Configure Fire Safety Survey

The Fire Safety Survey can be used by fire personnel to conduct and monitor dwelling fire safety surveys that are part of a community’s risk reduction program. Some agencies may want to perform additional configuration of the solution to meet their organizational needs. In this topic, you will learn how to modify questions in the Fire Safety Survey and how to incorporate additional filters to the Fire Safety Survey Dashboard.

Modify Fire Safety Survey

The Fire Safety Survey map for ArcGIS Field Maps is used by firefighters to perform fire safety surveys while inspecting a dwelling. To adjust the survey to the needs of your risk reduction program, add or delete fields from the FireSafetySurveys layer. Fire Safety Survey dashboard leverages a feature layer view that you must also update to reflect field changes.

Add new survey question

To add one or more fields to the FireSafetySurveys layer, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your ArcGIS Online organization and click Content, if necessary.
2. On the My Content tab, type firesafety in the search box.
3. Click the Feature Layer item titled FireSafetySurveys.
4. Click the Data tab.
5. Click the Fields toggle button.
6. Click the Add button to create a field.
7. Define the Field Name, Display Name, Field Type, and Length, and click Add New Field.
8. Follow the Update feature layer view section below to update your feature layer view to reflect the changes made to the layer.

Delete survey question

To delete one or more fields from the FireSafetySurveys layer, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your ArcGIS Online organization and click Content, if necessary.
2. On the My Content tab, type firesafety in the search box.
3. Click the FireSafetySurveys feature layer item and click the Data tab.
4. Click the check box next to the display name of the fields to delete.
5. Click the Delete button above and to the right of the field list.
6. Follow the Update feature layer view section below to update your feature layer view to reflect the changes made to the layer.

Update feature layer view

To update the feature layer view to reflect field changes you have made by adding or deleting a field, complete the following steps:

1. Browse to the FireSafetySurveys_dashboard feature layer view item.
2. Click Visualization
3. Click the More Options button on the layer, click Set View Definition, and select the Define Fields option.
4. Scroll to the newly created fields and check the boxes.
5. Click Apply.

   The new fields are now added to the view’s definition and are visible in the Fire Safety Survey Dashboard.