Chapter 3: ArcGIS Experience Builder
ArcGIS Experience Builder allows users to create layouts, content, and widgets to interact with 2D and 3D data based on ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, HTML5, and ArcGIS API for JavaScript technologies. Web apps created using Experience Builder are called web experiences, the steps include: choosing a premade template/starting from scratch, selecting a theme, adding source data, refining layouts for devices, and finally saving, previewing, publishing, and sharing the web experience. Basic widgets perform as app tools including map, legend, layers, query, filter, edit, chart, elevation, profile, survey, and more. Layout widgets are containers that help keep widgets organized on users pages/windows including sections, columns, rows, panels, sidebars, and more. Widgets have two action categories: message and data actions. Message actions listen to triggers and in turn perform actions automatically, these can be sorted into three components: triggers, targets, and actions. Data actions have an action button that allow users to select from a list of actions to perform.
Chapter 4: Mobile GIS
Mobile GIS has a number of features that provide advantages over the traditional desktop GIS: mobility, location, ease of data, near-real-time information, large volume of users, and versatile means of communication. Mobile GIS is accessible on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), mobile operating systems (android, iOS), wireless communication technologies (bluetooth, Wi-Fi), and positioning systems (GPS, IPS). Owners of hosted feature layers/administrators in the organization can control various settings: add, update, delete features. Mobile app development includes the following approaches: browser-based, native-based, and hybrid-based. A relatively new product is ArcGIS Field Maps, which allows users to plan, track, understand, and capture data related to phases of field operations.
Application Idea: Create a smart Survey123 form to better understand students’ interests on the Ohio Wesleyan Campus to improve student engagement and morale.