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Thanks Malcolm! Is there anything that jumped to mind when you were using it surrounding what could be improved, or things that you would absolutely need before switching over to the new sites?
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Hi Papantzin, Are you entering one tag or multiple tags into the query box? Courtney
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Hi Phil, What that date represents will depend on your service: * If the service is hosted on your own server and you have editor tracking turned on (Enabling and managing editor tracking—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ), that date should reflect the latest date on the editor tracking field. * If the service is hosted on ArcGIS Online, we should date the last edited date from the hosted feature service. * If the service is hosted on your own server and you do _not_ have editor tracking turned on, the date will reflect when the ArcGIS Online item itself (from an edited description, title, etc). There is one bug we are currently working on related to hosted feature services, where sometimes they will show the wrong date. Courtney
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We are working to implement charts, smart mapping, and heat maps into the beta sites - in a new and improved way!
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Since launching at the User Conference two years ago, ArcGIS Open Data has enabled over 3,000 organizations worldwide to make nearly 50,000 datasets discoverable and accessible to their communities near and far. Working closely with governments of all sizes, community advocacy groups, and other organizations we've learned a lot of things. The team is excited to preview where we're going next: a simpler way to launch a modern site for data administrators, greater data analysis tools for citizens, open API explorer for developers, and new ways to build and showcase data stories that grow collaboration between everyone. This first beta release now provides recent features seen on the global opendata.arcgis.com to local sites. It's important to note that although we will use these sites to release new features going forward, we are not removing support for the sites currently available, and are not going to stop the incredible work that has already been done by the ArcGIS Open Data community. That being said, read on to learn more details! New site editor The new site editor is a result of thorough pattern analysis and a review of administrator's current pain points when creating an Open Data site. We've applied what we've learned to give administrators of all technical levels the ability to create a site that follows the organization's brand and highlights the data housed within. Log into the administrative app and you'll see a new button, "Try Beta Site." When you launch a new beta site, you'll see a pre-filled template in the site editor. You can use and modify this template as you wish, or delete all the components and start from scratch. Highlights Theme Builder The initial phase of the new sites allow administrators to select four colors which will comprise their site's theme. These colors will be applied throughout the site to give users a consistent, recognizable and trusted experience while discovering and exploring the data. Furthermore, this theme can be used in configured applications so you can ensure that your branding is consistent and easy to maintain across multiple your entire suite of public engagement apps Administrators set the site theme in the Site Editor (above) and see the effects applied throughout the site (below) Layout Builder There are common patterns seen in the thousands of ArcGIS Open Data sites on the web today, and we have created a number of cards for administrators to easily replicate them without requiring a developer or designer on hand. The bones of the layout are rows - these are the width-long blocks of the homepage which can be customized to have a background image or a background color. Admins can change the text color for individual rows if they wish to override the greater theme text color. Within the rows come cards. Administrators can drag cards onto the rows and organize their layout in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface. These cards follow general site patterns and include banners, images, text, and category widgets to organize your data. We have more widgets in the making and would love to hear what you'd like to see. The current card options for site customization (above), and a category card in edit mode (below) Supported Customization We also heard from organizations that want to build more custom designs but ensure that their sites continue to work as we add new features and capabilities to ArcGIS Open Data. The new sites are now built with Calcite-Bootstrap, which means developers and designers can use custom HTML and the widely popular Bootstrap design elements to build experiences using tools they are already familiar with. What's upcoming We understand that headers and footers are crucial to match branding guidelines and create a consistent experience across all organizational pages. In the near future we'll add the ability to create custom headers and footers using either iframes or custom HTML. We're also adding more ways to feature your data, applications, and information products on the homepage. Down the line we'll have more granularity when picking a site theme to allow even greater site customization. New features Over the past few months we have been rolling out new features to opendata.arcgis.com, and have been fielding questions about how administrators can access them for their own site. This is your chance! We go into greater detail about some of these features in our April blog