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• Required

  • Simple Feature Symbols - Use Esri’s Simple Feature Symbols (esriSMS, esriSLS, esriSFS) instead of more complex Picture Marker Symbols. This is especially important for points. Simple Marker Symbols (esriSMS) use JSON instructions to define the size, color, outline color, outline width, etc. for the symbol, instead of using an encoded image as the symbol. The image below shows how to ensure that a point symbol is a Simple Marker Symbol. Note that this format has a limited number of options, including only the following shapes: Circle, Square, Cross, X, Diamond (square rotated 45 degrees).

  • Example of setting simple marker symbol symbology in ArcMap

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    Example of setting simple marker symbology in ArcPro (note the use of ‘Shape Marker’ and the selection of the circle shape that is access from the shape dropdown. This is not the same as using the gallery and selecting Circle 1 or other symbol, which will use Picture Marker Symbols).

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    Example of setting simple fill symbol symbology for polygons in ArcPro (note the need to select a ‘hollow’ shape from the gallery first, then modify the outline width and color properties). When a no-color or transparent fill is selected instead, InventoryManager will display a faint blue fill color rather than a hollow polygon.

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  • Even with the ‘Extent Hollow’ shape selected from the gallery, the resulting service will show a semi-transparent fill in some environments, including WSG web apps such as InventoryManager. Therefore, further configurations are needed when a truly hollow polygon is needed (typical symbology for Stands). For each symbol (including all unique value entries), use the properties tab, then the wrench icon to show the ‘effects’. For truly transparent fill, click the X next to the outline ‘Offset effect’ and ‘Dash effect’ as well as the unlabeled fill effect below (see orange arrows below). That should remove those effects and the symbology will look like the right side of the image below. Click ‘Apply’ and repeat for all relevant symbols.

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  • Unique Value Renderer

    • If using a Unique Value Renderer (e.g., a different color for each Plot according to it’s Status value), only use a single field to determine the symbol (not 2 or more fields). In ArcMap, use the option for ‘Unique values’ not ‘Unique values, many fields’.

    • Default values - use a default value with Unique Value Renderers to ensure that features that have a null for the category field will still have a symbol on the map. This unique value is what will be displayed in MobileMap when selecting this layer for query or edit.

• Suggested

  • Points

    • Size greater than or equal to 10

    • No outline - while outlines can be helpful for seeing points with low contrast to background (e.g., a green point on a forested stand using imagery background, they can also make things visually cluttered and can obscure the fill color when points are too small. Instead, try to use colors that have high contrast and avoid using outlines. We have found that bright green is generally sufficiently high contrast to vegetation in most scenarios.

  • Lines

    • Line width of 2

    • If lines might overlap, consider use of dashed lines for layers that will be above, or increased thickness for layers that will be below

  • Polygons

    • Hollow (no fill) allows for viewing of imagery within the polygon. This is especially true for forestry applications where users want to see the distribution of vegetation cover in forest stands

    • Line width of 2

Symbology Layer Files

The attached Zipfile below can be used to import symbology into ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro.

ArcMap - Settings and Publishing

Once the symbology, projection, data model and Editor Tracking (see MobileMap: Data Model / Data Modeling Process for more information on data modeling and Editor Tracking) have been set and saved, follow the steps below to publish the map document as a feature service in ArcGIS Online / Portal. 

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Your feature service is now published.  Log in to ArcGIS Online to review and confirm it is as expected.

ArcGIS Pro - Settings and Publishing

Map Properties

Use the map Properties to provide a Title, Tags, Summary and Description

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Publishing

• This terminology is a bit confusing, because you will actually be publishing a Feature Service, and it will have multiple layers, but that is the generic term that is used in ArcGIS Pro. Go to Share > Web Layer > Publish Web Layer

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• On the Configuration Tab

• Check the box to enable editing (Add, Delete, Update) of Attributes and Geometry

• Optionally enable Sync (for compatibility with Esri Field Maps) and Export Data (to enabled export of full database as FGDB for backup, etc.)

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MobileMap Settings - Saving to Feature Service

MobileMap settings can optionally be saved in the ‘description’ field of a Feature Service. This allows MobileMap to import optimized settings directly from the Feature Service itself when setting up a new device or changing to a new service. This approach is in contrast to manually configuring settings, or importing settings from a settings file.

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