Latest Contributions by PeteCrosier

Hi, I have setup the Coordinate widget to return the coordinates of a user's click (using the British National Grid coordinate system) - the problem is that this seems to override the feature popup. Now the user's click will only return the coordinates and never open a feature's popup window. I can fix this by opening the Edit widget and closing it again - now when I click on a feature I get the popup and when I click somewhere else I get the coordinates for the click - this is the behaviour I'd expect. Is there a way to make this happen from when the web app is first opened? ... View more

I was asked the question about how Collector performs when syncing and losing the mobile data signal - it would seem not very well. I cut off the data signal half way through syncing 3 minor edits (moving a vertex, adding an attribute, etc), turned mobile data back on again and now the syncing progress bar is stuck. I can cancel using the "X" but when I retry the sync the bar moves again and then gets stuck again. The network activity indicator doesn't show much activity and the sync will seemingly never complete. In my made-up scenario I can get the map back to a workable state by deleting the offline features (through the Manage option) - losing my edits in the process. If we roll Collector out and this happens to someone with a day's worth of work to sync then we're kind of up a creek because they will not see deleting all the day's work as an option! This person may also be at the other side of the country and not able to pop-in to the office for us to try recover things another way. Ideas please? Thanks! ... View more

Hi, some of the biggest custom code we're probably going to need to put in place is to overcome the lack of support for annotation and dimensions in Collector and AGOL. I'm not sure if anyone has any insight in to the future support for these things or how much influence the ideas site has, but here's some links if you feel generous.. Dimension support - http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087E0000000CwF4IAK Annotation support - http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087E0000000CwEzIAK .. thanks! ... View more

A(nother) large piece of custom code for us is likely to be the processing of dimensions in to a form that AGOL and Collector can cope with. This introduces the headaches of maintaining a list of what to process, creating / updating / deleting points, lines and polygons based on dimensions over night and then pushing these out to devices when they next sync. It also means that people using Collector to collect dimensions have to create approximations constructed from line features, which Desktop editors then turn in to actual dimension features. The way we collect information is agreed with an industry regulator, so we have to capture positions of assets as dimensions (accurate to 10cm) from fixed features in the basemap (buildings, kerbs, etc). We use simple, aligned and rotated dimensions. ... View more

A(nother) large piece of custom code for us is likely to be the processing of dimensions in to a form that AGOL and Collector can cope with. This introduces the headaches of maintaining a list of what to process, creating / updating / deleting points, lines and polygons based on dimensions over night and then pushing these out to devices when they next sync. It also means that people using Collector to collect dimensions have to create approximations constructed from line features, which Desktop editors then turn in to actual dimension features. The way we collect information is agreed with an industry regulator, so we have to capture positions of assets as dimensions (accurate to 10cm) from fixed features in the basemap (buildings, kerbs, etc). We use simple, aligned and rotated dimensions. ... View more

It would seem that if I define a field for a feature with null values not allowed and host the features in AGOL, Collector populates this (with a space when it's a text field, for example) so the collector can submit without typing anything.. so it sort of defeats the point of not allowing null values. Thoughts? ... View more