Feature Requests

I have been really impressed by all of Fulcrum's features, but have found one thing I think is a really glaring missing feature: I want to move records created in one fulcrum app to another easily. In this case, it is the 'draft app' I have been using to figure out what features we want. Now that we are happy, I have created the new final version of the app (as I didn't want to break any of the records collected in the old app by changing the draft app structure into the desired final structure). So I want to add the old records into my new app (which includes records with repeatables). I am finding it surprisingly difficult for two reasons: 1) I can't use the csv export/import to move the records, as I want to maintain complex geometry (our records use combinations of points, lines and polygons) 2) The esri shapefile export/import workflow requires I have to import each type of geometry seperately, and parents before the from repeatable children. To import successfully, this means I have to manually edit each shape file to update the record IDs to get parents and children to match up again (see help chat record opened July 18th with Sandeep with username llf@platypus.org.au for full description of the problem). This is extremely fiddly for something that I think should be an easy fulcrum feature - moving records from one fulcrum app to another.

I use a form that auto-increments our Site ID by 1 each time a new record is made. However, I would like the option to have a field be auto-incremented based on the status field. E.g. If the first two sites have status A and site 3 has status B, site 3 will start back at 1 as it is the first site with status B even though it's the third record.

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to download a json or other text file that describes the current structure of a fulcrum app. I'm hoping to get a machine readable file that describes the questions and possible answer choices. We frequently automate processing steps for fulcrum data after field work has been done, and it can be hard to be sure that we've handled all possible inputs in the case where we're developing a script before all possible answer choices have been used in the field. A reference for an app's properties would be super helpful. It would also help handle future changes to an app that alter answer choices.

This option is needed for Australian users

I would like the ability to update an app's status to multiple apps at one time. I have multiple apps that I need to mark Inactive and it would be nice to do them all at once.

I am importing new records into one of my apps with 302 photo references. Some of the photo references are recycled from previous inspections in the same app; others have been sourced from other apps, for which I have downloaded (and resized) copies with the original photo IDs and included them in the zip file. At Review Issues stage, I get multiple warnings which I want to ignore, as follows. Recycled Images from the same app. There are large numbers of "issues" worded like this: Photo file 'db085181-cb02-483d-97ec-47abec0ed0da' for photo field with data name 'bb_reference_photos' does not exist in the uploaded file. A reference to the photo will be added to the record, but the photo file will have to be uploaded later. This wording is misleading. The image already exists in that app, but attached to another record (the latest survey of the same feature). So I don't need to upload the file later, I can just ignore this. Recycled images from other apps (in the zip file). There are also several "issues" like this: Photo 'd4562d6f-696d-4dcb-b755-065717e63ea7' for photo field with data name 'bb_reference_photos' is being used in another app. Since the actual photo file is included in the import, a new photo identifier will be created for this photo. Really, this isn't an issue at all, since the importer will resolve it using my attached photo. Apart from the misleading wording, the real problem is the sheer number of issues flagged, which are difficult to scan visually, in case there are real issues hidden among them that do require my attention. Today, there were four such issues, since my zip file didn't contain all the images I needed, but I completely missed them until I got to the Summary page, where it was immediately obvious there was something wrong. Since there were, in fact, only four missing images in my zip file, could the importer please stop reporting non-issues and/or aggregate error messages so I don't have to scan through several screenfuls to see if I have a problem. (I'd also like cross-referencing images in other apps not to be an error, but I've made a separate feature request for this.)

We recycle images frequently from one survey to another, to help surveyors identify something (usually a tree) for reinspection, so they're sure they are in the right place. I have created some queries that make importable CSV files containing photo IDs that we import into the relevant app whenever we plan a reinspection. This works well enough when the images were collected in the same app as the reinspection (apart from repeated unhelpful messages at the Review Issues stage), with the new record sharing the image with the previous inspection. However, if the image was in a different app, I have to find and download the relevant images (which is not easy given the number of images we have collected), reduce their size and zip them together with my CSV files for the Importer. These extra steps are very time-consuming and force me to trawl through lots of "issues" at the Review Issues stage to make sure I've included all the images I need. I understand the Importer is trying to protect me against certain risks: * if the original record is deleted, the 'new' image will be lost in the new app; * if a user only has permission to see the new app, they won't be able to see the image because it resides in the other app. I am prepared to take these risks, because of the way I manage access to the apps and because we won't be deleting any of the original records while there's a chance we could resurvey any of those features. Can we please have an option at Review Issues stage to confirm that we understand the risks (with a link or reminder of what those risks are) and tell the importer to proceed with the import with 'foreign' photo references?

Have the ability to mass edit or delete records from within the editor.

Adding or bringing back the option to have multiple emails seen on the workflow notifications that are sent out in order for all parties to "reply all" when needed. Right now they can't reply all & not all parties know eachothers emails or persons needing to know.

It would be beneficial for any automated workflow email to also include the files uploaded under the File Attachment field in the app to also be attached in the email; similar to the automated report.