Latest Contributions by CharliePhilbrick1

I work for a land management organization and support many folks in the field who do all kinds of work, much of it outside of reliable cellular data coverage. For many years now our wildlife staff have used off-the-shelf handheld Garmin units to create waypoints for various points of interest that they would like to return to. Things like potential nesting sites or areas where they've spotted a species of interest.  Over the last 5 years, I've been steadily migrating the organization's data collection efforts from ArcPad and TerraSync to Field Maps and Survey123 (as well as 1 or 2 non-esri platforms). I'd like to be able to offer staff who've been managing their own .gpx files a better solution - and one that I can help keep an eye on/manage/administer from the back end. I haven't thought this all the way through yet, but ideally I think users would be accessing their information and functionality through a mobile device (probably iPhone) and I would be turning dials and pulling levers via AGO or Portal. I have set another team up to use Trek2There to navigate to multiple monitoring locations in conjunction with a webmap that they access through Field Maps, but I believe that the custom URL string that feeds coordinates from features in the webmap to Trek2There relies on an active data connection, which is a deal breaker in this use case. I can conceive of how to do this entirely within an offline capable web map in Field Maps, but it feels clunky and like a tough sell compared to what they're currently doing with the Garmin units.  Does esri offer an app that allows for easy creation of and navigation to waypoints? I'd like to stay within the stack of esri offerings for this one, but I'm not sure if there's a product that meets our needs. Please advise! Thanks,  Charlie ... View more

Pretty simple question: what are best practices for making a handful of feature classes which participate in relationship classes with one another available for editing offline in Collector.   Up to this point I have been accustomed to publishing one feature service per feature class that I wish to edit. Many of those feature classes have had related tables for storing additional records or photo attachments, but I have never had to deal with this situation where the relationship classes define associations between multiple feature classes.   I've been unable to find any official esri documentation that speaks to this, nor have I found any posts on GeoNet or the broader web. I'd appreciate any recommendations or links.   Thanks,  Charlie ... View more

I am trying to help my organization reach a decision about how best to set up our enterprise data for offline editing in Collector. We've been going back and forth between the merits of using feature classes with archiving enabled or ones that are versioned. I'll omit details of our current configuration and justifications for now. If anyone is curious about that or more information is needed to provide me with guidance, I'm happy to pass along relevant details.    My principle question is this: what is the wisdom of enabling archiving on versioned data? I'm imagining a kind of hybrid scenario where versioning is turned on so that no one is directly editing our default production data AND archiving is also enabled so that I'm not spending all my time managing replicas and versions.    Based on my own experience as well as the two esri help articles linked below, I think I understand the challenges and benefits of pursuing either an archiving-only or versioning-only approach. Our DB administrator has pretty much ruled out the archiving-only approach out of concern for the sanctity of our production data. Versioning-only will certainly work, but I am daunted by the prospect of dealing with all the versions that increased offline use of Collector within our organization is going to cause. I suspect that the reconciliation processes could be automated through scripting such that we would have a kind of last-edit-in-wins scenario, but doesn't Archiving provide that experience with the added advantage of being able to roll the clock back if need be?   I'd love some guidance based on the particulars I laid out above, but I'd be happy if someone could just point me in the direction of some documentation about what to expect from what I'm calling a 'Varchiving" environment.   Thanks Much!     Enabling archiving—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS Desktop - of particular note the subsection 'Enabling archiving on versioned data' Prepare data for offline use—Documentation | ArcGIS Enterprise -  ... View more

I've successfully shared a .mmpk to AGO where users have been able to download it via Explorer for ArcGIS for offline use. That's great. What I'm wondering is, can we achieve that same functionality but host the .mmpk on our own enterprise server? Or is this one of those things like tracking layers that seem to only work as hosted layers on AGO?  Please let me know if this question needs more clarification. I'm a little shaky on some of the terminology as well as some of the specifics of my organization's server set up. Thanks. ... View more