Solution for managing Cemetery Plots
@Allison_Hockey - When photos are attached to the gravesite or burial features, they are presented in the pop-up for apps such as the Cemetery Dashboard and Cemetery Viewer (see screenshot below).
Are you also asking for a way to store the URL of the image file as a field in the feature layer? Is there a specific reason why you want to do this?
Yes, that is correct Danie @DanielWickens, ad thanks for following up. I understand having a URL link in the attribute table is different than an attached photo, and I think I'd like to have both. Ideally, I would like to be able to click on the URL link for the image and it will open up in a new browser window, allowing me to see a larger picture.
There is also the question of automating the photo attachment, and URL link population process. For example, if I already have 2,000 photos stored on my computer and I move them to an amazon bucket, all I have to do is change the beginning of the url to the address of the amazon bucket, and when I click on the link in my attribute table of the specific gravesite, my photo opens up in a new window and all is gravy. I just needed to do a simple 'find and replace' on all photo links in the attribute table.
I would be so pleased if there were a slick way to do that with arcgis online too. The only way I have been able to figure this out is to upload them one by one, copy and paste the new url to my attribute table, and they open up in a new window. It works, but obviously not ideal for the time sink it is. Do you happen to know if it's possible for AGOL to let us keep the original file name as it's stored on our local drives and just give a new header like amazon does?
@Allison_Hockey - You can try adding an "imageurl" field to the Gravesites/Burials tables. You can then create a CSV or XLSX spreadsheet to append the Amazon Bucket URLs to that field based on the unique ID (e.g., ObjectID) of each feature. You will need to match up the ObjectID with the Amazon Bucket URL in your spreadsheet before uploading. Once you have your spreadsheet ready, you can use it to append and update features using the steps outlined here.
If you've uploaded the data correctly, each existing feature will have the Amazon Bucket URL in the "imageurl" field. You will need to update the hosted feature layer views that are used in the maps and apps to show the new "imageurl" field you added. Once you've done that, you can update the apps to use the "imageurl" as the image source in the pop-up, instead of using the feature's attachments. See screenshot below as an example:
