5 – Updating Dashboard Source Data

Derek Law, Product Manager - Apps

@GIS_Bandit
Topics

• Updating dashboard data sources

• Hosted feature layer views
Authoring dashboards - high level workflow

ArcGIS ArcGIS
or
Online Enterprise

data web layer web map ArcGIS

Dashboards
UPDATES

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Data sources

• Use existing web layers from other organizations

- Ready to use in dashboards
- E.g., Johns Hopkins COVID-19 county level data

• Enable updates in the Map Viewer,

- For web layer(s) in the web map
- Set refresh interval
Data sources

• Use your own health data

- May require some data preprocessing
- CSV, MS Excel, Google Sheets, shapefiles, etc …
- Upload into ArcGIS
- Create web layer

• You will need to apply data updates

Data sources

• Use your own health data

- May require some data preprocessing
- CSV, MS Excel, Google Sheets, shapefiles, etc …
- Upload into ArcGIS
- Create web layer

• You will need to apply data updates

- Survey123 for ArcGIS data (web layers)

- In Map Viewer, set refresh interval on the data layer
Updating your data in ArcGIS Online
Similar user experience in ArcGIS Enterprise

• 2 methods
• Upload into ArcGIS Online → create web layers
- Overwrite – recreates web layer
- Append – adds data to the web layer
- Match attribute fields
- No support for schema changes

• Use ArcGIS Pro (aka. ArcGIS Desktop) export to ArcGIS Online

- Republish contents to overwrite web layer
- Supports minor schema changes
- Item description, sharing and configuration settings

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Dashboard deployment strategy

• Use case: actively updating data in a web layer (aka. feature layer)
• Recommend use a hosted feature layer view in your dashboard

data web layer web map ArcGIS

(feature layer) Dashboards
Dashboard deployment strategy

• Use case: actively updating data in a web layer (aka. feature layer)
• Recommend use a hosted feature layer view in your dashboard

data web layer feature layer web map ArcGIS

(feature layer) view Dashboards
Hosted feature layer views

• Enables a different view of data in a web layer

- E.g., apply different settings, styles or filters
• Read only view
• Create from a hosted feature layer (web layer)
- From its item page

• Updates made to the hosted feature layer will apply to the feature layer view
• Learn more Create hosted feature layer views
Resources for updating data in ArcGIS Online

• ArcGIS Online help topic

- Overwrite hosted feature layers
- Append data to layers

• ArcGIS Pro help topic

- Overwrite a web feature layer