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Drop down menu for attributes when creating/editing points in ArcGIS Online?

TiffanyWu

I have two hosted feature layers in AGOL that were both published from Pro to AGOL. Both are relatively similar in fields and attributes with some differences in # of rows. When trying to add a point in AGOL using the Edit tool, only one of them has drop-down menus for different attributes that help you populate the attribute by just clicking on the options, rather than having to type it. I'm trying to get the other feature layer to do the same when adding points, but I don't see an option to designate drop-down menus in the Edit tab. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated!

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ChelseaRozek

Try this:

On your hosted feature layer's item details page, go to the Data tab>click the Fields button> click on the display name of the field of interest (blue hyperlink)>check out the List of Values (Domain) at the bottom of the screen. If there are choices in a drop down when editing, they should be displayed here.

You can click the Edit button to Add, Remove, or Reorder choices. If the field is text, I usually just make the Label and Code columns the same value. Otherwise, if the field is a integer, it could be something like label Yes, code 1 and label No, code 0.

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ChelseaRozek

Is this for a hosted feature layer? What do you see when you go to here (see below) and try to add new choices?

"On your hosted feature layer's item details page, go to the Data tab>click the Fields button> click on the display name of the field of interest (blue hyperlink)>check out the List of Values (Domain) at the bottom of the screen. If there are choices in a drop down when editing, they should be displayed here. You can click the Edit button to Add, Remove, or Reorder choices."

DannyGonzales

Is there a way to add in more options for the Drop-down after being put into AGOL?

TiffanyWu

Yup, I think both were published from Pro and both were originally a file geodatabase. The old layer's date fields dropdown menu is a calendar picker. I've provided a screenshot below of what it looks like.

I'm not sure what this means, since I'm working on the new one and didn't work on the old layer. Does it seem to be a custom thing?

Also, both field value types are not available (as shown in the "Data" tab).

ChelseaRozek

That does seem strange. You said these were originally published from Pro, so they were created in Pro from scratch? Where did they originally live, a file geodatabase? Normally those fields are autopopulated with the creation or editing datetime when making/editing features in ArcGIS Online. I have never seen dropdown menus for them before. Is it a calendar picker or a text based one (like your original screenshot)? I'm wondering if these were custom fields instead of the ones added by ArcGIS. What is the field value type for them?

TiffanyWu

Thank you so much!!! This definitely did the trick.

Another question I have regarding these feature layers that I'm not sure how to edit, is the fields of "CreationDate" and "EditDate". In the old feature layer, there's a dropdown menu for those and it works well so you can set when you created the point. In the "Data" tab, the Default Value is set to "None". In the new feature layer, the default value is shown as: Fri Dec 29 1899 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) and when adding a point, the dropdown menus for those is completely grayed out and you can't click it or change it. Is this strange?

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ChelseaRozek

Try this:

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