Auto-populate related IDs from other feature layers

Alex-Santos

Are relationships supported? Can we constrain points to be captured on existing lines in project? Example user need, we would like to capture points for leaf collections along streets. However we also want to auto-populate a field in these points with the nearest street line segment ID.  If not, we could get around this by performing spatial joins afterward. table related‌ autopopulate field‌ Matt Crossett‌ 

JohnHasthorpe

Hi Alex

To answer your questions:

- You can't constrain points to be collected on existing lines.

- You can't auto-populate a field in a captured feature with attribute values from another layer.

QuickCapture is designed to be a rapid data collection app that is quick, simple and versatile. In your case, your best approach is to go down the post-processing route (using spatial joins/intersects).

One thing that might help, is that we are planning to add support for Webhooks. This means that you could build a process that starts when a record is captured/uploaded, and uses spatial inheritance against another layer to update the feature service attributes. Note that we don't have a firm date for this functionality, but it is in our roadmap.

I recommend that you sign up to the Early Adopter Community so that you get early access to the functionality: https://earlyadopter.esri.com/key/ArcGISQuickCapture. We will add some examples when this functionality is released in beta. 

Thanks

John