topic Re: Offline editor tracking in ArcGIS Collector Questions

Offline editor tracking

CollinGrove1 — Thu, 01 May 2014 13:19:15 GMT

When using editor tracking with a hosted feature service, connected edits record the username of the logged in user. However, in both Android and iOS Collector app versions (latest of each), the user name is not recorded, but the time is.

Has anybody else noticed this, and is there a fix in the works?

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:32:14 GMT

Editor tracking and ownership controls are not fully supported in offline with hosted feature services. It is supported with 10.2.2 ArcGIS Server feature services and we are working on enhancing this area of the app.
Here is a link to our doc outlining the limitation.
http://doc.arcgis.com/en/collector/ios/create-maps/faqs-create-map.htm#anchor10

Cheers
Russ

Re: Offline editor tracking

LukeBehling — Thu, 29 May 2014 15:34:51 GMT

Hello Russ,

We are using 10.2.2 and cannot get editor tracking to work yet. Any ideas?

Re: Offline editor tracking

CraigCheeseman — Thu, 29 May 2014 16:30:03 GMT

Same here. Everything is set up as per the document you have linked but as soon as you add that layer to your map you are unable to check the box to allow offline.

Re: Offline editor tracking

LukeBehling — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:39:54 GMT

This is from another related post, but might help this one......

I need to follow up on my thread posts above.

I now have the ArcGIS Collector working succesfully. I had to create an entirely new enterprise geodatabase (Windows Server 2008, MS SQL 2008, ArcGIS Server 10.2.2) and isolate that as a completely non-versioned database where the reconcile, post and compress (RPC) functions are not being performed.

It seemed pretty consistent that even though the DATASET was not versioned, everytime we performed the RPC process on the DATABASE as a whole, the collector would lose the ability to edit while in a connected mode. It would throw a bunch of database errors in the logs and essentially not work unless the feature class and feature service were recreated. This also seems to have resolved the problem in another post where editor tracking was not working in the collector, even with version 10.2.3 installed on the device.

Now if we could just add other, non-editable services to the same web map and/or add the same layer twice with different symbology to the same service the collector would be EXTREMELLY awesome!

Re: Offline editor tracking

AdrianMarsden — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 13:03:54 GMT

A "me too" using 10.2.2. server and all I get recorded in the Edited by fields are "Esri_anonymous"

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:20:27 GMT

Adrian, ArcGIS Server service token secured?

Thanks

Russ

Re: Offline editor tracking

AdrianMarsden — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:22:38 GMT

Nope.

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:20:30 GMT

You need the service to be secured to be able to leverage editor tracking.

Re: Offline editor tracking

AdrianMarsden — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:53:05 GMT

Ah thank you.

That sort of works, but the user id that gets all the way to our database is that of the ArcGIS Server account that has been stored when I set up the layer in AGOL.

Anyway to get the AGOL user details the user uses on the the mobile device to get passed through?

ACM

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:58:54 GMT

Currently there is no way to have the sign in account used to access the Collector be used against an On-Prem Server. If you are using Portal for ArcGIS you can federated your server with the Portal and that can leverage a single sign on. Another thing you could do is create a Feature Service item for the secured AGS service and embed credentials with that but that will only be able to leverage one account at a time.

Russ

Re: Offline editor tracking

AdrianMarsden — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:37:59 GMT

Cheers - at least I haven't missed something - realistically , at the moment, we are only having one editor out in the field.

So, what do I do now to your post - in the old form I'd mark it helpful - do I have to "like" it now !

Re: Offline editor tracking

NilsBabel — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:45:05 GMT

How do you check if ArcGIS Server service token security is enabled? How do you enable it? Russell Roberts‌

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:54:12 GMT

In the server manager site you can enable security on your service by clicking on the lock symbol. The lock symbol will update from an unlock position to a locked position.

ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)‌

Russ

Re: Offline editor tracking

NilsBabel — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:13:29 GMT

Thanks for your reply, I have the service secured. But now my users have to log in a second time with an ArcGIS Server username. Editor tracking works but the ArcGIS Server username is logged. How can I get it to work with my users AGOL usernames? Do I have to setup a role for each user? How will this work in Collector? Will they need to log in twice?

Re: Offline editor tracking

RussRoberts — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:01:44 GMT

Right now you will need to login twice. We do not share the AGOL credentials with the server because the server is not federated with AGOL. If you were using Portal for ArcGIS you can federate your server and that will bring a single sign on experience.

Re: Offline editor tracking

NilsBabel — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:10:45 GMT

What would happen inside collector? Is their a prompt to login with their arcgis server username?