Maps Shared to Organisation Not in Collector

MPC_KineticGIS_Department

There is this nice sharing feature in ArcGIS Online for Sharing with your entire organisation, pretty stock standard feature very useful. Collector for reasons unknown ignores this feature, you must share your maps to a group that your users must also be a member of. This is just getting crazy with the amount of hoops you need to go through to share content with collector.

Can someone please explain to me why this is intended behaviour?

Collector for ArcGIS

"Note:

In addition to the data requirements, a map appears in Collector if you created it or if you are a member of a group with which the map is shared in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. The map must also be enabled for use in Collector."

If you don't want content in collector just untick the use in collector box on the map....

Isn't your organisation the first group you are a member of?

Kylie

Hi! Great question - let me explain how we came to that design. The sharing of a map is done by the owner of the map. Some owners share with the org as a whole, to make sure those who need their map can get to it. But often, it's not the whole org that needs a map. For Collector, the mobile workers in the field have a particular task to accomplish and use a specific set of maps to do so. And one org may have multiple groups of mobile workers with different, distinct tasks and maps. That makes for potentially a lot of maps that need to show up in Collector (and can't be excluded from it) but aren't needed by all members of the org. Also, since Collector is a mobile app, we want to keep it easy for the mobile worker to find the maps they need without having a lot that doesn't apply to them. So we limit it to maps that are targetting the particular signed-in mobile worker

Think of it like going through your email: there is a lot there. Some messages are sent directly to you. Some are for a mailing list you want to be in (like Groups in ArcGIS). And some is sent out by lists that got your email, so is somewhat applicable to you, but you might not want to get messages from (like org shared maps). Now, in my email, I can delete what I don't want to see, or block senders. But mobile workers in Collector see the maps that are put there for them, so as part of the app design we aimed to keep that as relevant to the individual as possible.

Now, if you find that this isn't ideal for you and your organization, could you share why you want to be able to share with the org and have those maps included in Collector?

Thanks!