What's New in ArcGIS Online September 2012
Publishing and Sharing
Improved feature service management—Managing data collection in hosted feature services has been improved. You can now create new empty hosted feature services from existing feature service schemas. Creating these new feature services allows you to reuse your feature service schemas to collect new sets of data against an organization-wide data collection template. See Publishing a new empty hosted feature service for more information.
New templates for creating web mapping applications—A new configurable social media template and a simple map template for desktop, tablet, and phone use have been added to the gallery for creating web mapping applications.
More options for embedding a map—When embedding a map, you can now choose whether or not to include a link to a larger view of the map. You can also change the name of the link and open the map in an application instead of the ArcGIS Online map viewer. See Embedding web maps for more information.
Map Viewer Enhancements
Managing feature templates—You can now manage feature templates in your hosted feature services. Through the map viewer, you can define new types of features and templates on your editable hosted feature services and save the updates back to the service. See Managing feature templates for more information.
Additional regions—Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Suriname, and Venezuela are now available as regions. The region you select for the website sets the featured maps on the home page, content in the gallery, and the default extent of new maps in the map viewer. See Setting language and region for more information.
Other Enhancements
Improved map controls for ArcGIS Online for mobile browsers—ArcGIS Online for mobile browsers has better map navigation on Android 3 and 4. The mobile version of the ArcGIS Online website automatically opens on your iPhone, Android phone and tablet, and Blackberry Torch. It provides a tailored browser-based view of your organization's maps for mobile devices.
Configuration option for gallery applications—Organizations can now configure their site with a custom set of templates for sharing groups as gallery applications. See Configuring groups for more information.
Additional languages for video captions—ArcGIS Online videos now include captions for all supported languages. While the audio and screen captures remain in English, you can now read captions in your preferred ArcGIS Online language. See Videos for more information.
Esri Maps for Office Now Available in 10 Different Languages
Esri Maps for Office now supports the following languages in addition to English: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified Han), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Russian. Download the latest version in the language of your choice.
CityEngine 3D Web Viewer Now Available
With the CityEngine Web Viewer, you can view and interact with 3D city scenes using a web browser. CityEngine users can create and author these scenes using Esri CityEngine 2012 (coming soon) and then publish and share them directly in ArcGIS Online, using a subscription or free personal ArcGIS Online account. No plug-in is required for most browsers and you can view layers and use a swipe tool for side-by-side viewing of visible layers. Explore some examples in the ArcGIS Online CityEngine Web Scenes group. Learn more about CityEngine.