Uploading Data - Can I copy and paste an uploaded shapefile into an existing dataset in HTML5 2.7?

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September 19, 2016 20:45

Our users delineate polygons as part of a permitting process.  I'm wondering if it is possible to copy and paste a shapefile loaded as a markup layer into an exising editable dataset.  Can that be done?  The workaround would be that they would have to trace in the parcel from the markup layer.  Can snapping be enabled on a markup layer?

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  Permanently deleted user

  November 28, 2016 14:31

  Hi Chris, 

   

  I'm not sure I fully understand what you are trying to do. If you have a shapefile that contains all the geometry and you want to copy that shapefile and paste it into an editable dataset, then no, you cannot do that through the HTML5 viewer. However, you can do that outside of the viewer by re-publishing your shapefile into the editable dataset through ArcGIS for Desktop and then doing all the attribute edits in the HTML5 viewer. 

   

  Another option that I would suggest is to use a workflow for your edits. The workflow would work like this:

   

  1. You can select the parcel that you want to copy from the markup layer,

   

  2. then using the GetSelectedFeatures activity in the workflow, it will select the feature that the user just highlighted

   

  3. then use its geometry to create a new feature in a new shapefile. The new shapefile would be a blank feature layer with a geometry column and all necessary attributes for a permitting process. You can set up a Display Form for the users to fill out the attribute information.

   

  This way, you do not need to trace the parcel.

   

  I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions. 

   

  Carmen

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 15, 2017 19:55

  I think we want to do similar. We plan to have a point layer.  We will get updates with x,y coordinates periodicaly in an excel spreadsheet.    The simplest approach would be to upload new data into an existing layer with features already existing.  Or upload new features to a new layer and then copy and paste from the new layer into the primary layer.

   

   

   

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  Mike Ketler

  April 25, 2017 19:56

  Hi Michael,

   

  There's nothing built into the viewer that could do this for you. The Upload Data tool can handle Excel files but it adds this data as a new layer, it cannot be used to update/change data on an existing service.

   

  Thanks,

   

  Mike Ketler

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