topic Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities" in ArcGIS Collector Questions

Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

KevinWatt — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:22:43 GMT

I have been successful downloading point and line layers for offline use with collector. I tried adding a parcel polygon layer (published from ArcGIS desktop as a feature service), and now when I try downloading for offline in the collector app, I get the error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities".

I have checked the polygon layer and it has editing and enable sync checked. I have tried republishing the dynamic map feature service to ArcGIS.com, and adding it to a new map as well. The error still persists. As soon as I remove the polygon layer the maps download for offline with no errors.

I tried two other polygon layers as well and it also gave me the same error. I also tried this on two different android devices.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? Is it possible that polygons are not supported for offline use?

Thanks

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

RussRoberts — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:36:53 GMT

The editing capabilities will need to be set to full editing "Add/Update/Delete". Are any of the services in your web map set to Add or Update only?

Russ

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

KevinWatt — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:44:05 GMT

That did the trick. They were set up edit/update attributes only. Once i changed it to full editing I was able to download successfully.

Thanks again Russ!

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

KieranParsons — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:53:58 GMT

I was under the impression that you only needed at least one layer with full editing capabilities turned on in a map; and then you could added other layers that had various, or no, editing abilities turned on.

However if I add layers to my map (that have one layer with full editing turned on) that have no or limited editing turned on, when I go to take maps offline I get the message "A layer does not have the correct editing capabilities".

Can you please elaborate on this? I would really prefer to have some layers fully editable, and other only partially editable (update attributes only etc) in the same map.

Thanks.

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

PaulBarker — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:09:28 GMT

Currently offline requires every feature service in the map to have full editing capabilities to for offline use. We do support disabling editing at the webmap layer to allow for use of read-only features in the field. In a future release we will be adding in support for finer grained control in the field so that you can do things like, prevent deletion, update attributes only and allow new feature creation only.

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

KieranParsons — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:41:17 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply, Paul.

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

CCWeedcontrol — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:00:34 GMT

Is it possible to use a layer package in a similar fashion to using a tile package offline? I would like to add a parcel layer to my offline map but it is only for reference and it would be best not to have it editable.

John Nelson

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

RussRoberts — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:39:24 GMT

Layer packages are currently not supported. You can disable the editing on the layer at the web map level and the app will not display that layer in the template picker and you wont be able to edit existing features.
Russ

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

CCWeedcontrol — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:43:06 GMT

Layer packages are currently not supported. You can disable the editing on the layer at the web map level and the app will not display that layer in the template picker and you wont be able to edit existing features.
Russ

Ok, that does what I need it to. Thanks Russ!

Cheers,
John Nelson

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

AndrewHargreaves — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:15:16 GMT

Just to be clear: even those Feature Services on which you 'disable editing' will still need to be set to full editing "Add/Update/Delete" for this to work offline.

Thanks

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

RussRoberts — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:24:42 GMT

Yes in this release you will need to do that. We will be improving our support for the different editing capabilities in future releases.

Russ

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

DavidCoombe1 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:59:19 GMT

End users require context through layers such as suburbs, local government areas, land parcels and roads etc. These layers should not be editable to users. Yet they need to be made available offline.

At present the work flow requires full edit mode on all feature layers which means users can edit authoritative, accurate and assured data. The offline mode needs a rethink around end user requirements.

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

FrankRoberts — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:27:58 GMT

I noticed this thread is just a little old. I am seeing the same issues at the current release of Collector - 10.2.4. Can someone confirm that this is still the case? I just want to make sure that there is not some sort of cool work around to allow off line data that is not editable. I concur with David's response above that this is a significant flaw, since we don't want our end users editing our parcel basemap in Collector, but we do want them to take it off line.

Thanks

Frank

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

RussRoberts — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:23:21 GMT

Yes right now the app (iOS and Android) still only support full editing capabilities in the feature services when being taken offline.

Re: Offline Download Error "A Layer Does Not Have The Correct Editing Capabilities"

Terri-AnnGrant — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:05:45 GMT

This is an old thread but i'd like to know if there is now a solution to this allowing for tier editing function within offline maps or any workarounds to this.