{"id":1571342,"date":"2022-05-05T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1571342"},"modified":"2022-05-06T06:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T13:53:40","slug":"arcgis-field-maps-early-access-release-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/field-maps\/field-mobility\/arcgis-field-maps-early-access-release-may-2022","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS Field Maps Early Access release (May 2022)"},"author":8272,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23261],"tags":[765132,756911,765122,172422,265412],"industry":[],"product":[679821],"class_list":["post-1571342","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-mobility","tag-alerts","tag-geofencing","tag-geotrigger","tag-location-tracking","tag-notification","product-field-maps"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":8272,"user_firstname":"Aaron","user_lastname":"Pulver","nickname":"APulver","user_nicename":"apulver","display_name":"Aaron Pulver","user_email":"APulver@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-08-13 15:03:58","user_description":"Aaron is a lead Product Engineer on the Field Apps team primarily focused on location sharing, smart forms, and automation. In his free time, you can often find him hiking, camping, or kayaking throughout Central New York.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":3651,"user_firstname":"Jeff","user_lastname":"Shaner","nickname":"Jeff Shaner","user_nicename":"jeffs","display_name":"Jeff Shaner","user_email":"jshaner@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:17","user_description":"Jeff Shaner is a Product Engineering Director with the software products team at Esri. With 30 years experience, Jeff is focused on delivering apps that enable users to work more productively, safely, and effectively. In his spare time, you are likely to find Jeff on the golf course or hockey rink.\u00a0","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"ArcGIS Field Maps is starting out 2022 strong with many new development initiatives. Join our EAP and discover what\u2019s coming!","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

ArcGIS Field Maps<\/a> is a powerful mobile app solution that streamlines field workflows for exploring maps, collecting and updating authoritative data, and sharing where mobile workers have gone, all within a single location-aware mobile app. <\/strong>Released in November 2020, Field Maps is Esri’s premier, map-centric mobile solution for smartphone and tablet devices.<\/p>\n

We have many exciting new development initiatives underway for 2022 and we’ve updated our early access and beta apps to expose some new functionality that will be coming this summer.<\/p>\n

Sign into the Early Access Program<\/a>\u00a0and start using our beta apps today<\/strong>! Here is a preview of what’s available now.<\/p>\n

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Geofencing<\/h1>\n

Field Maps now supports adding geofences to your maps so that mobile users can be warned when entering dangerous or restricted areas, provided critical information when approaching a building, tracked only when on company property, and much more. Whether you represent a utility company, a local government, or a forestry business, we have you covered with these new geofencing capabilities.<\/p>\n

Geofencing is powered by the new ArcGIS Geotriggers capability<\/a>. Geotriggers monitor user-defined conditions on a mobile device in real-time that result in actions on a mobile application.<\/p>\n

Geofences can be added to any web map using the Field Maps web app. While the map is open in the Field Maps mobile app, actions will be triggered as the device enters or exits geofences. Geofences work in the foreground or background of the device and online or offline.<\/p>\n

Field Maps supports two types of actions:<\/p>\n