Nicholas,
Good idea, I gave it thumbs up.
Here is the link to get directly to it: http://ideas.arcgis.com/apex/ideaSearchResults?s=Collector+Offline+-+Control+Editing+by+Layer&searchButton=search
Dan
Daniel Czaja, GISP
GIS Coordinator
State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection
Division of Statewide Emergency Telecommunications
1111 Country Club Road
Middletown, CT 06457-9294
Phone: 860.685.8131
Fax: 860.685.8363
"Give me a stopwatch and a map, and I'll fly the Alps in a plane with no windows. If the map is accurate enough." - The Hunt for the Red October
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:39 PM
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Subject: [CTGIS-L] Collector Offline Users
I wonder if anyone who knows about collector knows of a workaround for this.
Right now, if you want to use Collector in an offline mode, Esri told me you have to allow all layers to be editable. The way it is, your field crews can accidentally (or intentionally) destroy data and bypass the normal QA/QC process and GIS editors. There needs to be the ability to only allow layers to be edited that we want to be edited, while leaving other layers for query purposes only.
Is it possible to block editing on some layers when the user tries to sync edits back up to the server, while allowing edits in the Collector app just to satisfy it? I just want to have one layer for redlining, where the user will make notes and they can be synced back up with the server. Maybe something we can do on the SQL side of things or in ArcGIS Server or something? I’m open to any workaround, otherwise it looks like the app is a dealbreaker for us using mobile, because there really are no other good disconnected options.
Nicholas A. McNamara, GISP
GIS Coordinator
South Norwalk Electric and Water
Phone: (203) 866-4446 ext. 2035
Fax: (203) 854-0609
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