I made my surveying macro by manually typing the commands in and recording a keyboard only macro.
e.g make sure you are at full HAM and have already surveyed for the required resource. Type the name of your Macro into the Name field. Click Keyboard only macro. CLick record. type /sample. wait until you run out of action. Type /sit. Wait until you have regened to full. Type /stand then hit F12 to stop recording. Click on looped then click play and go do something else for a few hours
