Latest Contributions by ChrisDelaney

Hi Annette! Just to clarify, are you trying to use Field Maps to track the locations of users in the field, and then visualize that historical information on a map? If so, there are a few things you'll need: 1. Each of your mobile workers you want to track must have a field worker named user license (or a different named user type + the tracker add-on license) and an iOS or Android device with ArcGIS Field Maps installed. 2. Create your web map, add whatever layers you want. and share it to a group. Invite all of your mobile workers to that group. if you want, you can set your map to require location tracking, so when your mobile workers access the map from the Field Map mobile app, they are automatically prompted to turn location tracking on. This setting is configurable from the Field Maps web app. 4. When your mobile workers use Field Maps, it stores up to 72 hours of tracks on the device by default which you can access in a map by clicking on the layer icon then turning on My Tracks. Under options you can control the timeframe of tracks you wish to see. 5. If you want your mobile workers to be able to view the tracks of other mobile workers, then all of those named users will need to be added to a track view, and that track view will need to be added to the web map. To make a track view go to the app launcher, go to the track viewer web app, and create a new track view. Give the track view a name that will help you recognize it for this specific purpose. Add all of the mobile workers you want to track to this view- note you'll need to be an administrator in your organizational portal in order to create a track view. Additionally, the administrator of the organizational portal will need to create a custom role with the privilege "View location tracks". Each mobile worker will then need to be assigned this role. Once these steps are completed, each mobile worker would be able to view in Field Maps the location tracks of all of the other mobile workers assigned to the track view. If a coordinator of the mobile workers needs to view the tracks, they can either add the track view to a web map (and then build an app around that map) OR they can open up the track viewer web app, see a list of all mobile workers and toggle which to display, as well to filter by time or by activity type (stationary, driving, walking) Location tracks are stored for 30 days by default, but if you need to export them for archival purposes, you can go to the item page of the track view you want to archive, and click Export data, and choose an export format. Hopefully this helps- if you have more questions, feel free to reach out directly at cdelaney@esri.com. ... View more

Hi Jon, We have recently created a new tool in ArcGIS Pro to do this work, called Update Features with Incident Records, that is replacing our older tool. We are currently in the process of updating our training courses, but in the meantime, you can use the blog below (and associated video) to learn how to use this tool to automate import of your crime data into a feature class or web layer. https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/crime-analysis-with-arcgis-pro-video-blog-series-part-1/ Please feel free to reach out if you have further questions! @Anonymous User  ... View more

Hi Kennie Harris, You can make a simple app to support this workflow using Web AppBuilder, the Draw and Analysis widgets, and a web map with a map notes layer in it. It's not a one-click workflow, however. Using these components, the user would need to perform two steps using the draw widget and the analysis widget. First, they would use the draw widget to create a point of interest using the map notes, and then, using the analysis widget, you would configure the widget to run only the drive-time analysis tool, and the user would then select the name of the map notes layer to run the analysis against...its not a perfectly clean workflow, but its something you could put together quickly to support that particular workflow need. Hope it helps! Chris ... View more

Thank you for the question! Our current recommendation to achieve CJIS compliance remains to employ a model where CJI data remains stored on-premise at the Law Enforcement agency via either ArcGIS Enterprise or a hybrid model using ArcGIS Server for CJI data together with ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Online continues to make progress towards compliance milestones (it now has a FedRAMP tailored low ATO, and now encrypts data at rest, for example). For more, check out: https://downloads.esri.com/resources/enterprisegis/UC_ArcGIS_Online_Security_Privacy.pdf , or if you have specific questions, contact our security team at softwaresecurity@esri.com. That being said, we see many LE agencies making extensive use of ArcGIS Online to support a wide array of organizational needs, from multi-agency event coordination to the sharing of public information. Federating an ArcGIS Enterprise org together with an ArcGIS Online org provides a Law Enforcement agency with a full range of capabilities, enabling secure sharing of sensitive data while also supporting external constituent engagement needs. Hope that helps! Chris ... View more

