Introduction to Plans and Drawings

Plans and Drawings can be used to index the geographic extent of record plans and drawings and provide access to a catalog of source documents in the office or the field.

Design drawings, construction plans, as-builts, and other source documents are used daily by engineers and operations staff to make infrastructure improvements. These documents often exist in multiple document management systems, shared drives, or physical file cabinets, making it difficult and time-consuming for staff to access relevant information. Indexing these documents by their geographic extent makes it easier to discover relevant information, improves coordination between teams, and supports more efficient decision making.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Plans and Drawings requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online

Information products

Plans and Drawings includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Document Catalog	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by internal stakeholders to access a catalog of record drawings, as-builts, and other source documents	Viewer
Document Index	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by engineers and subject matter experts to index the document records and associate them with a site	Contributor
Site Index	An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by mapping technicians to index the geographic extent of sites	Contributor

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
2.0 (Mar 2026)	A new Document Catalog app replaces the Plan Catalog app to add support for field access and improved document discovery. A new Document Index app replaces the Plan Index app. A new Document Types CSV file used to configure the Document Index app. A new Site Index app. The PlansandDrawings feature layer has been updated.
1.1 (Nov 2023)	A new Plan Catalog Instant Apps app. A new Plan Index Instant Apps app. A series of new Plans and Drawings maps.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	First release of Plans and Drawings