Latest Contributions by JenniferWrightsell-Hughes

Do you want to expand your ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise skills and knowledge but have limited time to spare? Well, look no further. GIS in a Minute is here for you.  GIS in a Minute playlist GIS in a Minute is a series of one‑minute videos that offer a quick and visual way to discover and learn more about useful capabilities in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise.  We know how limited and valuable your time is, so we created this series to give you bite-sized guidance and information that you can quickly absorb when you have a free minute in your day.  The videos cover concepts like user types, administrative tools such as reports, and key workflows including configuring an information banner and setting up content categories for groups. You can find the GIS in a Minute video playlist on Esri Video and YouTube. Check it out! And feel free to share your feedback and ideas for future videos below in the comments. ... View more

Many agencies supporting public health and emergency response, along with other authoritative sources across the globe, share information about breaking news and major events through maps, apps, and dashboards created in ArcGIS Online. When these web applications are shared publicly, they often experience high demand and generate a large amount of web traffic. Demand may be even higher when the application is shared through news feeds, on social media, and through other media websites and channels. It's important that your publicly shared applications perform well in high-demand, high-volume situations when accessed anywhere in the world. This new ArcGIS Online help topic outlines best practices to optimize scalability and display performance for publicly shared ArcGIS Online web applications. It also explains the primary mechanisms in ArcGIS Online—feature tiles and response caching—that support web app scalability and performance. ... View more

As an ArcGIS Online administrator, one of your primary responsibilities is monitoring and managing credit consumption in your organization. Credits are the currency of ArcGIS. They are consumed for specific transactions and various types of storage, including feature storage, imagery storage, and file storage. Storage credits are consumed when organization members create and store content items such as maps, apps, scenes, and layers. If your organization’s storage credit consumption is higher than you and other stakeholders would like, you may be looking for ways to reduce it.  This recently published blog article outlines practical strategies for managing storage credits in your organization. It also describes how ArcGIS Online calculates storage credits and how to identify and manage the content items that are incurring the highest storage credit costs. ... View more

Check out our new short video to learn how to access files stored in Google Drive and add them to a map in Map Viewer. To learn more about the workflow shown in this video, see the blog article, Add Google Drive files to your ArcGIS Online maps and content. ... View more

If you have spatial data that contains date fields, you can add it to your map in Map Viewer and animate it to see patterns or trends over time. Examples of time-based phenomena that are well suited for this purpose include hurricanes and other meteorological events; population migrations; land use and environmental changes; and crime incidents. You can use the time slider in Map Viewer to visualize your time-based data. But first, you must ensure that your data layer is time-enabled. Some types of layers, such as hosted feature layers published from CSV files, must be time-enabled through the layer’s item page before you can access and configure the time slider. To learn how to enable time on a layer, watch the following short video: To learn more about configuring time settings, including enabling time on a layer, see Configure time settings in the ArcGIS Online documentation. Explore more ArcGIS Online mapping videos in the Map Viewer playlist. ... View more

Administrative reports provide detailed, on-demand information about members, content, credits, and other resources and activities in your ArcGIS Online organization. They help administrators monitor and manage various aspects of their organization. For example, you may want to compare member credit usage to help with credit budgeting, or identify items with the most views and how these items are shared, categorized, and more. A variety of report types are available to meet your needs. To learn more about each report type, how to find and run a report, and how to schedule a report to run automatically, check out this recently updated blog article or the help documentation. You can also watch the following short video to learn how to create, download, and view a report.  The video showcases the credit report, which was enhanced in the June 2024 update of ArcGIS Online to include information about storage credit usage, imagery analysis credit usage, and more. Once you’ve tried administrative reports for yourself, let us know what you think! ... View more