topic Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL in ArcGIS Online Questions

Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

AndrewHansford — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:48:40 GMT

Hi There,

I was wondering if someone knew of away to auto-populate the data-time field when editing a feature in AGOL out-of-the-box (OOTB)?

Example is:

During a Civil Defence Event we would require our Emergency Operating Centre Staff to login to a map and then begin editing data as it is received.

Currently the Web App is setup to use the "Smart Editor" widget, you click on the road segment to begin editing the attribute information:

What would be useful is to have the Updated At automatically populated with today's date and time.

Is anyone aware of a way to do this

Cheers

Andrew

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:04:02 GMT

couldn't find anything in the basic help Work with fields—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS

nor could I find anything about auto-populating fields in https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas?sr=search&searchId=404c4c56-7ec8-42bc-9b56-2a4e8a67d17e&searchIndex=0‌

but that doesn't mean there isn't something in the developers section, which I didn't explore.

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

AndrewHansford — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 22:39:05 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thanks for this, I have raised an Idea to see if it gets traction

Ability to Auto Populate fields in AGOL

Cheers

Andrew

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

JakeSkinner — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:04:37 GMT

Hi Andrew,

If you check the option 'Keep track of who created and last updated features' on the feature service, the date/time and editor will be updated automatically.

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

AndrewHansford — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 19:42:32 GMT

Hi Jake,

Thanks for this, I will change these settings and see how I get on

Cheers

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

KathrynCliftonGIS — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:48:34 GMT

Hi Jake. Just saw this post. What are the names of the fields that are automatically updated? I am using the schema for the Citizen Problem Reporter crowdsource application, and there is a "Date Submitted" field, but that is not automatically updated. Wondering what field names I should add so that they are automatically updated. Thanks!

Re: Ability to Auto Populate Data-Time fields in AGOL

JakeSkinner — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:18:44 GMT

After you enable editor tracking 4 new fields will be created:

Creator

CreateDate

Editor

EditDate

You will have to go into the pop-up configuration and toggle these fields on to see them.