Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

Not through the Reporter Instant App, but you can create a companion Manager Instant App. Usually, the Reporter app will use a view that only allows the Add editing capability and the Manager app will use the source layer or another view with at least Update editing capability.  More on controlling who can edit what can be found here https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/manage-editing-hfl.htm  ... View more

Hello @GlenterpriseUK , I had not seen that post. I ended up deleting and recreating the entire collaboration to get the version numbers in sync. To be honest, we are starting to consider moving away from distributed collaborations and going back to Python scripts that truncate/append from ArcGIS Enterprise to ArcGIS Online. Our distributed collaborations keep having consistent, yet random, issues. Collaboration items on ArcGIS Online will randomly have their permissions changed from Everyone (or specific groups) back to Private. Collaboration workspaces will eventually start failing to sync. How long they run successfully varies. Sometimes they will be fine for months, other times weeks, and sometimes only days. The logs on ArcGIS Enterprise usually have something about failure to create replication package and it tends to happen with enterprise geodatabase feature layers more than hosted feature layers. Creating separate workspaces for hosted feature layers and enterprise feature layers has helped some. I have stopped marking feature layers as Authoritative in ArcGIS Enterprise for collaboration items because that flag seems to make the workspace sync fail more often. I have been going over the issues addressed lists and I see things that are supposed to be fixed that we still have issues with, or the same BUG number is referenced in more than one release. I am planning on going from 11.5 to 12.1 once it is released and completely rebuilding our distributed collaboration one more time. If we are still having issues after that then I will have to move us back to our old Python scripts. ... View more

It has been 7 years since this idea was posted. I am curious if anyone from Esri has even reviewed this idea. My comment from 2024 is still valid today. My organization has workflows that cannot be done in GIS simply because there is no support for multiple coded domain values throughout the ArcGIS software stack. Could the Survey123 implementation be ported over to the REST API? ... View more

@StephenKing3 I am glad it is working and I wish it did not require such a roundabout way to get the solution to work securely for organizations with limited named users that have editing permissions. It would be nice if Viewer named users accounts had permission to submit data only through Survey123 surveys. ... View more

@StephenKing3 that is odd since the GIS_Activities feature layer is the root service for all the request/activities views. If you check the Data tab in the GIS_Activities item page is it empty as well, or is it the My GIS Requests dashboard that is empty? ... View more

Thank you for your response. I have created a new ArcGIS Idea about this. ... View more

I am also a team of one in the IT Department of the City of Kerrville for the last 13 years. To start with, I still struggle to get my coworkers more engaged in using GIS for themselves, but here are some things that have helped. We use ArcGIS Enterprise (AGE) internally and use ArcGIS Online (AGO) for public facing GIS. I used to do in person trainings that were just open for anyone to show up. Those were not very effective in attendance or information retention. I switched to doing more targeted in person trainings for specific workflows. Switching from desktop GIS to web GIS seems to have cut down on the requests for training on the basics of using our GIS. Most of my users do not want to create their own GIS layers. They view that as my job and I am still trying to change that mentality. The item reports in AGE and AGO are a great place to start to see what all clutter there might be. We are still working on developing a GIS governance policy to define how we are going to consistently manage our data. It did not seem important at first but now with many years of data to go through I wish I had created the policy before we uploaded anything to AGE. We heavily utilize attribute rules, domains, contingent values, and scripts ensure consistency wherever possible. For enterprise geodatabase data I would publish different services for different audiences that only exposes what that audience needs to edit. It is even easier with hosted feature views. Setting up AGE years ago greatly expanded the reach of GIS to my organization because it is so much easier to use than ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro. For people that just view our GIS I tried to keep things as simple as possible. I created department apps (Web App Builder and now Experience Builder) that is tailored to what is important on a daily basis to that department. Adding the Add Data widget to that made power users happy. Then I created a "Featured Maps & Apps" group and set that group to show on our AGE homepage. I would have to go back and review the permissions on how I got it so people only see their departments apps on the homepage. One thing that I would add is that if you want self-service GIS to become the norm I would recommend on getting buy-in from administration. Change to self-service here has worked the best when the administration is driving the change instead of me. ... View more