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TerraFlex Form Enhancements Required

  • 1.  TerraFlex Form Enhancements Required

    Posted 05-12-2025 06:51
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    Good Day

    If anyone can assist with this, it would be great. Ideally, we need Trimble to make some changes to the TerraFlex form creation pages on Trimble Connect Web.

    I have established that there are two ways of creating a form for TerraFlex -

    1. In the Map Viewer on Trimble Connect Web
    2. Publish form ArcMap or ArcPro using the TerraOffice Plug-In.

    I am publishing some projects from TerraOffice with some difficulty and my issues there are being addressed by our Trimble Reseller.

    I am going to only request assistance for point one above in this post. We have users who need to quickly set up projects and collect forms on site using option 1 above. However, I am finding the following:

    a. We cannot use field aliases like we did in TerraSync. The forms are already created in a .ddf file and I imported it to a project in TC Web and the aliases are gone. I have also noted that there is no option for aliases on TC Web. This is a problem as we currently have vast datasets set up with specific field names and the export from TC Web to shapefile is cropping the field names to the standard 10 characters long. Please advise when aliases are coming back. It is long overdue. We are required to stick with shapefile.

    b. If a template is removed from TC web, it is gone forever. Either I am missing something or that is indeed the case. We need to be able to recover a inadvertently removed templates.

    c. Condition/Rules needs some work. We cannot hide following field/s based on a question answered on the form. We can only enable or disable.

    d. We need predictive text for large lists.

    e. We need additional Symbols instead of just color dots.

    Lastly, we are using the TDC650 units and find that TerraFlex is dropping the Real Time Configuration settings. We have active RTX subscriptions. It is defaulting to "none' if you change projects or close and open the TerraFlex app. It is causing accuracy issues to come through as the GPS data is coming in as autonomous accuracy... I have attached a video to show what is taking place.

    Thanks



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    Keshlen Reddy
    Surveyor
    eThekwini Water Services
    Durban
    South Africa
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