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You can collect location information by turning on ' Geo location feature and use it conjunction with rules to show longitude, latitude, accuracy and/or errors in your form. will always know it's current location and will submit that information when the form is completed. When the form loads in the browser, it will always ask for the location. All browsers will always ask show a pop up asking the user's permission to use their location. The user must give permissions for Geo location to proceed. Here is an example of the request in Internet Explorer 9:

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You can also get information associated with your location. For example, a section of a Police Incident Report, shown in the image, collects captures the location where the form position was filled in plus the address information associated with it. 

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  • 1 - Permission Denied - You will get this error code if the user says no to the access question.
  • 2 - Position Unavailable - This error code means the device running the browser cannot get the GPS satellite signal (tunnel, underground). 
  • 3 - Timeout - The device running the browser times out trying to get the location information.

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feature works on a desktop or mobile devices. You may see slight differences in the behavior based on the browser you are usingYou will never see coordinates and error codes in the same form. You get one or the other.

The option to turn on the Geo location feature is located in the Properties panel in the Form Designer. Select one of three options from the Geo location dropdown in the middle section of the Properties panel in the designer.:

  • None - (no location) - this is the default
  • On Load - at start time
  • Custom - allows the designer to specify a periodic refresh

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  • . The default value is 30 seconds. Choosing this method will fire a rule in the specified time. For example, if the field to the right of the Geo Location Dropdown was set to 10, the rule would fire every 10 seconds. See below for more details.

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You can turn on/off/modify the feature by clicking on a form activity in a flow which will display the form Properties panel.The Loc Timeout is a value that must pass before the Timeout error codes/messages will appear on your form. You can capture information based on the location via a Business Rule such as position address or other information as shown in the Position Address image above and you can embed a google map in your form. To activate this part of the Geo Location feature, you must have a connection to google.com and you must check the Detailed Loc. checkbox on the Properties Panel. The map will only display in use mode. 

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Implemented form.positionUpdated. You can fire a rule using this every time the position is updated.

Last position update will be in the submission metadata. Forms and flows.

 

Setup Key/Saved Fields

This setting controls which fields are saved to the built-in submissions repository. By default, all your data is saved as an XML document. This is the most efficient way to store/access your data both in terms of speed as well as storage. However, if you prefer to view your data via the submissions user interface, you can choose which fields are saved in addition to the XML data. See submissions data for more information on making this choice. Note that this could incur significant performance overhead and will also consume additional storage in the repository.

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