Latest Contributions by BrentPierce

Matt, What repository are you referring to specifically do you have a link?  Brent ... View more

Matt, The Beta version of Navigator on Android is available which supports a custom URL scheme. It can be found here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esri.navigator&ah=I5UTVNjnXafwVUNpt7x-vfd5xH0 Also here is a github repository which explains the behavior and schema of the URL, also includes a number of code samples in various languages/platforms: https://github.com/Esri/navigator-integration Hope this helps, -Brent ... View more

Felicia Lin​, We do plan to add the ability to share routes on the platform with named users who are using Navigator in the field. This is a development initiative which is currently underway but in the very early stages. It will allow one to use the many tools which generate routes on the platform and send these routes to "drivers" in the field. Happy to discuss further requirements. Please email me at bpierce@esri.com thanks. -Brent ... View more

Yeah I agree, the team has heard a lot of great use cases for this functionality at the UC last week and it is certainly on our roadmap. As for the tool tip above, yeah that is just plain wrong and misleading and is a bug that I will make sure to get into the queue thanks for pointing that out. Scott Sandusky Matt Crowder FYI   ... View more

Hi Craig, Thanks for the questions on this. Just to be clear Optimized Routes and Shared Routes are two different but related concepts. An Optimized Route is really just a multi-stop route which has been optimized such that the ordering of the stops in the route are sequenced in the optimal order. At the 2.0 release of Navigator (which will be released in the coming weeks) there is an option to generate route optimized in this manner. This is a new feature at the 2.0 release of Navigator. Shared Routes is a broader concept that one will be able to use many of the great tools we have on the ArcGIS Platform for creating routes and sharing these routes with drivers in the field who are using the Navigator App. This is still being designed and probably won't be available until later in the year. The "Save" button in the Directions Widget which is part of the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer is merely a way for users who are already using this functionality to save the result of directions generated by the directions widget. Currently Navigator has no way of consuming these saved directions. Moving forward there will be one unified experience to generate, save and share routes in the platform with Navigator being the logical app to consume these routes in the field. The Umbrella term we are using for this, at the moment, is "Shared Routes".  Hope this helps clear things up and thanks again for the feedback. -Brent ... View more

That's great Matthew, are you currently using Navigator on just Android or also on the iOS platform? ... View more

Matthew, Thanks for the Questions. There are two ways to add stops in Navigator. You can add stop through the app by tapping on the "+" button when there is a route on the screen or by editing an existing route. An alternate way to create a multi-stop route is to use the URL Scheme mentioned above. The documentation on this lives here: Create an app link—Navigate | ArcGIS The general purpose of the URL scheme is for other apps to be able to launch and deep link into Navigator. Workforce and Collector already make use of this technology but you can also embed it in your apps. One thing to note is that with the 0.2.0 release of Navigator on Android (coming in a couple weeks) this scheme will change slightly to support addresses.  ... View more

Paul is correct, ArcGIS for iOS (AKA The Green App) is no longer in active development. I would strongly encourage you to move over to Explorer for ArcGIS which will have all the feature functions of the Green App and a more modern approach to the UX/UI. Explorer is under active development and will be supporting offline map use in the next release. Collector is a mobile application focused on field data collection and is really targeted at those who need to collect and update their GIS data in the field. Hope this helps and happy holidays, -Brent ... View more

Matt, In Workforce you will be able to easily jump out to Collector if you have it installed on the device. This might not be in the initial Beta releases but certainly in our first Non-beta release we will have logical integration points setup Between Workforce and a number of our apps (Collector, Navigator, Survey123 etc...). We are still trying to get the story ironed out but we are thinking that when you setup a project you will be able to configure specific assignments to link to specific Webmaps which can be edited in Collector. This would provide a very streamlined experience for your field workers allowing them to go straight to collector for editing and back to Workforce. This story should get more fleshed out as the beta release evolves and be fully implemented for our first release after beta. ... View more

Tom/Brad, This feedback is really helpful and very much inline with the editing workflows we are targeting in Explorer. Thanks for your comments on this they really do help. We are looking forward to getting this functionality in a future release of Explorer. -Brent ... View more

Hi Tom, This is a great question, We are currently in the early stages of designing the editing experience on Explorer. The challenging aspect of this specific design is knowing where to draw the line with regard to when would one want to just use Collector, our premier native editing app, to complete their editing and field data collection workflows as opposed to completing the work in Explorer. I will start with that, why are you not using Collector for field editing and when included with Explorer, what level of editing would you expect to have available to you? ... View more