User Type between Mobile Worker and Creator

ChelseaRozek — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:38:06 GMT

As I'm working out which user types we'll need after the end of concurrent licensing, I keep running into users who would benefit from a "Publisher" type user that is a Creator without ArcGIS Pro.

1) Lite GIS users who are not willing to learn Pro but are happy to make story maps and simple instant apps in ArcGIS Online. They need more than Mobile Worker because that type cannot create and modify items.

2) Users who need to be in both ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS to make/manage content for their departments. That necessitates at least a Creator user in both, so a basic license of Pro will be sitting unused.

I realize ESRI won't want to change the user types so close to this upcoming transition, but I imagine there are other organizations out there in the same boat.

Re: User Type between Mobile Worker and Creator

AdamOestreich — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:09:10 GMT

I can definitely see a user that is allowed to own web map/applications only, as a useful capability in either AGO or Portal. Some of my organization's users may like to create a dashboard or story map, but are only ever using existing web GIS content. Additionally, some of my organization's users are simply learning about GIS and would like to try producing a web map/story map/instant app, play with it and have the ability to save their changes, before diving into a more advanced license.

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