Location sharing

Location sharing is an organization-wide capability that allows you to record where mobile workers are and where they have been. When you enable location sharing, licensed users in your organization can use the QuickCapture mobile app to upload their locations to the location sharing layer.

Note:

If a floor-aware map is configured for the project, the level_id field gets populated when a building and floor are selected in the map.

The tracks are secure in the location sharing layer—mobile workers only see their own tracks, and additional permissions are required to view the tracks of others. Once location sharing is enabled, administrators can use the Track Viewer web app to share the last known location and track data with other users in the organization by creating track views.

To learn more about enabling location sharing in your organization, see Enable location sharing in ArcGIS Online and Enable location sharing in ArcGIS Enterprise, or see the Deploy a Location Sharing Solution with QuickCapture implementation guide.

To enable location sharing in your project, choose the Location sharing menu item Location tracking. When you enable location sharing, you can choose the following:

  • Required—When tracking is required, mobile workers cannot disable tracking.
  • Last known location update interval—The interval of the single location that represents the last known location reported by the mobile app. You can choose 1 minute, 15 minutes, or 1 hour. The default is 1 minute.
  • Last known location category—The value that will be written to the category field of the last known location layer. It can be the project name, a fixed value, or a project user input. The default is the project name.
  • Tracks upload interval—The interval at which locations are uploaded to the track layer. The default is off (disabled). When off, only the last known location will be uploaded. To enable track upload, set this interval to 10 minutes.
  • Tracks category—The value that will be written to the category field of the tracks layer. It can be the project name, a fixed value, or a project user input. The default is the project name.

To learn more, see FAQ for project authors and FAQ for mobile workers.