Latest Contributions by BrianHaren

Our organization allows members to reserve conference spaces & rooms via Outlook. It's a large campus with over 100 'official' conference rooms. A manager recently stated that it would be nice if, when someone reserves a conference room a link to a web map is embedded in the Outlook invite that shows the locaion of the conference room. It would eliminate a lot of confusion. ... View more

Russ, Thanks for the info! I think you should know that, by default, the only field in the tracking service data table that is exposed is the Accuracy field.  To access the creator and date fields you must select the 'Display: A custom attribute display' option in the pop-up configuration tool before you can see these additional fields.  This is what was tripping me up. Brian ... View more

Have you signed up for the free 30 day trial of ArcGIS Online?  If no, sign up and you can create your own map for use in Collector to test. ... View more

While I don't have an answer to the OP's issue, I will chime in and say we've noticed the same thing in the Atlanta area running over AT&T's LTE network over the past 3 days.  It is hard to diagnose because we can run the same map in the connected mode and it works just fine, but if we switch to off-line editing and try to download we'll occasionally get the 'map failed to download' error.  Not every time, but enough to make us question the reliability of the process. At first I thought the issue might be related to the size of the geodatabase we are bringing down to the devices, but since the OP notes that his dataset is actually quite small I don't think that's the issue. We have NOT tested this on the Verizon LTE network so I don't know if it's a carrier specific issue.  We just run on the AT&T network. Brian ... View more

My organization has been using the Juno 3-series devices for a few years and recently bought two Juno 5-series (one running Windows Embedded Handheld and the other running Android 4.1) to test. Bottom line is this - I simply can't recommend the Juno 5/T41 devices at this time.  The problem isn't the hardware.  In fact, the hardware is outstanding.  Trimble stumbled badly with both versions of the device when it comes to operating system choices. First, Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (WEHH) is a dead OS.  While I understand that the new Windows 8 Mobile OS was not (and really still isn't) ready for prime-time when this unit was developed, and ESRI has yet to port ArcPad over to Windows 8 Mobile (if they ever do), the fact remains that WEHH is an archaic, under performing OS in today's market and it's poor performance really shows on the Juno 5 hardware platform.  It's like putting a 4-cylinder Yugo engine in a Porsche.  Heck, we can't even get these devices to sync properly with Windows 8 desktops.  It's time both Trimble and ESRI leave WEHH behind and begin development against a more current mobile OS. But Trimble stumbled even worse with it's Android implementation.  This is the OS we really had hopes for.  The ability to run ESRI's ArcGIS and Collector apps, Trimble's own TerraFlex, and take advantage of a whole host of other enabling apps like Google Earth, Google Docs, etc. really appealed to us.  The problem is that Trimble did not move to get their implementation of Android certified by Google, so no access to the Play Store; no ESRI apps, no Google Earth, no Google Docs.  Heck, the units can't even run Trimble's own TerraFlex app!  Our distributor told us that Trimble is 'rushing' to get the Juno 5 certified by Google so it can access the Play Store, but they've been 'rushing' for months now and still no word on when or if this certification will ever take place. So we have turned back to the Juno 3 platform until Trimble gets this all sorted out.  Our experience is that the Juno 3 is a reliable, stable and rugged platform.  We've had very few issues with them running ArcPad.  Hardware performance may not be the best, particularly camera performance, but it's still a viable platform and it comes in at about half the cost of a Juno 5. ... View more