Latest Contributions by CharlesKimmel

I have been creating animations of 2D line features though time and when I export the animations the features in the videos will randomly flicker. I have noticed this with other feature types as well. I have tried many varieties of export formats ranging from draft files, 1920x1080 to 4k at all the fps options and I have tried all of those export options on different data and different machines with different versions of ArcGIS Pro. Every single exported file inevitably at many random points in the animation flicker. The data I have been using is stored and edited on an SDE. I have tried copying the data locally to a file geodatabase and as shape files and all the data types produce the same results. My question is: Why is this happening, is it a bug or a setting somewhere that should be disable or enabled? How can I export an animation that does not flicker without having to export as a png sequence and edit the offending individual frames? If anyone here can help me I would be extremely grateful! My machine: Type: Lenovo P51 OS: Windows 10 x64 Processor: i7-7700HQ 2.80GHz RAM: 48GB Disks: 2 x 500GB M.2 SSD GPU: Nvidia Quadro M1200 ArcGIS Pro version: 2.4.2 ... View more

     I have been exploring ways to present dynamic data to users in my organization. Our GIS group hosts our data on a spatial database engine and hosts some of the feature layers and datasets as feature services for web apps. I really like using the web apps with the dashboard template to display a map with graphs and data summaries from the widgets. However, my group wants to move into using the operations dashboards more—because they seem to be more customizable on the fly while being hosted through ArcGIS Online (instead of our server hosting a modified web application that has been customized though adjusting the HTML and scripting). So with that I have run into an interesting issue.      In the web application—if I have a feature service in my web map I can run statistics on the feature with the Infographic widget (as long as the feature service is a single layer). I am specifically looking at getting statistics on the SHAPE.LEN field of a line feature using the number template. The Infographic widget is capable of returning a sum of this field so I can get the total length of all the features. This is great and all but: I'm forced to use Filter by extent—as the check box is checked and grayed out. So this limits the sum to the current visible extent of the map (it updates as one zooms in or out) and I would like the entire total displayed.      Trying this same approach in an operations dashboard leads to an error. I bring in the same web map with the same feature service and when I try to do a sum on the SHAPE.LEN field with the 99! Indicator; there is a yellow caution triangle in the corner of the preview with a pop-up that states "Cannot Access Data". The curious things are: that if the feature service is being hosted on the ESRI server than I do not get the "Cannot Access Data" error and it very quickly returns the length sum. if I try to do a sum statistic on any other integer field in the same feature service the 99! Indicator returns the correct values. So I am stuck wondering why can the Infographic widget from the web application read/access the shape.length field and the operations dashboard cannot read/access just this one field?      The whole point of trying to do this is to keep the data dynamic and "live" and to avoid having to do database triggers, field calculations and etc. If anyone here has any idea why this is happening or suggestions I would appreciate any ideas or information! Maybe I am missing something very simple here? Regards, Charles ... View more

I have been working on creating a custom basemap and I have run into an issue which I think is peculiar. Why is there not an option (or I cannot find the option) to put labels behind feature classes? I know this may not be ascetically pleasing, but I really want this option with actual labels and not converted graphics. I would like to preserve the quality of the text vectors. This would be really useful when I have a lot of features on the map and the road labels are covering them and all I am wanting with the road names is a general sense of the location. Am I missing something and this can be done somehow or is this a really crazy pointless idea?  ... View more