Latest Contributions by Kathleen_Crombez

‎02-04-2026

Did you ever find a solution to this? We have the same issue where the incorporated municipalities within our county have an agreement in place for future subdivision planning that divides the overlapping 1.5 mile ETJ boundaries with the median centerline. Equal distance from both sides (not necessarily equal area). I have been banging my head on how to do this with either ArcGIS tools or SQL tools. This is the best I have come up with so far: 1 - create 1.5 mile buffer around municipal boundary to create the ETJ boundaries. 2 - intersect the ETJ layer with itself (set output type to "INPUT" to create polygons where the ETJs overlap) 3 - use the feature vertices to points tool to create points on the boundary of the overlapping polygons. 4 - create thiessen polygons from the boundary points. The results are looking good so far... but now I need to convert these polygons into median dissection lines. Sure... the lines could be manually drawn in... but I am trying to automate this to account for ongoing annexations. I will post an update with my final process once I get it figured out. In the meantime, I am interested to hear if anyone else has come up with a solid solution. It seems this is a pretty common approach in government planning to subdivide the ETJs down the median overlap to distinguish future development jurisdiction boundaries.

‎12-30-2025

It is not just the user interface... Our scheduled tasks are being effected also. Scripts that would completed in a few hours overnight are now taking 3 times longer and are still running at the beginning of the next business day. The increased licensing costs makes all these issues with the software very hard to swallow. It's almost like ESRI doesn't even care about their user base. They just continue to push out more garbage software with additional buggy features so they can charge more money. Not to mention the inconvenience of having to constantly upgrade every few month to say on the latest version. It is really sad... ESRI used to be such a reputable company. Leaders in innovation when it comes to GIS. Those days are long gone. Lost to their own greed... prioritizing excessive profits over ethics, customer welfare, and social responsibility.

‎12-03-2025

I just wanted to provide an update on this... We upgraded to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 and Pro 3.5 I am now able to publish the Extract Data Tasks (Clip and Ship) again.

‎04-07-2025

did you ever find a solution to this? I am experiencing into the same error when trying to clone my python environment.

‎03-20-2025

Thanks @MarceloMarques It is very frustrating. And posting dead links that reroute to the trust center does not help.

‎03-19-2025

The whole reason for my original question was because our IT department installed Sophos and it corrupted our Portal. We had thousands of orphaned SOC processes that would never end and would run the machine out of resources. It also caused issues during upgrades that absolutely rendered the Portal inaccessible. We did have IT implement the white list and still had tons of issues that broke ArcGIS Enterprise. So I cannot get on board with Sophos and ArcGIS Enterprise compatibility claims. We made IT uninstall Sophos and we were able to restore our Portal and start using it again without issues. Now our IT department now wants to force CrowdStrike on us. We are already running it on our workstations and (again, white list exceptions are already in place) we see nothing but issues. Projects locking up and crashing constantly. Simple attribute edits that take minutes to commit. With the issues we have with Pro I am very hesitant to have it installed on our ArcGIS Enterprise servers. I should point out that there are several typos in the white list and we had to navigate to every single folder to get the actual path (not just blindly copying and pasting the bad paths with typos into the exceptions.) I am starting to believe that ESRI just doesn't care about their customers as their software is getting progressively worse over time (not better as one would expect from a company with such a large market). Pro (the most user unfriendly software ever developed) and ArcGIS Enterprise are so bug ridden now that it makes me want to retire early.

‎08-21-2024

@MarceloMarques- Thank you for the link. I have seen this post in the past but they have updated the link for the ArcGIS Antivirus Guidance document. Are Sophos and CrowdStrike both tested and used in production at ESRI? Do you notice any benefits or downsides from one to the other in comparison? Thanks again, Kathleen

‎08-21-2024

@GregoryCarson- Thank you! Was there a reason you switched from CrowdStrike to Cortex? Do you notice any benefits or downsides from one to the other in comparison? Any issues with installation or upgrades? Thanks again! Kathleen

‎08-21-2024

@CodyPatterson- Thank you for the information! Did you have to configure all the exceptions as recommended in the ArcGIS Antivirus Guidance From my past experience most anti-virus software is destructive to the ArcGIS Enterprise suite and makes installation/upgrades downright impossible while the software is active. So I am really happy to receive a recommendation from someone with both GIS and IT experience. Thank you again! Kathleen

‎08-21-2024

I am looking for a new Antivirus Solution for ArcGIS Enterprise. Let me know what you are using!

