The apps team have released significant updates to the Collector for ArcGIS and Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS applications today.
Collector updates are available for download from Apple’s App Store and Google Play and the Operations Dashboard can be found inside of ArcGIS Online.
The most significant update with this release comes within the Collector. It’s much easier to open collector maps on your device. Opening the app you will be asked to Sign In to your organization. When signed in you can now search for and open maps that have been shared for your use
The team has done a lot of work to help you get started with Collector and Dashboard. Both have a Try It Live experience built into the apps and there are new Resource Center pages with tutorials and videos that will help you get started:
We hope you enjoy this update and look forward to hearing about your experiences with both the Operations Dashboard and Collector.
For the Dashboard – I understood that any updates to the application were to be applied automatically without download. Is this now not the case?
Yes this is the case. The dashboard should update automatically the next time that you update it. For those that have not yet used the Operations Dashboard you can click the link to install.
What is the equivalent program or app to ArcGIS Collector on Windows, or better yet, for any internet browser?
Currently the Collector app is not available on Windows 7/8 nor is it available within a browser. We are currently in development of a Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Windows Store) version. The closest apps to the Collector are either ArcPad or ArcGIS for Windows Mobile.
I am not excited at all with the new share options released for the AGOL Public accounts; they are very restricting
Also, is the Collector for ArcGIS only for Organizational Accounts? I was able to see my maps from my Public account but now I am only able to see those groups belonging to an Organizational account. More power to the users!!
Our goal with both the Collector and the Operations Dashboard is to provide as much power to the users as we possibly can! You can share maps with your field workers that include the tools and services that are needed to accomplish their field workflows. Then when they sign in to the Collector, the app can use your login to auto-populate attributes of features that you collect and update. This provides a very focused application experience for the field worker. Your subscription to ArcGIS Online makes this all possible.
yes, but you’ve disallowed personal a.k.a. public accounts from joining an organizational group. This means we can’t engage private citizens in data collecting directly and will have to resort to workarounds (or just go somewhere else for this).
You also didn’t address ernestocd’s complaint that Org users can’t see maps from outside the organization, this is a major and silly limit. I can see how for certain places and uses this would be desired, but it should be a preference.
Regarding your question about engaging private citizens:
If this is your target audience you need to consider the ramifications of opening up your feature services for everyone to edit. Without wrapping custom logic to ensure editing behavior you will find that any private citizen can update/delete features that another private citizen creates. Also without an identity of any kind associated with the edit – what value does it really have to your organization? Again our positioning for the Collector is to enabled authenticated/trusted users within an organization to create and update data and crowd sourcing is not the target audience for this application.
Regarding Ernestocd’s complaint:
Again the target audience for the Collector are members of an organization that need to collect and update data in an authoritative way. If you do not own the map (ie it comes from another organization) that you do not have the authority to update it.
Knowing that this tool works with ArcGIS Online currently, and I would like to know if it can work with Portal for ArcGIS? As our clients insist on keeping the data locally, including the basemap layers, so if this tool is able to support Portal for ArcGIS, it will be a great feature to sell the clients to implement a system with Portal for ArcGIS.
This is a great question kachunmic. Collector and the Operations Dashboard have been developed with support of both ArcGIS Online Subscriptions and Portal for ArcGIS in mind. Our dev teams are certifying Portal for ArcGIS support now and it will be available with the 10.2 release.
Will there be an update that allows for a right-click on the graphs/charts to copy and paste into documents?
That is a great request Michelle. Thank you! I will add it to our product backlog. Related question – would you like to see the ability to create a report within the Operations Dashboard as well? If so can you please elaborate on what you would like to see in that report?
can Collector be used for iPad? I saw iPad listed in my google search results but not in any detailed description.
Thanks.
yliaustin,
Yes, Collector will work on an iPad. The link at the top of the page will take you to the Apple App Store where you can download for free.
but its not an ipad app.
That is correct. It will appear as a 2x iPhone app.
However in our next update (10.2) we will be submitting a universal app and fully support both the tablet and phone form factor. Please look for the update late this summer/early fall. It will also include line and polygon support as well as the ability to work offline.