Latest Contributions by GlenColgate1

First to answer the question... although we did not automate it, we were successful in altering the assignment types domain through the admin functions of the rest endpoint. In the most basic terms we updated the list by posting a json object representing the revised definition of the feature service. http://services1.arcgis.com/TZtYuVblaho4vFXF/arcgis/rest/admin/services/assignments_e9eda8505blah636a60a9c7197d46091/FeatureServer/0/updateDefinition Pick your favorite language that can hit the rest endpoint and go crazy with automation (not sure ESRI would recommend this exactly... but it is possible). Now 10,000 Assignment Types sounds like an awfully big domain to me, so... We took a different approach to a similar problem. We needed a way to associate our daily assignments with the larger construction project that the work is for. We choose to highjack the location field instead. We picked this field because it is searchable and visible on the header of the assignment in the todo list. We could get away with it because our assignments are not created in the dispatch website which sets the point geometry and location text in the same control. Instead we generated the records in other systems and add them to the assignment feature layer through the rest endpoint. http://services1.arcgis.com/TZtYuVblaho4vFXF/arcgis/rest/services/assignments_e9eda8505blah636a60a9c7197d46091/FeatureServer/0/addFeatures  End result is the work can now filter for the data we shove into the location field (Project ID, Title, Drawing Set ID, etc). Hey! Craig Gillgrass‌ - This sounds like another user that could use an expanded "custom" field to better categorize their assignments. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge. - Glen ... View more

Craig/Elliot, We also have assignments that are created days (weeks) in advance of when they would be due. Our thought is to give the worker the ability to filter their to-do list by the due date so that they can focus on only what they need to for that day / week / month (similar to existing filters in dispatcher web app). This ability would then give flexibility to the user to control as much (or as little) of their future work that they want to deal with. Thanks, Glen ... View more

Craig/Matt -  We would also like to see more control over the assignment details. Searching for Work Order ID is extremely useful, most of our staff would find it equally beneficial if they could visually scan the list for a specific assignment. There are a number of attributes we currently have to concatenate into the location field in order to have them searchable in the worker app. If we could add another searchable field for a project ID, project title, or construction drawing ID our users would find it easier to correlate their assignment with the larger construction effort. Or at least allowing the search to run over the existing description field could allow use to use that for our expanded search needs and stop our current misuse (abuse?) of the location field. Thanks, Glen ... View more

Craig, Likewise, we really appreciate the care and concern you have shown when receiving our suggestions. For our own experience I know its hard, but try not to misread our constructive criticism as a negative. We are really quite happy with how the product is progressing. For those that haven't seen Ishmael's blog post on using the custom url-scheme, we have been somewhat successful in building our own link in the description field of the workforce assignment. This allows us to navigate directly from the assignment to its related inspection form. Its not exactly "pretty" but can be a helpful band-aid until the action button is improved. Thanks, Glen ... View more

We found a small hiccup in the use of url-scheme to open up Survey123 forms. When a form is opened using this method, it will always go to the outbox. Our expectation when the device is connected, and the user selects send now, the survey should be processed immediately into the AGO storage.  Anyone else seeing this? (Copied this to GitHub as issue) ... View more

Sure. PM headed your way. ... View more

Love this... We have successfully added a url-scheme link to the description field in Workforce. This provides a quick link (albiet potentially long and ugly string) which points to a specific Survey123 form. So now we can tailor a link from Workforce to Survey123, supporting each of our specific workforce assignment types. This will provide a solid alternative until Workforce can support this functionality through the action button. Thanks! ... View more

Craig, You've heard of at least one use case where a single Workforce Project uses both Collector and Survey123. At least we are trying to... Our use case is probably very common (at least we think it is). Our Inspection group is recording asbuilt facility attributes along with various information related to construction progress. Initially we are focused on the more common field observations that will be form based data entry in Survey123, but after that we are going to expand our capabilities to enter facility attributes along with spatial edits in Collector. We also think that these links should based on the assignment type (NOT THE PROJECT). Seriously, there has got to be more than 2 of us that brought up this kind of scenario. I sent you a PM to expand upon our use case, but here's a short version for those reading this post... If a worker gets a Concrete Inspection Assignment in Workforce, we would like the worker to open a Concrete Inspection survey in Survey123. If they get a Certificate of Occupancy Approval assignment in Workforce, they should open the Certificate of Occupancy survey in Survey123. Yada, yada, yada... Thanks, Glen ... View more

Answers to questions from Jared Grondin: 1) What Enterprise Identity Provider is your organization using (ADFS, Shibboleth, Ping, etc)?      We are using ADFS 2) What type of device are you using (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows Computer, etc.)?      iOS on multiple devices (iPhone, iPad Air/Pro/Mini, Windows 7) 3) What OS version are you using?      iOS Version 9.2 and Windows Enterprise 7 SP1 4) Do you encounter this issue on all devices?  For example, if you install the Survey123 app on a Windows laptop and try to login using that app do you encounter the same behavior?      Behavior is slightly different on Windows 7 than iOS. iOS does not respond to the click on "using your <org name> account" button, while Windows 7 will return a 401 unauthorized access message. ... View more

In a wider sense it would be beneficial to allow importing of any previous archive data into a recreated feature table. For instance, we have come across several situations where we were required to alter our features definition which in turn required us to bring disable archiving and unregister as versioned. After fixing the table, reregistering, and enabling the archvie we are left with no history. It should be possible to load the resulting _H tables into the active archive. ... View more

What is the status of NIM050307 - Option to attach the old archive table (_h) back to the original feature class on re-enabling archiving? Almost two years later, and this is still a significant problem in the archiving toolset. Everytime a change is made to a data table we essentially lose any benefit of having archiving enabled in the first place. ... View more