What’s New in ArcGIS Online March 2020 Released

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The recent update of ArcGIS Online brings exciting improvements and new capabilities.  

Key Improvement

With the recent update, ArcGIS Online users now have the ability to download the ArcGIS Pro installer directly from the new My settings page in their profile. 

Instructions:

1. Log into your ArcGIS Online account
2. Go to “My settings”
3. Choose “Licenses”
4. Find the link to download next to ArcGIS Pro

This option is available if the user already has an ArcGIS Pro license assigned to their ArcGIS Online named-user account. If your institution has migrated to the new Education Institutional Agreement, you can assign users the “GIS Professional Advanced” user type, which includes an ArcGIS Pro license by default. Otherwise, you can assign users the “Creator” user type and then assign ArcGIS Pro as an add-on license in their account. In either case, ArcGIS Pro extensions can be added afterwards as add-on licenses.

This option provides a better experience for faculty members and students to install ArcGIS Pro in their own machine.

Other improvements and new functionalities

• HTTPS readiness: As of December 2020, HTTP support will be discontinued and references to HTTP URLs will no longer work in ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Online notifies users about the upcoming change.
• Map Viewer Beta: Highlights include enhanced label authoring with support for multiline labeling, scale-dependent labels, and rotation.
• Sharing and collaboration: You can also embed videos in item page and group page descriptions.
• Configurable apps: New Minimalist (beta) configurable app built using the 4x version of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
• Data management: When purchasing an ArcGIS Online organizational subscription, you can now choose the region—United States or Europe—where your geospatial data will be stored.
• 3D: You can drape feature layers onto integrated mesh scene layers for better 3D visualization. You can replace the contents of a scene layer you published from a scene layer package.
• ArcGIS Security Advisor: Security Advisor delivers recommendations based on your current settings.
• GitHub account: New social login: Developers and other GitHub users can sign in or sign up using their GitHub account credentials.
• ArcGIS Notebooks (beta): ArcGIS Notebooks are now available in ArcGIS Online via a public beta. ArcGIS Notebooks integrates Jupyter directly within ArcGIS Online.
• ArcGIS StoryMaps: Newly added functionalities: Map actions, Guided Tour block, a navigation bar, updates to sharing.
• ArcGIS Dashboards: Operations Dashboard renamed to ArcGIS Dashboards.

For complete list of updates, access the following:

• Esri blog: What’s new in ArcGIS Online (March 2020).
• Esri video: What’s New in ArcGIS Online: March 2020 Update  
• What’s New – Help Topic

As always, please contact highered@esri.com for questions or requesting more info.