How to integrate enterprise datamodels with arcgis?

[KenBurcham]

Greetings!

I just started working with a tribal government's GIS program and I'm new to ArcGIS.

We are building a web-based data collection tool to help our biologists and other data creators have a nice, easy web interface where they can do data entry and import datalogger files, track projects, etc.  Much of the information they create is of geographic value and we want to connect these datasets into arcgis.  What is the best way to do that? 

We'd like to have a single data table be shared between the two systems, so to speak.  So that, say, someone can select a particular basin where data was collected and the dropdown is populated from the basin feature class from ArcGIS.  Can/should such tables actually live inside of the arcgis geodatabase and arcgis can somehow connect directly to them?  Then our webapp connects to those directly? 

Thanks!

ken.

[NidhinKarthikeyan]

Hi Ken,


The tables should be created in the Enterprise Geodatabase. The existing tables can be copied to the Enterprise Geodatabase. You can access the tables using ArcGIS Desktop application. It can be accessed through WebMap after creating a map service and publishing it.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

[KenBurcham]

nidhinkn,

Thanks for the post!  This thread is a blast from the past. 🙂

We ended up building our system as a (more or less) single-page javascript application (go dojo!) that consumes a variety of services, some arcgis server services (for storing and consuming location information) and others for project and dataset tracking.  The latter we built in ASP Web API (c#) against a stand-alone database (non-geodatabase).  We have a relationship table whereby we can connect data to any feature in any feature class.  Anyhow, it seems to be meeting our needs at this point.

Thanks for your thoughts and interest in an old thread!

kindest regards,

ken.