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!

[BenSundy]

I also want to go on record supporting the desire for a workflow that enables a mobile worker to collect data in the field (using survey123 or Field Maps) and return to the office to clean it up or make edits to attributes. This seems like such an efficient and intuitive workflow for data collection and review. 

[BrittanyBurson]

We just wrapped up our Enterprise licensing agreement the next three years leaving us only with Creator, Mobile Worker, Viewer and losing Editor. Future planning of what this means for our (now formerly) Editor users brought me to this page. I'm reading here it's because these are "advanced" web editing tools but to me they're just finally catching up to offer basic editing needs like snapping that were simply missing before. Still way reduced to what a Pro user would be doing or needing. As others have said, many of our web editors are our Field Maps editors who make small adjustments once back at a desktop. Please reconsider.  I am shocked and we may now have to reconsider our long term environment strategy.

[RyanBohan]

Anyone that works out on the field, would love to be able to go back into the office at the end of the day with the AC on full to review their days entries on a larger screen.

Currently there is not a good solution for mobile workers to review their work.  Fieldmaps replaced Collector back in 2020 however Fieldmaps still only works on mobile/tablet devices.  

Web editor looks like it could be a great option, however the cost of bumping hundreds of users from editor to creator would greatly limit its use.      

It is hard to explain that options like the SmartEditor from webmaps are no longer an option, for in office review of collected data.

[Joshua-Young]

Just a warning to anyone looking to deploy ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3 and use Web Editor. At first Esri accidentially gave Creator licenses access to Web Editor but now have "fixed" the issue by removing the entitlement. So if you have a small government enterprise license agreement and only get Creator and Viewer licenses you no longer have any access to Web Editor.

Ironically at 11.3 you have to have a license that includes ArcGIS Pro to get access to Web Editor when it seems like the target audience for Web Editor is non-professional GIS users that still need to edit data. ArcGIS Pro is too much for most of my users and Web Editor is in a good place for them between the existing basic web editing tools and ArcGIS Pro.

I would wait to upgrade to 11.4 if you want to use Web Editor because they added the entitlement back to Creator since Creator merged with GIS Professional Basic starting at 11.4.

[mthompson]

Crazy that basic editing workflows are not being made available to license levels like Contributor and Mobile Worker. It seems to me that, unless you were a huge organization, it would be rare to have folks who ONLY edit in the field or ONLY edit in the office. And for non-GIS folks to need to have the desktop software license level to make small edits in AGOL and Portal doesn't make sense.

[LarryYoung]

@mthompson if basic editing workflows are all you need on the web, then I would suggest using MapViewer or an Experience Builder app with the editor widget.  Both would offer basic editing workflows with a Contributor or Mobile Worker license.  Things like batch attribute update and ability to use group and preset templates will be coming to those environments too in 2025.

We are continuing to review the licensing requirements around Web Editor.  Thanks for the feedbakck.

[GISAdminSHN]

@LarryYoung that's one more unneccesary task for higher level staff when it could/should be as easy as a user pushing the Web Editor button themselves (in our humble opinions! 😄 )

[mthompson]

I would consider splitting and reshaping features to be basic editing tasks that all editing levels should be able to do. Looks like folks in another thread about Experience builder have similar thoughts.

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[RichardHowe]

To echo what @GISAdminSHN says, it's just not a realistic workflow for us to continually set up new experience builders for every survey we have going out just so a mobile worker can tweak their field edits. In the time that takes we might as well just sit with them on a teams call and do it in Pro while they talk us through it

[AnthonyJonesRSK]

@LarryYoung thanks for your response but agree with others that creating an ExB app every time is not practical. Your team have developed a very useful tool but then you've completely killed its usefulness through the licence restrictions. The users that need it can't use it and those that have access to it already have access to ArcGIS Pro. Your current target audience with this is those people that either don't want to or can't use Pro (despite having a licence) or prefer to work in a browser, which I cannot imagine is a particularly big percentage of your customer base. None of us want to pay for creator licences just to access the Web Editor but we'd be far more likely to use more editor/mobile worker licences if this was available. It would be interesting to know what the thinking behind this is as it's these kind of decisions that frankly baffle and frustrate your customers so if it could be reviewed it would be much appreciated. Thanks