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Ask a questionFiltering text in Explore
Can we Filter in Explore on text information in the data, e.g in Biotope, Remarks on soil: b_soils = 'Zink'? AI asking suggests Javascript: b_soils == 'Zink', but so far no success?!
Selecting records for export
Manually selecting records for export (/cloning) seems only possible in the active page (of 15, 30, 50, or 100 items/page). When continuing selecting in a next page, the selection of the earlier page get lost. Can this be solved by holding the selected records in memory, or alternatively making a po...
Open Foris Arena – Ownership of Custom Surveys and Data Confidentiality
Dear Open Foris Arena Team, ASSEDEV (Association for Environmental Sanitation, Conservation and Development) is a France-based environmental nonprofit organization currently using Open Foris Arena to develop and test a participatory environmental data collection and monitoring initiative. We particu...
Error when opening a Taxonomy list in Arena
Hi OF Team, I'm getting the following error when opening a survey and navigating to Taxonomies. It occurs when I try to open a taxonomy list: Something went wrong: Error: Minified React error #31; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=31&args[]=object%20with%20keys%20%7Bresult%...
Role-based access and editing rights within a single form
Dear Open Foris Arena Team, We would like to know whether Open Foris Arena allows different users or roles to have different access and editing rights within a single form. Specifically, is it possible for each user to view or edit only the sections assigned to them, while another user or administra...
Files: images not shown as thumbnail?!
Dear OF-Arena, 1) scrolling through my records/data I observed that several included images/maps created an error while hovering over it to see the thumbnail: think this concerns especially .png files! 2) It would be handy to allow (added) files (a.o. images) as visible columns in the Data/Records ...
Required in specific cases
Dear support, I have a problem to find the right way to make a variable required and mandatory in specific cases. It is about height measurements on trees and these should be mandatory if the tree status is >2. In all other cases tree height can be measured, but is not mandatory. I tried several val...
Bug in Arena: error when deleting photo
Hello OF team, I'm experiencing what I assume is a bug in arena. In one of my surveys, the photo preview is unavailable. When I try to delete/re-upload the photo, the survey crashes and gives the error "error communicating with the server". "Query result error: no data was returned from the query"....
Error 503 Service Unavailable in Arena
It had been several months since I last opened my polls on Open Foris Arena, and now that I've checked them, an “ERROR 503 Service Unavailable” message appears on all the surveys we've created with the team. How can we fix this? Best regards!
Auto-generate minimum count with function
Hi OF Team, I collect data for individual trees using a multiple entity. I would like the min-count of this multiple entity to automatically populate. This is similar to the "enumerate" functionality, but I need to maintain the ability for the user to add new records beyond the number specified with...
OFArena: archive of batch delete images of a survey
Dear Open Foris Arena team, Considering the space limit for Arena surveys, but also the fact that some users will anyway want to use Arena as a way to share data + associated images but not to store those images long term, would it be possible to add an function (maybe in the menu "DATA" / "MANAGE I...
Automatically calculate plot dia after slope angle
Good day. I'm trying to set up a field in the survey form designer, that will automatically calculate corrected plot radius for the survey team in field, after the slope angle has been determined and entered into the appropriate field. Is this possible and how do I go about it? plot_radius / Math.sq...
Incorrect Score Summation in Arena After Importing Collect Survey
Dear OpenForis Support Team, I have successfully imported a .collect file containing a performance scorecard into Arena. The survey was published successfully, and all logical connections appear to be functioning correctly. However, I am experiencing an issue with the score calculation. The scorecar...
Unexpected error: error: syntax error at or near "end"
I am trying to publish a survey for the first time with Arena online. I am seeing this error message under "12. Survey RDB Creation" and it refers to "Item" 4 as where the error is located. What does this error message mean? What does "Item" refer to?
photo upload failure
In the Arena Mobile app, I have 4 photos that are a requirement to complete my survey. I am able to open the camera or connect the app to my photos on my device, but none of the photos will upload or complete the requirement. No error is popping up, so I'm not sure why it would be failing. Thanks fo...
taxonomy upload failure
In OpenForis Arena, I am struggling to upload my Taxonomy dataset. I am concerned it is because of the length of the document (1120 rows) however, I have uploaded a >800 row one in the past, successfully or because of the column names: code, family, genus, species, scientific_name, scientific_name_a...
Bug with User Permissions in Arena Mobile and a Proposed Improvement to User Roles
Hello OF team, I'm writing because I've detected a problem in Arena Mobile with user roles. A user with the "data editor" role in Arena Mobile can download any survey record (even if they didn't create it), download it, modify it, and re-upload it to Arena (In Arena, a data editor can see all record...
form design page not responding
Hello, Yesterday I was working on a new survey and today I am not able to access the form design page anymore, as well as the hierarchy and dependency tree pages. Every time I try to open one of those pages the whole screen becomes white and the page does not react anymore. Is this a known issue an...
Bug in tables/forms with the "Enumerate" feature active
Hello OF team, I've detected a bug in tables/forms with the "Enumerate" feature active. In theory, this feature shouldn't allow adding or deleting rows, but when viewing the table as a form, rows can be deleted (not when it's a table). The same issue occurs in AM, where it allows deleting rows. Than...
Why no "new survey" option for my user?
Hello Open Foris Arena team! I originally created my Arena account when I was invited by a survey administrator to add data to their survey. I now wish to create a set of my own surveys and act as a survey administrator for those surveys. However, there is no "new survey" option for my user profile....
Unable to send data to cloud from Arena Mobile iOS
I am testing data collection using Arena Mobile on iOS but I am having trouble sending data to the cloud. I have tried sending data on an iPhone and an iPad but in both instances the status gets stuck at Running. I do not see any error message and the process only cancels out when I touch the scree...
How can I use the last() function to set default values?
Hello, does anyone have problems using the last() function to set attribute's default values? I am trying to use this expression but it always returns an empty field: last(dendro_visit).serialnr I cannot figure out where the issue is. Thanks
Recovering a Survey from a 5GB Backup
Hi team, I have a 5GB backup of a survey (with the data) and I'd like to be able to restore it in Arena. Arena's 977MB limit doesn't allow me to restore it. Is there any alternative? Thanks again! Oscar
Allow multiple UNL & UNK entries with their official or nick name respectively
Dear Open Foris team and users, Being a vegetation a vegetation-biologist I make usually forest & grasland relevees including shrub nd herb layers, recording data both with scientific as with vernacular names - often local names are more familiar. My Arena Mobile facilitates now this possibility to...
Problems with persist-results.R
After running all the chain with absolutely no errors and when I go to data > explorer tab in the app I find that the variables I created on the chain do actually exist (for example density, basal area, etc.) but they are completely empty. It happens the same when I export the data to an excel file....
Upload limit on internal server
Dear OpenForis Team, we are currently about to move a larger survey from openforis-arena.org to our internal openforis-arena server. It exceeds the 1GB limit for uploads (its almost 2 GB). Is there a way to increase the upload limit for internal servers (i.e. some config value)? I figured out, that...
Export survey structure as SQL statement from Arena
Dear support, As a former Collect user I very much appreciated the option to export the survey structure as SQL statement. It was very helpful to build the database externally, just by executing (e.g. in postgres), since it included the build statement for all tables, relations, all categories and v...
Some Bugs and Improvement Suggestions
Hello OF team, I'm writing because I've detected some bugs in Arena. PHOTO PREVIEW For the past few days, the photo preview hasn't been working (I've tested it in different surveys). EXPORTING EXPLORER QUERIES When you create a query in Explorer and try to export it to CSV or XLSX, the following sc...
Recuperacion de contraseña
Recientemente he realizado con mi usuario (vicsojo@gmail.com) 5 encuestas, de las cuales he compartido con dos de mis compañeros (AMendez@fonafifo.go.cr, elester.cubero@fonafifo.go.cr), sin embargo, han tenido problemas de acceso. En el caso de AMendez@fonafifo.go.cr, el posee cuenta y olvido su co...
Issue with default values and dates
Hello Open Foris team, I'm using Arena to collect information on river flow rates and have encountered the two following issues: 1.- Some fields are not automatically calculated based on other fields using the formula in the “default value” tool, but this worked before. Now only works when a new rec...
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