Hi Patricia, Thanks for your question! To add to Derek's helpful comments, to your questions around securing your operations dashboard (presumably to ensure CJIS Compliance), there are several options: 1. You will need to implement a on-premise portal (now known as ArcGIS Enterprise). That portal is where you will store your layers and maps needed for your dashboard, and ArcGIS Enterprise also includes Operations Dashboard, so you will be able to build your dashboard. When it comes to sharing with your officers, you have two options: 1. You can share it with everyone inside your firewall, or 2. you can set up the people you want to have access with named user accounts in your portal- using these accounts, you can set up a sharing group in the portal for your dashboard, so only those individuals have access. 2. As your I.T. security staff indicated, ArcGIS Online alone is not optimal for CJIS compliance- this is primarily because data stored in ArcGIS Online is not encrypted at rest in the public cloud, which is a CJIS requirement. However, some customers choose to still use ArcGIS Online, but house and serve their data within their firewall on an ArcGIS Server. In this way, you still have the benefits (updates, no infrastructure administration) of ArcGIS Online, but all of your data still lives within your firewall, and is thus CJIS compliant. In this case, any person in your organization who you would want to see the dashboard would require a named user account to ArcGIS Online.  Does that help? Feel free to contact me directly with any further questions! Chris Delaney Law Enforcement Technical Lead Esri ... View more

Carmen- is it okay if I touch base with your account manager and have her follow up directly? ... View more

Hi Lee, You are absolutely right- we didn't get much into assessment in the webinar, but the ArcGIS platform can absolutely be configured to support assessment. The question is what kind of assessment are you seeking to do? Methodologically rigorous evaluation will always be done by an analyst or researcher with the more sophisticated tools of Desktop. What is great about the ArcGIS Platform, however, is that evaluation can now be easily presented as a dynamic map information product to a decision maker, whether in the form of a web app, or through operations dashboard. Another aspect of assessment with the ArcGIS Platform that I think is exciting, is the ability for a knowledge worker (As you say- a Captain or other non-technical GIS user) to conduct some evaluation on their own. For example, they could use a web map and the online density analysis service to create hotspots for a pretest and posttest period to see if the hotspot areas they were targeting declined as a result of their efforts. I think the key takeaways regarding the ArcGIS Platform and assessment is that for rigorous evaluations done by researchers and analysts, the platform now gives you better ways to visually communicate those results to decision-makers, while also providing easy-to-use tools to allow non-technical users to conduct simple assessements and share those results with the rest of their agency. ... View more

Tommy- Yes and No. GeoForm is a javascript web app template that is fed by a web map. That web map could come from a portal instance hosted on premise by your organization. As you may now, starting with ArcGIS Server 10.3, all on-maintenance server licenses come with Portal for ArcGIS as well as a number of named user accounts (depending on your server level). So you will need Portal to run GeoForm, but you will begin to get Portal free (10.3 is prerelease in Sept. and officially released in Nov.) So you won't need ArcGIS Online to use it, but you will need to set up a Portal for your organization. Does that make sense? Chris ... View more

Hi Zach, I'm afraid that package was for demonstration purposes only. I will try to track it down for you, but I don't know if it still exists- I would be happy to help you with any specific question or issue you have- please contact me via email, and I can get you hooked up with some additional crime analysis resources! CD Chris Delaney Technical Marketing Analyst �?? Law Enforcement/National Security Certified Law Enforcement Analyst (CLEA) W 909-793-2853, ext. 7160 | M 585-406-0349 cdelaney@esri.com | esri.com | arcgis.com ... View more

Hi Thomas, Your timing is perfect! If you are planning to use ArcGIS Online for this task, we have a new configurable web app template that will be released to ArcGIS Online in July called "GeoForm". You can check out a pre-release version here to see if it meets your needs: https://github.com/Esri/geoform-template-js Essentially the workflow for this new template is to: 1. Build a feature layer containing all the fields you want in your form 2. Publish that layer up to your ArcGIS Online organization 3. Put the feature layer into a web map 4. Share that web map to the GeoForm web app template 5. Configure the form to show the fields you want users to edit As this application is built using our ArcGIS for JavaScript API, it is accessible in both desktop and mobile browsers. If this workflow doesn't meet your needs, please feel free to contact me via email for additional ideas! Chris Delaney Technical Marketing Analyst �?? Law Enforcement/National Security Certified Law Enforcement Analyst (CLEA) W 909-793-2853, ext. 7160 | M 585-406-0349 cdelaney@esri.com | esri.com | arcgis.com ... View more