Latest Contributions by RossSmail

I'm working with large vector datasets and love the performance of vector tiles, and the fact that you can use the associated feature service for pop-ups in Pro, but would like to be able to do exactly the same in the new map viewer in Enterprise. I think it's on the road map, but as an alternative, and possibly as a good addition anyway, it would perhaps be good if you could configure a hidden layer to show its popups, and legend - this would allow the user to click on the map and see the attributes from the feature service for the feature they've clicked on in the vector tile, and show the legend for the feature service (or map image service), without the overhead of actually having to display it in the browser. If there's a way of doing what I'm suggesting already, I'd be grateful for a pointer. ... View more

When added to Pro, an Enterprise feature service is labelled in the table of contents with the name of the layer it exposes, rather than the title of the item. I realize that there are probably reasons why it has to do this, but it's a little confusing to the end user - they add a layer that is listed in the Catalog pane with its title, and it is added to the map with a different name. As an example, I recently created a set of Enterprise items that reference a single feature service item, applying filters to that item to display subsets of the data - eg, just the Lithium deposits from a mineral occurrence database. Each of those items has a different title, and in the Enterprise map viewer, that title is used to identify the layer in the TOC. The title is also displayed in the Catalog Pane in Pro, but when added to the map, the name of the underlying service layer is displayed. Hence if the user adds a couple of the filtered layers to their Pro map, they get a couple of layers with the exact same name. They can obviously edit that name, but that's a bit clunky.  I dare say that I've missed how to do this, in which case I hope someone will point me in the right direction! Obviously there are other ways to achieve my aim, but as a general point it seems to me that the name of the layer when you add it to Pro should be the same as the name of the layer you selected. The quick and dirty image below illustrates the difference in experience in Enterprise vs. Pro 3.0 - content/catalog view on the left, map table of contents view on the right: ... View more

If you're dealing with large numbers of labelled objects, it can get a little confusing determining where you are in the list, as there is no index number. If, for instance, you are going through objects deleting ones that you think are inaccurate, it is easy to 'lose your place'. Just having a column with the row number in would make the workflow easier. ... View more

The underscore character, when used in the search dialog, acts in what appears to be an undocumented fashion (I couldn't find anything, and nor could Esri UK support), as illustrated in the screenshot below. Support suggested that I add an idea here to suggest that the documentation be updated to cover what the underscore character 'means' when used in the search dialog. Replacing the underscore with a question mark enabled me to get the results set I wanted.  Search term: *09_geom*. Search returns items with 09 and geom as separate components of their name, rather than items with 09_geom as a single component of their name.  ... View more

The Deep Learning toolset is great, but it would be great if the Detect Objects using Deep Learning tool reported its status in more detail (at least optionally). As an example, I have started it running against a mosaic dataset containing 30,000 images, which it is processing individually, and the screenshot shows the status information I have received 4 hours in (ie, None). I have done some testing against a smaller mosaic with 68 images in it, and have calculated that it should take c. 6 hours, but obviously having some feedback on how many images it has processed and/or how many objects it has detected would be useful - some prediction of when it might finish would also presumably be possible and would be a useful addition.  ... View more

I like to subdivide data up into different geodatabases. Being able to create a new FGDB in the output dialog for a tool is a great help, but if you could toggle that new FGDB, or any other you have to be the default geodatabase for your project, that would make it even easier to quickly put data where you want it to go. I'd suggest just adding an extra option to the context menu for the FGDBs, the current one is shown in the screenshot below for reference. I note @CarlMorrison's comment pointing out that you can do this, if you view the Databases section of the Catalog View\Pane, as shown in the screenshot below, but my failure to find that may support my request, or just say something about my abilities ;-). Being able to do this in the output dialog would, to my mind, be consistent and useful.   ... View more

3 band RGB images have their symbology displayed by default in the Contents pane. The information shown is at best redundant and it would be great to have an option that would allow you to hide it by default, as it's irritating having to do it each time you add an image, which is what I do. As far as I can see, this is not something you can do currently. Being able to decide what happens with different types of imagery would be a sensible additional option - the data I'm using is 3 band RGB, but obviously it might be prudent for users of multiband imagery to be able to see what band combination had been added by default, so auto-hiding that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing, and nor might doing it for continuous data.   ... View more

The current animation tool (version 2.7) regenerates the keyframe thumbnails every time you re-open a project (and select a target map/scene with animation configured). If the content of your map or scene is 'heavy' - eg, large LAS point clouds, then this can significantly affect the performance of Pro for no real benefit (eg, 15 minutes of high CPU/GPUy usage just creating the thumbnails). It would be good if you could either toggle keyframe thumbnail creation on and off, and/or if it could save the thumbnails once created, so that it doesn't have to recreate them. Cheers, Ross ... View more

It would be useful to be able to hide/show the links at the top of the Portal for ArcGIS homepage (HOME, GALLERY, MAP, etc) on the basis of the user's role. This would allow organisations to hide, for example, the MAP link so that users could only access mapping applications that had been shared with them via the Featured Content scroller. ... View more