How to Maintain Indoors Settings on Feature Service
We are working with ArcGIS Indoors and have the appropriate licensing set up. We have published a service and map from Pro with our ArcGIS Indoors layers configured for a college campus. We have also set up a web map with the indoors items properly configured, sites, facilities, levels etc.
So now we would like to work with indoors configured layers to map items within buildings.
Let's say we have a service with AEDs, fire extinguishers, fire access roads, etc. This is fictional data for explanatory purposes. We have several layers in the service, but only one/two items that actually need to be floor aware. It's easier to manage the service if all the items that are related are actually in the service. I don't need five different services for each layer. When I publish the service I make sure to set that the AED's have the proper configuration for indoors and the floor field set to Level_ID.
When that service is published that information is dropped. So now I have to open the Indoors configured map in Pro and then add the service with the AEDS (or any service that has the floor aware data) and reset the level ID and share a new map. It all has to be done in Pro. You have to use the feature service or add the individual item from the map image layer to make the items behave correctly in the web environment. By behave correctly I mean make the items floor aware and have the floor widget appear in the web mapping or field mapping environments.
This is a painful workflow compared to what was possible previously.
We will be expanding indoors to map hundreds of interior assets over the next several years.
My question is 1) is this the best workflow to create and handle indoors map configuration? Is there the possibility of streamlining the process? Is there a way for map image layers to hold the indoors configuration? Are we using the correct process?
