Latest Contributions by DataOfficer

We are working with a large number of volunteers and stakeholders on a citizen science project to collect wildlife sightings. They have community user accounts as part of our Hub Premium subscription. The stakeholders include landowners / landmanagers who are only interested in seeing data (sites, survey areas, species records etc.) within their ownership. We have therefore created multiple hosted view layers from each hosted feature layer to match the view required for a particular group of community users. Rather than creating separate web maps or web apps for each user group, we would prefer to share all of the views in the same map, with the users only seeing content shared to them (based on their logins and the groups they are members of). We have tried this out, and it works to an extent but if they do not have permission to view all of the layers, the warning Error The layer, LAYER NAME, cannot be added to the map appears. Is there a way we can get around this to prevent the warning appearing, or is best practice to create separate web maps for every group with a different view? It is also worth noting that we are sharing the webmaps on a Hub page as the primary way of users accessing the layers. We are also providing access to some of the webmaps through Explorer and Collector. ... View more

We are using ArcGIS Hub Premium to manage various community projects. To give certain community users access to relevant content, we have been creating groups which contain the content. Logging in to ArcGIS Online with an organisational account that has permission to manage whichever group, I am only able to invite community users by specifying their exact community user username in the search box (using the Invite Users button). Is there a way to select from the larger list of community users / do a bulk selection rather than manually looking up and entering each individual username one by one? Secondly, when a community user is invited to a group, it does not show those pending in the Members tab so that we can see who is still to accept their group invite. Is there a way of viewing this, or something we need to suggest as an enhancement request?  Many thanks, Rob ... View more

The map card in ArcGIS Hub (I'm using Premium) allows the addition of web maps to a hub site page, but does not currently support layer control. It would be very useful for this to be an option that could be enabled/disabled by the admin, as is currently the case for the map legend.  ... View more

Currently in Survey123 it is possible to use the pulldata function to populate a geopoint question with the point location without user input. It would be very useful to be able to use a simple mechanism to set the center (and potentially extent) of the map (for geopoint, geotrace and geoshape questions) so that the user does not have to navigate to the correct location before adding the relevant point/line/polygon. As a use case and example, we have survey forms designed for volunteers carrying out wildlife surveys. As part of the form structure, they select the survey site which they have surveyed from a predefined select_one list. Hidden questions then pull in the site centroid coordinates from an external csv, which is currently used to display a geopoint map as a visual sense check they have selected the correct site name. Users then go on to add species observations using geopoint questions in a repeat. When they click on the geopoint question, it defaults to the default location set in Connect. It would be far preferable to be able to set it to default to the selected site centroid based on the site selection they made earlier in the form, but without registering the centroid as an actual point (or part of a line or polygon). Obviously this is more critical for desktop operations, where the user is not in the field (whereby they would usually rely on their device's gps location). ... View more