{"id":1283752,"date":"2021-07-08T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1283752"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:54:59","slug":"distributed-collaboration-with-shared-editing","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/sharing-collaboration\/distributed-collaboration-with-shared-editing","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Collaboration with Shared Editing"},"author":240912,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851,37511],"tags":[757801,34201],"industry":[],"product":[36571],"class_list":["post-1283752","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-arcgis-enterprise-10-9","tag-distributed-collaboration","product-arcgis-enterprise"],"acf":{"short_description":"Dive into that latest feature update to Distributed Collaborations at ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

With the growing demand for access and sharing data across multiple organizations,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>we know\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>it is important for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Esri <\/span><\/span><\/span>software to<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0provide the tools necessary to meet\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>need<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span><\/span> of our <\/span><\/span>users<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> One way we have worked to support you is through distributed collaboration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Distributed collaboration came onto the scene <\/span><\/span>at<\/span><\/span><\/span> ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.x, and enabled users to extend the reach of their GIS content by seamlessly sharing maps, apps, layers, and more with other <\/span><\/span>ArcGIS\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Enterprise\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and ArcGIS Online\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>deployments.<\/span><\/span> Built on the foundation of trust between participating organizations motivated by common goals and initiatives, distributed collaboration allows users to share their content across different environments, whether ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online. Common use cases involve field data collection, making data visible across different departments, and more.<\/p>\n

This blog will cover the newest capability with distributed collaboration that can be used to take your collaboration workflows to the next level.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"

What is the difference between partnered and distributed collaboration?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

You may have heard of partnered collaboration and may be wondering how it is different from distributed collaboration \u2013\u00a0 ArcGIS Online organizations can set up a partnered collaboration to share content with users in other ArcGIS Online organizations. Distributed collaboration, however, consists of either an ArcGIS Online organization and an ArcGIS Enterprise organization or two or more ArcGIS Enterprise organizations. Having two methods to collaborate across organizations offers the flexibility needed to meet your sharing goals. You can also use distributed collaboration with either partnered collaborations and groups in ArcGIS Online\u00a0 further the reach of your content.<\/p>\n

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Shared Editing<\/h1>\n

The release of ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9 introduces shared editing through distributed collaboration. This is a notable enhancement to distributed collaboration as it enables both the sending and recipient organizations to edit their respective copies of the same dataset. This new capability is supported for either two or more ArcGIS Enterprise organizations, or an ArcGIS Online and an ArcGIS Enterprise organization. In order to use shared editing in a distributed collaboration, ArcGIS Enterprise must be at 10.9 or higher. For users who would like to have this degree of control between multiple ArcGIS Online organizations, this functionality is available using partnered collaboration.<\/p>\n

In a previous collaboration blog\u00a0Five ways to use distributed collaboration to share your data with others<\/a> our colleague and ArcGIS Enterprise Product Manager Hilary Curtis presented several different examples of how distributed collaborations could be utilized. For example, different agencies running ArcGIS Enterprise deployments could create a collaboration to share content to a central ArcGIS Enterprise organization.\u00a0This results in a consolidated data source that users can easily reference and share. With the new shared editing capability, recipients of the consolidated data source can push changes back to the source agencies.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Single Source of Truth<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1286092,"id":1286092,"title":"Graph1","filename":"Graph1.png","filesize":28635,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/sharing-collaboration\/distributed-collaboration-with-shared-editing\/graph1","alt":"","author":"240912","description":"","caption":"","name":"graph1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1283752,"date":"2021-07-07 20:33:46","modified":"2021-07-07 20:33:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":555,"height":500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","medium-width":290,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","medium_large-width":555,"medium_large-height":500,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","large-width":555,"large-height":500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","1536x1536-width":555,"1536x1536-height":500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","2048x2048-width":555,"2048x2048-height":500,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1-516x465.png","card_image-width":516,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph1.png","wide_image-width":555,"wide_image-height":500}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

One of the core goals of a robust GIS is to provide accurate and reusable datasets that are up to date. When you have important datasets that often involve input from multiple authoritative entities, establishing a single source of truth is a common goal for a variety of use cases. Prior to 10.9, distributed collaborations allowed for authoritative datasets to be shared across different organizations, even enabling them to stay up to date from the owner to the recipient. However, this presented a challenge when multiple organizations needed to be able to contribute their updates to this data. Using shared editing fits the single source of truth data model by enabling participating organizations to create and update records in the authoritative dataset and sync changes back to the source organization.<\/p>\n

In this scenario shown in the image above, a public facing authority is using ArcGIS Online to host the authoritative dataset. Two contractors are working to furnish the public authority. The Data Source ArcGIS Enterprise organization has a one way collaboration set up to provide the publicly facing ArcGIS Online organization with the base data. The QA\/QC contractor conducts data updates to the same dataset, ensuring that the latest data is being updated and validated as time goes on.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Field Collection<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1292192,"id":1292192,"title":"Graph2","filename":"Graph2-1.png","filesize":19678,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/sharing-collaboration\/distributed-collaboration-with-shared-editing\/graph2-2","alt":"","author":"240912","description":"","caption":"","name":"graph2-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1283752,"date":"2021-07-11 20:58:30","modified":"2021-07-11 20:58:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":503,"height":318,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","medium-width":413,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","medium_large-width":503,"medium_large-height":318,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","large-width":503,"large-height":318,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","1536x1536-width":503,"1536x1536-height":318,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","2048x2048-width":503,"2048x2048-height":318,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","card_image-width":503,"card_image-height":318,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph2-1.png","wide_image-width":503,"wide_image-height":318}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Distributed collaboration with shared editing enables networks of truth to be established among larger organizations; however there is also value to smaller organizations. Let\u2019s consider a GIS department that primarily works on community data collection. Using two way sync, the organization can employ a contractor with their own ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to go out and collect datasets alongside them using ArcGIS Field Maps. Once the collection is done, the collaboration can be removed, while retaining the completed dataset.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Partnered Collaboration<\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1292202,"id":1292202,"title":"Graph3","filename":"Graph3-1.png","filesize":33901,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-enterprise\/sharing-collaboration\/distributed-collaboration-with-shared-editing\/graph3-2","alt":"","author":"240912","description":"","caption":"","name":"graph3-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1283752,"date":"2021-07-11 20:58:42","modified":"2021-07-11 20:58:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":497,"height":500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","medium-width":259,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","medium_large-width":497,"medium_large-height":500,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","large-width":497,"large-height":500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","1536x1536-width":497,"1536x1536-height":500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","2048x2048-width":497,"2048x2048-height":500,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1-462x465.png","card_image-width":462,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Graph3-1.png","wide_image-width":497,"wide_image-height":500}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

To further extend the network of a distributed collaboration, the host, ArcGIS Online, can simultaneously collaborate with another ArcGIS Online organization using partnered collaboration. Keep in mind that this is outside of the original distributed collaboration. Although you are only able to set up a distributed collaboration between one ArcGIS Enterprise organization, and one ArcGIS Online organization , partnered collaboration allows for Online organizations to create up to 10 partnered collaborations at a time. Consider using a combination of the two methods if needed to share content beyond just a single Online organization.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Demonstration<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"