topic Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records in ArcGIS Field Maps Questions

Arcade Button to Create Related Records

MappingMoose — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:01:54 GMT

Hi All,

I've recently been looking to create a workflow where field users can create a related record in Field Maps by tapping one button in the pop-up of the 'parent' asset. I watched this video: ArcGIS Field Maps: Advanced Workflows with Arcade - Esri Videos: GIS, Events, ArcGIS Products & Industries and attempted to set this up using Arcade.

I had a few errors about keys at first when I hadn't copied the syntax correctly, but currently when the button is tapped in the map pop-up there aren't any errors, but it just refreshes the already open pop-up for the selected feature.

I was a bit confused about the Arcade syntax as it only refers to the parent feature and there isn't anything to refer to the related layer or table from what I can see. My feature service has several layers in it that are related to each other. The workflow is basically: a field worker might be on a walking track, then plot a picnic area related to that walking track in one layer, and then plot a communal barbecue in another layer that is related to both the walking track and the picnic area.

I read this community post: Solved: Create direct link to add related records in Field... - Esri Community, and my thoughts are similar to Leigh Starr's comment. It is unclear (to me at least) how this can work with multiple related layers.

I then read this community post: Solved: AddRelatedFeature Url Parameter Error: Foreign key - Page 2 - Esri Community and Colin Lawrence mentions it only working for the first table in the service? I wasn't entirely sure.

All of that to say - is it possible to use these URLs when there are multiple different relationships between layers? Is there something else I can do with a FeatureSet maybe?

I'll paste the Arcade from ajohnson_wsb's post here as this is what I have used.

var itemID = //item id of web map; var featureSourceURL = //feature service url of parent asset var featureID = Replace(Replace($feature.GlobalID, "{", ""), "}", "") //globalid field of parent asset, with stripping of curly brackets var foreignKeyField = 'GlobalID' //globalid field of parent asset var referenceContext = 'addRelatedFeature' var values = 'referenceContext='+referenceContext+'&itemID='+itemID+'&featureSourceURL='+featureSourceURL+'&featureID='+featureID+'&foreignKeyField='+foreignKeyField var url = "https://fieldmaps.arcgis.app/?" + values; return url

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

DougBrowning — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:21:41 GMT

At Dev Summit they showed a whole new way to add related records that seems much better. I think it is 1 click now.

Bad pic but you get the idea. Not sure the exact time but I think next release. May be worth checking that out.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

MappingMoose — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:33:34 GMT

That UI looks very handy. I hope it supports features with multiple relationships. 🤞

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:51:25 GMT

Yes we hope the next release this summer (or shortly after) will support the related element in popups, which gives a lot more freedom with your experience with related tables in Field Maps.

@MappingMoose addRelatedFeature URLs do have a limitation if there are multiple related tables in the service that use the same key. If there are multiple tables, it will default to the table with the lowest index number (e.g. /1). We have heard this feedback and hopefully can improve in this area in the future.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ChristopherCounsell — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:03:12 GMT

@ColinLawrence are you able to share more information around this limitation? Does it apply to related tables only or does it include related layers?

We want to use relationships for pop-ups and forms and it's really difficult to identify what is supported and what the known issues are.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

DougBrowning — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:51:14 GMT

It was shown at UC also but not sure when its out?

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:15:45 GMT

Hey @ChristopherCounsell , yes the limitation would apply to any form of relationship that is supported in Field Maps (feature-feature, feature-table, and more specifically when used in a 1-M relationship). What is happening is that when the URL is executed we are identifying the parent layer and feature called out in the URL, then using the key field to look up the relationship. At the moment there is no method to select which related layer to select if there are multiple so it defaults to the first one in the index. You can verify this order at REST by inspecting the JSON of the parent layer and look for

"relationships" : [

We hope to support a method to select a specific table/layer with addRelatedFeature in the future.
It was nice chatting briefly at the UC as well!

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:16:46 GMT

This will be available with the 25.2 release of Field Maps later this year. We are currently targeting a fall release. Thanks!

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ChristopherCounsell — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:24:46 GMT

The 'add' button in the slide deck doesn't allow for attributes to be passed through like the URL scheme does. The html pop-up links and new Tasks custom URL layout icons can leverage the URL scheme to add different types of related records with prepopulated data.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ChristopherCounsell — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:24:11 GMT

Hi @ColinLawrence

We cannot get this to work. I stripped it back to a point layer + related table. One relationship.

https://services7.arcgis.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ArcGIS/rest/services/xyzxyzxyzxyzx/FeatureServer/0
- Parent table (point)

Relationships shown on layer 0

"relationships" : [ { "id" : 0, "name" : "Layer_Table", "relatedTableId" : 1, "cardinality" : "esriRelCardinalityOneToMany", "role" : "esriRelRoleOrigin", "keyField" : "GlobalID", "composite" : true } ],

https://services7.arcgis.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ArcGIS/rest/services/xyzxyzxyzxyzx/FeatureServer/1
- Related table

Related table relationships shown on table 1:

"relationships" : [ { "id" : 0, "name" : "Layer_Table", "relatedTableId" : 0, "cardinality" : "esriRelCardinalityOneToMany", "role" : "esriRelRoleDestination", "keyField" : "parentglobalid", "composite" : true } ],

Arcade expression:

The above code gives no error but does nothing. Logs show '[APPINTEGRATION] [addRelatedFeature] failed to find relationship'.

The generated URL in the text pop-up appears to be valid.

That was tested in 25.1.0 on iOS 18.5, iPhone SE.

There are no issues adding related records via the related table button in Field Maps.

Testing the same map and arcade generated URL in beta 25.2.0 2206 on Android works perfectly.

Any ideas?

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:05:31 GMT

Hey @ChristopherCounsell , everything looks correct with your syntax which is reinforced by it working in the Beta version. What is happening in the app when the URL is called? Does nothing happen or does it select the parent feature and open the popup? I will try with some of our examples in the meantime.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ChristopherCounsell — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:26:49 GMT

Thanks @ColinLawrence

We have the pop-up open already of the parent feature, clicking the link does nothing. Just the message in the logs.

Other configurations when the syntax was incorrect threw error messages like can't find the GlobalID within the app.

We created the layer in ArcGIS Pro. Simple and Composite relationships tested.

Is there a sample map / template where this works?

Cheers

Chris

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:57:05 GMT

@ChristopherCounsell So I got around to testing a few internal examples we have. Its possible there is a regression here. I found that an example I had with multiple tables was working (and hitting the first index table) but an example with only a single table in the service was not working and I am seeing the same message in the logging that you reported. Going to try and stand up something from scratch to double check but seems like a bug could have been introduced here. If so, I'm a surprised this was not reported already.
We dont have an external sample, just the example URLs in the doc which we can already confirm you have formatted correctly.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:06:23 GMT

I just confirmed the same links work in the iOS beta as well. So there is something that changed in the 25.1 version for iOS.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ColinLawrence — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:51:30 GMT

Sorry for the deluge but, in case you want to get attached to this, there is a BUG number:

BUG-000175355 - When using a URL to open and create a related record on a point collected in ArcGIS Field Maps, the URL is no longer opening the related records pane.

Re: Arcade Button to Create Related Records

ChristopherCounsell — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:05:07 GMT

Thank you so much!