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Share: how are you using contingent values?

JonDeRose — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:13:48 GMT

Introduced with ArcGIS Pro 2.3, contingent values provide new capabilities to create dependencies between fields with domains. In a recent blog we discussed a few ways contingent values could help improve your data design and editing workflows. We're curious to know if and how you are using them, and in what ways they've improved your workflows.

Re: Share how you are using contingent values?

Marc_Graham — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:24:14 GMT

This looks useful. It will be more useful when it is available in Collector, ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

BobWheeler — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:34:18 GMT

Did I miss where they stated it won't work with Collector? What about Web Appbuilder? Is this functionality only available within Pro 2.x?

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

Marc_Graham — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:54:19 GMT

At the bottom of the linked blog post in the “on the horizons” section:

Support for contingent values in Runtime – We plan to expose contingent values through Runtime in a future release so that Runtime clients can read and open datasets with contingent values and expose them, paving the way for expanded usage in editor apps beyond ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

Anonymous User — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:44:37 GMT

It either doesn't work (broken) w/ AGOL or it is not to be used w/ Collector (AGOL) - either way wish something would be said...

I asked about this months ago - no response...crickets...

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

JoshuaVan_Buskirk2 — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:52:26 GMT

So what is the difference between this a sub-types? I am still using ArcMap and I rarely use sub-types, but this seems like the same thing.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

Anonymous User — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 18:54:52 GMT

For one - they both do not work w/ AGOL...

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

JonDeRose — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:34:28 GMT

Hi Bob,

As Marc mentioned above: currently, editing contingent values is only supported in ArcGIS Pro. The Runtime work to support these in other clients such as Collector is planned for a future release.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

JonDeRose — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:21:37 GMT

Hi Michael,

Thank you for the feedback. We are all excited about the possibility of leveraging contingent values within Collector and other Runtime clients in a future release. Please add your voice to this Idea to bring support for contingent values to ArcGIS Online.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

JonDeRose — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:32:07 GMT

Hi Joshua,

A similar question was posed over in ArcGIS Pro which I would recommend checking out. While subtypes aren't a requirement for using contingent values, in the blog, I used the example of speed limit values to illustrate how contingent values could be used to provide additional logic to constrain the available picklist values in the domain by subtype. Contingent values also have the added benefit of providing a level of data validation to ensure errant values aren't entered into the database.

Like subtypes, contingent values allow for abstraction at the domain level; however, contingent values take this abstraction much further by restricting the options available within the picklist.
Envision a scenario where you have a feature class of city streets categorized using three subtypes for local, collector, and arterial streets. The subtype is valuable to provide one level of abstraction and define different default values for speed limit (such as 25 miles per hour for local streets); however, there is nothing that would prevent an editor from choosing a value other than the default (perhaps setting this to 70 miles per hour). While other values may be technically allowed within the domain, they would be invalid in actual usage for this road type. Applying contingent values in this scenario improves upon the logic to constrain the options available for the subtype’s speed limit and prevent edits such as this from occurring. Additionally, validation is present during data entry to alert the editor to the presence of invalid values, which highlights impacted fields and disables the option to save.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

RickWheeler1 — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:28:35 GMT

When you state " The subtype is valuable to provide one level of abstraction and define different default values for speed limit (such as 25 miles per hour for local streets); however, there is nothing that would prevent an editor from choosing a value other than the default (perhaps setting this to 70 miles per hour)."

How is this different than applying a domain to a subtype? In this example you could just use 2 domains one for each subtype. The editor would then be restricted to 25 miles per hour for the local street subtype.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

SharaHollis — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:58:45 GMT

What is the plan for exposing Contingent Values in the Pro SDK?

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

ShelleySchulte1 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:47:54 GMT

Are contingent values supported in Enterprise Portal applications? I can get my attribute rule to function but not my contingent values. Thanks!

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

RachelBeard — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:29:07 GMT

I am looking forward to contingent values and see it as a way to solve some of the editing complaints that I hear and hope to use the functionality as a carrot to move users to ArcPro but it has to not KILL my feature classes in ArcMap.

I have a series of templates that I build for users. These templates have ArcMap 10.7 and ArcPro 2.4 options depending on the users preference. Both applications point to the same project file geodatabase. I built the contingencies and did some tests edits. LOVE the results and look forward to the rumored advancements in the functionality. Unfortunately, when I open ArcMap the feature classes that have contingent values now have red exclamation marks and when I try to repair the data sources i get the attached message. I found the incompatibility note hidden in the documentation : Work with contingent values—Geodatabases | Documentation . Is there a plan to allow the formatting of contingent values for use in Pro that does not kill the feature classes' accessibility in ArcMap?

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

KariBuckvold1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:34:32 GMT

I'm having a difficult time just getting it to work on the desktop, using version ArcGIS PRO 2.5.1. My issue is I will add a list of contingent values in the design/contingent values view and the list will disappear when I go to save. Even building a really simple sample won't save. Super frustrated because this seems like a really cool functionality.

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

acarmody — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:22:29 GMT

Hi Jonathan DeRose,

Contingent values are a data validator's dream!

Hopefully the dream continues and they will be supported on ESRI's enterprise and online platforms.

I'm currently using them for wildlife classification.

Are there any geoprocessing tools/field calculations or python functions available to bulk auto-populate attributes with configured contingent values?
Say I append wildlife data from one feature class that has species common name, into my wildlife feature class that is configured with contingent values. The common name copies over, but the scientific name, family and class fields are blank. Is it possible to update these without going through each individual feature and manually editing it?
Appreciate your help, cheers!

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

GIS_Solutions — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:41:20 GMT

Hi @JonDeRose

Is there any restriction with the data type while defining the contingent value?
I could not create Contingent value with text domain.
If there is a technical article on the requirements for defining a Contingent value, can you reference it?

Im using ArcGIS Pro 2.8.3

Re: Share: how are you using contingent values?

luckachi — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:18:26 GMT

Is there any update on if we will see the auto-populate functionality in AGO / Javscript API like we see in Field Maps? I've set up subtypes with contingent values and it would be great to be able to have the fields be automatically populated when an option is selected versus the recommended list.