Handling calculated fields that don't work offline

GLCAdmin

Last year we set up a Field Maps form with some optional calculated fields that fail to calculate if the user is offline. For example: this expression to capture the email associated with the user's account doesn't work if someone is working offline:

return GetUser(Portal('https://arcgis.com')).email

The required box was unchecked for those fields, and offline users could submit the form without a problem. Now the form fails to submit even though the fields are ostensibly not required. Did something change? Is there any workaround for this kind of field? Since Arcade doesn't have try/except, I don't know of a way to test whether online-only functions will work without returning an error. Maybe we just need 'online' and 'offline' versions of the same map with different forms?

AaronPDXPaul

Hi Kevin,

You summarized the issue pecisely.

The Form has not required, calculated fields, using FeatureSetByName on a PUBLIC REST service.

The Form does not Submit if the expression fails to calculate, like if the service is not accessible, or no internet.

var fsShapeFields = FeatureSetByName($map, "Water Table", [], false);

var testVal = Intersects($feature, fsShapeFields);

var value = "OUT";

for (var testfeature in testVal) {

    value = "IN";

    break; // Stop at the first intersection

}

return value;