Latest Contributions by LindsayRaabe_FPCWA

@Bud Glad you figured it out. I hadn't had a chance to look into this deeper then it fell off my radar.  ... View more

The original post is in the ArcGIS Pro question board and has been cross posted to GIS Life (either by an Esri user or MVP). ShareUser shows the replies made in other locations are automatically reposted here as well for completeness. You will see it states the Source Community and the Source Author Name in each "ShareUser" post.  Read here for more info: How to use the Share Tool - Esri Community ... View more

@ShitijMehta great to hear! I look forward to seeing it.  ... View more

We pretty much do as described in and below the reply marked as the solution. We set the Vector Tile Package that covers the whole state as the default Basemap file in the webmap settings. When a user goes to create an offline area in Field Maps, it defaults to the vtpk. If it's the first time they are doing this, it downloads the file automatically to the device and reuses it across all offline areas for any map that specifies that vtpk is the default.  ... View more

I think the ability to export a map to a geoPDF is a great idea!  ... View more

@JeffShaner Yeah - I and many others wish there was a common operating system across the board too. Even just in our state, we have 2 main controlling agencies, but with a large volunteer base in one of them combined with career personnel in both, plus other smaller agencies (like ours) and contractors involved, it seems to be in the too hard basket.    It could be anything really from an estimated fire boundary, hazard information, water or location information, etc etc. Really anything that may need to be communicated either to other users or back to a command point. Currently if we had to do this, it would be sending the screenshot with markup or manually relaying coordinates over radio/sms/phone.    Another use case for us is viewing maps that have been distributed to contractors that work for us (who also are not Field Map users - typically Avenza users). We distribute these maps as geoPDF's and generally we use Field Maps internally, but I can see cases where we may want to view the PDF they were sent to discuss something with a common picture to work from.  ... View more

Cross posting this idea as it relates to this but is of a lower scope: Add ability to discard unpublished changes in Experience Builder  ... View more

Good to see I'm not the only one who finds this process of incremental updates frustrating, especially when you're not sure what the final product may look like and you need to wind back the clock! ... View more

My specifc use cases is for when our staff arrive at a fire managed by another agency, we can download their geoPDF map of the event and open in Field Maps (avoiding the need for Avenza) but we can't capture and share data to send back to their Incident Mapping team because we're not a part of their org (and they don't use Esri or Field Maps). Internally, we build traditional webmaps and I can't see us using PDFs as the basemap unless it was for a small project of some sort.  ... View more

Hi @JeffShaner . I reckon the use case would be similar to mine in this idea (similar but used KML as a more universal format instead of shapefile output). Export Field Maps Markup to KML - Esri Community Opening PDFs in Field Maps that have been downloaded to device means you don't have feature layer functionality - only markup, meaning you have no way to capture and share data to other users who have also downloaded the map or are at a different location.  ... View more

I suspect that the problem with the existing functionality is that it behaves slightly differently to most apps with auto location tracking/follow me functions. When in Google Maps or Ozi Explorer for example, the screen moves constantly tracking the users location. In Field Maps though, the screen moves in "steps" for lack of a better term. The user will always be visible in the centre third (approx) of the screen, then the screen will slide to recentre the user as they move towards the edge of the view. You get this constantly move-pause-move-pause effect on the screen as the user travels across the map. I've always found this annoying and suspect it's what the OP is either wishing behaved like most apps, or has mistaken it for not actually being location tracking.  ... View more

Glad I could help! From memory it was something that was developed in the webmap after Field Maps Designer was released, obviously because not all webmaps are intended for Field Maps use. ... View more

Great question! I've often wondered this too and never asked.  ... View more

This setting is available, but not in Experience Builder itself. You need to open the webmap in Field Maps Designer (or the Map Viewer) and on the Form config pane, you can set that field to Text - Multiline. This is then honoured by the Edit Widget in Experience Builder. It even includes the little handle for expanding the text box as you suggested.  Edit Widget in Experience Builder: ... View more