Latest Contributions by ChrisFox

@Alex_755, we recently added the ability to visualize the solution items and their dependencies via a diagram in the Solutions app. From the My Solutions page you can click the 'View Diagram' button. The diagram will display the items and draw arrows between dependent items. You can select an item in the diagram to highlight its dependencies. This functionality is available in ArcGIS Online and Enterprise starting at 11.5. ... View more

@dsinha, I think I understand now. You would like to know if you can deploy the solutions now at 11.2 and minimize the amount of work you need to do at 11.4 to get the updated versions. I will say it will depend on the solution. The best way is to refer to the documentation and compare the version and release notes between 11.2 and 11.4. For example, the Plans and Drawings and Lead Service Line Inventory solution have not changed between 11.2 and 11.4. So you can deploy it now and won't need to do anything at 11.4. For other solutions like Public Parking, or Stormwater Data Management there was just a minor version change between 11.2 and 11.4 (ex. 1.0 -> 1.1). In this case we just updated the apps and made no changes to the feature layers. So if you deploy it now and load your data into the layers, you can deploy the update at 11.4 and it will just create new apps on top of the existing layers. There will be no need to move data to new layers. For other solutions like Special Event Operations there was a major version change between 11.2 and 11.4 (ex. 2.2 -> 3.0). In this case the 11.4 version will deploy new feature layers in addition maps and apps. You can't just swap out the new layers for the old layers because we introduced schema changes that are required for the solution to function as expected. So my recommendation would be to start with the solutions that don't change between the versions first. Then you can move to the solutions that have just a minor version change, because the work you do now to load and create your data will continue to work when you deploy the update at 11.4. Finally you can deploy the solutions that had a major version change now, but understand that migration will be a little more involved once you deploy the update at 11.4. It will evolve loading data from the old layers into the new layers and potentially populating additional attributes as needed for the solution.     ... View more

@dsinha, could you provide a little more information on the issue you are running into, what solution(s) you are using, and what you are hoping to accomplish?  ... View more

@ACrateau, you could refer to our documentation for the solution in Enterprise 11.3 which had the 2.0 version. It would almost identical to the doc that was available previously for AGOL. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-solutions/11.3/reference/introduction-to-citizen-problem-reporter.htm  ... View more

@Dawn_Scott, you can't use arcade to conditionally show different request types based on the selected category. Instead in the new version of the app we are using Contingent Values configured on the layer to drive this behavior. The help documentation below describes how you can use a Notebook and a CSV provided in the latest version of the solution to apply your request categories and types to the feature layer in the solution. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-solutions/latest/reference/configure-citizen-problem-reporter.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_64BA96A144634860A104787C94FFD308 ... View more

@Marisa_Valencia, I wanted to follow-up on a couple of your comments. When we evaluated the ERG widget functionality in WAB and considered the options available in the platform we made the decision to go the route of a hosted Notebook + Web Tool. This was not because there was an issue with building it as a widget in ExB, but rather because this was inherently an analytical workflow. In addition, because we have implemented this as a Web Tool, you now have much more flexibility to how you run this analysis, whether that be from ExB, the Map Viewer, from a custom app, or script it using python, or future web or desktop clients. Finally, because the code is implemented via a python notebook and a CSV that drives the parameters for the analysis, we feel this approach makes it much easier for users to customize the analysis or tool. We also evaluated the functionality of the Threat Analysis widget as well. We determined there was enough of a difference in the input parameters that combining them into a single analysis tool would complicate the user experience of both. At this time we don't have plans to build a Threat Analysis Notebook + Web Tool. However, the logic in the ERG Notebook could be modified to fit the Threat Analysis workflow as essentially it is taking an input and creating buffers based on specified criteria. ... View more

@JohnWatermolen_OCGIS, yes I would be interested in trying to troubleshoot this with you. Maybe if you could share some screenshots or even a short video demonstrating the problem it might help to see what is causing the issue.  ... View more

In my experience it is common for the portal to not be accessible from outside the organization's network, i.e. only users on the internal network can connect to the portal. However, it is less common that all the users connecting to the portal on the internal network also do not have external access to the internet. If you can connect to the Portal on your internal network, i.e. login in to the portal via your browser, from your computer and your computer has access to the internet, than you can deploy solutions to Enterprise. It is very easy to test this out. Connect to the portal from your machine via the browser, open the Solutions app from the app launcher in portal, and if any solutions load then you can deploy them to your portal. With regards to the next logical step of moving the Road Closures solution to Enterprise. I would say it depends on your use of the solution. If you intend to share your road closures out with the public or to the community maps program I would say Online is a great environment for this as it is easy to share out with the public and always up and available. ... View more

@CodyLyons, a couple of things here. First, it is very common that the servers hosting enterprise are behind a firewall and have no access to the internet, but does this also mean that your Desktop that you use to connect to the Portal also doesn't have access to the internet? If your Desktop has access to the internet and you can connect to the Portal on your internal network you can still deploy ArcGIS Solutions into your portal. To do this you would go to the app launcher within Portal and open the Solutions app. From there you can search for the solution and deploy it into your portal. Second, if you are interested in sharing your closures with the Community Maps program, as discussed in the blog below, I would still recommend you use ArcGIS Online to host this solution. It is possible to deploy the solution to Enterprise, but you would need a way to share the road closures feature layer with ArcGIS Online so that it could be shared with the Community Map program and be aggregated and shared with our consumer mapping partners. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-solutions/local-government/smooth-riding-with-the-road-closures-solution/ ... View more

This is not currently possible in the latest version of the Citizen Problem Reporter solution and the new ArcGIS Instant Apps Reporter template. We are looking at adding this capability later this year. ... View more

Based on this I would recommend you use ArcGIS Pro to author a new line layer with a related table and publish them as a new hosted feature layer in ArcGIS Online. You could then add this to a web map and configure the forms on the line layer and related table to support the similar commenting behavior on line features. In ArcGIS Pro you can also configure the contingent values on the line feature class before your publish so there is no need to update the notebook to work against the line layer. I think this is definitely achievable, just need to use Pro to author the feature layer with related table.  ... View more

@Joshua-Young, I have demonstrated this scenario using Survey123 in the past. Essentially I was using Survey123 to just add new data points to the metrics layer. I was not using a repeats question to add related data, so I did not need to load any previous data. I just defined a dropdown to select the appropriate boundary, outcome and metric and then entered the values. I think Manager could also work for this, you can add related records if you add the related records element to the form for the boundaries layer in the web map. I think it would be easier though to just add a new record to the table, but unfortunately at 11.4 the ability to create new features or records in a table was not yet in Manager. This is available in the current AGOL release and will be in Enterprise 11.5. ... View more

Integrating the Line layer into the solution would be challenging, there would be a lot of work to add it to all the other maps and apps in the solution. It also wouldn't just integrate into the Notebook + CSV.  Having a line layer available in the Reporter app to submit reports with is very straight forward. You would just add a line layer to the web map, and then configure the Reporter app to have the line layer be a reporting layer. Then when you open Reporter you would have 2 layer options, the point layer and the line layer. I think though that you need to consider the user experience. It may not be that intuitive for a user to choose whether they want to create a point or a line, and even if you went this way it would be difficult for you to work with this information across 2 different layers. This is why we typically choose one geometry type that we feel can best handle different cases.  ... View more

Points, Lines and Polygons are supported in the Reporter Instant App. You would need to have a line layer in the map to support users submitting records using a line rather than a point. If you want both you would have a point and a line layer in the map and the user would first select the point or line and then draw the sketch and submit the feature. ... View more