Latest Contributions by CassandraFollett

Can you explain more what you mean? Do you mean following a different set of instructions or substituting this as a command in one of the steps? ... View more

Thank you for the detailed explanation, it is very helpful and clears up my confusion! ... View more

We have access to latest ArcMap / ArcGIS Pro "If the reference data that is being used to build your own address locator includes a field that contains the city ward values, you can build an address locator that will include the city ward info as an additional field when batch geocoding or geosearching." So we can use a polygon file that just includes ward boundaries in addition to other shapefiles/gdb that includes roads information? Would that be a Composite Geocoder? are you able to mix and match reference data in that way?  And if I'm understanding the end result, we can input a street address, check it against the streets and ward data, and then return the ward data as a new field appended to the dataset?  "If you have access to ArcGIS Pro 2.3 you can build locators that reference multiple fields in the reference data that can be returned in the geocode result using the Create Locator tool." Do you mean by this that with ArcGIS Pro I could reference say, Wards and Police Precincts polygon data, but with ArcMap I can only do one or the other? Thanks for your response. I misunderstood the documentation to mean that only certain types of datasets could be used (The documentation from Create Locator seemed to imply that only postal codes / postal data could be used as polygon boundaries) ... View more

ArcMap and ArcCatalog aren't actually in my workflow, so I wanted to avoid having to boot up desktop applications to manage services. I think Vince might have been referring to using Python within ArcMap to call the REST API, but that made me remember that I don't need a client at all to do this... so I just successfully deleted the folder with all 8 pages with a token and POST... That's a solution that keeps me happy   ... View more

I'm not sure if your code was going to involve ArcMap / ArcGIS Pro or not. But, mentioning the REST API had me look for the ArcGIS REST API. It seems that Delete Folder and Delete Service (along with many other tasks and requests) are capable of doing through a URL with administrator token, like so:  ArcGIS REST API  This is probably the answer I am looking for.  ... View more

So basically you're running that through ArcMap / ArcGIS Pro python interpreter in that case...?  ... View more

Hello Derek, I figured it out, so I'll share a picture of what I was seeing and why it confused me at first.  See the image below: Let's call the services "top" and "bottom" for convenience. I've circled the "pencil" symbols. You'll notice that one of them (the top one) is hollowed out; this is a service that was shared by a student to the GIS Server rather than the portal. You can see by the single person on the righthand side (rather than the "multiple" symbol that it was not actually shared anywhere when published as the student was not connected to the portal. Now, I didn't think to click on the person symbol first, I just noticed that the pencil symbol was hollowed out (on the top service here). This service did not show up in Portal, only in manager/the rest services directory. When I did check on the bottom service I was able to get in to the editing mode as the "pencil" tool was selectable. However, the sharing settings aren't there (in the manager Editing service panel); so I thought this time of clicking on the "person" symbol. This gave me the "The service is owned by another user. The sharing properties can only be modified by the owner." issue that I noted in the first post. This led me to think that you can't adjust sharing properties at all through GIS Server unless you have an administrative account (possibly?). This led me to conclude that my only option was to delete the service and tell the student to re-publish with the correct sharing settings, or to elevate my privileges on the GIS Server (But before doing the latter, I wanted to understand more properly what was going on as disabling administrative control through the web adaptor is desirable). However, what I didn't check at that time was that the bottom service actually *was* shared with Portal. Once I realized that, I went back to the top service and clicked on the sharing button. Once I do so, it says, "This default service has not been configured for sharing with Portal. Click "Update Sharing" to enable this." When I click "Update Sharing", the service is actually shareable with the portal, and I can edit properties. Then, after waiting some time, it gives the same "The service is owned by another user" message. But this doesn't matter as this now appears in Portal and can be edited there.  (As mentioned, directly publishing to the GIS Server rather than the Portal is something I'm discouraging because of confusion like this) It does seem strange to me that I can't change items from Manager due to them being "owned" , but since they are now correctly listed on the Portal and changeable there, this seems somewhat of a moot point, and I'm just writing up this explanation in case someone else comes across this conversation and had some similar confusion.  ... View more

My suspicion is it has to do with the web adaptor not allowing administrative access to the GIS Server so that although I am using a Portal account with administrative priveleges to access the GIS Server, it's neveretheless being "downgraded" to a normal account? ... View more

Derek, I may have missed some important details. This is a new installation of 10.5, we're trying out Portal for the first time in the classroom. The instructor was used to publishing directly to the GIS Server, and instructed students to do this (publish directly to the rest services directory of the GIS Server.  Once I caught that folks were doing this, I recommended that they instead publish to the Portal (This class in question using ArcMap). Nevertheless, many students had already published to the GIS Server in such a way that they had not "shared" the published services with Portal. I myself on the GIS Server was unable to edit these sharing properties or any other properties of the services, leaving me only with the option to delete the service. Obviously this was not the correct way for students to be publishing in this configuration, but I was confused about why I could nevertheless not edit the sharing properties of the services on the GIS Server side.  ... View more