‎08-20-2024

@Gisbert61 Did you ever find out which anti-virus you had installed? We are currently looking into a new anti-virus solution and apparently, this is one we would want to avoid. Thanks, Kathleen

‎06-06-2024

@AmirBar-Maor- We currently do not use sub-types for current and historical parcels. We wrote a custom process that exports the current and historical features into separate feature classes and created two separate sets of topology rules. One for all current features and one for all historic features. This process is not ideal because it will only identify the errors which then need to be corrected in the actual fabric and then re-exported and checked again after the data is corrected. If sub-types were built into the parcel fabric data model we would not need to do all these extra custom quality control checks. However, I really do like the idea of allowing SQL queries in the topology rules. That would beneficial in many scenarios.

‎06-05-2024

@AmirBar-Maor- Your comment about topology always running on the entire table is not correct. Topology can have different rules for different sub-types. Sub-typing the active and historic parcel types still seems to be the best solution to me.

‎03-12-2024

I did attempt to upgrade the metadata in ArcGIS Pro from the Catalog view. This did not bring in any of the existing FGDC CSDGM metadata. I could see the XML data in SQL Server. Just could not get it to display in Pro.

‎09-20-2023

I am working on a python script that pulls the domain and subtype information from a feature class (or table) and uses that information to update the attribute and entity portion of the metadata. We are using the FGDC CSDGM standards. While testing my code I would manually make edits to a test dataset for validation and export the xml files to view the schema changes. In the ArcGIS Pro attribute editor this is found under Resource > Fields > Entity and Attribute Details When I add multiple enumerated domain values to an attribute a validation error pops up “at least one type of attribute domain is required.” And I get a red X on the Fields tab. Kathleen_Crombez_0-1695232198386.png Kathleen_Crombez_1-1695232198388.png The xml schema it creates for this attribute looks like this: <attr> <attrlabl>text_field</attrlabl> <attrdef>text field definition</attrdef> <attrdefs>text field definition source</attrdefs> <attrdomv> <edom> <edomv>v1</edomv> <edomvd>value 1</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> <edom> <edomv>v2</edomv> <edomvd>value 2</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> <edom> <edomv>v3</edomv> <edomvd>value 3</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> </attrdomv> There is a single attribute domain value (attrdomv) tag with multiple enumerated domain (edom) tags nested inside of it. When I run this xml through the USGS metadata validation service (https://www1.usgs.gov/mp/) it reports the following error: Error Attribute_Domain_Values (5.1.2.4) permits only one of Enumerated_Domain (5.1.2.4.1) or Range_Domain (5.1.2.4.2) or Codeset_Domain (5.1.2.4.3) or Unrepresentable_Domain (5.1.2.4.4) When I manually alter the schema of the xml file to include multiple attribute domain value (attrdomv) tags each containing a single enumerated domain (edom) tag the error goes away. This is true in both the USGS validator and the built in validator in ArcGIS Pro. <attr> <attrlabl>text_field</attrlabl> <attrdef>text field definition</attrdef> <attrdefs>text field definition source</attrdefs> <attrdomv> <edom> <edomv>v1</edomv> <edomvd>value 1</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> </attrdomv> <attrdomv> <edom> <edomv>v2</edomv> <edomvd>value 2</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> </attrdomv> <attrdomv> <edom> <edomv>v3</edomv> <edomvd>value 3</edomvd> <edomvds>test definition source</edomvds> </edom> </attrdomv> However, the metadata editor now displays strangely for this layer. It is displaying an option to insert a new enumerated domain in between each already established domain. Kathleen_Crombez_2-1695232198393.png Kathleen_Crombez_3-1695232198394.png Is this a bug in the metadata editor? I am working with ArcGIS Pro v2.9.6 Lastly, I just want to confirm that the second example is the proper what to do this. Is it correct that each enumerated domain (edom) tag should be nested inside of its own attribute domain value (attrdomv) tag. Thank you, Kathleen

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