Latest Contributions by MarinaBösche

Web apps can be shared with the public using a short URL by clicking on the share icon on the item details page. However, when this URL is opened in a browser the item details page of the web app appears. It would be more user friendly to directly open the web app. Now the only way to create such a link that opens the web app directly is by adding the 'Share' widget to the web app (in Web AppBuilder), open the widget and copy the URL that appears in the widget to share it with others. This is not very useful if you do not want the Share widget in the web app. Therefore it would be great if the short URL that is provided on the item details page would directly open the web app (instead of the item details page). ... View more

In ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS you can configure layer search for (hosted) ArcGIS Server services. Unfortunately layer search is not available for layers from OGC services (like WMS and WFS). As OGC services are supported (e.g. identify, change symbology etc.) it would be great if the features of these services could also be searched. ... View more

In ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS you can configure layer search for (hosted) ArcGIS Server services. Unfortunately layer search is not available for layers from OGC services (like WMS and WFS). As OGC services are supported (e.g. identify, change symbology etc.) it would be great if the features of these services could also be searched. ... View more

When publishing web maps from ArcGIS Pro (2.0.1) '_WFL', '_MIL' or '_WTL' is automatically added to the web layer name, probably to indicate if it concerns a web feature layer, a map image layer or a web tile layer (see LayerName.png). However, this is not the case when publishing a web layer (via Share > Web Layer). The layer name + '_WFL', '_MIL' or '_WTL' does not look very nice and is not necessary as well as a user can see what type of web layer it is by looking at the 'Type' column in ' My Content' or the item details of the web layer.  ... View more

When publishing web maps from ArcGIS Pro (2.0.1) '_WFL', '_MIL' or '_WTL' is automatically added to the web layer name, probably to indicate if it concerns a web feature layer, a map image layer or a web tile layer (see LayerName.png). However, this is not the case when publishing a web layer (via Share > Web Layer). The layer name + '_WFL', '_MIL' or '_WTL' does not look very nice and is not necessary as well as a user can see what type of web layer it is by looking at the 'Type' column in ' My Content' or the item details of the web layer.  ... View more

With ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro users can add a table with x- and y-coordinates to a map using the 'Display XY Data' (right mouse on table) or the 'Make the XY Event Layer' tool (see: https://www.screencast.com/t/h8hTr4s80K4S). This can also be done with web applications like the Geocortex Essentials HTML5 viewer (see https://www.screencast.com/t/mzNelSnehHxR).     However, this cannot be done at the moment using ArcGIS Online (or Portal for ArcGIS) web maps and web apps. The only way to add points based on coordinates is batch geocoding using the Esri World Geocoder but this only accepts latitude and longitude as coordinates and no XY coordinates.   It would be great if a tool to display XY coordinates could be added, e.g. as a widget to Web AppBuilder. ... View more

It would be very useful to have a 'html source code' button in the text editing area of the Map Series story map template to be able to perform advanced editing of the text layout like adding line breaks, outdents/indents, horizontal rules etc. An example of such a html code button can be seen in the Map Journal story map template. ... View more

I'm curious what information is used when using photos from Picasa in the Map Tour template? 1. What information is used to locate the photos? Lat/long? 2. Will the photo description be included as a tag? Does anyone know an answer to these two questions? Cheers, Marina ... View more

In the attribute table of a layer it is possible to use a soft enter (Shift + Enter) to achieve a line break. This is very handy for long text in a text field because it causes a line break in the labels or in the page text when using Data Driven Pages. However, this is not possible when editing using the attributes window (Editor toolbar). It would be nice if the Shift + Enter would also work in the attribute window. ... View more