Developing GIS tools with branching workflows and multiple levels of sub-steps has become relatively easy. Writing detailed directions for how to use them, however, remains difficult. Printed directions may start out beside the keyboard for ready reference, but often get buried under desktop detritus. Paging through a lengthy paper document is inconvenient at best and unrealistic if the goal is for a user to follow them step-by-step like a pilot running through a pre-flight checklist. And sometimes that is exactly how we want users to work. Digital directions provide a modern, intuitive, heads-up alternative to instructions written on paper. Web capabilities like hyperlinks, tabs, pages, and collapsible content vastly improve the user experience by providing easy access to specific information that is needed and hiding everything else that is not. Unfortunately, that usually requires web programming skills or acquiring and learning additional software. Fortunately, Survey123 has all these capabilities and is already available to most GIS users. Survey123 was created to ask users questions and collect their answers – reversing this flow of information is quite easy. In this presentation, I will show you how I used Survey123 Connect to build step-by-step, “click-along” directions for a complicated data entry workflow.
This presentation will provide a case study in developing an enterprise-wide Sustainability Analysis application using "out of the box" Experience Builder. Strategies and techniques for developing a robust application without using the developer version of ExB will be presented. Additionally, tips for integrating custom widgets for "low code" options will be covered.
A comparative viewshed analysis is used during permitting to assess how new structures or changes to existing structures may visually impact various scenic or historic resources. This presentation will outline how these analyses are completed using two different software: ArcGIS Pro and Global Mapper. A comparison of these tools will include systematic differences, strengths and limitations in how analyses are conducted.
