Latest Contributions by KenGorton

No problem. There is nothing you need to do in map applications for this. It's simply a matter of sending features to your feature layers. To add features programmatically via web requests, your code should send features in json arrays to the addFeatures REST endpoint of the feature service in question. See this doc: Add Features—ArcGIS REST API: Services Directory | ArcGIS for Developers for more details and examples. Thus the inReach Portal would forward messages from inReach devices to the rest endpoint of your Azure Function, which will reformat the inReach json into ArcGIS feature json and POST it to your feature layer. ... View more

Kara  I looked through my old files for the HttpHandler I wrote but it's been quite a while so I'm afraid I have nothing to send. However, in the interest of keeping it modern you can certainly do this on any of the major cloud platforms using serverless compute such as Amazon Web Services Lambda, Azure Functions, or whatever Google calls their incarnation of this. This tutorial walks you through setting up a serverless compute resource on Azure (for free): Create your first function in Azure using Visual Studio Code | Microsoft Docs . Your folks can pick their development language from some of the popular ones: JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, etc. Following this tutorial I was able to set up a function to receive GET or POST requests and return a response. You could then modify the code to receive inReach messages, reformat them to feature service json and send them via http POST requests to the ArcGIS feature service of your choice. Again, some internet searches turned up examples of how to make http POST requests from within Azure Functions. Sorry I cannot provide actual code examples of my old HttpHandler. But if I were to set out to recreate such a capability I would leverage AWS, Google or Azure serverless compute resources instead. Good luck. Ken ... View more

Thanks Owen. I suspected it might be something about the older device that was getting in the way. Maybe time for an upgrade. ... View more

David, nevermind. I figured out to set a link in the list that will switch to the feature info and added a button on the feature info to return to the list. Thanks. ... View more

Thanks David, this is what I am looking for. However I cannot figure out from the finished example you shared how to enable it in my app. Can you provide more clues or a sample ExB project? Thanks, Ken ... View more

Absolutely. And in perspective if all you need to do is log inReach data to ArcGIS, Geoevent Server is serious overkill - way more than what is needed. However, you will need something to receive the inReach data, reformat it to to Esri json and send it to your feature service. One method I have used in the past is a custom http handler. The Garmin Portal is equipped to send to any REST endpoint so you could write a simple http handler and host it on a web server. The web server would provide the REST endpoint to which Garmin could send the inReach messages. As they are received the http handler could reformat them into feature json and POST them to the addFeatures method of a feature service in your ArcGIS portal. This is a relatively simple task for a web developer. Also there are cloud based ETL (extract, transform, load) platforms that you might be able to leverage. Do an internet search on 'cloud etl arcgis' and see what you can find. I have not used any of these so I have no perspective as to the cost effectiveness, ease of use, reliability etc of these.  ... View more

Many users have implemented a solution using Geoevent Server. You set up an input using the 'Receive JSON on a REST Endpoint' input connector. Upon saving that input it will generate a url (the REST endpoint) that you can copy to your system clipboard. Then navigate to the Garmin portal (https://explore.garmin.com/ ) > Settings tab > Portal Connect subtab (or go here: https://explore.garmin.com/IPC/). On the Configuration tab under Outbound Settings click the button to turn the Outbound Settings on and paste the url to the geoevent input in URL text box. Click Test to verify the Garmin Portal can reach your input. Then click Save at the bottom of the page. Then all messages sent from your inReach (outbound messages) when they reach the Garmin portal, will be forwarded to your Geoevent Server. ... View more

Ok It turned out to be a simple fix to what is probably a noob problem. I originally built the body parameter of the NetworkRequest as json and passed it in send(body). This never gave me problems with other NetworkRequests but for each of those I construct body parameters of flat json. This one has nested json, but by calling send(JSON.stringify(body)) it completes successfully. Ken ... View more

So I was finally able to get back to this and by inspecting the requests/responses in my browser dev tools while going through this using the AGOL interface I figured out what I think is the correct approach: fetch the json of the template feature service which I store in a variable templateJson call isServiceNameAvailable and pass in the proposed name of the new service: the response I get is "{\"available\":true}" which I know it is. call createService passing in something like this json:  "createParameters": { "currentVersion": templateJson.currentVersion, "serviceItemId": templateJson.serviceItemId, "serviceDescription": "", "hasVersionedData": false, "supportsDisconnectedEditing": false, "hasStaticData": false, "maxRecordCount": templateJson.maxRecordCount, "supportedQueryFormats": "JSON", "supportsVCSProjection": templateJson.supportsVCSProjection, "capabilities": templateJson.capabilities, "description": "", "copyrightText": "", "allowGeometryUpdates": templateJson.allowGeometryUpdates, "units": templateJson.units, "supportsAppend": templateJson.supportsAppend, "syncEnabled": templateJson.syncEnabled, "extractChangesCapabilities": templateJson.extractChangesCapabilities, "supportsApplyEditsWithGlobalIds": templateJson.supportsApplyEditsWithGlobalIds, "supportsOBACForAnonymousUsers": templateJson.supportsOBACForAnonymousUsers, "editorTrackingInfo": templateJson.editorTrackingInfo, "changeTrackingInfo": templateJson.changeTrackingInfo, "xssPreventionInfo": templateJson.xssPreventionInfo, "name":  the proposed name of the new service }, "targetType": "featureService", "f": "json", "token": myToken the response I get is: "{\"success\":false,\"error\":{\"message\":\"Service name 'null' already exists for 'Nxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1'\"},\"isView\":false}" So what value am I not sending in correctly and why does it tell me the name is available and then tell me otherwise? Thanks, Ken ... View more

Thanks Nakul, this is helpful. In the case of Explorer and Navigator, are the paths known? I was using my app today and needed an mmpk. It occurred to me I had an appropriate one downloaded in Navigator and realized the inefficiency of downloading it again. Searching GeoNet I found the path for Explorer on Android. How can I find out the paths for Explorer on iOS and Navigator in both platforms? I guess I should talk to someone from those teams, right? ... View more