post, but check out some highlights below. Highlights API Explorer The API Explorer is a new way for citizens to access detailed subsets of datasets. Each dataset shared with ArcGIS Open Data is backed by the Geoservices REST API and has a unique explorer on the dataset page. This is a capability that can be turned off in the administrative settings, but we feel strongly that this programatic gateway to the data will expand the reach of your data and allow citizens to access it in new ways. Connected Content Many ArcGIS Open Data sites feature web maps in addition to the raw data. These web maps are excellent ways to highlight trends and analyses performed with the data, and they can now be found on the dataset pages themselves instead of only in the search results. When a citizen lands on a dataset that has been used in a web map, they will see the web map under a new section called "Connected Content." Some of these are found in the wild already! Logins and Citizen Capabilities Custom sites now support social logins, giving your community super easy access to a host of additional capabilities on your site, which currently include favoriting datasets and creating Story Maps (see below) and with so much more on the way. Story Maps Open Data and Story Maps make a great pair -- the 50k open datasets are incredible story telling fodder. Citizens can now take their dataset of interest from an Open Data site and launch it directly into a Story Map. Here, they can go through the Story Map workflow of editing their web map, adding text and other multimedia components, and sharing it with the web. We're working on ways for these resulting Story Maps to become Connected Content so that other citizens can access these insights and leverage the knowledge of their neighbors. ______________________________ We hope you take a peek at the beta sites and explore the new capabilities offered for custom sites. We absolutely welcome and encourage your feedback on anything and everything - we'll be monitoring and participating in our ArcGIS Open Data space on GeoNet. In the next few months you'll see a new administrative experience and some surprises for the public users! Follow along with us on the ArcGIS Blog.
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Hi Shuake, At this time it's not possible to edit the Dataset Attributes table - it automatically displays the summary statistics for the attribute, if available. We are working to build an improved administrative experience that will include the ability to edit attribute descriptions and have them included on the Dataset Details page. We agree that it's very valuable information for providing context to your users. Thanks, Courtney cc Timothy Hales
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Hi Bob, We've deleted the datasets. Please let us know if you experience any other issues. Courtney
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Hi Bob, Apologies for the issue you are experiencing. Would you please provide the URLs for the datasets that need to be deleted? We'll remove them. Thank you, Courtney
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Great, glad it's useful! Please let us know if there is any additional information or features you'd like to see in an API explorer like that - we can incorporate it in the explorer we are building from scratch.
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Hi Lucas, We are currently working on full documentation for the ArcGIS Open Data API. In the meantime, we have an explorer that you can view here: ArcGIS Open Data Developer API - let us know if you have questions about it. How are you seeking to query the datasets, specifically? Courtney
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Hi Ron, No, it is not possible at this time to restrict access to data on ArcGIS Open Data sites to a particular company or organization. Courtney
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Hi Markus, Can you share some links to the Online items you are attempting to share, and can you confirm that they are indeed shared with an open data group and everyone (public)? Thanks, Courtney
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#1 - Correct, there is no way to create your own template. XML is pretty ugly. We are currently planning new administrative tools for a better metadata experience within Open Data where you could pick which metadata fields to display. #2 - One thing you could do right now to offer packaged downloads is create an fgdb, host it elsewhere, and register it as a document link on ArcGIS Online. You can share document links with Open Data and they will appear in the search results of your site (they currently don't have their own dataset page with full metadata, and we are working on that). When the user clicks on the title, they will download the fgdb in their browser. Lethbridge uses this method to share out different data types: Search | Lethbridge Open Data Catalogue.
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Hi Matthew, In the Open Data administrative app, "Items" refer to ArcGIS Online items. You are correct that not all of these appear as-is on Open Data, as some ArcGIS Online items are actually registered map services that contain many layers. These layers are the "datasets" that appear on ArcGIS Open Data. In your case, since you have registered an individual feature layer as an item in ArcGIS Online, you should see the title appear in both the datasets and items tabs. Does that answer your question? If you're still having issues some screenshots of your admin app and links to your Online items might help. Courtney
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Hi Alex, We are currently working on a fix for this bug. Thanks for posting here. Courtney
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