Create and share three-dimensional content

At ArcGIS 10.3.1, you can create web scenes that contain global basemaps and your own three- and two-dimensional layers.

New functionality for hosted web layers

If your portal's hosting server uses ArcGIS Data Store, you can publish empty hosted feature layers, which are useful when you need to collect data in the field. You can start with an empty feature layer and editors can add features as they make their field observations.

A new option is available on hosted tile layers—offline mode. Enable this on hosted tile layers you want to include in maps that will be taken offline.

Smart mapping

Take advantage of smart mapping defaults and workflows to create useful and attractive maps. Within the map viewer, smart mapping is applied when you change the style of feature layers in your map. Default styles are applied based on the nature of your data and the basemap you are using, and a streamlined, intuitive user interface helps you quickly define how your data is rendered.

• When you add feature layers that don't have any styling, such as CSV files from your computer, the map viewer analyzes your data and shows you styling suggestions in a new Change Stylepane. You can choose additional options or choose to leave your data unstyled. When you add feature layers you have already styled, the map viewer respects the styling. You can still open Change Style to see suggestions and make additional styling changes to your layer.
• Use continuous colors for styling numerical and ranked data with color themes. For example, you can show age with a high-to-low theme that uses a continuous light-to-dark color scheme.
• Use proportional size symbols for styling numerical and ranked data by size. For example, you can show income with a symbol that gets bigger as income increases.
• Create heat maps when mapping the location of point features. Heat maps use colored areas to represent the density of point features. The colors are most intense where the most points are concentrated together. They are useful when you have too many points to fit comfortably on the map at once, or many of the points are very close together and cannot be easily distinguished. Heat maps calculate and displays the relative density of points on the map as a smoothly varying sets of colors ranging from cool (low density of points) to hot (many points).
• Set the map viewer to calculate and set the optimal visible range when styling your layer. Alternatively, you can still Set Visibility Range manually if you want to control the scale at which layers appear on the map.
• Change layer transparency using an intuitive slider.
• The Change Style pane replaces Change Symbols.

Improvements in the portal website

The following improvements have been made in the portal website:

• The buttons in My Content have been streamlined to improve usability. You now access a single Create or Add Item button to create or add content to your portal.
• Vietnamese and Greek are now available as languages for the portal website. The language you set for the portal determines the user interface as well as the way time, date, and numerical values appear.
• The profile page has been reorganized to improve readability.
• The experience for embedding a map has been enhanced. You have more choices for what to include on the map, and the design and workflow have been updated.
• Driving directions now include a truck-mode option. Truck mode uses roads that are designated as truck routes and avoids residential roads that prohibit trucks. It also accounts for truck speed limits, which may be slower than car speed limits.

Configurable app templates

The following configurable app templates are new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.3.1 :

• Compare Analysis
• Directions
• Edit (10.3.1 version)
• Maps and Apps Gallery
• Map Tools
• Story Map Series

The following app templates have been enhanced:

• GeoForm now has support for all layers in the map, multiple attachments and a drop-down for filling out a form.
• Impact Summary now has support to enrich layers from within the builder.
• Elevation Profile can now be configured to use a custom elevation profile service.
• Basic Viewer, Elevation Profile, Filter, Legend, and Simple Map Viewer have enhanced search experiences that allows users to search all currently available resources by default or choose a single resource. The resources could be geocoders configured in an organization's utility services or searchable layers within the map. This enhancement also makes it easier to find locations by latitude and longitude by showing suggestions. For example, if you inadvertently left out a negative sign (-), the results include suggestions that correct the error.

The following app templates have been retired. Use the suggested replacement app templates instead.

New functionality in Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS

The following functionality has been added to Web AppBuilder:

• You can display related records in pop-ups, attribute tables, and query results.
• Search features based on settings in the map.
• Set a visible scale range for the map.
• Use URL parameters to modify the app.
• About, Time Slider, and Swipe widgets are now available.
• Enhancements were made for using Web AppBuilder on mobile devices.
• The Layer List widget now displays table, raster, and image layers.
• The Chart widget is redesigned to include charting by category, filtering, and aggregation. It includes new chart types and lets you change the chart appearance at runtime.
• The Query widget displays unique values at runtime and allows string queries to be case insensitive.
• The GP widget can now be used with geoprocessing services that are added as items to Portal for ArcGIS.
• You can drag and drop widgets from the placeholders onto the map with resizable panels.
• Version management has been implemented for apps and widgets.