Make web editor available to Mobile Workers

[RichardHowe]

I can't see the rationale behind making the web editor only available to Creators and higher. Anyone with a Creator licence already has access to ArcGIS Pro where they can edit their data with the full suite of desktop tools. The real beneficiaries of Web Editor will be Mobile Workers who have been out in the field and are potentially limited by Field Maps editing tools, and wish to tidy up their data when they are back in the office.

The Creator licence type is there for those who wish to create actual content i.e. hosted feature layers, webmaps, dashboards etc. not for those who simply wish to edit existing data.

Please reconsider the restrictive licencing of what, on the the face of it, seems like a really useful addition!

[LarryYoung]

Hi All,

Happy Holidays.

Thanks again for the comments.  I still have one questions that i'm not sure has been answered yet.  The main use case on this thread has been around mobile workers collecting data in the field and then coming back into the office and needing an easy to use web application for cleanup.

If that is the primary workflow, then can someone tell me what is missing from Map Viewer from an editing standpoint for that simple cleanup?  Yes, Web Editor may do it better/easier because it is a focused editing application, but it is designed to accomplish many advanced editing workflows as well.  This is the main reason for the higher user type requirement.

The answer for a simple web editing application for data cleanup by a Mobile Worker user type would appear to be Map Viewer, particular with the newer capabilities recently added such as batch attribute update.  Other capabilities still to come include split and merge.  

So what editing functionality is missing from Map Viewer (Experience Builder is also an option, but i understand that requires configuring the app, etc.) for simple data cleanup of field collected data?

Thanks, larry

[ClayDonaldsonSWCA]

Hi Larry - Here is what I see as missing:

- Split and Merge

- Copy/Paste

- Selection management (add to selection, remove from selection, select by attribute)

I would argue that all of the functionality in web-editor is valuable to mobile workers even if it's allegedly an "advanced" workflow. I don't think it's very clear what ESRI considers advanced, or why all users shouldn't have access to such tools.

[mthompson]

I think you said it yourself. This is supposed to be a better/easier way to allow focused editing... so it should be available to those who would need an easier and better focused editing tool, which would be editors without access to Pro such as Mobile Workers and especially Contributors since the whole point of that license level is to edit in the office. If this is only for use by those who already have access to Pro, I guess I don't understand what the point of it is.

[BlakeMorrison]

@LarryYoung, I assume you're gonna get piled on at this point.

Map Viewer is clearly a much more advanced tool for, as stated by Esri, "Create, explore, and share interactive maps and geographic data with ArcGIS Map Viewer." Web editor is for "ArcGIS Web Editor is a data editing application in ArcGIS Online that streamlines data maintenance workflows. Web Editor provides a straightforward approach to editing for GIS and non-GIS users."

Esri made a product, told us what the product is for, then restricted use by the usertypes they've implied the product is for. Why is Map Viewer available to mobile workers? I would never send a non-GIS user into that.

@ClayDonaldsonSWCA 

Split/Merge and all those selection options are now available in Experience Builder. Copy/Paste still to come I believe.