Case study: Downloading and renaming attachments

Field data collection is an important way users interact with ArcGIS Online. Through the use of apps like Field Maps and Survey123, field staff can collect data. That data can be stored as a feature layer or feature layer collection on ArcGIS Online. On many occasions, it is necessary for field staff to take pictures of the data they are collecting.

Reviewing those pictures on ArcGIS Online or in the app the data was collected in is useful, but sometimes the pictures need to be downloaded from your account. While this can be done by exporting the feature layer to a geodatabase and then running a tool in ArcGIS to extract the photos, the photos do not have names associated with the features. It would be useful for the photos to have names of attributes from the feature layer.

In the case study for this section, you have been collecting survey data from Survey123 on farmers’ markets in Oakland and Berkeley, which checks...