shrug-l: Why is ESRI Retiring Collector?

[Tripp Corbin]

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Scott,
If you still like Collector, Field Maps can be used the same way. You do
not have to do any more setup than you have done in the past for Collector.
The general user interface is the same between the two if you are not using
any advanced features. We have been using Field Maps like this for several
projects for over a year now on some of our older projects with no issue.

Field Maps does support more advanced features which were introduced with
ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise such as attribute rules, utility network,
contingent values, and so on. These were things that did not exist when
Collector was developed. Some of this you could implement in Collector but
required an add-on. Field Maps supports these natively. I also believe they
have improved the integration between Field Maps and other mobile apps such
as Survey123.

My impression is that Field Maps is really an update or upgrade to
Collector. Esri just decided to give this update a new name for some
reason. We have been using it for many of our projects now for over a year
and in general like it better. We have seen some improved performance and
like the integration of the attribute rules and contingent values. That has
improved the overall quality of the field data and reduced the amount of
office QC and QA  efforts.

Tripp Corbin, MCP, GISP
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:25 PM Scott Crosby <scrosby415 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> So far, I am VERY unimpressed with Field Maps. Collector was very easy to
> set up, download the data, edit it, among other functionalities. From what
> I've seen so far, many of the functionalities that were within Collector,
> were not developed for/within Field Maps.
>
> I'd really like to hear any additional thoughts any of you have on this.
>
> Thanks.
>
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