Latest Contributions by DrewFlater

This defect was resolved in ArcGIS Pro 3.6: https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/in-arcgis-pro-31-file-geodatabase-connections-on-networ-bug-000160252  If there are additional cases related to this, please let us know ... View more

It is unlikely that Arcade expressions will be broadly supported as an alternative to individual fields in all or many geoprocessing tools, due to the per-tool implementation/development cost that would need to be done per tool. There are other enhancement ideas for some specific tools, for example Append using an expression language for field mapping, which are being tracked as development issues: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/enhance-append-tool-to-allow-python-arcade/idi-p/1195885 For more broad support, we would need the entire ArcGIS system to support data reading via cursors that can do the Arcade evaluation natively, rather than at the per-tool implementation level. I'd like to refer you to this existing enhancement Idea for virtual fields that are configured and stored at the layer level and could be broadly used across ArcGIS: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/virtual-attributes-ad-hoc/idi-p/1276471 ... View more

@AmberConverse The Community needs an idea champion to log the new idea to control the behavior from an option. Then let the voting commence!  ... View more

@ZachEdwards_WDSGIS , if other software packages are able to extract the coordinates, but arcpy.GetImageEXIFProperties() fails, that is definitely a defect and I would like the opportunity to try to review and fix this case. Would appreciate an email with example image if possible. ... View more

Hi @ZachEdwards_WDSGIS can you see the comment above with troubleshooting using the arcpy.GetImageEXIFProperties() function? If this function does not work with your image, there may be a problem with the image or with the function. Esri Support would be able to help troubleshoot this. Or you can email me a sample image that causes an error for Esri development to investigate. dflater@esri.com ... View more

It is not likely to be delivered as an excel spreadsheet like available in this Esri Community thread, but the ArcGIS Pro team is planning a documentation page or formal resource for seeing a licensing break down for all geoprocessing tools.  ... View more

Hi @HeatherAlexander  The Contour tool in ArcGIS Pro provides a Contour Type parameter to create polygons (filled contour lines) directly. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/contour.htm  Can you explain how this may not match your request?  About Feature To Polygon, it is true that this tool does not maintain attribute information without post processing, and we are working on an enhancement to resolve that, ENH-000132387.  ... View more

@Jeff-Reinhart only a subset of options are available in the Pro admin settings system, not including the option referenced above. Yes a new ArcGIS Pro Idea would be suitable in this case, and we should be able to prioritize it in the near term with your justification of how your organization will benefit from applying (and potentially locking) that option at the admin level (across many analyst machines for the org). Some of the options are quite logical why an admin would want to set it, but opening the messages seems like something more suitable to the individual user's preference. But I look forward to discussing that further in the new Idea 🙂 ... View more

@HaydeeHY This enhancement Idea is in the development team's Near Term backlog. A new tool for KML conversion, KML To Geodatabase, will be released in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 for enhanced attribute handling. Any enhancements like this one that were logged for KML To Layer will only be developed for the new tool going forward.  ... View more

@RTPL_AU @paleo78 just to reinforce, this is not normal behavior and is a bug. This documentation is being added in Pro 3.6 to the Find a geoprocessing tool topic: "The first time you access a tool or any interface that uses geoprocessing, the geoprocessing cache is automatically created. The cache is used by search and is created once per software release. Creating the geoprocessing cache typically completes in a few seconds on a machine that meets the ArcGIS Pro system requirements. If you have a language pack or Semantic Search installed, creating the cache may take longer, but it should still finish within one minute." I am going to explore the impact of Xtools on cache creation. If they are injecting additional system and custom project tools, that will increase the time, and if it is failing in some way to generate a full cache, that may be attempted repeatedly for each Pro session. ... View more

@RTPL_AU @paleo78 What is described is a defect, as the Geoprocessing Cache is meant to be generated once per release (updating from Pro 3.5 to 3.6 for example), NOT each time you start Pro. The amount of time is also quite high and should complete in a few seconds under normal conditions with a system that matches requirements. Please report a BUG with Esri Support to describe your situation and debug the problem. https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/log-an-arcgis-bug-000034294 A few pieces of information I am curious about that will also help in your communication with Esri Support, 1. Do you have ArcGIS Pro language packs installed?  2. When installing Pro, do you set the Optional Features to install the feature AI Models>Semantic Search? When semantic search is installed, additional caching needs to happen which impacts cache generation performance. Semantic search also has system requirements for a CPU that supports the AVX2 instruction set. https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/get-started/arcgis-pro-system-requirements.htm#:~:text=A%20processor%20supporting%20the%20AVX2%20instruction%20set .  3. Do you install ArcGIS Pro per user or per machine? Related to this, the geoprocessing cache is generated in the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\ESRI\Local Caches. You can delete the g*.cache files in this folder and restart Pro. Confirm the generation of g0, g1, g3, g4 files after you restart Pro. You could try renaming the whole ESRI folder and restart Pro to see if the problem is related to user profile files previously created. The ESRI folder will be recreated on restart.  4. Do you have a custom cloned Python environment activated? Can you import arcpy in the Python window?  ... View more