Latest Contributions by kmsmikrud

Good Morning, We publish our AGOL hosted feature layers with a UTC date/time knowing then the CreationDate and EditDates will be in UTC. In addition, we have been adding a local DateTime field that gets calculated based on the CreationDate field usually in a post-survey script process. Now with arcade expressions, I wanted to use this functionality to auto-populate these fields, but I'm seeing discrepancies for what displays on the iPads then what writes to the AGOL feature layer tables. Also if the calculations recalculate when offline data is synced, then that is another consideration as posted  here: Below is one version I have started out with, which displays accurately in Field Maps in the layer form on the tablet, but when the data is synced from offline the date writes to the feature layer table in UTC.       //var dt_now_utc = Timestamp() var akdt = Now() //var akdt = ToLocal(dt_now_utc) if (IsEmpty($feature.AKCreationDate)){ return akdt; }else{ return akdt; }       I have also tried to this which writes to the feature layer tables better (although if it recalculates when the offline edits sync, then this no longer works). This also isn't great because it displays in the tablet 8 hours behind the current time which doesn't look accurate even though it is writing to the tables accurately.     var dt_now_utc = Timestamp() var akdt = DateAdd(dt_now_utc, -8, 'Hours') if (IsEmpty($feature.AKCreationDate)){ return akdt; }else{ return akdt; }   What is the recommended arcade functions to get a local data time field to calculate using arcade expressions with offline data collection and for the data to be accurate when offline edits sync, do these values update then to the local time I think they do change. Thanks in advance!, Kathy   ... View more

Hi, In a few Field Maps forms we have added arcade calculations and work offline. For one of the calculations, it was querying the layers for a max value (which I ended up changing the logic since offline this value is different than online). Anyway what a few users experienced is the feature/form offline would populate and they would submit their edits. The points show on the map, but then when they would sync the offline edits the one field with this 'maximum' calculation changed which in our case was the sample number/label on the map so it was an obvious change. This didn't make sense except if the form recalculates when syncing?  Thanks for the info!, Kathy ... View more

Hello, As noted by others posting recently and I also had an incident yesterday luckily a user was just testing, but if arcade expressions fail in the Field Maps form this does prevent a user from submitting that feature. PLEASE modify the app to STILL ALLOW a feature to be submitted if a calculation is failing in the form. Expressions are great, I tested in the Designer and worked great but we work offline and use the app for aerial surveys, so its an expensive fail if we can't collect data based on a calculation failing. The Field Maps Designer would also benefit from having an offline tester so folks KNOW which expressions also work offline. The issue is also noted in this post. I want to use the expressions, but need reliability in data collection. Thanks, Kathy ... View more