{"id":123231,"date":"2018-03-05T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/workforce-and-collector-creating-assignments-in-the-field\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:28:26","slug":"workforce-and-collector-creating-assignments-in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/workforce\/field-mobility\/workforce-and-collector-creating-assignments-in-the-field","title":{"rendered":"Workforce and Collector: Creating assignments in the field"},"author":5701,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23261],"tags":[39981,39991,100192,23711],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36641,36701],"class_list":["post-123231","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-mobility","tag-create-assignments","tag-fieldwork","tag-learn-by-doing","tag-mobile","product-apps","product-collector","product-workforce"],"acf":{"short_description":"Use Workforce and Collector together to allow field workers to create assignments.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Workforce is designed for an office of dispatchers and a team of mobile workers in the field. The dispatchers create and assign the work, while the mobile workers complete it. Yet you might have mobile workers who notice work that needs to be done while they are in the field, and you want those mobile workers to be able to create assignments about what they see. Creating and assigning work from the mobile app is something on our roadmap, but it isn\u2019t possible yet. However, you can bring Collector for ArcGIS into your solution and enable mobile workers to create assignments in the field today.<\/p>\n

To get started, identify a Workforce project that requires mobile workers to have the ability to create assignments from the field. The Workforce project, as part of its creation, made some maps. However, those maps aren\u2019t available in Collector. This is expected: Workforce maps are excluded from Collector. It would make it too easy for a mobile worker to accidentally edit assignments outside Workforce.<\/p>\n

To opt-in to this workflow, we\u2019ll create a view of the assignments for the mobile workers, make a map for use in Collector, give mobile workers access, and then create assignments using Collector. Let\u2019s see how to set this up:<\/p>\n

1. Create a view of the assignments layer<\/h3>\n

We\u2019ve decided we want to allow access to our assignments in Collector, but we don\u2019t want the user to have access to all the data. To limit the fields and types of data the mobile worker sees, create a hosted feature layer view from the assignments layer (view the item page for the assignments layer and click\u00a0Create View Layer<\/strong>). Make sure to give it a unique, descriptive name to help you remember the target audience of this view. (For details, see Create hosted feature layer views –\u00a0ArcGIS Online<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0ArcGIS Enterprise<\/a>.)<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"

NOTE: If you don\u2019t want to limit the data the worker has access to, you don\u2019t need to create a view of the layer. Skip this step and when creating the map add the assignments layer directly into the new map. In the map, configure the pop-up for the assignments layer the same way it is configured for the layer view here.<\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

In your view,\u00a0Set View Definition<\/strong>\u00a0(use\u00a0More Options<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Visualization<\/strong>\u00a0tab) to limit the data available to mobile workers:<\/p>\n