Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

If you mean 'fully automate', Technically, yes. It would require an existing georeferenced image (a known map or air photo mosaic in the desired projection and coordinate system) to serve as the target, and your input raster image with at least one known good (e.g., NADAR at the center of the image). That one point will place the center of the image on the correct point on the target. Then image matching could occur searching for and creating tie points. Based on this the scaling, stretch of the input raster would be calculated and saved to the images world file (.e.g, .tfw). Project would then be run if needed as the last step to create the output image. Have you looked at: Auto Georeference Automatically create control points for the source raster against a target raster. The source raster and target raster must be relatively close in terms of geographic location, spectral resolution, and spatial resolution for the autoregistration to work.

In ArcGIS Online there is now an AI Assistant that can auto-populate metadata for a feature or image layer by executing a deep dive into the underlying structure of the feature class. This results in 'suggested' metadata that then can be Saved to the Document. When this tool is used a Disclaimer should be automatically added to the appropriate place in the metadata. For example: Terms of Use (Use Limitation): "Metadata shown here was partially generated using an AI-Assistant. The outputs generated by AI may not always be accurate. We encourage you to review, fact-check, and adjust outputs as needed before relying on them. You are responsible for your use of the content generated using this AI feature."

At the simplest level, are you sure bannercategory is actually <Null> in the case of the poles that are showing, but that you believe have no assigned category? Recall, that '' or ' ' is not the same as NULL (the absence of a value). In ArcGIS Pro, you can set a field’s value to null using the Calculate Field tool, provided the field is nullable and stored in a geodatabase. To set a field to <NULL> you can enter the text None in the Expression box.

Can you post what HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ArcGISPro should contain? Thank you

do you want the 'except' blocks to flow like that or, if there is an exception, do you want to show the appropriate message and then 'break' out of the try block? Along the lines of: except ZeroDivisionError: # Handle division by zero print("Error: Cannot divide by zero.") return None # You could also raise an exception here

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else SEEs the issue described below with the UninstallPath key within the registry for HCLM? I'm asking if this is 'normal' for ArcGIS Pro 3.5. Thank you! basically looking for a yes/no answer 😉 Specifically, I'm looking at: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ArcGISPro Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ArcGISPro Update356 Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ArcGISPro Update357 Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ArcGISPro Update358 I'm see the UninstallPath has an extra '\', which makes the path unreachable. The value I have is "c:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\\Support\ESRI.exe"; in addition, at that location there is no ESRI.exe to be found. I'm troubleshooting an install failure and this was one thing I notice. The '\\' would throw a security error if the path were used since it is a malformed UNC path. Richard

Using AI to address an interface design failure would be an interesting solution. It could work if the API was fully documented and functional so the AI generated code could obtain the needed data from the underlying ArcGIS Online system and imbedding the needed credentials for each organization is simple and well documented. However, I much rather have ESRI spend some resources to build a functional Admin console for ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online that focuses on Administrative tasks and subscription (a.k.a., license) management. We spend thousands on the AGOL capabilities but still have no or very limited administrative tools. We need to be able to see usage levels and frequencies to make intelligent decisions on subscription distribution and levels (not everyone can be Professional Plus 😉). This frequency and usage analysis is available for services but the way you access the graphs is very limited, you can only see ONE at a time which makes comparison nearly impossible. Sincerely, Rich

Basic functionality that increased the usability of the Table view for the average user.

‎06-17-2026

Generally, when creating a hyperlink as you describe most people have an attribute field for the document name, in your case for each PDF. Hopefully, your PDF names are predictable so you can autogenerate them. For example, in my case I have stations with unique station ids while the PDFs are named like datasheet_XXXX.pdf where xyzx is the station number. Secondly, the prefix for the URL is predetermined, https://myserver/myapp/myreports. So yes, you can then use string concatenation to build the full URL and save it as a second field. Other option is to just use the ID attribute within an Arcade expression in your Popup to build the URL.

‎06-15-2026

LOCK_AUTH_SETTINGS = True applies to extensions as well. That being said, if you have local admin on the computer one can always change LOCK_AUTH_SETTINGS to false to regain access to turn on/off extensions. One thing we do is take advantage of where I work is HKEY_LOCAL_USER, this contains copies of most of the HKLM keys that can be set per user. HKLU takes precedents over HKLM. For example, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Licensing\Extensions users can enable or disable extensions. In the .\Extensions keys the names are the feature names. The extensions information described here is for concurrent use and single use licenses. Named User licensing should be picking up the Extensions settings from the individuals ArcGIS Online subscription.

‎06-12-2026

Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\ArcGISPro\Licensing you can create a key named LOCK_AUTH_SETTINGS = True. When set only local admins on the computer can update the license connection settings. Users who do not have permissions to update registry settings will see 'grayed' out information in the GUI.

‎06-10-2026

This expected behavior. The map name shown in ArcGIS Pro is a text field just like a file name.

‎05-19-2026

The fact that it started working when you went one folder 'deeper' made me think about the current Microsoft Patch KB5082063 released in April and installed on most computers the first weeks of May that resulted in the failure of fuzzy domain resolution. Instead of \\server\ShareFolder\SubFolder try \\server.myDomain.loc\ShareFolder\SubFolder

‎05-18-2026

I can't speak to ArcGIS Pro 3.7, but the Alias option is working in ArcGIS Pro 3.6 SP 6 and SP 7 (released May3rd). Before you ask, yes this alias was assigned to a UNC path like \\myserver.mydomain.loc\mydata

‎05-13-2026

Those same patches broke UNC paths. now most areas require complete server names in the path. For example, prior to these KBs \\myserver\myfiles would work but now you need to do \\myserver.mydomain.loc\myfiles to avoid DNS errors. This can impact any area where you may store an UNC path (e.g., in a web.config file).

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Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

Re: Georeferencing

Disclosure when AI Assistant is used for Metadata Creation

Re: Subqueries with branch versioned data

Re: malformed uninstall paths for ArcGIS Pro 3.5

Re: How to bypass raise Error in if else statement

malformed uninstall paths for ArcGIS Pro 3.5

Re: AI-Powered Metadata Quality, Dependency Analysis, and Content Discovery Assistant for ArcGIS Online

Re: Put "zoom to selection" button back on Map Viewer table rows

Re: Field Calculate Share Point Hyperlinks

Re: ArcGIS Pro in Azure Virtual Desktop AVD - lock licensing settings

Re: ArcGIS Pro in Azure Virtual Desktop AVD - lock licensing settings

Re: Duplicate Catalog Item Enumeration

Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

Re: ArcGIS Pro Network Folder Connection Alias

Re: Windows Save Dialog popup searching instead of saving file name - "Network Error: Cannot access..."

Disclosure when AI Assistant is used for Metadata ...

Re: Subqueries with branch versioned data

Re: Field Calculate Share Point Hyperlinks

Re: ArcGIS Pro in Azure Virtual Desktop AVD - lock...

Re: Duplicate Catalog Item Enumeration