Latest Contributions by DavidForbuss1

We need this ability too for photo documenting sewer and stormwater features.  We used to use a Trimble Geo7x that would timestamp our photos.  We have since done a complete GIS overhaul that included switching to Collector for our GPS work. ... View more

It's my understanding that this is a security measure put in place so local files cannot be opened via a link.  You'll probably have to host the file online somewhere as mentioned above. ... View more

We've actually had great luck with collector.  Most of the issues for us have been related to how the webmaps were setup (i.e. editing enabled/disabled when it shouldn't have been, related tables not added, etc).  We recently purchased an EOS Arrow GPS to pair with our iPads and the accuracy level has been fantastic.  We aren't doing any offline editing or syncing though, so our setup is likely much less complicated than what you're doing, but overall Collector has been a pretty smooth integration for us. ... View more

Yeah that's one of the issues I have with ArcGIS Pro as well.  I spoke with an ESRI employee, and he explained that they chose to develop Pro with 3D functionality "baked" in, so the video card requirements are huge.  He also said, in his opinion, they should have split the 3D portion out and made it an addon so that those of us that do not need the 3D functions wouldn't have to meet these crazy video card requirements.  We use Amazon Workspaces quite a bit, and unfortunately their video card capable package is way out of reach for us budget wise, so I'm kind of stuck using ArcMap for the time being.  Really wish there was a way to disable the 3D portion of PRO.  I completely agree with your cartography statement....it takes me WAY too long to get a map looking the way I need it to in PRO.  The tools/options to modify even simple items on the map are buried under sometimes multiple layers of sub-options. ... View more

You should be able to create a view on your gdb that would add some columns to your parent table from the related table.  We have this setup for some symbology on a webmap that we feed into Collector.  The features are the parent table, and there is a related inspections table.  Our SQL statement pulls the most recent inspection (lastprocessed) and determines how long ago it was (dayssincelastprocessed) and adds that number of days into the view's extra columns.  I bet you could do the same thing in this situation but just pull the first record in the related table.  You'd then publish the view as a feature service and feed it into your map.  I'm not super good with SQL but maybe this could give a launch point: The two columns added to the end of the parent table as a view: The SQL statement we're using: SELECT a.*, (SELECT max(b.inspectiondate) FROM CriticalFacilitiesInspectionsTable_evw AS b WHERE a.facilityid=b.facilityid) AS lastprocessed, DATEDIFF(day,(SELECT max(b.inspectiondate) FROM CriticalFacilitiesInspectionsTable_evw AS b WHERE a.facilityid=b.facilityid), GETDATE()) AS DaysSinceLastProcessed FROM ssgravitymain_evw AS a ... View more

Well my EEAP tech guru suggested I could turn off editor tracking prior to do any copying/appending/etc. and turn it back on once I get the data where I want it.  This seems to work quite well.  I'd still however like to be able to situate the fields in the Survey 123 viewer based on customer requests. ... View more

Did this ever get resolved?  Will it work in the expression builder now? Update: I just tried this and unfortunately it doesn't work.  Strangely, the TextFormatting.NewLine option is available under the "Constants" tab, but when you click the help button you get this message even though the test box is showing it as working: ... View more