topic Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer? in ArcGIS Workforce Questions

Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

Anonymous User — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 02:39:40 GMT

Hi all.

Can you, or is it on the radar, to be able to add custom fields to an assignment layer?

We currently have a point feature class of our own that we use as our jobs layer to track work. We have a whole bunch of extra fields, probably quite specific to our needs, but that help us track, filter and report on the jobs. We use Collector and web apps, ops dashboard etc to update and view these jobs.

e.g. Not only a work order, but we include a reference to the property (e.g. farm or orchard) that the job relates to. We have own our jobid, but also a field for the purchase order from the client. We have job notes fields for internal and client purposes, invoicing status, supply regions, etc etc.

I realize that many users would have some external enterprise job tracking system and simply tie the two together via the 'external work order' field. But of course then the user also has to implement systems to coordinate jobs and their status between the two systems.

My preference would rather be the ability to add custom fields to the assignment layer itself. Preferably, users could update these custom fields within Workforce itself.

I'm trying to avoid the complexity of maintaining multiple datasets/tables/features where ever possible.

I guess the questions are:

Is there any reason why custom fields could *not* be a feature in Workforce?
Is there a manual way to add custom fields, some sort of work around?

cheers,

-Paul

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

RickeyFight — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:15:35 GMT

At this point I have not found a way to add custom fields. I am not sure when this will be enhanced.

The current workflow would be to start collecting, in collector, on an object. There would be your work around. Just have a layer added to your map that has the fields you want to edit. It is not the smoothest workflow but it can work.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

Anonymous User — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:20:55 GMT

Thanks for the reply Rickey.

The workflow you suggest is pretty much what we figured is the only current way to do it, i.e. you end up managing data across two datasets/feature classes. This is the primary reason that we have *not* currently gone ahead with using Workforce, because it's too cumbersome to track jobs/assignments when we have to check both the status of the assignment in Workforce plus the status of other data in a separate dataset.

Still hoping then that custom fields will be an option brought in at some point...

Cheers,

-Paul

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

Anonymous User — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:47:53 GMT

FYI, I have added this as an ArcGIS Idea in case anyone else has the same requirement.

https://community.esri.com/ideas/12852

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

RickeyFight — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:53:27 GMT

I did see a post that with 10.5 we will be able to host our own workforce data. I am not sure how easy it will be but it should be better.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

SushilPradhan — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:00:46 GMT

Hi Paul,

Have you found any solution for addition custom fields in a workforce project? I am working in one project and looking for a solution to add custom fields.

Thanks,

-Sushil

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

Anonymous User — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:26:11 GMT

No I never did, but then I haven't looked at Workforce for quite a while.

cheers.

-Paul

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

SamvelArushanian — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:18:49 GMT

I have tried to do this. And I succeed.

It is possible to link workforce to survey(or other apps), but u can only link “ID”, ”GlobalID” and “location” to a field of survey123.

Screenshot (Dutch):

But if you add custom field (with ArcGIS pro) to workforce “Assignments” layer, if is possible to link it to a field in survey. You can make changes in json.

"urlTemplate": "arcgis-survey123://?itemID=27e42f49fd814870ae2a6be1bcddb6d9&center=${assignment.latitude},${assignment.longitude}&field:containernr=${assignment.workOrderId}&field:naam=${assignment.naam}"

“&field:containernr=${assignment.workOrderId}” is standard link that links workOrderId(ID) to field containernr of survey 123

I simply added “field:naam=${assignment.naam}" to it where assignment.naam is a custom field in workforce and naam is field in survey123 with name “naam”.

Pardon my English

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

MichaelKohn — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:08:58 GMT

Paul,

I see that you asked this question a while ago and I hope that you resolved this issue since then. However, I did add custom fields to the assignments layer by manually adding fields through ArcGIS Online (Go to the hosted feature layer and under the Data tab you can navigate to the fields and add whichever fields you would like).

I am going to start another thread asking if there is a way to add a filter for a custom field in a Workforce Project. That is a recent request from my dispatchers.

Michael Kohn

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

CraigGillgrass — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:28:28 GMT

Michael,

This is still not possible, but it is something we're considering in an upcoming release. We're working on support for offline for our June release.

Craig

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

MichaelKohn — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:36:58 GMT

Thank you for the quick response Craig! Good to know!

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

ChrisBerryman — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:16:23 GMT

Do you update those custom fields via python? I have added custom fields to the assignments layer and have a .set_value function that says it sets the value of my custom field but actually never does.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

JordanFuhrmann — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 23:25:11 GMT

Hi @CraigGillgrass , was any progress ever made on this?

Cheers,

Jordan.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

CraigGillgrass — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:41:01 GMT

No, we haven't made progress on this. However, supporting the ability to add your own fields to the Assignments feature service is on our roadmap to support when Workforce is included in Field Maps. That work is currently scheduled for 2023.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

JohnWatson_EBA — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:07:31 GMT

@CraigGillgrass checking on the status of this. Do you know when it is scheduled to be added? Q2 maybe? Thanks.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

GISAdministrator_LMCC — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:56:02 GMT

Any updates on when this will occur?

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

RoseSimancas — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:53:49 GMT

Any update ?

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

HeatherHawkins — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:55:29 GMT

Anything yet?

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

PTOOffice — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:42:55 GMT

It's 2024. Any idea when implementation will happen? I would like to build out a dispatch form for bus accidents and a critical piece is stating whether students are on board. It changes the priority, and I want that question (and others) to prepopulate in my Survey123 app.

Re: Can custom fields be added to the assignment layer?

PTOOffice — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:49:05 GMT

I haven't gotten that far because I'm still working on different phases of the overall project. But if you're saying it doesn't work for you, I have little hope it will work for me. I'm considering changing course and basically having a feature layer (accidents) that have a simple dispatch questionnaire that feeds a larger form that will have those necessary fields answered. However, this seems like a wonky way of accomplishing this. Workforce seems the most logical way to accomplish this task.