Set up location-driven Geotriggers

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Create a notification every time a given location data source has entered and/or exited a set of features or graphics.

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Use case

Geotriggers can be used to notify users when they have entered or exited a geofence by monitoring a given set of features or graphics. They could be used to display contextual information to museum visitors about nearby exhibits, notify hikers when they have wandered off their desired trail, notify dispatchers when service workers arrive at a scene, or more.

How to use the sample

Observe a virtual walking tour of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Information about the user's current Garden Section, as well as information about nearby points of interest within 10 meters will display or be removed from the UI when the user enters or exits the buffer of each feature.

How it works

  1. Create a GeotriggerFeed with an AbstractLocationDataSource class (in this case, a SimulatedLocationDataSource).
  2. Create a FeatureFenceParameters class with a ServiceFeatureTable and a buffer distance at which to monitor each feature.
  3. Create a FenceGeotrigger with the geotrigger feed, a FenceRuleType, the fence parameters, an Arcade Expression, and a name for the specific geotrigger.
  4. Create a GeotriggerMonitor with the fence geotrigger and call GeotriggerMonitor.start() to begin listening for events that meet the FenceRuleType.
  5. When onGeotriggerNotification emits, capture the GeotriggerNotificationInfo to retrieve information about the geotrigger and the feature.
  6. Retrieve the feature information from the GeoElement passed by the geotrigger notification for later querying and display.
  7. Depending on the FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo::fenceNotificationType() display or hide information on the UI from the GeoElement's attributes.

Relevant API

  • ArcadeExpression
  • FeatureFenceParameters
  • FenceGeotrigger
  • FenceGeotriggerNotificationInfo
  • FenceRuleType
  • GeoElement
  • Geotrigger
  • GeotriggerFeed
  • GeotriggerMonitor
  • GeotriggerNotificationInfo
  • ServiceFeatureTable
  • SimulatedLocationDataSource

About the data

This sample uses the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Geotriggers Sample ArcGIS Online Web Map which includes a georeferenced map of the garden as well as select polygon and point features to denote garden sections and points of interest. Description text and attachment images in the feature layers were provided by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and more information can be found on the Garden Sections & Displays portion of their website. All assets are used with permission from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. For more information, visit the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden website.

Tags

alert, arcade, fence, geofence, geotrigger, location, navigation, notification, notify, routing, trigger

Sample Code

Geotriggers.qmlGeotriggers.qmlFeatureInfoPane.qml
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// [WriteFile Name=Geotriggers, Category=Analysis]
// [Legal]
// Copyright 2021 Esri.

// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
// [Legal]

import QtQuick 2.6
import QtQuick.Controls 2.2
import QtQuick.Layouts 1.3
import Esri.ArcGISRuntime 100.15

Rectangle {
    id: rootRectangle
    clip: true
    width: 800
    height: 600

    property var currentFeatureName: ""
    property var currentSectionName: ""
    property var poisInRange: []
    property var descriptionMap: ({})
    property var imageUrlMap: ({})
    property var featuresMap: ({})
    property ArcGISFeature feature: null
    property Attachment imageAttachment: null
    property AttachmentListModel attachmentListModel: null

    MapView {
        id: mapView
        anchors.fill: parent

        Component.onCompleted: {
            // Set the focus on MapView to initially enable keyboard navigation
            forceActiveFocus();
        }

        Map {
            PortalItem {
                itemId: "6ab0e91dc39e478cae4f408e1a36a308"
            }

            ServiceFeatureTable {
                id: gardenSectionsServiceFeatureTable
                PortalItem {
                    itemId: "1ba816341ea04243832136379b8951d9"
                }
                initLayerId: "0"
            }

            ServiceFeatureTable {
                id: gardenPoisServiceFeatureTable
                PortalItem {
                    itemId: "7c6280c290c34ae8aeb6b5c4ec841167"
                }
                initLayerId: "0"
            }
        }

        SimulationParameters {
            id: simulationParameters
            velocity: 5
        }

        locationDisplay {
            id: userLocation
            autoPanMode: Enums.LocationDisplayAutoPanModeRecenter
            initialZoomScale: 1000

            dataSource: SimulatedLocationDataSource {
                id: simulatedLocationdataSource
                Component.onCompleted: {
                    setLocationsWithPolylineAndParameters(walkingTourPath, simulationParameters);
                    simulatedLocationdataSource.start();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    GeotriggerMonitor {
        id: sectionGeotriggerMonitor

        geotrigger: FenceGeotrigger {
            feed: LocationGeotriggerFeed {
                locationDataSource: simulatedLocationdataSource
            }

            ruleType: Enums.FenceRuleTypeEnterOrExit

            fenceParameters: FeatureFenceParameters {
                featureTable: gardenSectionsServiceFeatureTable
                bufferDistance: 0
            }

            messageExpression: ArcadeExpression {
                expression: "$fencefeature.name";
            }

            name: "sectionGeotrigger"
        }

        onGeotriggerNotification: {

            // the message property contains the evaluated messageExpression of the FenceGeotrigger
            const sectionName = geotriggerNotificationInfo.message;

            // Pass the triggering fence feature to a map for later querying and display
            featuresMap[sectionName] = geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceGeoElement

            // If the user enters a new section, store its information in memory if not already there, and set the current section to the new section
            if (geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceNotificationType === Enums.FenceNotificationTypeEntered) {
                if (!(sectionName in descriptionMap))
                    descriptionMap[sectionName] = geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceGeoElement.attributes.attributeValue("description").toString();

                currentSectionName = sectionName;

