What's new in Survey123

Features have been added to Survey123 progressively. This topic lists the features that were added at the release stages this year. For a list of all updates made to Survey123, see the What's new archive.

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Update February 26, 2025

This update includes changes to the Survey123 field app, Survey123 Connect, the Survey123 website, and the Survey123 web app.

Survey123 field app (version 3.22.53)

Fixes and improvements include the following:

  • Support has been added for the Emlid Reach RX and Emlid Reach RX MFi external GNSS receivers.
  • A bug was fixed in which attachments with very large ID numbers would not display in a form that was opened from the Inbox.
  • On Android 12 and later, a bug was fixed in which Leica GNSS receivers could not be connected.

Survey123 Connect (version 3.22.49)

Fixes and improvements include the following:

  • When you publish a new survey, a hosted feature layer view is now created for submissions.
  • A bug was fixed in which a survey connected to a feature layer view could not be updated.

Survey123 website

Fixes and improvements include the following:

  • Supports a new option Capture Z-values when authoring a map (point) question. When enabled, the published feature layer can accept the z (altitude) value for a point.
  • Individual map tools (search, zoom, home, locate, and coordinate input) can be configured when authoring a map question.
  • For surveys in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 and above, the maximum file size for image questions has been increased to 100MB, and the maximum file size for file questions has been increased to 500MB.
  • The new attachmentsDefExp method for report templates allows the template to filter out attachments.
  • A bug was fixed in which a survey fails to preview or publish when it contains a question visibility rule that refers to a value in a previous question that contains unclosed quotes in the question name.
  • A bug was fixed in which questions used in a calculation will not appear in the preview on the Edit panel, even though the calculation runs as expected.
  • A bug was fixed in which images are not displayed when two or more images are included in a note section.
  • A bug was fixed in which questions authored in Survey123 Connect with a custom defined field length return a non-human-friendly error message when editing sent responses in the website.
  • A bug was fixed in which users with a non-administrator role were not able to access shared surveys from the My Favorites tab in the website.
  • A bug was fixed in which the expected zoom extent (that was defined in the survey design) was not used on the Data tab.
  • A bug was fixed in which the results view layer for a published survey contained unexpected duplicate sublayers.
  • A bug was fixed in which generating a report fails and returns an error message when the form_id string contains non-ASCII characters.
  • A bug was fixed in which generating a report for a survey containing an unanswered geoshape question returns the following error: An error occurred when rendering by report engine.
  • A bug was fixed in which generating a report fails when a related table has an empty outStatistics parameter.

Survey123 web app

Fixes and improvements include the following:

  • Performance has been improved when a survey contains dozens of languages.
  • A bug was fixed in which the basemap gallery did not have a scroll bar when launched within a map question when viewed in large map mode.
  • A bug was fixed in which an Arabic survey doesn’t align to the right when the first label, or the customized survey description, is not in Arabic.
  • A bug was fixed in which photos with special characters in the file name cannot be uploaded to an image question.
  • A bug was fixed in which the following error was returned when a survey published with Survey123 Connect contains an unexpected HEX code: The survey is not accessible or does not exist.
  • A bug was fixed in which surveys created in Survey123 Connect that contain pulldata("@layer") functions worked only intermittently.

Update January 21, 2025

This update includes changes to the Survey123 field app on iOS.

Survey123 field app (version 3.21.66)

On iOS 18.1 and above, a bug was fixed in which the input keyboard did not stay retracted after entering a text input in a form.