topic Re: Legend in ArcGIS Collector Questions

Legend

KeisukeNozaki — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:22:58 GMT

In Collector for Android, I see layer control but not legend.

How do users know what symbols mean?

I heard Collector also does not support labels from ArcGIS Online.

I appreciate your advice.

Re: Legend

PeteCrosier — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:37:02 GMT

There's no full legend unfortunately - you can only see the symbology of things you can capture by pressing the "+" button when you're at the right scale for capturing those things.

There's no label support either unfortunately - when we show Collector to potential users the lack of things like labelling really turns them off.

Re: Legend

KeisukeNozaki — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:20:36 GMT

Esri told me workaround for labeling in Collector.

One is publishing as tiled service from ArcMap with consumes service credits.

This way, we can only treat layers as a background.

The other is using your own Basemap layers.

But we need to copy data to each device manually.

I hope it will be resolved in the next release.

Re: Legend

PeteCrosier — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:56:18 GMT

We do use basemaps, but it takes us nearly a week to generate a new set and our labelled data is changing far too fast for us to handle with basemaps - I think we've settled on quarterly updates to our basemapping.

As you say, hopefully label (and annotation and dimension) support will come soon - until then I think we can just keep asking and asking for it.