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Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

MitchellEastley — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:57:09 GMT

We're exploring digitizing our Cemetery Plot Records and it would be really nice to have a pre-canned Solution for storing Cemetery Plot Data that can be used for managing these plots.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

JamesBushOpelika — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:19:36 GMT

We use our geodatabase and web map applications.

The public can view plots here https://arcg.is/1q0KOb

Our back-office staff updates records in arcpro or web-based maps. If you already have layers designed it's pretty simple to build a web map to update plot data that then can update the public-facing map.

I am not sure if this answers your exact question. We are also looking at some salesforce products to integrate Esri and payment solutions in one "cemetery application", but the raw data will reside in our GDB

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DrVSSKiran — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:34:35 GMT

Hi,

To answer your question, I have few queries here. As I have developed a cemetery application and dashboard using web app builder and operation dashboard on ArcGIS online.

1. Which platform would you like to use i.e. ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online?

2. If you wish to use ArcGIS Enterprise, then your answer is right but we have the alternative options to do best practices.

3. If you wish to use ArcGIS Online, then crate a public hosted feature layer and give access to all field users based on their logins then can be logged in to the app and enter the values. And use this public hosted layer in AGOL map and save it as a map layer, and consume in the web app or operation dashboard for operations & DSS.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

GregCarlino2 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:33:59 GMT

This is a great idea. I have searched for this exact Solution, as well, and was surprised to not find anything. Any municipality with a public cemetery would benefit from having a pre-canned solution.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DanielWickens — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 20:02:24 GMT

We will be releasing a Cemetery Management solution as part of the ArcGIS Solutions March 2023 release. The solution will provide capabilities to allow organizations to develop an authoritative cemetery and gravesite (plot) inventory, and share burial/sales information with the public. I'll be sure to update this post with more information once it's been released.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

GregCarlino2 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:24:40 GMT

@DanielWickens

Please do. I'm still actively searching for, and evaluating, Cemetery solutions. Thanks!

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

IanHarshbarger — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 12:41:53 GMT

@DanielWickens

I am interested in this solution as well. Thank you for letting the community know.

Ian

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots - Status changed to: In Product Plan

ChrisFox — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:40:54 GMT

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DanielWickens — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 20:44:15 GMT

Hello everyone,

The Cemetery Management solution has been released for ArcGIS Online and is now available in the ArcGIS Solutions app.

A short video is available here to review the core capabilities of the solution.

We are aiming for an ArcGIS Enterprise version of the solution to be released with 11.2 in the fall. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Thank you!

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots - Status changed to: Implemented

ChrisFox — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:44:33 GMT

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

GregCarlino2 — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:17:00 GMT

@DanielWickens

Thank you, Daniel. I'm checking it out now... looks great!

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

BradySmith — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:55:57 GMT

Just got the Cemetery Management solution configured with our data to show our park managers. I am very impressed with some of the functionality offered like using a Survey123 form to allow the public to post pictures and comments on burials.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

Allison_Hockey — Wed, 24 May 2023 21:42:48 GMT

I've implemented this solution and it's wonderful!

Now, I want to be able to upload all the photos to my agol account that people can take when they go to the cemetery and submit a memorial. The photos get taken and attached to the feature service, which is great. But I'd like to be able to also upload these photos automatically to my AGOL account to get the url to these photos so people can open the photo up in a web browser instead of having to download it when they click the link. Is this possible? Is there an easier way to accomplish what I'm after and I just don't know it yet? Any help is appreciated, thanks a million!

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DanielWickens — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:54:31 GMT

@Allison_Hockey - When photos are attached to the gravesite or burial features, they are presented in the pop-up for apps such as the Cemetery Dashboard and Cemetery Viewer (see screenshot below).

Are you also asking for a way to store the URL of the image file as a field in the feature layer? Is there a specific reason why you want to do this?

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

Allison_Hockey — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 02:10:15 GMT

Yes, that is correct Danie @DanielWickens, ad thanks for following up. I understand having a URL link in the attribute table is different than an attached photo, and I think I'd like to have both. Ideally, I would like to be able to click on the URL link for the image and it will open up in a new browser window, allowing me to see a larger picture.

There is also the question of automating the photo attachment, and URL link population process. For example, if I already have 2,000 photos stored on my computer and I move them to an amazon bucket, all I have to do is change the beginning of the url to the address of the amazon bucket, and when I click on the link in my attribute table of the specific gravesite, my photo opens up in a new window and all is gravy. I just needed to do a simple 'find and replace' on all photo links in the attribute table.

I would be so pleased if there were a slick way to do that with arcgis online too. The only way I have been able to figure this out is to upload them one by one, copy and paste the new url to my attribute table, and they open up in a new window. It works, but obviously not ideal for the time sink it is. Do you happen to know if it's possible for AGOL to let us keep the original file name as it's stored on our local drives and just give a new header like amazon does?

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

Laura — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:08:48 GMT

I have been running into errors with the task tools. I am told by support there are known bugs. Is this going to be resolved?

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DanielWickens — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:11:51 GMT

@Allison_Hockey - You can try adding an "imageurl" field to the Gravesites/Burials tables. You can then create a CSV or XLSX spreadsheet to append the Amazon Bucket URLs to that field based on the unique ID (e.g., ObjectID) of each feature. You will need to match up the ObjectID with the Amazon Bucket URL in your spreadsheet before uploading. Once you have your spreadsheet ready, you can use it to append and update features using the steps outlined here.

If you've uploaded the data correctly, each existing feature will have the Amazon Bucket URL in the "imageurl" field. You will need to update the hosted feature layer views that are used in the maps and apps to show the new "imageurl" field you added. Once you've done that, you can update the apps to use the "imageurl" as the image source in the pop-up, instead of using the feature's attachments. See screenshot below as an example:

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

DanielWickens — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:19:40 GMT

@Laura - The only bug that's been submitted for Cemetery Management that I'm aware of is BUG-000158051: Getting a 999999 error when trying to use the Calculate Field geoprocessing tool in the Cemetery Data Management Project.

I closed this BUG as a known-limit because I was not able to reproduce the issue. I was able to successfully run the tool using the data provided. The ArcGIS Pro help documentation has a topic for troubleshooting the 999999 error, if that's what you're running into.

Also happy to talk offline and I can take a look.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

Laura — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:20:28 GMT

@DanielWickens

I am the one that logged that bug. I am also having issues with the append tool as well.

Re: Solution for managing Cemetery Plots

Allison_Hockey — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:47:57 GMT

Thanks @DanielWickens for responding to my question. This is very helpful

Appreciate the assist!