selling points here are that you can create a form quickly and easily through its speed and ease of use especially given the drag and drop interface although it is more limited than the desktop application that isn’t to say that you can’t create a an incredibly comprehensive survey using a variety of
Question types that we see off to the right as well as the configuration settings available for example if we look into our date and time you can see that you can have default values to make it easy for data to automatically be put in limiting the amount of work your volunteers have to
Do but you can also add in additional validation means such as required questions or narrowing down the scope to a specific date range you could even cache answers for example if your volunteer is having to fill out a survey multiple times caching something like their name would be really useful to
Minimize the repetition of tasks in addition s are still smart meaning that you can streamline your survey through things like display rules or populations in this case when volunteers rate the status of the Green Space amenities they’re only going to see the features in need of repairs when the ranking is a
Two stars or below which minimizes the Clutter scene on the form just to go through its speed and ease of use we can highlight some of the calculations available if we go and drag in a number question and then call this question total paths we can then go into our calculation
And select the questions that this data has pulled from we can even customize this further so if you’re trying to collect data in the background but you don’t need your volunteers to be able to see specific information you could hide the question from the survey so the data is still being
Collected but again it minimizes what’s on the screen when it comes to form previews you’re able to see what your viewer is able to see depending on their device so if you have field workers and they’re going to be working on either tablet or mobile phones you can curate the display to be
Able to check what they’re going to see and structure the layout depending this also allows us to highlight one of my favorite tools which is new to the web designer which is the ability to collect audio this is useful in the case of soundscapes as in the example for
Example for our native space scenario but it also has other really useful data collection purposes like being able to collect voice memos or to capture another message quickly within the moment and with that we’re now going to move on to our desktop application which is survey123 connect this allows you to take customization
Even further it extends the functionality of the form and I’m going to be taking you through five top tips in order to maximize on these capabilities the first being to link any csvs that you have for a streamlined form inputting it’s incredibly simple to do so and all
You need is to be able to link files within your media folder in doing so you can then create a much more streamlined form for example in the case of being able to autofill if we go under the appearance section all you need is to use the auto complete signifier
Name where you’re pulling the information from in this case our National Heritage CSV and then what information you’d like in this case the name of that green space in doing so when we type the name of a park that we’d like it Narrows down it for us
Making it easy and dynamic to use in addition you can see towards the bottom that it’s also given our volunteer supplementary information such as the grade of the park and a hyperlink out to the park itself this is an example of a cascading select which you can also easily set up using
The pull data function if we go under our calculation column and use the pull data function you’re able to again just specify the CSV that you’re pulling the information from the information that you would like it to project outwards and how you’re linking it to that CSV
My next top tip is going to be about groups and repeats which is a way that you can structure your survey groups are something that we talked about previously within our online application which allows you to Cluster questions based on relevancy which helps with the organizational flow of the
Survey but then repeats allow you to collect multiple data points within a single form so if we say that our Park is poorly maintained and perhaps it’s walk pasts are in need of repairs if we wanted to add photos we could add multiple photos at once and this allows
You to have a more time efficient uh data input because you’re not having to resubmit the form per item in order to create these on the XLS side of things all you have to do is signal where you want to begin the groups and repeats and then again end the groups and repeats
My third tip is to do with the aesthetic side of things and this allows you to capitalize on using a small amount of HTML in order to really visually structure your survey in this case if we look towards the left hand side of the screen you can see that
The further assessment needed is centered and in a bright color to signify a scent sense of urgency in order to create these this symbology all you need to do is go into the label column Center the text and then use the style forms or Style Elements such as the
Background color and then the color of the text as well as what text you want to be said as someone who has very little experience using HTML I found that this was intuitive to use especially considering we have a variety of community forums talking about um all of these HTML requests okay
