Latest Contributions by AndrewZimba

The ArcMap paradigm of “one mxd -> one layout -> one print product” was GREAT for large multi-user organizations! Let’s say that a company’s project (generic project, not Pro Project) has multiple Projects (Pro project, not generic project), each of which contains multiple layouts. A year after a print product has been made, a manager desires that product to be updated. How will a user determine which Project (Pro project, not generic project) contains the layout they need to modify without opening each one until they happen to find the layout they are seeking? Let’s next posit that a large geospatial intelligence agency has several hundred of a project’s (generic project, not Pro Project) layouts stored in a single Project (Pro Project, not generic project). Some data changes that requires updating a large portion, but not all, of those layouts within a very short timeframe and that those updates may have national security implications. Can multiple users access and update those individual layouts within the project’s Project to get the layouts modified within the mission-critical timeframe or will the project’s Project be locked to a single user? Are there settings that can be deployed in an automated fashion to defeat Pro from storing critical Project (in this case, both Pro Project and generic project) components on users’ and servers’ C:\ drive deep in profiles where they would not be backed up? Large organizations would not want to rely on individual users tweaking a bunch of settings to assure that all Project (Pro Project, not generic project) components are safe. Many thanks in advance for any answers you can provide! ... View more

Please publish something describing in detail ArcGIS Pro's project file storage structure.  Please also consider professional organization file management needs instead of just casual user needs in future versions. ... View more

Does anyone know how to turn off the setting that makes ArcHydro save an xml file for each mxd that is saved (with the same name and in the same folder as the mxd).  I know Archydro is the culprit.  When I remove it, the behavior stops, and when I re-install, it starts again. Thank you in advance! ... View more

It would be very nice to have an iterator that uses as input the layers in a .mxd, with maybe some options like "use all/use only visible"  etc. ... View more

I've created two web apps using the following process: 1.  create shapefiles of content 2.  place the .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj components for each individual shapefile into a .zip 3.  add the content to a sub folder in My Content on our organization's AGOL4Org space, this creates a feature service for the individual shapefile 4.  create a web map from a group of feature services as created above 5.  share the web map and create a web app from it using a configurable template 6.  share the web app So the web map and web app are shared out to Everyone. One web app can be seen by anybody with a web browser by simply sharing the resource url. The other web app, when the resource url is entered into a browser, asks the user to sign in with an ArcGIS Online for Organizations account.  AFIK, no different security was applied to the sub-folders or feature services.  Everything was processed into services in the ArcGIS Online cloud and reside there. How can I determine what is causing these differences? ... View more

I've started messing around with our ArcGIS Online for Organizations trial.  I've created some feature services, combined them into a web map, and used the configurable templates to share the web map out as a web app.  I've noticed on the details page for the web app there is a "Configure App" button and an "Attach Code" button.  "Configure App" is pretty self-explanatory, but i cannot find any info in the Help about how to use the "Attach Code" feature. Where should i be looking for information about the capabilities of attached code and how to structure it to get something desirable to happen? ... View more