Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

In order to develop an understanding of how one’s organization is using ArcGIS Online, and forecast future needs for growth, one needs a historical record of metrics for users, credits, storage, licensing, etc. The current dashboards within the system offer some of this information, however, only on short time-scales, too short to be useful for prediction and planning purposes. For example, the current Feature Data Store dashboard only shows a current snapshot of storage use, and only up to a week of resource usage (Organization → Overview → Feature Data Store.) The Status dashboards only offer up to 1-year, however, for large organizations, you don’t even get that, as they fail to display results for longer time period options. The various administrative reports provide a daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly snapshot of such information. It is left to organization admins, however, to compile the data from scheduled, repeated reports into a meaningful historical record on their own. I would like to see dashboards directly in ArcGIS Online that offer historical views for key indicators. They should offer at least several years of history, if not more, so that forecasting is more reliable. From the reports, some of the key indicators that we would like to see tracked in such dashboards, on a daily, weekly, and/or monthly basis, include: Total number of Named Users Count of Logins per day, per week, per month Total size of Feature Storage Total size of File Storage Size of Feature/File Storage per item type Feature Data Store resource usage metrics reflective of potentially poor user experience system-wide, such as a count of periods of three-minutes or longer during which the load is pegged at 100%. Total credit consumption per day, week, month Credit consumption per category per day, week, month Counts of licenses and user types assigned These dashboards could be something along the lines of what we have had to produce ourselves using the admin reports, Python scripting, and Dashboards: User Dashboard Storage Dashboard Credit Dashboard Item Dashboard In our approach, we take data the admin reports are extracting from ArcGIS Online, and publishing it back to Online, so that we can use it as data sources in ArcGIS Dashboards. It would be nice (and simpler) if the data going into the reports was surfaced in ArcGIS Online in a way where we could directly make such Dashboards. I'm sure we are not the only ones making historical dashboards like this to help with system planning (as well as demonstrating usage.) As such, it would save us all a lot of time from building these each on our own, if Esri provided them as part of ArcGIS Online. ... View more

It would be helpful to have some very basic color options available for the column and bar charts displayed under the Analyze tab, such as the ability to choose a single-color for all of the columns/bars in a chart or to be able to specify the color used for each individual column/bar. For example, if a question's answers are a color, it is currently confusing -- and potentially misleading -- when the chart displays the names of colors with symbols that do not match those colors, as in the following example: Being able to set the individual column/bar colors manually, or being able to choose to use a single color for all of the columns/bars in the chart, would help avoid those problems. ... View more

Currently, if a user is a given a role with the Administrative privilege:Groups:Reassign ownership, then they can re-assign ownership of any group that is visible to them, regardless of whether they own the group or not. For example, if a group is shared publicly or with the organization, then any other member of the organization can see the group, and has access to the Change owner capability for that group, even if they are not the owner of, or a manager for, the group. We have over 12,000 users in our organization, and our user-base turns over relatively frequently as an academic institution. This means it does not scale to have users reaching out to administrators each time a group needs its ownership changed when someone is leaving the organization. User need to be able to take care of this themselves. Therefore, it would be helpful if we could empower users to change ownership of their groups themselves. We do not, however, want the current situation where giving them the existing privilege enables them to change the ownership of any group in the organization that is visible to them Ideally there would be a non-Administrative privilege that would enable users to be able to reassign a group's ownership only if they are the owner or a manager of the group. ... View more