Chapter 3: This chapter’s tutorial was a bit more complex than the previous ones and took me longer to complete. I ran into several minor issues including a missing dynamic content button and the fields pane being empty when writing expressions in the text box. Fortunately I was able to work through both issues after visiting the ESRI community page and finding a comment and solution for the exact issues I had. Later on I had an issue where a ‘sort by’ value that was listed in the book wasn’t an option for me to select, but it appears that my chart still matched the information that I wanted it to present. I also noted that when the book instructs you to type a URL you need to add ‘https://’ to the URL even if it is not mentioned in the tutorial, otherwise the URL will not work. It seems like the experience builder app has a lot more functions to unpack and practice, but I would imagine that after using it several times it could be very helpful in interactively displaying data.
Chapter 4: I enjoyed this chapter and found it much easier to figure out than the previous chapter. I did run into several issues in which the book was not similar to the screen as a result of an update, so I had to use trial-and-error to figure out how to proceed. For example, the ‘set rules’ setting for the incident type question was completely different from what the book showed, so I actually had to instead edit the dependent question’s rules to get the same result as the textbook. The tutorials of the different apps were interesting and I could see how they could become useful, but it was inconvenient that each app was its own entity and had to be downloaded seperately.
Assignment: I think the survey feature could be useful in monitering invasive species, so creating an app to report sightings of spotted lanternflies in a region could be efficient. The ability to add locations and photos would also make the survey especially convient. Another idea I had was to use the web experience as an interactive way to display information about natural landforms in Ohio or state parks.
Note: I completed the Delaware data inventory when I was in Geog 291.