Field Maps Personal Markup Upload to AGOL?

[DCRWBNERRCreator]

Hello, last week I was able to upload the markup layer to AGOL, which allowed me to use it in Pro and export it to a geodatabase. Today, I collected more markup, now called "personal markup", and could not find a way to upload to my AGOL account. The version of Field Maps on my phone appears to have automatically updated within the past few days. I have Version 25.2.0 on an iPhone 12 with iOS 18.6.2. 

If it's no longer possible to upload the markup layer to AGOL, how can I bring the markup into ArcGIS Pro?

Thank you,

Ryan

[HeatherMcCracken]

Hi Ryan,

The ability to share markup directly to the organization in Field Maps has been officially retired. You can review the deprecation and retirement notice here: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/deprecation-arcgis-field-maps-sharing-markup-to-organi... 

In Personal Markup in the new generation of Field Maps, users can share it peer-to-peer but can no longer share it directly to the organization. It would be great to hear more about your specific scenario, if you are able please share your use cases for sharing markup to the org so we can learn about your needs. It might also spur some other ideas for us to suggest here to help you satisfy this workflow ...

Thanks for your question and your feedback
Heather

[JordanZ]

Hi Heather,

I work as a field biologist and I'm kind of devastated to see this feature removed. I do a lot of project-level vegetation mapping and markup has became integral to my workflow. Markup was so much better than sketching on a paper aerial map. We had customizable colors, label categories, embedded notes. I could quickly sketch, edit, and delete as needed while walking through the field, then bring this back to the office in ArcPro for the clean digitization. This was a real game-changer. See attached screenshot if you'd like a visual.

I understand ESRI probably wants us to collect all data straight into feature layers, but considering the number of edits and refinements in the field, this is way too clunky with the vertex-by-vertex editing. "Drag map, tap, drag map, tap. Select vertex, delete..." etc...

Please consider some method to import these new .markup files into ArcPro, with or without AGOL. I suppose I could go through the process of geo-referencing markup screenshots prior to digitization but that feels like a huge step backwards (and loses all label and notes metadata). 

Thanks

[Tabouli]

This is incredibly unhelpful. I use Markup if I dont have a relevant layer within my field map that I could add a feature to, or if I dont have the editing permissions. Unexpected situations happen a lot working outside. Markup is useful during meetings to take notes on areas for different activities; and having that all uploaded to AGOL so I can go through it and create the layer I need to represent what I sketched; or to send that markup layer to a co-worker if they have a question about where something is - just being able to circle it and send it over. 

[BiosisGIS]

Hi Heather,

This has come as a bit of a shock for our organisation as well. We have over 80 Field Maps users across the business doing mapping of ecological and archaeological features.  The ecologists in particular like to use markup to capture data on site that doesn't fit within our enterprise schemas and are unexpected, so can't easily be planned for ahead of time. They like the ease and flexibility of using mark up to capture this, especially as the polygon editing experience in Field Maps is less than idea for capturing natural features with complex boundaries. 

They were sharing these markups with the GIS team by being able to upload them our portal. They were also  able to view their markup alongside other maps that had additional layers that we don't want to push to every field map due to their drag on the efficiency and reliability of Field Maps.

We now appear to have no way to access the markup data in Pro or in web maps and will have to rapidly figure out work arounds and new methods to achieve the same goal.

Kind regards,

James.

[HeatherMcCracken]

Hi all,

Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback and for sharing how you’ve been using markup in Field Maps and its importance for your day to day.

We can understand that the ability to share markup back to the organization was important for some of your workflows — in some cases used as a lightweight alternative to formal data collection and handling those unplanned/unpredictable scenarios.

While this ability to share markup back to the org had to be retired due to technical limitations, customer feedback around markup has helped us uncover something deeper: many customers are really looking for additional ways to capture data (for example freehand drawing like you might be wanting for those complex boundaries).

Rather than expanding markup into a data collection tool, our strategy is to keep markup focused on personal use, though still shareable peer-to-peer. Instead, on our roadmap we have planned to invest in enhancing data collection modes to better support the kinds of workflows you’ve been using markup for.

We’re listening, and your input continues to shape the direction of Field Maps. There is a lot of great insight and information just in what you have all shared in this thread. It would be great for us to understand even more detail. We'd appreciate if you would take the following survey to provide us with more feedback on markup and indicate if you'd like a follow-up conversation - we'd be very happy to meet with you.

New Personal Markup Survey 
Looking forward to continuing the conversation...
Heather