My fourth tip is to do with integrating images so when it comes to images this could be a really useful way for volunteers to collect photos of the green space for detailed documentation but not only could you capture an image using connect you could create your own annotation
Using a template palette and if you don’t really know what I’m talking about then I am happy to show you if we go into the path repair type and we access the camera and let’s say that we’re going in and we have a piece of octopus shaped litter okay we can then
Go in to our annotations and you’d be able to capture different aspects of the park based on holes litter cracks in the pavement or adding additional comments all you’d need to do to be able to configure this is to have a media file with the palette specifications and then
You can curate this however you’d like so if you’d like different colors or different shapes you’d be able to input all of these using one of our templates and then all you need to do is bring it into the media file with this you can then
Capture your image and add as many as you’d like again capitalizing on that repeat element in order for the form to recognize that this is a file that you’re using you just need to insert it into the body esri style aspect where you’re specifying the name
Of the palette and then the method which you’re using to take the photo in which case the device’s camera and then my final and last top tip it’s to do with inbox queries so once you’ve configured the form you’ve filled it out what do you do next how could you
Use this information provided by your green space volunteers to trigger some sort of action and this is where the inbox alerts come in so if we go over to our options and enable our inbox you can see that there’s an additional option for a query expression these inbox
Queries allow you to assign tasks in a way to mobile workers so that it appears only in their survey 123 inboxes within the mobile app this allows you to filter features for mobile workers to limit their scope which makes it easier to see what needs maintenance without overwhelming the
Mobile worker with a bunch of other relevant submissions in this case all you’d have to do is select the feature that you’d like to have an inbox query based off of in this case the status of the paths and I want inbox work or workers to Only See
A submission in their inbox if the status of the path is a two as you can see survey123 has a variety of powerful capabilities in order to create a variety of different forms which should suit your needs and although there isn’t time in this session to talk about its
Reporting applications I did want to let you know that once your data is collected there are reporting capabilities to both see and analyze your data in real time this not only includes an overview of the number of surveys and unique survey participants but also breakdowns of responses to each
Of the questions and with that I’d love to pass it back to Claudia thank you Eve brilliant so we really hope today you’ve seen how each of these mobile apps can support your mobile workers to collect data as efficiently as possible while out in the field
And just to reiterate with each of these mobile apps as you collect that data out in the field is then automatically going to be stored in your feature layer within your arcgis content so even if you’re working in disconnect disconnected environments it’s then going to be uploaded to your feature
Layer as soon as that connection is then made again to your device so with that we really hope you have enjoyed this webinar we’re going to be taking a bit of a break from webinars for both May and June as we have our annual conference in London
Next month but we’d love for you to join us again in July which is our next arcgis update so for these which we uh we kicked off with our first one with our spring update last month but in these webinars we run through all of our latest updates
And changes to the arcgis system including for this summer update we’ll be doing a bit of a walkthrough of how you can migrate to experience Builder following the retirement announcement of arcgis web app builder as well as many other updates and demos as well so do come along to that if you’re Keen
To stay up to date with the arcgis system we’re now going to go into the Q a so thank you very much to everyone that’s already submitted uh your questions we’ve had a lot um come in so we’ve got just about just over about eight minutes to answer as many as we can
So kicking things off the first one is does quick capture work offline and does the user full name variable also work offline so absolutely yes you can use Quick capture offline you can make use of offline maps within your content which you can configure in the settings of each of your web Maps
And then it’s just a case of you’re going to want to sign into your quick capture on your mobile while you’ve still got a connection and then you can go out into the field in your disconnected environments you can collect all of your data and then it’s
Just a case of it’s going to stay stored on your device until you’ve then got a connection again and then it will be uploaded onto your feature layer in your content in terms of does the user full name variable also work offline if by that you mean is it gonna um
Is it going to collect that device variable so the username that’s signed into that um quick capture app then absolutely yes it can do that next we’ve got can you set up multiple buttons at once in quick capture you need every button to capture time location and username
