topic Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps. in ArcGIS Dashboards Questions

Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

CharlesKimmel — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:37:25 GMT

I have been exploring ways to present dynamic data to users in my organization. Our GIS group hosts our data on a spatial database engine and hosts some of the feature layers and datasets as feature services for web apps. I really like using the web apps with the dashboard template to display a map with graphs and data summaries from the widgets. However, my group wants to move into using the operations dashboards more—because they seem to be more customizable on the fly while being hosted through ArcGIS Online (instead of our server hosting a modified web application that has been customized though adjusting the HTML and scripting). So with that I have run into an interesting issue.

In the web application—if I have a feature service in my web map I can run statistics on the feature with the Infographic widget (as long as the feature service is a single layer). I am specifically looking at getting statistics on the SHAPE.LEN field of a line feature using the number template. The Infographic widget is capable of returning a sum of this field so I can get the total length of all the features. This is great and all but: I'm forced to use Filter by extent—as the check box is checked and grayed out. So this limits the sum to the current visible extent of the map (it updates as one zooms in or out) and I would like the entire total displayed.

Trying this same approach in an operations dashboard leads to an error. I bring in the same web map with the same feature service and when I try to do a sum on the SHAPE.LEN field with the 99! Indicator; there is a yellow caution triangle in the corner of the preview with a pop-up that states "Cannot Access Data". The curious things are:

that if the feature service is being hosted on the ESRI server than I do not get the "Cannot Access Data" error and it very quickly returns the length sum.
if I try to do a sum statistic on any other integer field in the same feature service the 99! Indicator returns the correct values.

So I am stuck wondering why can the Infographic widget from the web application read/access the shape.length field and the operations dashboard cannot read/access just this one field?

The whole point of trying to do this is to keep the data dynamic and "live" and to avoid having to do database triggers, field calculations and etc. If anyone here has any idea why this is happening or suggestions I would appreciate any ideas or information! Maybe I am missing something very simple here?

Regards,

Charles

Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

Anonymous User — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:41:01 GMT

I moved this question to the Operations Dashboard space because it seems like the main question here is why do you get an error in Operations Dashboard.

In order to elicit more responses I would suggest editing the title of this post to ask a specific question.

Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

deleted-user-Xsrs0JV1qWKH — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:31:00 GMT

I have the same need/issue with the SHAPE.STLength() field, among other things; please see: AGO Operations Dashboard questions/issues

Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

deleted-user-Xsrs0JV1qWKH — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:41:56 GMT

*bump to elicit assistance by Esri Technical Support‌

Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

Anonymous User — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:52:11 GMT

I would suggest opening a case directly with Support. If you have a problem getting a case created please let me know.

If you reside outside the US please contact your distributor to open a case.

Re: Accessing Data: Operations Dashboard and Web Apps.

deleted-user-Xsrs0JV1qWKH — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 13:36:59 GMT

As a follow-up - I opened a case with ESRI Support - there is now no issue with the SHAPE.STLength() field, in doing Count-Sum graphs... I don't know what they changed in the past few months, but now it is working.