Lines and Polygons Feedback | Voters

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Ohakea Facilitiesmanagement

Are there any plans to create circles as well as polygons? It would be really handy for our purposes with Dangerous areas requiring a radius distance from a point

Adrian Zuniga

Ohakea Facilitiesmanagement: Thanks for reaching out with this request. We could look at implementing a tool for adding shapes. However, based on your use case, you may want to take a look at what's possible today with our geometry functions in data events. This one may work for you, and would allow you to create a precise radius based on a point: https://github.com/fulcrumapp/fulcrum-expressions/blob/main/ts/functions/GEOMETRYBUFFER.ts

Kye Adams

Any plans for the ability to add multiple lines and/or polygons to the same record? The use case would be planning fencing and revegetation areas.
Thanks,
Kye

Adrian Zuniga

Kye Adams: Hi Kyle, you can create multiple geometries in a record today using Repeatables. There is an option to enable advanced geometry on a repeatable section in the app editor. Is that helpful?

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Blake Caldwell

Are there any plans to show the records actual geometry on the PDF reports? Currently it looks like it is converted to a centroid

Adrian Zuniga

Hi Blake Caldwell, yes, this is on our roadmap. Thanks for mentioning it. I can update you when we start working on it.

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: This is in progress. I'll update again here when it's live.

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Ricky Peterika

Please enable polygon fill transparency adjustments, To clearly see the base layer below, we have to resort to almost closed lines instead.

Adrian Zuniga

Ricky Peterika: Thanks for the suggestion. We're going to address this.

Adam Wallace

Is there any ability to import lines and polygons? I assume that becuase the documentation is currently silent on it, it is not available?

Shawn Pickett

Adam Wallace: The line / polygons would need to be stored in separate shapefiles. I have not tried the import yet, but I assume you would just include the fulcrum_id / ID of the related records. The documentation does mention it, but does not lay things out explicitly:

https://help.fulcrumapp.com/en/articles/93165-can-i-import-shapefiles

Adrian Zuniga

Adam Wallace: Yes, this is possible. Please note that the app you are importing to must have 'Advanced Geometry Enabled'.

Adam Wallace

Excellent, thanks Shawn Pickett and Adrian Zuniga

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Blake Caldwell

A "Check" icon to finish the geometry sketch, rather than (or in addition to) double clicking, would be a nice-to-have

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: Great feedback, I'll pass this along to our design team.

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Blake Caldwell

This is more of a wish list item, but the ability to edit geometries from the main fulcrum web map, without having to go into each individual record

In the below example, it would be nice to just be able to drag the lines over to the point quickly from the main map, without having to click in and edit both records

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: Thanks for the feedback Blake. We'll consider this as part of the roadmap of enhancements to Lines and Polygons.

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Blake Caldwell

Having the ability to set the drawing order of the various feature types

i.e. I would like our points to draw on top of any lines or polygons

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: Great idea!

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Blake Caldwell

Basemap goes black occasionally when editing geometry with advanced geometry enabled

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: This sounds like a bug. We'll look into it.

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Blake Caldwell

I'm not sure if I am missing something, but I can create the lines and polygons in the app, but when I export the record, it is exported a point. Are we not able to access the polyline or polygon geometries after exporting the feature?

You can see in the attached screenshot that the line was stored as a point feature in the geodatabase. Looking at the CSV exports, it seems to be the same thing

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Blake Caldwell

Using the 'Fulcrum Downloader' as shapefile seems to retain the geometries. Exporting to GDB only stores point feature classes. The problem with shapefiles is they truncate the field names, require a lot of field mapping on the back end

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Blake Caldwell

It looks like a relic of how the geoJSON is being constructed. It is being given a property of "feature_type":"Line", but the actually geometry being stored as a single point array

The normal construction of polyline geoJSONS contains all the vertex coordinates needed to construct the polyline array (snip #2 - geojson I created)

Adrian Zuniga

Blake Caldwell: Hi Blake, as you noted, the Data Downloader supports geometries, however Exporting currently does not (it's scheduled to be deprecated). Please give the Data Downloader a try and let us know if that meets your needs. Here's a help doc that might help: https://help.fulcrumapp.com/en/articles/2437004-what-is-the-data-downloader

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Kirk M

Blake Caldwell: Same here! When trying to export using the blue button "Download Data", the lines that we added were not exported to usable line in shp or kml, this is essential :-)

Kara Fox

Kirk M: Hi Kirk, this functionality is working now- if you've tried recently and are still having issues, please reach out to customer support using the red bubble in the bottom right of the screen and we'll get you running!

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Kirk M

Kara Fox: Thanks for the response, sorry to clarify further after tinkering, the lines are in a repeat within the inspection and those aren't being exported as lines but as non working point sets. If I make the locate of the main inspection a line, I got that to export correctly.

Kara Fox

Kirk M: Understood- we do have this issue reported. I've prioritized it on a team for investigation. Thank you for raising the issue to our attention.