For this I don’t believe there’s a way so like how I specify device variable for each of them I don’t think there’s a way I could then do that for every single button I had in my app if you’ve got the um fixed variables so like the species
Name mine was a fixed variable that is the same across all of my buttons so it’s reducing the amount that I need to set up but it’s not something that does take too long and but I don’t think there is a way that you can set up multiple buttons in quick capture now
Another quick capture question um when using location sharing is it possible to set up geofences so geofencing at the moment is just a field maps capability um I haven’t heard of the geofencing coming to Quick capture and so at the moment no only geofencing is uh possible in field maps
We’ve got a survey one two three question now I don’t know if you’re okay to cover this one Eve yes is this about the caching it’s about can you use the inbox function of survey one two three to Gap oh okay now it’s the cash question and they’re going up and down
You go for it so when it comes to cashing an answer there are a few different ways that or caching an entire survey there are a few different ways that you could do this you can um cache an entire survey on the mobile application by adding it to your favorites
Um in terms of caching an entire survey or like other workarounds you could also have it as an option when you’re building the survey to allow people to have drafts that are saved and then it’s cached in the browser until it’s submitted um but then that it should be kept in
Mind that there are a few restrictions on when you’re caching individual questions there are certain questions which would not allow you to Cache them such as a photo brilliant thank you Eve now the most upvoted is is there any Panic or safety button to inform the team member while studying alone at the
Remote site so quick capture doesn’t have this capability I can’t think of a way um so at the moment no it’s not used as a emergency tracking application so no for that one we’ve now got another survey one two three question if you’re free yes um I’m not quite sure what gamifying
Collection means um so I don’t think I will be able to answer the question at the moment just because I’m a little unsure of what the user is or the participant is getting at yeah I think just the big thing to say with the inbox function of survey one two three is
Um as you mentioned Eve a brilliant way to essentially filter down all of your features so if you’ve got your mobile workers um you might have 3 000 features but you’re only wanting them to go and inspect the ones that have um uh are classified as needing
Maintenance you can then set up that where clause in your inbox function to then um filter down all of those features and they’ll only see the ones that require inspection um I don’t know if we have answered your question there but hopefully the inbox function is a little bit clearer
Thank you for the additional context Claudia that you’re all good um what else have we got here so for quick capture is there an option to add any non-auto capture Fields so that the user uh the user can add just a few essential details or comments there
Is I know so where I showed that you can specify if it’s a fixed value from the device variable there are a couple other options um I know there’s button user input I think you might be able to do something there um I can’t confirm that but I think there
Might be the ability to do that it’s worth having a look if you go to the quick capture um documentation you should be able to find something in there but I think that is possible uh let’s go into oh they’re all moving around survey123 is they’re going to be future
Development on the web app to add the repeat option I don’t know if you’re okay to go for that one as well Eve I was looking into it at the moment and as of 2021 there was talk of wanting to or the app designers being conscious of wanting
To integrate that in as well I will look into the future plans to see if there’s been anything more recent um but I think it is something that is on their mind as it has been raised within the community forum brilliant very quickly um are non-isra users or individuals
Without a goal accounts able to submit things like survey one two three quick capture so you can absolutely you can for example survey123 you could set up the survey to be public um and then you can send out a link and you can get response responses from
Um people without an ago account so that is doable yes and I’m just very conscious of time and I appreciate that we haven’t covered many field map questions um so I don’t know if James you’re free to Maybe cover we’ve had a couple upvotes on how can I make Point location
Information not editable in field maps after collecting them are you there James starts that one yeah not a problem for that you’ll go into the kind of the data layer of that feature layer that you’re editing so in that case you’ll just go into settings and choose the edit what kind of editing
Is allowed and you can say you can choose whether or not you want to add delete or update and then you can choose whether you want to allow for updates of attributes or attributes and geometry if you turn off attributes in Geometry they won’t be able to move it around on the
Map if you turn off update they won’t be able to edit the attributes either so you can keep just add available if that makes sense that’s in the settings of your feature layer rather than the field maps designer brilliant thank you James um sadly we’ve run out of time thank you
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