Latest Contributions by Henry

Hi there, Attempting to configure some applications for end users using Web App Builder. I'm asking to see if there are any known strategies for simplifying the editing experience. This application is intended to primarily for editing the attributes (a "STATUS" field, Complete vs. Not Complete) of a single line feature layer. For simple presentation and tracking experiences. Many of our end users want a simpler interaction where they can: 1) Click on a feature via the map 2) Change the feature's status attribute And then have that be it. Is there some way to initiate a "live" editing session upon opening the Web AppBuilder application? Having to select the Edit widget and leave the Feature Template box open (when it isn't necessary for updating attributes on static geometry), or select the desired feature and then 'Edit' from the pop-up and then change the attributes is a few too many steps. Or if there is another ArcGIS Online application that may serve this use better? Thanks! ... View more

Hi, Doing some metadata editing, I had links to an email account for receiving queries in the Description and Use Limitation sections for metadata on a number of items. I typically write the url link as: "mailto:address@place.org" (without quotes) The hyperlink appears for the text intended, and clicking it opens a new email message - however the 'To' intended recipient adress in the message has a ":25" appended so it fails to send correctly. Has anyone else encountered this and knows of a solution? Should I add some more formatting in the url link to try to rectify? Thanks! ... View more

Hi all, Typically around the end of the year I like to reasses our organization's field data collection layers for improvements, schema changes, etc. We used to have a cloud-based Enterprise system that had a EGDB with feature datasets which had each geometry type in it. We had some trouble with that and our field tools so we started using Hosted Feature Services for each geometry.. I transitioned to doing everything in ArcGIS Online this year (for cost and other reasons). We have in the past used hosted feature services to collect data in. We would have one for polygon geometry, one for line geometry, one for point geometry, all with generally the same fields/domains. However, these had been independently uploaded as a separate feature service for each geometry. I'm wondering if it may be more prudent once I've finalized any schema changes to upload the new datasets with each geometry type into the same Hosted Feature Service. So store them in one GDB, publish as one Hosted Feature Service that has Point, Polygon, and Line geometry. Different Hosted Feature Services for AGO can do this with the Build A Layer options, or it could be published from ArcGIS Pro/ArcMap. Anyway, just wondering what others have done and their experience with this type of dataset organization. We like to use Survey123 to do field data collection, so ideally I'd like to be able to point Surveys to each different geometry type in the same feature service if possible, one form for each geomatery. Thanks! ... View more

Hi, I'm trying to set up an empty layer for creating a set of features that use two values, a Species field and a Density Class field. I've created a series of Domains that I would like the Feature Template to use when creating new features. However, I'm having trouble finding how exactly to assign these values to templates. It seems to only register values that exist in the data, and the feature class doesn't have records that contain that data yet. I can manually create a new Template and assign the specific fields and values I would like that template to use, but can't seem to find where to change the Drawing Symbol. Any guidance would be much appreciated. ... View more