Latest Contributions by KessaTurnbull

I'm creating some new layers from scratch. ArcMap at work runs painfully slowly, so I created blank shapefiles in ArcCatalog and uploaded them to AGOL so I could use the feature templates to create them there. Not because I cared about the template but because as far as I can tell there is no way to simply create a layer from scratch in AGOL. But that's another issue.  So, the key thing to remember here is there are NO features and the only field is ID. Yet, when I add them to a map to edit, I get the aggravating "was not drawn completely because it has too many features to draw. Try zooming in to a smaller area." error. Some of them I was able to create anyway and just accept not being able to see them in the editable map and have to go back and forth to the non-editable version to verify if they were drawing well (although I could at least see their outlines by selecting them from the attribute table).  I don't like any of that. But I can live with it. What I can't live with are the last two features which won't let me even begin to draw them because every time I double click it just vanishes!  So, how can a hosted feature made from a shapefile with no features and no vertices be too big to draw?! ... View more

Whenever you run an analysis tool, the output is a new layer. For me at least, the majority of the time the former layer is useless after I've run the analysis. For instance, if I'm joining something, I just want the layer with all the fields, not the partial layer I added them on. If I'm enriching data, I only want the layer with the additional data. You get the point.  I realize that removing a layer from a map or even deleting it entirely isn't a huge amount of trouble, but it's just one more step you have to take, and one more barrier to keeping content, maps, and apps organized in terms of only having the layers and files they need and not letting old ones sit around. I'm just picturing an optional checkbox or two in the analysis tool setup. Create new layer and leave existing Create new layer and delete existing Do not create new layer and overwrite target/existing layer ... View more

Rather than having to rerun an entire analysis, it would be really useful to only enrich certain features.  My original dilemma, for which there is no solution: After enriching my layer, it informed me that five of the polygons weren't enriched due to geometry areas. Since it wasn't too many, I went through and just manually drew them in and added the data from the existing shapefile. However, I now need to enrich those five features, and since it's enrich layer rather than enrich feature, I'm not sure how to manage that. Sure, it's not very hard to just delete the extra columns, but with over 800 polygons it was an expensive analysis the first time around, and I do NOT want to get charged for that again when I only need five more. I tried fiddling around with the current extent, but I either get extra features, or it doesn't pick up the ones I'm zoomed in on. Since KGerrow-esristaff‌ (unfortunately) confirmed my suspicion that there was no effective way to handle that, I'm taking her advice to post this as an idea. ... View more