Hollinger Week 3

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Chapter 3 Notes, Comments, and Questions:

  1. What can experience builder do?
    1. HTML and Java scripts without programming
    2. Out-of-the-box widgets (can be used, remixed, and configured)
    3. 2D and 3D web apps work across many platforms
    4. Different flexible layouts
    5. Widgets respond to other widgets
  2. How do you use it?: Workflow
    1. Template, select theme, select source data, configure widgets, refine layouts, save, preview, publish, and share
  3. Basic Components
    1. Page = foundation (consists of header, footer, and body)
    2. Window = complimentary to page (only has body content)
    3. Outline view that lists all widgets on page
  4. Widgets
    1. Basic: functional, perform as app tools (ex: map, legend, etc.)
    2. Layout: organize widgets on your layout window (ex: section, column, row, etc)
    3. Customizable widget settings: there are 3 categories (Content, Style, and Action)
    4. 2 groups of Widgets:
      1. Message Actions: These have 3 components (triggers, targets, and action)
      2. Data Actions: These do things like exporting records to a file (for example)
  5. 3 Editions of Experience Builder
    1. Embedded in ArcGIS Online
      1. This edition does not allow for custom widgets.
    2. Embedded in Portal for ArcGIS
    3. Developer edition
      1. Developer Edition has the greatest extended functionality.
      2. You can create, deploy, and use custom widgets.

 

Chapter 4: Comments, Notes, Questions:

  1. Mobile GIS (concepts and advantages):
    1. Mobility
    2. Location Awareness (GPS, Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.)
    3. Ease of Data Collection
    4. Near Real-Time Info (Spatial and Temporal Data)
    5. Large Volume of Users (More Accessible)
  2. Mobile GIS Devices/Usage
    1. Smartphones, Tablets, Watches, etc.
    2. Mobile OS (Andriod, iOS, Windows)
    3. Wireless Communication Technology
    4. Positioning Technology (Satellite, Network-Based, etc)
  3. Trade-off: Mobile devices are less powerful, slower, and have less memory and battery, but are more portable and accessible.
  4. Feature Layer Views
    1. You can create a hosted layer that mirrors/references your original layer so users can edit and the public will automatically see those changes 
    2. Survey123 will automatically create these behind-the-scenes views
  5. Feature Templates: defines types of data items that users can add to a layer
    1. Data Integrity: prevents users from entering invalid values
    2. Ease of Editing: presents make it easier to know what type of data you are using
  6. Mobile App Development Strategies
    1. Browser-based: less costly, quicker, can only access a limited amount of device features
    2. Native-based: apps you download and install, deep-level access, faster, more expensive, can’t run on multiple platforms
    3. Hybrid-based: combo of native and browser-based
  7. ArcGIS Native Apps 
    1. Field Maps (Mapcentric)
      1. Plan and coordinate fieldwork, owner can configure projects and attachment types, dispatchers create/prioritize assignments and send out deadline reminders, mobile workers use the app to process and do work
      2. You can also track and capture the locations of mobile users
    2. Survey123 (Formcentric)
      1. Smart Survey w/ dropdowns
      2. Store results in hosted feature layer (online and offline data collection)
      3. 2 ways to design smart forms:
        1. Web Designer: quick, simple, not all smart features available
        2. Connect: more advanced questions and features, desktop app, can pull from outside data sources
    3. Quick Capture
      1. Made to capture data from a moving vehicle
      2. Send/update data in real-time
      3. Very minimalistic interface
    4. Indoors Mobile App: indoor mapping for things that are going on with/in your organization’s indoor environment
    5. Companion
      1. App to access your ArcGIS organization, content, and profile
      2. Perform administrative tasks and search/browse content on the go
  8. VR, AR, and other frontiers
    1. LBS: offered through mobile devices (considers location in use). 
    2. VGI: spatial data produced voluntarily by citizens
      1. Survey123 is best for this type of data collection (doesn’t require an account)
    3. VR: simulation of 3D Map/Environment (replaces reality)
    4. AR: an enhanced version of reality (overlay reality)
      1. Tabletop and World Scale ArcGIS toolkits can help implement AR

Chapter 3 and 4 Application: 

  1. For an application for Chapter 3, I would use Experience Builder I would create an app that centers on mineral resources throughout the world. I would create a map of these primary mineral resources and possibly one for the secondary resources or compound type for these places as well. I would add a chart widget that you could configure to show how much of each ore was present in certain regions, a list widget of regions and their resources the user could sort, and another page with common uses for the resources. 
  2. For the application for Chapter 4, I was thinking of creating a smart survey in Survey123 to be used around Campus. I could be used to report things that need maintenance to buildings and grounds. You could submit photos of the broken thing, provide contact info, specify what type of maintenance needs to be done, etc.

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