Becker Week 3

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Chapter 3

  • ArcGIS Experience Builder allows you to combine functions from multiple apps and provides more functionality than any one ArcGIS instant app
  • Experience Builder includes premade widgets that provide functions such as mapping, table view, querying, charting, and reporting

Basics of Experience Builder

    • Allows you to create unique web experiences using flexible layouts, content, and widgets that interact with 2D and 3D data
    • Key features:
      • Creates HTML and JavaScript apps without programming
      • Creates 2D and 3D web apps that work well on desktops, tablets, and smartphones
      • Includes out-of-the-box widgets that can be flexibly remixed and configured
      • Flexible layouts to build apps that are mapcentric or non-mapcentric and can display them on a rolling screen or fixed pages
      • Make a widget respond to actions of another widget
      • Provides framework for creators to make their own widgets
    • Template – Theme – Data – Widgets – Layouts – Publish
  • Basic widgets- functional widgets that perform as app tools
  • Layout widgets- containers that help organize widgets on your page/window
    • Setting panel for a widget has:
      • Content- data sources, links, behavior, and other settings of widget
      • Style- defines the size, position, background, border, color, box shadow, animation, transition, and other settings
      • Actions- make widgets talk and work with one another
  • Message actions- listen to triggers and perform actions automatically
  • Data actions- provide button for users to click
  • Triggers- events generated by source widget
  • Targets- perform actions responding to the trigger
  • Actions- specific business logic that the targets perform
  • 3 Editions of Experience Builder: 
    • Embedded in ArcGIS Online
    • Embedded in Portal for ArcGIS
    • Developer edition

  • My idea for this chapter is to use the Web Experience setup to create a 2D and 3D mapping of droughts and food shortages in the Midwest. People could use these maps to get a visual representation of the relationship between the two.

Chapter 4

    • Mobile devices are becoming the main way to use Web GIS (Mobile GIS)
    • Concepts and Advantages
  • Mobility
  • Location awareness- can use GPS, cellular networks, Wi-Fi networks, etc. to pinpoint location of mobile device
  • Ease of data collection
  • Near-real-time information
  • Large volume of users
  • Versatile means of communication
    • Technologies for GIS
      • Mobile devices
      • Mobile operating systems
      • Wireless communication technology
      • Positioning technology
    • Mobile limits speed, memory size, battery power, etc.
    • Many organizations need to share data with the public and simultaneously allow members within the organization to keep that data up to date. Hosted feature layer views provide a direct way to do this
  • Data integrity- feature template for a layer that represents schools
    • feature template can have preset symbols and default values for one or multiple fields
  • Browser-based approach- access these apps through mobile web browsers
  • Native-based approach- apps downloaded or installed on mobile devices
  • Hybrid-based approach- combination of browser and native based approaches
  • Native apps/fields operations: ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS Survey123, ArcGIS QuickCapture, ArcGIS Navigator, ArcGIS Companion, ArcGIS Earth, ArcGIS Mission Responder, and ArcGIS Indoors mobile viewer
  • ArcGIS has offline mode to still be functional when disconnected from internet
  • ArcGIS Field Maps Capabilities:
    • Collect and update data using the map or GPS.
    • Download maps to your device and work offline.
    • Collect points, lines, areas, and view related tables.
    • Design easy-to-use smart forms.
    • Attach photos to your features.
    • Use professional-grade GPS receivers.
    • Search for places and features.
    • Support high-accuracy 3D data collection capabilities.
  • Allows organizations to track where mobile workers have been and where they currently are (Invasive???)
  • ArcGIS Survey123 Capabilities:
    • Design smart surveys with predefined questions that support domains (which appear as the choices in drop-down lists) and feature templates, default values, embedded audio and images, and simple (for example, if the answer to one question is yes, show a related question; otherwise, do not show the related question) and sophisticated rules.
    • Capture field data using an intuitive, formcentric data-gathering solution.
    • Store survey results in hosted feature layers that you can share with organization users.
    • Perform online and offline data collection.
  • Ways to design smart forms: Web Designer, ArcGIS Survey123 Connect
  • ArcGIS QuickCapture can allow for data collection in quick situations like a car driving by
  • ArcGIS AppStudio provides place to build apps across platforms

An idea I have using the ideas from this chapter is to create an app that allows users to input good hiking places near our campus. With this app, it would be easy for Ohio Wesleyan students to find fun places to go enjoy the outdoors.

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