Hello Geonet,
I'm in the beginning stages of making a Value analysis dashboard for my assessor's office but before I get started I'd like to get some feedback about what I can achieve based on the system setup that I have (and what I don't have).
Here's what I'm working with:
I can only use arcmap and publish out to arcgis online. I do not have access to servers, I can't publish out through a server, and I don't have access to arcgis pro.
What I don't want to do is have to recreate and republish the service, and reconfigure the widgest within Operations Dashboard on a continual basis when tax parcel boundaries and information changes. If there's a way to make this happen automatically, that would be excellent.
Given these considerations and my limitations, can anyone provide me with some insight to what my best options are? I've emailed the ESRI team in Chicago and Jordan Miller has been super helpful in helping me understand a few things.
He's told me that I could use Pro (this isn't an option for me, sadly) and take advantage of the solution deployment. He's said that it'll be more of a manual process to work with the widgets within the Ops dashboard to put it together doing it through Arcmap. I know that I'll be publishing to AGO with Arcmap with a join in place on the parcel data and the assessor's data tables..
What I'm looking for are:
* resources for configuring the widgets within Operations dashboard manually
* resources for updating the data automatically, so that I don't have to republish and reconfigure on a continual basis. Is this possible with a python script? (FYI, I have zero experience with scripting - I know, I need to learn a few things!)
I'm just looking for some best practice scenarios that might help me avoid having to republish out every few months to keep the information up to date. If that's not possible given the setup I have, I'd like to know that as well. It might be the catalyst for getting me access to what I need Appreciate any insight!