'Do One Thing Well' is the Esri Ireland 2019 webinar series. With one new episode per month, the series will touch on each of the ArcGIS platform capabilities. In addition to uploading the webinar recordings to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/EsriIreland/), we will be collecting all of the questions asked by attendees and compiling the answers into a slidedeck. The first episode in our episode, took a deeper dive in Operations Dashboards. Check out this slidedeck to view the Q&A.

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Do One Thing
Well Webinar
#1 - Operations
Dashboards
Attendee Q&A

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Q1:
Can you pull data from
linked data APIs? e.g.
https://environment.data.go
v.uk/catchment-
planning/ui/reference
environment.data.gov.uk provide
an API where the user can specify
response format. Of these, ArcGIS
GeoEvent Server can natively read
csv & json (https://bit.ly/2Jo3RWS).
Links to existing data can be made
using the Field Enricher
Processors https://bit.ly/2WJ7ud5
A:

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Q2:
Is the GeoEvent server only
available for Enterprise
customers?
A:
ArcGIS GeoEvent Server is a license
role of ArcGIS Server.
(https://bit.ly/2Huk0GT) At present
ArcGIS Enterprise needs to be
installed on physical or virtual
infrastructure and is not available as
Software as a Service (SaaS). ArcGIS
Analytics for IoT is coming, however
which may provide the desired
functionality in a SaaS solution
(https://bit.ly/2HkDnTO).

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Q3:
Do you need to design with the
screen size of the end user in
mind? e.g. will a desktop sized
design automatically look
good on a mobile device?
A:
Desktop sized dashboards don't tend
to look great on a mobile or tablet if
there's a lot of elements on the screen.
You can find info on designing
dashboard with mobile users in mind
here: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-
blog/products/ops-dashboard/decision-
support/strategies-best-practices-for-
using-dashboards-on-your-
smartphone/

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Q4:
Regarding the bar chart - can
you display data on a
secondary axis (like you
would in Excel)?
A:
Yes. This can be achieved by using
Grouped Charts. Grouped charts are
used for showing information about
different subgroups of main categories.
A separate bar or line represents each
of the subgroups, which are displayed
in different colors to distinguish them.
When configuring a grouped chart, be
sure to limit the amount of information
to ensure it's easy to understand.

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Q5:
Re: Irish Rail data - were you
writing the real time data into
a hosted feature layer and
then querying that data?
A:
Yes. I was using ArcGIS GeoEvent
Server to make a GET request to the
Irish Rail API which was returning a
response in XML. GeoEvent was writing
the results to Stream Service using
TrainID attribute as the unique identifier
for each train. Finally, a hosted feature
service was configured to display only
the latest details of each train. This
feature service was then used with the
Dashboard, however the Stream
Service could also have been used.

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Q6:
What other webinars do
you have planned for the
“Do 1 Thing Well webinar
series"?
Our colleagues in Esri UK will be
hosting the next webinar as part of
the series on 20th June. It will cover
Insights for ArcGIS. Following on
from this, we will be hosting webinar
on 17th July which will cover 3D.
Keep an eye on our social media
channels for registration details for
these webinars.
A:

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Q7:
When you are creating a
dashboard, how do you
create elements which are the
same size? e.g. 40 by 50 and
make sure that all the
indicator boxes are the same?
A:
Unfortunately this is not currently
available but the good news is that
this is in Esri Inc's Dev roadmap and
will be part of a future release. More
info on that here:
https://community.esri.com/thread/20
5596-consistent-element-size-when-
dragging-items-into-groups

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