How to handle duration or expiration time

Question

Good afternoon,

We received a request from end users to add a duration or expiration time to polygon layers they digitize. The user wants each polygon to automatically be marked as expired a few hours after it is created.

The polygon represents alerts.

How do you add this information in a hosted feature class?  A date field?

How to populate this information in a Web Map?

Thanks

CodyPatterson · Answer

Hey @SanchezNuñez

That's great to hear! If that field is unused by any other functions, you may use that along with the filter view to only show the active polygons, possibly setting it to only show non-expired polygons!

Cody

SanchezNuñez · Answer

Thank you  @CodyPatterson

I took a look to this Water Outages layer that has a date field called "Estimated Number of Customers Impacted", where an editor can enter a time.

Water Outage Area - Overview

Thanks

CodyPatterson · Answer

Hey @SanchezNuñez

The way to do this would be to either edit the feature layer that you're using and add a date field, or if there is already a date field available, you can use it to edit the expiry date like this here, entering a date and time along with status field if you would like:

Cody