I just moved my group and maps to the TNC AG for orgs space (I'm the GIS manager for the TNC Calif. program) and now the mobile client on iOS is not finding my groups or maps, just hanging. Is this a known issue?
The way I found to do this is share your map with everyone. Log into your other account. Search gallery for your map. Save a copy to your new account.
et, viola.
BDL
Mike, this discourages students or entrepreneurs from getting in to Esri's platform. No way to try it out, and then upgrade to the Org and use content you started building. The limitation of where you create a Personal Account, and then can't update this info in to an Org account if you buy one. For example, this has been an embarrassing issue with my students for many semesters. They want to take their nice work and story maps with them when they matriculate. Managing content and ownership, whether I am teaching, managing for emergency management, or working with other agencies, is ... not optimal. I ran into more road blocks today; apparently you can't share editing of a web map to another user? Only the Owner can Save? Even in the same Org? I will be calling tech support. But, why should I need to is the question. And really, I wanted an external user to be able to save. I successfully shared and she can see it but not Save.
Saving as a new copy is a great way to move something. In fact, quite clever... yes! And would work perfectly, to duplicate. But... if you have an app hardwire to a webmap ID that will not work. Now it would be really cool, if we could 'change' the webmap ID with AGOL assistant. To change it to what the old one's ID was, after we make the old one's ID some new arbitrary ID. So we could do this Save As trick, then rename the new one with the old one's webmap ID and thus same URL so the app would not need updating and keep on ticking. These are the kinds real world things that can use some more focus grouping.
Kevin,
When you mention being able to save a map, do you mean with an organizational account? If so, I believe you can create a group with shared editing privileges, so other people besides the owners or administrators can save the web map. When you create a group, make sure to check "All Items" under "What items in the group can its members update?"
That way, if a map is shared with that group, other people should be able to edit and save it. (they would have to be members of that group though)
Hope that helps.
I did exactly this, the "save" is Grey" but Save As is not. In fact I even tested it between members of my own org! I can log in as our Org Admin but then I log in as my kmsagis user and see the same thing, it is grey! I will try calling Support. Maybe I am missing something. But if so, it's hidden rather well. That, or I just have a case of the Fridays.
Kevin MacLeod - Regarding trying out the ArcGIS Platform, there are different ways to do this:
Related to wanting multiple people to have control over items, you can create a shared access and update group for members within your organization. This allows anyone in the group to edit the content of the group as if it was theirs. This only works within a single organization, not across organizations. Also, you need to have administrative privileges to create such a group. Members in the group don't need to be administrators.
Hope this helps.
Mike
Mike, thanks. That is as I thought. Thank you for your detailed comments. Now, note that we extensively leverage AGOL deeply across local government, education, and private sector in my city, and we love what we can do with it. I have two ideas that I offer merely to make the platform even better. One- software companies usually treasure education users as future customers. Allowing college students to take their work with them as portfolios would be a wise future business decision as a platform enhancement. The "save as" workflow works to back stuff up, or 'move' stuff but then URLs and IDs change, etc.
So, moving on up to an Org Acct from Personal account as a new business, let's say, and getting an Org account, this sounds like it would work great. But what about the student that graduates, then starts working somewhere that already has an Org account or maybe they are interning somewhere, transferring schools, etc. And they want to take everything, data, webmaps, apps etc. That should be a single click or a few clicks. I don't see why it wouldn't be. And in fact, webmap and item URLs should remain the same so apps do not break even in the process of moving Org or Org. Just saying, streamlining this process can only help generate favorable impressions of the platform for the GIS managers of tomorrow. So there should perhaps be a content moving 'wizard' or something.
Second thought - cross-org content collaboration is key for many sectors and folks. Is it coming? Do you know if either of these are Planned and/or In Consideration? Thank you again for your time and insight!
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