Latest Contributions by mpboyle

This is going to be rant about ArcGIS Online updates, and hopefully it reaches other Esri customers that feel the same way, and is heard by Esri staff... Let me start by saying that I REALLY do enjoy GIS and most Esri products. It gives us, the GIS community, a chance to be creative, help our colleagues analyze and visualize datasets, and for those of us in the public sector (which I am) the ability to provide data to all sorts of public users. ArcGIS Online has become a centerpiece of Esri product integration, whether it be Pro, Experience Builder, dashboards, surveys, Field Maps, etc... and I got to say to Esri: you HAVE to do better with your ArcGIS Online updates. So many customers are finding broken experiences, dashboards that now look wonky with font sizes, selectors that no longer work, Field Map items no longer seeming to function as expected prior to the update, and I'm sure other hidden items that I'm not aware of. Speaking for myself, and some of my colleagues, it often feels that these updates are haphazardly released, not properly vetted, and done so to meet some sort of requirement for a quarterly update. As an example, I can't count the dozens of dashboards I now have to review to see if simple things like font sizes are way off, whether they be too big or too small, check for color palettes that have been reset, or explain to users that aren't as technically savvy how to clear their browser cache in order to get a pop-up to work in Experience Builder. We have a great team of GIS professionals in our group, and are often commended for the work we do, and I can't help but think of smaller organizations that may only be a single person shop that is trying to get GIS buy-in from management. Those users, having a day like today where many of the products you've built no longer look or function as expected, and trying to explain that. Please....when an update is to be released, provide a notice PRIOR to the update with a list of changes to give users an expectation of what WILL be changed so we have some sort of an idea of what to expect. Put this in a splash screen on AGO, provide a soft release or toggle for items where we can preview changes. Showing up to work after the past few ArcGIS Online updates, I'm now expecting things to be broken, apps not to work, dashboards not to look as they did the previous day, and spend my day talking to Esri Support about what is an intended change versus what is a bug. Maybe I'm the only one that feels this way, but I have a feeling I'm not. ... View more

Below is my workflow with ArcGIS Online Experience Builder: 1. Users enter an address using a Search widget 2. Search widget location is passed to the NearMe widget 3. NearMe widget executes a Closest Feature analysis 4. NearMe widget has actions to: filter the map layer being used in the analysis (auto-bound), filter two other map layers using a common attribute.   Step 4 only works on the first execution.  On any subsequent executions, the two map layers being filtered don't seem to return anything.  The polygon being used in the NearMe analysis continues to be filtered as expected. Below are examples: First execution works as expected. The polygon (orange) is filtered and the animated layer shown as an orange halo (green arrow) is filtered and displayed. Subsequent executions do NOT work as expected. The polygon (orange) is filtered correctly as this the analysis layer in the NearMe widget. However, the point feature shown with a green arrow should have an animated symbol as it is the feature with same common attribute as the polygon, but nothing is shown. I have tried multiple different settings in the NearMe widget.  Tried using "Data" as the target rather than the map, same result. Is this a known limitation of the NearMe widget? ... am I missing some setting somewhere? ... is this a bug?     ... View more