ArcGIS Field Apps: Integration and Automation | #EsriDevTech2026

Supercharge your field operations through automation and integration with ArcGIS Field Maps and ArcGIS Survey123! This technical session covers how to utilize powerful tools and techniques, like Python scripting and Power Automate, to minimize repetition and manual work, optimize workflows, and leverage the capabilities of GIS across your organization. Presenters: Laura Bedoyan & Zach Sutherby 📚 Resources ============= 📃 ArcGIS API for Python documentation: https://developers.arcgis.com/python/... ArcGIS API for Python GitHub repo (samples as Jupyter Notebooks): https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-python... 📚 Proceedings: https://registration.esri.com/flow/es... 💬 Questions? We'd love to answer them on Esri Community! ================================================== Developers Community forums: https://community.esri.com/t5/develop... ArcGIS API for Python Community forum: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-... Python Community forum: https://community.esri.com/t5/python/... ArcGIS Field Maps community forum: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-... ArcGIS Survey123 Community forum: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-... 📹 More Esri Developer Summit 2026 videos ============= Mediaspace (all): https://mediaspace.esri.com/category/... Mediaspace tech sessions: https://mediaspace.esri.com/channel/2... 🕑 Chapters ============ 00:00 Intro 00:34 Agenda 00:53 Field operations 02:43 Introduction to automation workflows 02:48 Common use cases 05:47 Microsoft Power Automate 07:31 Esri connectors for Power Automate 09:29 Future of client side Survey123 webhooks 10:50 ArcGIS API for Python 11:36 Overview of ArcGIS API for Python 12:10 Getting started 12:55 Choosing between Python and Power Automate 15:10 Demo: Field ops workflow setup 17:12 Automating tasks overview 18:41 User registers for account using Survey123 20:11 Create the user account using Notebook 31:29 Notify the worker that their task is ready 34:28 What the worker sees (sees request to change password and sees task assigned) 36:18 Worker performs the task (collect a new borehole on Esri campus!) 39:16 Generate a report from the worker's task 46:03 Resources 48:13 Questions 48:33 Are Notebooks for Enterprise available? 49:10 What kind of privileges are required to run a Power Automate flow? 50:13 When a record is added or updated - the feature layer webhook triggers - does that require a premium Power Automate license 51:00 Initiating Notebooks through a URL or another mechanism 51:57 The reporting functionality used in this demo for Power Automate 52:29 In Enterprise, is there a way to have a webhook run a geoprocessing tool? 53:40 Generating reports is currently avail in ArcGIS Online - are there plans to bring it over to Enterprise? 🏷️ Tags ========== #EsriDevelopers #esridevtech2026 #maps #mapping #esri #arcgis #geodev #gis #geospatial #mapdesign #developers #fieldapps #fieldmaps #apps #automation #python #powerautomate #lowcodenocode #lowcode #adaptivecards #notebooks