Unknown use of credits

Question

I was having a play to test out the new Office Maps update.  Somehow I've managed to use double the amount of credits we normally use in one day and not once did I see something that told me it would use credits or how many credits it would use.

I'm guessing it was the use of the report functionality?

I don't think we would be able to roll this out to our staff if there is no credit alert.

ShannonChavez · Answer

Thank you for the feedback Naomi! This concern is on our radar and we are looking forward to implementing a solution in an upcoming release. I apologize for the accrued credits while you were testing Maps for Office. In addition, I wanted to provide the link to our online resources regarding credit usage, see: Frequently asked questions—ArcGIS Maps for Office | ArcGIS

'Show credits' is provided for our Geocoding and enrichment services at this time.

Jon Emch · Answer

Hello Naomi, thanks for the reply. I think that both of your concerns are valid, and I would like to point you to our ArcGIS Ideas page. This is the best way of getting these issues in front of the ArcGIS maps for office team. You can find this page here: https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas

NaomiBegg2 · Answer

Admittedly I am more likely to have a play and see what I can do rather than read all the documentation first (Its what happens when you guys make mapping so simple!).  However in AGOL there is always the show credits button that happens before you run a tool.  This would be really good to have this functionality in the Microsoft Maps plugin.

Sorry what I was meaning about changing the format (wrong word) was to change the actual layout of how the report looks.  I thought this might be done in the 'Custom Map Portrait' etc but I cant actually see how we would create a layout which would have map or image boxes in some places text in other places however we would like to design it.