idea Improve ArcGIS online field editability to be more user-friendly in ArcGIS Online Ideas

Improve ArcGIS online field editability to be more user-friendly

LydiaStekkinger — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:44:59 GMT

In the new ArcGIS online viewer, it is no longer possible in the Visualisation tab of a layer to quickly put check marks for each field to determine if they are visible and/or editable. This is now done by going to the Data tab, select a field, and then use the option to make a layer editable (or no longer editable). This is very labor intensive and time consuming, especially as we have several datasets with more than 120 fields, that are used for 9 hosted layers each. That's a LOT more mouse clicks then before to prepare them for our fieldworkers.

It would be really appreciated if Esri develops an easy way to change those attributes, so that they can be viewed and/or edited, similar to how it was done in the old viewer Visualization tab for each layer.

Also see this question in the community.

Old viewer field editingNew viewer field editing - more labor intensive

Re: Improve ArcGIS online field editability to be more user-friendly

DanielleKulas — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:43:38 GMT

Thank you so much for posting this idea!! Would love to see an easier, more user friendly method implemented.

Re: Improve ArcGIS online field editability to be more user-friendly

ChristopherCounsell — Fri, 26 May 2023 06:56:18 GMT

Great Idea! Manually configuring field editability on View layers is a very slow process. It would be a huge time save if we could check which fields are editable in a hosted feature layer view settings, similar to the View layer settings for which fields are visible.

We have some 'approval' views that show all the data - multiple fields - but only want to allow editing on one field. Have to through and click several times to disable editing on the other fields...