Live Training Seminar Follow-up: Get Started with Field Maps Designer

[KaitlinFinan]

 We held our Live Training Seminar Get Started with Field Maps Designer today and want to give everyone a chance to apply what they learned and share their work with the greater Esri Community. Didn't have the chance to attend the seminar? You can watch the recording on Esri Academy. This forum is an opportunity to interact with people in the community to share ideas, examples, expressions, and learn from others. Here are some ideas to get started—you can choose your own adventure!

• Create a web map and layers within Field Maps Designer
  • Great option if you are starting a brand-new data-collection project from scratch.
• Configure the form
  • Add basic elements, choice elements, and set their properties.
• Add logic to your form
  • Add customized expressions for visibility, calculations, and more within your form.

Try it out and share your work!

We want you all to put your skills to the test and share your work. Scroll to the bottom of this post and add a comment to share your work by providing screenshots, explanations, Arcade expressions, and ideas! You will need to be signed in to Esri Community to add a comment.

 Additional resources:

• Want to learn even more about Esri's suite of data collection apps? Consider enrolling in our two-day instructor-led course Field Data Collection and Management Using ArcGIS.
•  Are you coming from ArcGIS Collector, Explorer, or Tracker? Check out our ArcGIS Field Maps Migration Guide.
•  Interested in taking your web maps offline? Take a look at our document: Take Your Web Maps Offline with ArcGIS Field Maps.
•  Have more questions? Take a look at our extensive list of Field Maps FAQs.
•  The ArcGIS Field Maps Esri Community is also a great resource for asking questions, submitting ideas, reading blogs, and more.

[JenaHBG]

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[Suzanne-Boden]

Hi Jena, thanks for letting us know. We'll look into it.

[BobNoyes]

Worked for me.

[jalbert08]

@JenaHBG . I was not a member of the ESRI Community and it was grayed out.  I had to sign up and verify my e-mail address by clicking the link the e-mail to complete the registration.  The I refreshed my page and the button was not grayed out.

[GraceRadabaugh]

I missed the code used for the expression for "GetUser". Would someone mind posting it? Subscribe is greyed out above for me as well.

Thank you!

[MichaelLohr]

This is a good reference that someone else in the session Chat posted for Arcade expressions:

https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/

If you don't know what group your needed function is in, you are at a loss as I don't see a search function on the page. But if you go to the Playground tab in the upper right, you can use that search tool to help you find the expression name and the group that it belongs in. 

GetUser is a portal function, for example. Scroll to that group in the above link and click on GetUser there to see the function description, uses and example code. 

[Suzanne-Boden]

Thanks for sharing the Arcade reference, @MichaelLohr!

[ShannonPugh]

Thank you for the great seminar!

Can fields be added and existing fields be edited in Field Map Designer for an existing ArcGIS Online feature layer?

[TadhgKirwan]

How do i turn off email notifications

[Suzanne-Boden]

Hi @TadhgKirwan , to unsubscribe from Community notification emails, go to your profile and choose Settings > Email > Unsubscribe from automated community emails.

[BobNoyes]

Years ago I set up a GDB on a microsoft sql server via ArcMap and used it with Collector. Is there a resource for finding a workflow to do this for Field Maps via ArcGIS Pro? Unfortunately, trying to use the wizard via Portal doesn't work because of the way it was initially configured. I worked with ESRI support to try to rectify that but the conclusion was that without completely rebuilding the portal and data store there wasn't a way to make it functional. 

[JenCM]

@TadhgKirwan  To change your email notifications, click your picture/profile in the upper right corner next to notifications bell. Select My Settings.  Go to Subscriptions & Notifications, then Notification Settings. Scroll down to Email Notifications and choose what format you want for each option.  Most range from Never to Weekly digest (and options in between).

[KaitlinFinan]

@GraceRadabaugh This is the expression I used during the seminar:

GetUser($layer).fullName

You will find another example of it here Common Calculated Expressions, along with other expressions.

If you are signed-in and the subscribe button is greyed out, you probably need to verify your email address. When you set up your account, you should have received an email to verify. I had the Community team take a look and verify your account for you 😊

[KaitlinFinan]

@ShannonPugh – “Can fields be added and existing fields be edited in Field Map Designer for an existing ArcGIS Online feature layer?”

If you start configuring the form for an existing hosted feature layer, you will have the ability to add existing fields to the form as well as add additional/new fields to the form. It depends on what you mean by “edit” existing, you can add them to the form and set up their properties in the form. Screenshot below.

[Suzanne-Boden]

@JenaHBG , regarding your RSS feed post, the issue may be that you don't have an RSS feed reader extension installed on your browser. If you're using Chrome, there's one called RSS Feed Reader that you could install. Hope this helps, but if you do have an RSS feed reader and still cannot subscribe to this RSS feed, let us know and we'll have an Esri Community team member reach out to you.