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Arcade expressions in Collector?

Trippetoe — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 17:38:46 GMT

Hello.

Are Arcade expressions recognized in Collector? I have generated a test map in AGOL and based the symbology on an Arcade expression. It works fine in AGOL, but the same map seems to crash in Collector.

Thank you.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

BWSCIM — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:38:11 GMT

Just experienced this today, used an Arcade expression to provide logic for symbology and the features no longer appear in Collector maps. Would love to get an 'official' answer on this?

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

Trippetoe — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:48:07 GMT

I learned about Arcade from a post by Rene Rubalcava‌ on his odoenet - programming geo blog site. Maybe he can give an answer, official or otherwise?

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

ReneRubalcava — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:01:49 GMT

Looks like a future version of Collector will support Arcade expressions. According to the blog post, you'll see Arcade support coming to more apps coming up.

Over time you’ll start to see Arcade supported in more apps, and it will crop up in more places to enable you to do more than just customize the presentation of your data. We have some really exciting things planned so stay tuned.

I don't have any timeframes though.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

Trippetoe — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:15:39 GMT

Thanks for the reply Rene.

I am looking forward to Collector support for Arcade.

tom

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

KatherineO_Brien — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:11:45 GMT

I confess to researching the use of Arcade Expressions after starting a field collection project. I certainly wish COLLECTOR will soon be able to take advantage of expressions. Here is the back story.

We wrote a successful expression in an ArcGIS Online Map. The behavior of the hosted feature in the map worked as expected when edited in the map. We are doing field inspections of features on UNC at Chapel Hill’s campus using COLLECTOR. The hosted feature is symbolized on two values of an attribute. When the feature is inspected we want the inspected feature to turn a different color indicating it has been inspected. As I said this works very well in the AGO map viewer. However the hosted feature layer no longer displays in COLLECTOR once we applied the expression. When we removed the expression from the AGO map the hosted feature does display in COLLECTOR.

Here is the expression:
If ($feature.FEATURE == “BOLLARD”){
If ($feature.DATE_INSPECTED>=1)
{
“Bollard Done”

}
Else {
“Bollard”

}
}

Else
{
“Misc”
}

We have called ESRI Tech support and have an open case.

Now I know we need to wait a little longer for the functionality to work in COLLECTOR.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

Trippetoe — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:26:50 GMT

I just created a new 'Idea' for expediting support for Arcade in Collector. Please give it an up-vote if you like.

https://community.esri.com/ideas/12988

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

DougMorgenthaler — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:56:59 GMT

Rene is indeed correct, support for Arcade expressions is something we intend to add support for in Collector. Thanks tomrip‌ for creating an idea for others to upvote and comment on.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

HuongTran1 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:35:51 GMT

We are trying to show inspection due this month and the previous 2 months by using the Now() function I was able to have it work fine in AGOL but Collector is not display the same as in the webmap.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

MichaelTownshend — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:02:10 GMT

This item is over 2 years old and still does not appear that Collector, or Explorer, support maps symbolized using Arcade expressions. Is anyone aware of the time frame for when this might be implemented?

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

HuongTran1 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:14:19 GMT

Micheal they will not have Arcade expression available for the current collector app. They should have it available with the Aurora project Collector App which it is still in Beta for IOS and android.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

FrankPotempa — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:49:54 GMT

Now that the new Collector is released for iOS do we see support for Arcade expressions? We are looking to use in Collector with auto increment or calculating values based on input is available.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

Sveinung_Bertnes_Råheim — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:02:12 GMT

We tried to test arcade driven symbology in the new version of collector for IOS (18.10) today. The symbology worked fine in webmaps and webapps, but it did not work i Collector. The features simply disappeared.
Obviously, there is still a way to go for ESRI.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

HuongTran1 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:42:26 GMT

Sveinung Raheim‌ i have tried my map that has an arcade expression in my android phone and it is showing properly. The only problem now is i think relate it still not working.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

Sveinung_Bertnes_Råheim — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:49:48 GMT

That must be in a webapp? Because ESRI says that the existing Version of collector is not supporting Arcade. But it will be (at some point) supported in the aurora-Version of colletor, supposed to be released in first half of 2019.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

HuongTran1 — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:57:24 GMT

Oh sorry yeah i tested it in the collector aurora beta version.

Re: Arcade expressions in Collector?

MarkBockenhauer — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:39:30 GMT

Arcade expressions can be used to show information in a custom popup configuration. The ability to show layer symbols based on an Arcade Expression in Esri Apps (Built on ArcGIS Runtime) is still being worked on for a future release.

Mark