SURVEY123 TIPS

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• Minor Update To Survey123 Available (August 16,2018).

• Survey123 Tip: Survey123 can be configured to work with ArcGIS Enterprise.

• Survey123 Tip: You can disable the Sent box for your survey in Survey123 Connect,
stopping responses from being saved to the device.

• Tip of the Day: The Survey123 app has a text scaling function to aid readability.
• Working with EXIF image metadata in Survey 123 for ArcGIS
• Video: Sharing Your Survey with A Member of a Different Organization.
• Video: Tip of the day: Use groups to create subheadings for groups of questions.
• Tip of the day: The #survey123 website lets you download your results in .csv, Excel, .kml,
Shapefile and File GDB.

• Tip of the Day: You can rename photos before submitting by tapping on their name.

• Tip of the Day: You can use a custom URL scheme to launch Survey123 to a specific survey.
• Tip of the day: When printing individual responses to your survey, use parameters to
display more information than would normally be available.

• Tip of the day: Use repeats to collect large amounts of similar data in a single survey. [see
repeats]

• Tip of the day: You can enable the ability to capture z values in your survey.

• Tip of the day: Use instance names to make identifying individual survey responses easier.
• Tip of the day: You can add new fields to your survey in Survey123 Connect without losing
your existing data.

• Tip of the Day: Know the difference between Esri’s form apps to decide what works for
you.

• Tip of the day: Survey123 Connect's provided samples show ways specific functions of
Survey123 can be used.

• Tip of the day: Use the calculate question type to work out an answer and use it as an input
to other questions.
• Tip of the day: Add a question but don't record the answer in the feature service by setting
bind::esri:fieldType to null.

• Tip of the day: The Survey123 app's settings allows you to easily clear locally saved data.

• Tip of the day: Download a community sample in Connect and use it as a starting point for
your own innovative survey.
• Tip of the day: Enhance your inbox queries with one of the following variables to return
results from specific responders: username, email, firstName, lastName.

• Tip of the day: Use the media::image column to add images to your questions or choice
lists.

• Tip of the day: Use HTML formatting in labels on your survey.

• Tip of the day: The Survey123 website allows you to print your survey results.

• Tip of the day: The hide-input appearance removes the option input coordinates to a
geopoint question in the #survey123 for #arcgis web form.

• Tip of the day: If you intend your survey to only work in the field app, disable creating the
webform for maximum compatibility.
• Video: Tip of the day: You can share your survey with members of a different ArcGIS
organization.
• Video: Tip of the Day: In the Survey123 website, you can visualize your survey in a variety
of ways.
• Video: Tip of the day: A simple survey can be completed and published in minutes.
• Tip of the day: You can now export reports from your survey in bulk, not just individually.

• Tip of the Day: You can generate a survey based on an existing feature service.

• Tip of the day: Use the numbers appearance to provide a keypad, for efficient data entry.
• Tip of the day: Use repeats to collect large amounts of similar data in a single survey.

• Tip of the Day: Set your integer questions to 'calculator' and get adding (or subtracting)

• Tip of the Day: Want to record the birds singing or crickets chirping? Add an audio type of
question to your XLSForm.
• Tip of the day: Use input masks to control how people can respond to your questions.

• Tip of the day: Enable the Inbox via Connect to allow editing of your existing surveys.

• Tip of the day: Using the spinner appearance on a decimal will increment the final digit.
• Tip: Prepare your offline maps for Survey123 for ArcGIS with Tile Package Kreator.

• Tip: You can access basemaps stored on your device’s external storage in Survey123 for
ArcGIS.

• Tip: You can copy and delete existing surveys from within Survey123 Connect.
• Tip: A response will always have a location, even if you don’t include a geopoint.

• Tip: You Can perform calculations on geopoint questions.

• Tip of the Day: You can enable the ability to capture z values in your survey.

• Tip of the day: #Survey123 for #arcgis lets you share your results and analysis with others
in read only mode.
• Tip of the day: Use hidden fields to populate your survey while keeping answers out of
view.

• Tip of the day: Use the numbers appearance to provide a keypad, for efficient data entry.
• Tip of the day: You can import the results of your survey into other ArcGIS applications.
• Tip of the day: HTML can be used to embed links to telephone numbers and email
addresses.