Feature Requests

Our list of projects is becoming quite large. It would be great if there was a way to archive projects so they do not show up in lists when collecting data, exporting data and onboarding new employees. There is currently not even a way to filter which projects are active or complete which would also be useful.

When a visibility rule is applied to a field in App Builder, there's a checkbox controlling whether previously entered data remains visible when the rule hides the field. This currently defaults to unchecked. The impact: field technicians lose sight of historic data in the record view. The only workaround is opening the History section under View Records and scrolling through change logs, which is impractical for field crews working on mobile devices in time-pressured environments. This default catches app builders out because the consequence isn't obvious at design time, and it only surfaces later as missing data reported from the field. We hit this across our smart metering programs (utility sector, Australia) and it caused genuine operational issues before we traced the cause. Request: change the default so historic data remains visible when a visibility rule is applied (checkbox checked by default), or remove the hide-historic-data behaviour entirely. If there's a legitimate use case for hiding prior values, the safer default is still to show them, with hiding as the opt-in.

I can see a scale bar on the web browser map view but not on your app. But I don't walk around the desert with my laptop open and connected to the internet, so that's kind of a useless feature. The number 1 complaint I hear about Fulcrum is that it is AWFUL for navigation!!!!!!!!

If I could directly access uploaded content from data events it would save me from having to create complicated work arounds. For example, sending photos to image recognition APIs or parsing .gpx files to set the record geometry based on the uploaded file.

I have started using feature layer map layers by using the ArcGIS link from a shared view of an app. It would be helpful to be able to download these layers for offline use.

Would like the map to automatically follow my location as i am driving so i do not have to constantly centre the map on my location manually as i travel.

Please make map layers linked to a app work on the Fulcrum mobile app. ( https://help.fulcrumapp.com/en/articles/75423-how-do-i-add-a-layer-from-another-fulcrum-app ) With the recent addition of lines/polygon support to apps having apps shown as a layer on mobile would be extremely useful. For example an app could be used to store parcel boundaries and survey crew permissions as the status color. This could then be displayed easily in other apps map view to let a crew know where they need to go. While this can be done with a map service / hosted feature layer / or mbtile for offline, these are all slow to load in the field with little / no data connetion (map service / HFL), or cumbersome to create (mbtile). Using lines/polygons in a linked app would solve the speed issue and (hopefully) work offline too.

When adding custom map layers from a Tile XYZ web service, it would be useful to be able to specify the zoom levels for displaying the layer. For example I have access to a service that allows me to specify two layers, one that provides a topographiv map suitable for display at a scale of 1:50k and one suitable for display at 1:250k. I would like to specify thet the 1:50k layer only displays in Fulcrum for zoom levels 13 to 14 and the 1:250k layer to display at only levels 10 to 12. This could be achieved by having a minimum and maximum zoom level field when creating a new map layer. This would allow both layers to be turned on and they would smoothly switch at the specified zoom levels when viewing the map view. Outside of the specified zoom levels any other lower ordered or default base map could display.

We have a minimum size for surveyed features, but it's difficult for our users to determine the size while out in the field. Having either a scale visible on the map, or the ability to add and toggle a layer with a polygon of pre-determined size would be very helpful.

Would like to be able to create Fulcrum App Layers via the API like I can other layers.