ArcGIS Field Maps Early Adopter Program is now open for business

[JeffShaner]

Inside the Field Maps Early Adopter Program you'll find access to beta versions of the mobile apps for iOS and Android, access to the EA version of Field Maps Designer, documentation, tutorials, and activities that center around what's coming in June, and a place where you can provide us direct feedback as well.

Here's what's coming in the June release:

• Attachment form elements - the photos, videos, and documents you capture are now part of the form so you can direct how and what media needs to be captured when it's needed. You have the full power of form logic and arcade at your fingertips here!
• Multiple choice form element - now you can select all those inspection violations, site conditions, and pizza toppings in a single, comma-delimited string field.
• Improved search experience - we've enhanced how search performs queries and processes results - a long-standing ask. We've also added the how you configure search inside of Field Maps Designer so you don't have to go out to the setting buried in the item details anymore.
• Enhanced GNSS support - we added more GNSS metadata fields including orthometric heights, coordinate systems, and more. If you're using Trimble receivers, we now support tilt-compensation as well. 
• Tasks - task filters define how mobile users work through their todo list in the field. Now you can sort those filters based on custom fields and specify what the default sort order should be.
• Branch versioning - when working with the online map, now you can switch between a subset of versions using the Layers tool. 
• Location sharing - we're adding support for sharing your last known location and location tracks over a constrained, satellite network so command always knows where you are.

Note that we're bumping to the 300.x version of the ArcGIS Maps SDK with this release as well. 

Lot's inside this update and we encourage you get ahead of release by testing with the beta versions. Here's the opt-in link to join if you're not part of the program today:

https://earlyadopter.esri.com/key/ArcGISFieldMaps

Thank you for your participation,

Field Maps Team!

[fdc_swca]

Appreciate the field maps team! Always great comms/docs during the betas

[KrishnaDaravath]

This update looks great! Really excited about the new attachment form elements and the improved search experience — both will help a lot in the field.

Two quick questions:

1. Will attachment fields support required photos based on form logic?
2. Which satellite devices/providers will work with the new location sharing feature?

Thanks for sharing and for all the work from the Field Maps team!

[JeffShaner]

Hi Krishna,

With #1:
- yes, absolutely. Consider this example where the visibility of the new photo form element is controlled based upon form logic and I am requiring that the mobile user capture 1 and only 1 photo by setting the min/max number of photos.

With #2:
- Our support for constrained networks is agnostic of provider. We are following the approach provided from Apple/Google that is inside of their respective iOS and Android developer documentation. The landscape is rapidly evolving as well. In the US, the primary provider at this point in time is T-Mobile with T-Satellite and Starlink support. AT&T are beta testing now. Also consider that it leverages a modern chipset in iOS/Android devices so not all phones are compatible (iPhone 14+, Google Pixel 9 series and higher, Samsung S25 and up). So good to confirm on both provider and device when you are ready to engage.

[mwartman_grey]

Multiple choice form element is huge and long awaited!

Can you confirm if the multiple choice text data will be structured exactly like select multiple questions in Survey123? e.g., "option_1,option_2,option_3" which is comma delimited, no spaces, and with an underscore to replace any spaces. This will make existing Arcade scripts that work with Survey123 data much more useful if they can be reapplied to Field Maps data.

Do you have a best guess estimate as to when we might see this feature arrive in ArcGIS Online?

Thanks.