            } else if (geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceNotificationType === Enums.FenceNotificationTypeExited && currentSectionName === sectionName) {
                // If the user exits the section they were currently in, remove section information from the UI
                currentSectionName = "N/A";
            }
        }

        Component.onCompleted: {
            start();
        }
    }

    GeotriggerMonitor {
        id: poiGeotriggerMonitor

        geotrigger: FenceGeotrigger {
            feed: LocationGeotriggerFeed {
                locationDataSource: simulatedLocationdataSource
            }

            ruleType: Enums.FenceRuleTypeEnterOrExit
            fenceParameters: FeatureFenceParameters {
                featureTable: gardenPoisServiceFeatureTable
                bufferDistance: 10
            }

            messageExpression: ArcadeExpression {
                expression: "$fencefeature.name";
            }

            name: "poiGeotrigger"
        }

        onGeotriggerNotification: {
            const poiName = geotriggerNotificationInfo.message;
            const index = poisInRange.indexOf(poiName);

            // Commit feature attributes to memory for later querying and display
            if (!(poiName in featuresMap))
                featuresMap[poiName] = geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceGeoElement;

            if (!(poiName in descriptionMap))
                descriptionMap[poiName] = geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceGeoElement.attributes.attributeValue("description").toString();

            // If entering a fence feature, add it to the UI
            if (geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceNotificationType === Enums.FenceNotificationTypeEntered && index === -1)
                poisInRange[poisInRange.length] = poiName;

            // If exiting the fence feature, remove it from the UI
            else if (geotriggerNotificationInfo.fenceNotificationType === Enums.FenceNotificationTypeExited)
                poisInRange.splice(index, 1);

            poisInRangeChanged();
        }

        Component.onCompleted: {
            start();
        }
    }

    Polyline {
        id: walkingTourPath
        json: {
            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            "spatialReference":{
                "wkid":4326,
                "latestWkid":4326
            }
        }
    }

    // Functions
    function getFeatureInformation(featureName) {
        featureInfoPane.featureName = featureName;
        featureInfoPane.description = descriptionMap[featureName];

        // If image has already been fetched, retrieve it from memory
        if (featureName in imageUrlMap) {
            featureInfoPane.imageSourceUrl = imageUrlMap[featureName];
            return
        }

        featureInfoPane.imageSourceUrl = "";

        // Otherwise fetch the attachment from the feature's AttachmentListModel
        feature = featuresMap[featureName];
        attachmentListModel = feature.attachments;

        attachmentListModel.onFetchAttachmentsStatusChanged.connect(getImageAttachmentUrl);
    }

    function getImageAttachmentUrl() {
        if (attachmentListModel.fetchAttachmentsStatus === Enums.TaskStatusCompleted) {
            imageAttachment = attachmentListModel.get(0);
            imageAttachment.onFetchDataStatusChanged.connect(() => {
                                                                 if (imageAttachment.fetchDataStatus === Enums.TaskStatusCompleted)
                                                                    featureInfoPane.imageSourceUrl = imageUrlMap[currentFeatureName] = imageAttachment.attachmentUrl;
                                                             });

            imageAttachment.fetchData();
        }
    }

    // User interface

    // The featureSelectButtonsColumn displays the current section as well as points of interest within 10 meters
    // Buttons are added and removed when a feature fence has been entered or exited.
    Control {
        id: featureSelectButtonsColumn
        anchors.right: parent.right
        padding: 10

        visible: !featureInfoPane.visible

        background: Rectangle {
            color: "white"
            border.color: "black"
        }

        contentItem: Column {
            id: column
            width: 200
            spacing: 10

            Text {
                anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                padding: 5
                text: "Current Garden Section"
                color: "#3B4E1E"
                font {
                    bold: true
                    pointSize: 20
                }
            }

            RoundButton {
                id: sectionButton
                width: parent.width - 10
                padding: 20

                Text {
                    id: buttonText
                    anchors.centerIn: parent
                    horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                    verticalAlignment: Text.AlignVCenter

                    text: currentSectionName
                    font {
                        bold: true
                        pointSize: 18
                    }
                    wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                    width: parent.width - 5
                    color: "white"
                }

                background: Rectangle {
                    radius: sectionButton.radius
                    color: "#3B4E1E"
                }

                enabled: buttonText.text !== "N/A"

                onClicked: {
                    currentFeatureName = buttonText.text;
                    getFeatureInformation(currentFeatureName);
                    featureInfoPane.visible = true;
                }
            }

            Rectangle {
                id: dividingLine
                anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                width: parent.width - 20
                height: 2

                color: "black"

                visible: poiHeader.visible
            }

            Text {
                id: poiHeader
                anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
                horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                padding: 5

                text: "Points of Interest"
                font {
                    bold: true
                    pointSize: 16
                }
                color: "#AC901E"

                visible: poisInRange.length > 0
            }

            Repeater {
                id: poiRepeater
                model: poisInRange
                delegate: RoundButton {
                    id: poiButton
                    width: parent.width - 10
                    padding: 20

                    Text {
                        id: poiButtonText
                        anchors.centerIn: parent
                        horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
                        width: parent.width - 5

                        text: modelData
                        wrapMode: Text.WordWrap
                        font.bold: true
                        color: "white"
                    }

                    background: Rectangle {
                        anchors.fill: parent
                        radius: poiButton.radius
                        color: "#AC901E"
                    }

                    onClicked: {
                        currentFeatureName = poiButtonText.text;
                        getFeatureInformation(currentFeatureName);
                        featureInfoPane.visible = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    // The FeatureInfoPane displays the name, description, and image retrieved from a fence feature.
    FeatureInfoPane {
        id: featureInfoPane
    }
}

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