Drop Down menus for Editing Attributes in ArcGIS Online

[BrianBeck]

I am trying ArcGIS online for the first time and I am hoping it might work for setting up a very simple editing application where users can provide a point on a map and enter very simple attributes.  I have set up an editable feature service from an shapefile that I uploaded.  I then added that to a map, configured the attributes, and added the map to a web application using the "Editing" template.

I would like one of the attributes to be a drop down menu in which I can provide all valid entries in that attribute.  Obviously, this would need to be hardcoded somehow because shapefiles don't allow coded value domains.

Is this possible with ArcGIS Online?  Would this require me to develop my own web map application just to add this little bit of additional functionality?

[MikeMinami]

To publish from ArcMap, verify that you have version 10.1 or greater. From the File menu, you should be able to sign in to ArcGIS Online. Then, you can open your MXD and publish it from the File menu>Share as. You publish to "My Hosted Services".

So on the item details page of the feature service, the edit button is grayed out? When you publish a service, it may take a few minutes to start the actual service, as the features have to be loaded in. How many features do you have? Perhaps you can share the feature service item publicly and post the URL here.

Thanks,

Mike

[JillThornton]

Yesterday when I posed the question, I had done what you told me to in your most recent post and it said I had to contact ESRI....now it's working fine, YES!  But NOW, I'm trying to keep this map private but to share it within a group of invited users....but the search engine to find the users doesn't pull up their usernames when I type them in.....do invited users have to have a paid subscription, too?  Or can't I invite users on the public account to have access to a group that I've created with my paid account?  Seems like that should be okay, but maybe this is a feature ESRI should add?  🙂   Otherwise, how do I let others contribute to a somewhat private map?

[MikeMinami]

You can invite people who have the same type of account you have. If you have an organizational account, you can invite other organizational accounts to join your group. If you have a public account, you can invite other public accounts to your group.

Thanks,

Mike

[JillThornton]

So I can't invite people who have public accounts to join my group created under a subscription?

[MikeMinami]

No, they must be part of an organization.

Thanks,

Mike