Latest Contributions by JeffShaner

Alex, Not sure what is causing the delay but let me explain the process so you can find where the time is being spent... When you tap the Download button, Collector will request that a replica be created against your feature service. This is accomplished using the SyncTools GP Service that is running on your ArcGIS Server instance. A job is submitted and Collector periodically checks back on the status of the job until it is complete, the replica is finished and it can then grab it and download it to your device. Within the Server Manager you can watch this take place. You will see the instance get created and can see how many instances are being used and are allocated for the service. You can find documentation on tuning services here. If you have difficulty isolating the time spent, turn debugging on to see in fine grained detail what happens during the lifespan of the job. You can find details about server logging here if you haven't done it before. Make sure to let us know how it goes and I hope this helps you diagnose things. Jeff ... View more

All - we will have an update to the Operations Dashboard coming in December but.... It will not include support for related tables as a data source. What we will provide is the ability for you to browse for a standalone table as an external data source and you can apply a filter to that data source if you like. However we will NOT yet support the ability to navigate an established geodatabase relationship class. Unfortunately that fell out of scope for our release. It is still high on our list and includes support for related tables in the popup as well as the data source. Note that we are augmenting the related tables definition in the webmap to support the release of Collector with related table editing (10.3). You will be able to define a popup on a table with this update. We want to take advantage of this feature being added when supporting related tables in the Operations Dashboard as well. Jeff ... View more

Pete - yes, we can access crash information logged in the Google Developer Console so please send it along. It may or may not be enough information to isolate and find the defect. It is always a good idea to log what you find with support as well. For what you did send to Google - what device were you using (it provides that information with the log as well)? ... View more

Sorry all. I have updated the post with the descriptions for each defect directly from the support system. We will sort out why you cannot find them using support.esri.com as well!!! ... View more

The Apps team is working to add related table support inside of the Collector, Operations Dashboard and Explorer apps. Where appropriate we will include editing support as well (which is not yet available). Look for these capabilities to be added to the rest of the platform through the course of our 10.3 release. Also we will blog and announce when these capabilities are added. ... View more

Debra - thank you very much for this great feedback! We are in consideration of a number of these requests already (related tables for example) and some of what you have posted are new requests to us. Thank you!! Jeff ... View more

All, This is great feedback. We are looking to add this capability into a future release but we need your help in detailing the need. Some thoughts on level of support for tables: 1. Add as an external data source where I can browse for an item or directly to the REST endpoint of a non-spatial table. Of course in say a list widget you would not see a legend swatch for each row as there is nothing we can draw. 2. Similar to 1 we could add the ability for you to navigate through the collection of feature services within a web map to each of the tables and set a table as a data source. The challenge comes with 1:M relationships. If you can provide us with details on your need, that would be extremely helpful. You can either post directly to this forum thread or email [email protected]. Thanks! Jeff ... View more

Vish, As Russ mentioned above, we are busy at work adding disconnected editing support into Collector now. The next update (10.2.2) will include support for taking map areas offlline and we are on-track to have this release available in early March. Between now and then we will be blogging on what is coming in the release. To answer your questions: 1. Similarity to ArcGIS for Windows Mobile: The release in March will not fully match what is there in AGWM. What we will release is an �??on-demand�?� workflow in March where the Collector user will define the map area that they want to take offline. The �??pre-planned�?� workflow will come in a later release. This workflow enables a field manager to pre-cache map areas for field workers using the web site �?? basically the analogous functionality of creating/packaging a project and hosting it inside of your portal. 2. Validation and the sync process The sync process is bi-directional and improving upon what we have done with AGWM there is proper change detection so you are only pulling changes from the server when you sync. The workflow you mentioned in your post may require that the user call sync twice though. The sync process will first import all edits (do an upload) and then request a lock to do the download (no edits can happen when it generates the features to send back to the mobile client). So if you are implementing your validation via a class extension where the edit happens immediately after the insert it is possible that you could get back the invalid status in the same sync process however it is not guaranteed. The field user may need to tap the sync button again. Please look for the blog articles to start coming out next week at: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/ (you can filter by the mobile category) Jeff ... View more

Mike, The Operations Dashboard app is designed specifically for members of an ArcGIS Organization so unfortunately this is not a possibility today. You can share your map as a web app so that it can be viewed by the public and I think that would be the best option for you as it will provide a cross platform solution. We are improving the configurable web app capabilities inside of ArcGIS Online and I would be interested in hearing what specific widgets you are using in your Operation View. Would you mind posting a screenshot and/or providing more details on your needs? Thanks Jeff ... View more

Mobile applications developed using our Web APIS and our native Runtime SDKs include support for executing Geoprocessing tasks. If you have developed your own application using either of our APIs then yes you can add support for your service. If you are using our ArcGIS app  (either the browser or the native apps available through the app stores) or Collector app then unfortunately no - there is no way today to configure the application to use a geoprocessing service. Hope this helps. Jeff ... View more

Chris, From a licensing perspective, there is no issue with you doing this. You can find the proper attribution for your iOS app here on the resource center: http://resources.arcgis.com/content/attribution You should add to your attribution the REST URL for each of the services that you use. Each service contains attribution for the content it displays. Thanks, Jeff ... View more

Tony/All, Rest assured that we have a team very much dedicated to the development of ArcGIS Mobile. There are quite a few new features coming in the 10.1 release and we will showcase them at the Users Conference this year. Our new feature development introduced dependencies on the 10.1 desktop architecture for release and this is the main reason why you have not seen any new feature development since 10.0. We do have another bug fix release (build 2500) that will be in the customer care portal soon (target for upload is the end of this week). Some of the new features include: 1. Geometry Editing - our initial focus with geometry editing is centered around how you can leverage the GPS to edit the geometry of a feature. The workflows we are targeting here include partial feature collection (collect part of a line -> stop -> collect additional features -> return to collecting the line), replacing portions of features, etc. 2. Support for Attachments - this is quite easy for a smartphone to do today as everything you do happens in a connected way. With attachment support in Windows Mobile you will be able to download features and have the option to download attachments, you will be able to collect attachments of various types and then upload. 3. Simplified Data Collection - We had quite a few complaints that our collection workflow was too "geeky". We have simplified the process for 10.1. 4. GPS Information - we are providing a way to always show the GPS information on the map. We also have Compass-driven navigation. You can navigate to a feature, to a location on the map, etc. 5. Desktop workflows - creating a project with the Mobile Project Center has been vastly improved. Inside of the package itself you will be able to include both a mobile cache of data content as well as offline basemaps so that it is literally a matter of deploying a single file and it will unpack all of your content. 6. Map Analyzers - we will provide the ability to use the map analyzer capability in ArcMap to diagnose errors and warnings for mobile services before publishing. There is much more on its way for this platform as we move forward. Above are the features we will be showcasing at the Users Conference and we will talk through additional improvements plus our roadmap. Please feel free to email me directly with any feedback: [email protected] Thanks, Jeff ... View more