Latest Contributions by ThomasFurcron

Huge help in testing to make sure it is working!! thanks, Tom ... View more

RJ, The cloud sounds promising, but I don't think we are ready to make that jump just yet.  Thanks for your help!! Tom  ... View more

Thanks Daniel very helpful!! Tom ... View more

Daniel, Don't know if you ever found your answer, but I am in the process of setting this up as well.  Attached is what Network Fleet sent me.  On page 13 and 14 there are some details that may help in setting up your field mapping. Tom  ... View more

Tope thanks for the reply. We only have a few thousand records right now, nothing nearing the hundreds of thousands. We do have extended properties tables, two of them and they don't take long to load, much faster then the properties tab.  We typically don't have AOI's, so I don't have a time frame for those to load. I also went through ESRI support with the Issue, and they were able to replicate the issue, and have created a BUG incident for it.  BUG-000086618. Unfortunately that does not really solve my issue and we are stuck trying to avoid the properties tab while working in workflow manager. Any other suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks Tom ... View more

Thanks for the quick reply.  That is what I though, but I was hoping I was missing something. Tom ... View more

The reason I started with Explorer is we were looking for an app that would work well to get our field personnel maps in the field.  Prior to this they only had a paper map with them of the area they would be working in.  That obviously had a lot of limitations.  To start with the explorer app made the best sense for us, we didn't want to give the field personnel editing  capabilities and I would say we are still at the point for most of them, but we want to start rolling out editing capabilities for specific job functions for specific personnel.  But also want to keep tight controls over who has editing capabilities, and what they can edit.   The first place I want to take start with editing in the field is for our leak survey personnel.  For them I can see using the collector app, they want to stream points as they walk to create an audit trail of where they have surveyed and when they were there.  When they find a leak they need to be able to add it to the map with all the necessary attributes.  But we also get leak calls that are investigated by different personnel, and they would need to be able to create these leak points as well and for them their main job function is not editing map features it is putting pipe in the ground, and we need to keep it as simple and easy as possible.  The leak point doesn’t have to be GPS’sed it may just be placed on the map via a user pointing to the location of the leak.  So for this I would think should be possible in either app.  I wouldn’t say the explorer app should be restricted to only non GPS editing, but maybe leave the finer GPS controls to the collector app.  If you are looking for control of the accuracy I think that is a good place to look towards the collector app.  I think the Explore app should at a minimum have the ability to edit/update features that don’t require GPS locations. So giving a user the ability to add it to the map with a finger touch or select a feature and add a related record or update its features in the Explorer app I think would go a long way. This would really help with the ability to perform inspections in the field.  And we do a lot of inspections! Unfortunately for me, you don’t just have to please me with this, but the entire ESRI community.  I wish you luck with that, we are a tough bunch to please.  But I look forward to hearing where ESRI is going to take the Explorer App.  ... View more

Will any of this be ported back to earlier versions? Tom ... View more