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Are Daily Automated Reports of Changes to Feature Service Possible?

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JThompson_GADNR-WCS
Emerging Contributor

Hi All, (Thank you in advance for helping me problem solve this!!!)

I am working on a project that uses a model to analyze live data, produce polygons for areas of concern that change daily, and display these areas via an EB app to a group of folks. We know that some of the people in this group will not have access to the app and would prefer a daily report sent via email. I am hoping to automate the generation of a report and email. 

I have worked with webhooks and report generation when S123 is involved. But this bypasses a survey by using a model to evaluate criteria of the live data stream. 

Has anyone done this? Or can point me to guidance for this? We have AGOL and ArcGIS Pro. Our dedicated GIS team has admin access if that is required. 

Thank you!

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D_Atkins
Frequent Contributor

Do you have Editor Tracking enabled and could you use Python scripts? We generally use emails modules to send our team alerts if there are ever any errors/Exceptions in our daily scripts, but you could do similar to email a report.  

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ChelseaRozek
MVP Regular Contributor

So your model overwrites a hosted feature layer in AGO every day? Are you using Make or Power Automate to work with the webhooks? My first thought is if the scenario/flow needs a survey as input you could create a dummy survey from the existing feature layer (one of the options in the web designer) and not give it out to anyone. Then query all the features when generating your report.

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RenatoSalvaleon3
Esri Contributor

Yes.  If you need a no-code solution that will support your webhook and fire up an email the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension for ArcGIS Pro would be your best and most flexible option for this workflow. Visit the ESRI Community Data Interop Place for samples of change detection workflow using Data Interop and if you want to learn more about the product. 

Here's a URL query on the keyword 'change detect' in the Data Interop community. There are several well known patterns with change detection, including detecting changes of your survey123 attachments, if you have attachments enabled.

https://community.esri.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&f...

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