Latest Contributions by LuyangRen

I'm using the Cascade Storymap for student projects and can't get the template to accept parameters for setting video start, end, loop and autoplay. Basically, when I generate the iframe embed code or URL that sets the parameters and then paste it into the Cascade title page it will observe the start and end time parameters the first time through but then reverts to the full video the 2nd time. And when I go back into the media picker and look at the link to content it has changed from what I originally pasted to a strip down version that just has the start and end time. See examples below sample video a student wants to use: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dGNZA8f85u0 video URL with custom parameters: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dGNZA8f85u0?start=6&end=35&loop=1&autoplay=1 I'm having this issue with all YouTube videos students have tried to use for looping title page. Any ideas why this isn't working? I've tried this using the Map Journal template and it doesn't work there either.  ... View more

Hi GISers, I am wondering, how do you test ArcMap/ArcGIS Pro after installation to confirm it runs well when you are managing more than several machines installed with ArcGIS Desktop in your institution? I work in a higher-ed and we have ArcGIS Desktop installed on all the machines on campus. I have a list of things I need to test manually on some machines. However, we keep having new issues once a while. So the list of things to be tested gets longer and longer and I want to cover as much as I can in the testing so we could detect issues ahead of time instead of in the middle of the semesters. I am thinking that I should write some scripts to run testing automatically on machines. I would like to hear any discussion or suggestion about it. Thank you so much Luyang ... View more

We are seeing ugly warnings when users sign in to AGOL via ArcGIS Pro using enterprise login. Please see attached screenshot. Please have AGOL support Multifactor Authentication for Enterprise Login. Thank you Luyang ... View more

Hello all, I am having a difficulty of creating ArcGIS Online enterprise account using ArcGIS API for Python. Here is the story: I work in higher-ed. We use enterprise login making the workflow of logging in to AGO easier for students. However, this brings a problem. The account won't be created until the student login to AGO the first time. As an instructor, we would like to prepare materials before the lab, like creating groups, adding students to the groups and sharing materials with groups. We send emails to students before the lab, asking them to login to ArcGIS online one week before the lab. But there are always some students miss our emails. We usually have to spend the first 10-15 mins of the lab to have all the students login and are added to the group. If we can create enterprise accounts for students before labs, we won't have to go through all the workflows. This is why we want to create users automatically before labs using ArcGIS API for Python.  This is the piece of python script of creating an account for myself. For example, my enterprise idp username is "lr300"   student = gis.users.create(idp_username = "lr300", username = "lr300_BU", password = 'mypassword1234', firstname = "myfirstname", lastname = "mylastname", email = "lr300@myorg.edu", role = 'org_publisher', provider = 'enterprise')     After I run this python script, an account "lr030_Bucknell" is created successfully(Please see attached screenshot 1). But then I try to log in to our ArcGIS Online with enterprise logint, it failed and gave me this error "Unable to assign user 'lr300_BU' to this account 'xsh7pVZv42relbEf' , Username is not available". (Please see the attached screenshot 2.) Is anyone familiar with this issue? Any ideas? Thank you Luyang ... View more

Hello, Our server is HTTP now and we are getting some issues that the map services could not loaded in web apps or when embedded in WordPress, because story map templates and WordPress are using HTTPS. It's anoying that we have to tell the users to remove the "s" in the URL. So I am wondering if we should change it to HTTPS? I am not expierenced and I would like to hear from you. Any pros and cons? Thank you Luyang ... View more

We are trying to use TauDEM5.3.5 to run pit removal and other tools for a hydro lab. We ran this successfully last year with the previous version of TauDEM and ArcGIS 10.3. This year, our lab machines are are running Windows 10 64-bit education and we have upgraded to ArcGIS 10.3.1. Our Python installer is Anaconda 4. When we try to run the pit remove tool (either from ArcToolbox or from the stand alone TauDEM executable we get the attached error message. The toolbox works on my personal laptop which does not have Anaconda or any stand-alone Python - only what installs along with the TauDEM 5.3.5 Complete Windows installer. We are wondering if the TauDEM package might be looking for a specific pathway (see attached screenshot). Has anyone experienced this and can anyone advise? Thanks Luyang ... View more