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Drop Down menus for Editing Attributes in ArcGIS Online

BrianBeck

I am trying ArcGIS online for the first time and I am hoping it might work for setting up a very simple editing application where users can provide a point on a map and enter very simple attributes. I have set up an editable feature service from an shapefile that I uploaded. I then added that to a map, configured the attributes, and added the map to a web application using the "Editing" template.

I would like one of the attributes to be a drop down menu in which I can provide all valid entries in that attribute. Obviously, this would need to be hardcoded somehow because shapefiles don't allow coded value domains.

Is this possible with ArcGIS Online? Would this require me to develop my own web map application just to add this little bit of additional functionality?

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AndrewHulthen

Hi Mike,

Yes the data was published from ArcGIS Desktop. I've since done as you suggested - drop down menus now alphabetised in AGOL. Many thanks for your help.

Andy

MikeMinamiP1

Andrew,

What is the source of the data you're editing? If it is based on data where you have domains set up (i.e., published from ArcGIS Desktop), then the order comes from the order the domains were created. There is a desktop tool to reorder domains, called sort coded value domains.

ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)‌

This sorting would have to be done before publishing the data to ArcGIS Online or your own ArcGIS Server. There is no ability to sort these values in the map viewer of ArcGIS Online.

Thanks,

Mike

AndrewHulthen

Hi Mike,

I'm having a problem where my dropdown field attribute values are unordered. Is there a way to make these values appear in alphabetic order?

Cheers,

Andy

MikeMinamiP1

No, they must be part of an organization.

Thanks,

Mike

JillThornton

So I can't invite people who have public accounts to join my group created under a subscription?

MikeMinamiP1

You can invite people who have the same type of account you have. If you have an organizational account, you can invite other organizational accounts to join your group. If you have a public account, you can invite other public accounts to your group.

Thanks,

Mike

JillThornton

Yesterday when I posed the question, I had done what you told me to in your most recent post and it said I had to contact ESRI....now it's working fine, YES! But NOW, I'm trying to keep this map private but to share it within a group of invited users....but the search engine to find the users doesn't pull up their usernames when I type them in.....do invited users have to have a paid subscription, too? Or can't I invite users on the public account to have access to a group that I've created with my paid account? Seems like that should be okay, but maybe this is a feature ESRI should add? 🙂 Otherwise, how do I let others contribute to a somewhat private map?

MikeMinamiP1

To publish from ArcMap, verify that you have version 10.1 or greater. From the File menu, you should be able to sign in to ArcGIS Online. Then, you can open your MXD and publish it from the File menu>Share as. You publish to "My Hosted Services".

So on the item details page of the feature service, the edit button is grayed out? When you publish a service, it may take a few minutes to start the actual service, as the features have to be loaded in. How many features do you have? Perhaps you can share the feature service item publicly and post the URL here.

Thanks,

Mike

JillThornton

Yes, I have a paid subscription--5 user account....and I'm an administrator....

MikeMinamiP1

Jill,

Have you purchased a subscription to ArcGIS Online? You need one to publish a hosted feature service. Or, if you have ArcGIS Server, you can publish to your server.

Thanks,

Mike

JillThornton

I managed to create a dropdown for editing until I realized later on that I can't share an editable shapefile on a web app, so in creating a feature service, the Edit button is now grayed in the Item Details....I tried creating a service from ArcMap to ArcGIS Online, but it says I don't have hosting services enabled and need to contact ESRI....not sure if that's even necessary, I just need for that Edit button to not be grayed out! Any ideas? Thanks, Jill

MikeMinamiP1

Jill,

Are you hosting your feature service on ArcGIS Online or on your own ArcGIS Server?
If ArcGIS Online, how did you publish it to online? What was the source of the data, e.g., shapefiles?

Basically, if you're publishing from ArcGIS Desktop, and your data has domains defined, these will come through when editing attributes. If you published a shapefile, there are no domains, so we will only populate a dropdown when editing for the field you symbolized. Thus, it would not be possible to display a single symbol and have the editing dropdown.

If your feature service is hosted, go to the item details page of the service, and click Edit. There is an option that allows you to control what kinds of edits can be made. One of the choices is that only attributes can be edited.

Thanks,

Mike

JillThornton

If I want my feature polygons to all start out as one color, that would mean they all have the same attribute in that field...so then how would it know what the dropdown options are? Also, how do I make it so that the users can edit a field in the table, but not edit the shape itself? Thanks, Jill

MikeMinamiP1

If you symbolize the field using Unique Values, you will then get a set of templates where you can add any of the unique types. And when you edit the attributes, it will be a dropdown.

THanks,

Mike

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