Latest Contributions by KristalWalsh

Certainly! Our landowner assistance biologists perform site visits in the field many times with a landowner present. So they must be attentive and not spend too much time on their phone or notepad. They recommend management practices for the landowner based on wildlife objectives, so one 50-acre portion of a large parcel may need site prep, prescribed fire and tree planting, all of which are polygon feature data hosted in AGOL and collected on the app. We currently have about 11 practices and often then overlap on the same area. The biologist starts collecting the feature, either by walking or driving and then complete the form. We are looking for a way in Collector to copy the site prep feature at this same location and paste it into prescribed fire feature layer (at the same location) so that its form could be populated, and so on for the tree planting. Ultimately we will be mapping or accounting for landowner area managed by each type of practice and how it corresponds to fish and wildlife habitat. Often, staff may be able to grab one feature in the field and then finish the work in the office and at that time of course, copy/paste functionality in the AGOL platform would be preferred. Thank you and I hope this helps. I will follow up by going back to the thread you mentioned. Kristal Kristal C Walsh, MS Biological Scientist IV Office of Conservation Planning Services Division of Habitat and Species Conservation Milton, Florida 32571 (850) 851-8065 ... View more

Hi Colin, thank you again for your reply to my questions about Collector. Why would the new Collector not retain the functionality of the Classic Collector? There seems to be several posts asking for this functionality. And yes the tech article was dated but it was the only one I could find. I don't want to have my folks trace over anything multiple times and this is almost ready to deploy for training, with screen shots in a guide etc.So, I would rather not go that way unless I have to.  It would by far be easier for them to do the editing in AGOL, but the only thing I've found so far is the smart editor widget in the web app builder ((https://community.esri.com/ideas/13937-select-copy-and-paste-feature-in-webapp-builder?commentID=70656#comment-70656).  My goal is to keep this as simple as possible of course since these guys are going from paper in the field and tabular data to this. If there is an easier way in AGOL through the edit function, then please point me in the right direction! Thank you so much. Kristal  ... View more

Hi Amber, I ran across your post today about using Smart Editor and this potentially could save our folks alot of time in the field! I just ran through a test this evening and on the first trial of copying a polygon feature and pasting it to another feature class, it worked famously! I am not sure why my "create" template looks a little unorganized but I guess it's not a big deal at the moment. It won't let me resize the window.  We are using Collector in conjunction with this webmap/app but I'm thinking any copy/pasting would need to be done in AGOL only and that there is no functionality in Collector. That's not a problem, but just thinking about workflow. Any tips you have had with the back and forth between mobile and desktop would be appreciated. This is so very helpful! Thank you! Kristal ... View more

Hi Colin, you are correct but I would feel worse if it hadn’t been for our staff having done the same thing, and not taking the next step.  I guess I am very glad it was as simple as this! I do appreciate you responding! Thank you so much. I usually try to make things way too hard but this takes the cake. LOL! ... View more

I have this same question on multiple hosted editable feature layers.  I would like for our staff to be able to modify the creation date and editor date and do not want to create additional fields, without deleting these locked ones first. Can someone help with this? Thank you!  ... View more

Thank you, Javier. I have recently taken over management of this data and have recommended that we use file geodatabases vs personal geodatabases.  So, since these errors have occurred, I will be moving in that direction.  While our administrator is hoping to achieve an opportunity for us to move to an enterprise platform soon, we don't have that capability at present. Your feedback has been very helpful, thank you! ... View more

I can migrate it but there are still about 300 missing records. I've tried two different month's .mdbs and now going back to September to try to reload everything forward.  Are there any best practices for sharing these .mdb over a network? Any known problems with new versions of Arc with .mdbs? We are just at a loss. Thank you. ... View more

I have not tried that but will now. Thank you! ... View more

Kylie, I have been reviewing all the posts about this issue. I similarly have been preparing staff for using the new Collector to begin implementation December 1 and all of a sudden I have "offline areas" when connected to wifi. We all use iPhone 7s currently.  I also do not see the offline tab in my web map settings so I cannot even try to download areas to see if this will work.  Many of my hosted feature layers have subtypes but only one date field. Until 2 weeks ago, this was all working great in the office and in the field. #kylie donia ... View more

Thank you Jacquie for this most helpful tip!! ... View more

Thank you Peter. All group members are also editors and therefore I have just one group. They do work offline and know how to download their maps for use in the field. I think sometimes I am not sure which to reference, AGOL documentation or Collector.  I want to make sure that the planning layer can accept new property boundaries that are created but edits within those boundaries occur in a separate layer, so a copy of that layer that is synced for the field in other words. I've got some work to but this information certainly helps. ... View more