Latest Contributions by CalvinHarmin

It is possible to be very controlling in how you create a mosaic dataset, but there are a lot of unintuitive things you have to be aware of and how they interact. It is, in general, not necessary for imagery mosaics from a single source. I would suggest starting over from scratch with a new gdb and new empty mosaic dataset. You barely need to change any of the default options when creating a new empty mosaic dataset, just pick the right coordinate system you want to use. As long as all your tif's are from the same source and just have 3 bands, you don't even need to specify # of bands or pixel type. Once the mosaic dataset is created, right click it and choose Add Rasters... Specify the Input Data as 'Folder' and navigate to the proper folder with tiles DO NOT create pyramids DO NOT calculate statistics Neither of these do anything constructive for us since we don't stretch image tiles -- we will be creating overviews instead of pyramids. UPDATE OVERVIEWS option -- check that box! That will basically put this on "easy mode" and streamline the entire overview generation process instead of manually setting up "define overview" and also manually running the "build overview" steps. --- Try this basic workflow and see if you get proper results. You can then experiment with changing different aspects of the mosaic dataset if you feel that you need to, but often for imagery mosaic this should be good to go for general use. Don't forget to turn off default Stretch symbology settings for rasters (if so enabled) when you add the mosaic dataset to Pro.  ... View more

This may only be relevant to users who utilize power environment 'solutions': I did a different method that I would recommend for others that use power environment 'solutions' with many flows that all use the same connection reference, rather than going to each flow and changing the connection reference for each action.  Instead of creating a new connection reference in each flow, create a new connection at the power environment level. Then, update the connection reference at the solution level to point to the new (duplicate) connection. That way, if you have many flows using the same solution connection reference, you only have to update it in that one place, which is one of the benefits of connections and references when using solutions. ... View more

That's very well said, and I'm surprised you aren't in the Administrative side of things since that's precisely what I see as our organization's de facto Cityworks Administrator. I was the lone GIS worker in our org in 2021 when I was graciously 'handed' Cityworks out of the blue. It became my responsibility to be the implementation project manager, and that turned into managing it indefinitely. Five years later, I am now the Assistant IT Director, but we still don't have a dedicated Cityworks Admin, nor is it in our five year plan... I'm still managing it, barely, but I think we're suffering for it. There may be a breaking point coming sometime soon where management will realize our people aren't collecting data in a manner that actually feeds their analytics pipe dream. It requires more eyes and more hammers beating concepts into heads constantly; more training, re-training. Investing in 'power users' in different work groups to serve as liasons for proper methods and keeping eyes out for efficiencies or improvements to workflows.  I am wondering if OP is in a similar boat where their org has not applied the resources necessary to really get the most benefit out of the platform. Choosing an asset management system - like most enterprise systems - is a harrowing gauntlet of compromises. Cityworks is the devil I know so I can complain out of one side of my mouth while supporting it from the other side. ... View more

With enough time and effort, it must be possible, but it would basically be a development job even if you're not primarily coding. So, my initial question for you is: How many staff do you already have dedicated to the task of administering/managing Cityworks AMS? And then, do you have a plan to dedicate an additional staff member to developing a new system? Is this driven partly by the forced migration from Cityworks AMS --> Trimble Unity Maintain? ... View more

@RyanUthoff thanks for this idea I think that's a fantastic option for federated Enterprise instances. If anyone on 12.x can share a screenshot of what that About > Patches page looks like I would be curious to know! ... View more

This is a shot in the dark but is sa just the super-admin user for the SQL Server instance? Is it possible there is another user/schema that is the owner of the enterprise gdb? I recall when creating egdb's in SQL Server there are a couple different ways you can set up the schema model and maybe although sa can see everything, it may not behave the same as the actual database owner or other users with read/write permissions enabled within Arc- ecosystem.  ... View more

I can definitely see the confusion and desire to know more about potential free connectors to enable you to work with Arcgis* resources, whether that may be Portal, ArcGIS Online, or otherwise.  To my knowledge, the Survey123 connectors remain free (non-premium). However, as you can see, the other main Arcgis connectors for ArcGIS Online or Enterprise are premium connectors.  Further, the ability to make actions using the built-in HTTP action - meaning any use of REST API calls via HTTP actions within Power Automate - is also a premium feature.  So besides the Survey123 connectors, I'm not sure what other methods are available for interacting with Arcgis resources that are not locked behind a premium power automate license. I hope someone else may be able to follow up with more context, and maybe there are actually ways to do it. That said, a single power automate premium license is fairly economical (~$15/month for my local government tenant), but the red tape in your - or anyone's - business use case may a daunting task to get  through if you have to go through layers of organizational, financial, or IT/security gauntlets. ... View more

That makes perfect sense! I wasn't sure if you were using the 'unified' Light Grey Canvas or the 'sandwich' version with the split reference/base. Sandwich is a great term for that  😄 ... View more

I'm curious about your goal for exporting and analyzing/displaying these results. Is it only for your own internal purposes of reviewing the data? Is the Survey123 'Analyze' tab (which I believe shows descriptions rather than codes values) too limited for your needs? ... View more

Hi Dennis, would you be able to paste your calculation expression here so we can see it and it might provide more context or clues to what might be happening? In my experience there can also be some unintuitive behavior when using subtypes, since each subtype can have their own domain and default values settings independent from the other subtypes and independent from the 'Data Source' field settings. I might be able to try to reproduce your calculation on my end and see if I'm having the same behavior.  ... View more

When you say “interface” are you thinking of an ArcGIS Enterprise or Online experience builder app? That opens up plenty of opportunities to filter these particular records and display them within that kind of interface in their own special way. ... View more

After we established our proof of concept after setting up the Azure SAML settings, I put a pin in the project temporarily as we have had to tackle some other projects. So unfortunately I don't have much in the way of further testing or "aha's" to share.  But on my end I did notice some new avenues for testing: When you have a SAML login configured and enabled, you will see some new options for adding users. One of these is : This lets you send an email to individual users, or any number of users via a list (CSV) with the fields of Email, Role, and User Type, that you can specify. The user gets an email with a link to basically log in with only the SAML login option and you can pre-configure the Role and User Type with CSV, or, individually, you can go ahead and configure the normal new user options for Add-On licenses, groups, etc.  However, after you invite with this method, the user account doesn't automatically show up in the Members list. The user only shows up after the user logs in. So I'm not sure how much that helps besides just notifying the user that they should login. You would still have to transfer content, assign groups and licenses if you didn't already, etc.  Regarding Transfer Content, there is an interesting new option I didn't notice before where you can 'Transfer member' (limited documentation) from one existing member account to another account. This includes the ability to transfer user Type, Role, and add-on licenses, and Content! However, strangely... it doesn't seem to transfer the user's group assignments to the other user in my quick test. So that may need some testing to see the limitations of what is- and isn't- transferred.  I have heard elsewhere that ESRI support may be able to help transfer ESRI community and training records, but I don't know if that's true or how that would work if you have many users you want to transfer records like that. So, in conclusion... you may have the best experience if you can retain your existing user accounts, and have the SAML login create a different username. Then you could at least perform certain 'transfer' options from one user to another, but again it doesn't seem to be complete in terms of tranferrring everything  😞  So that would need some more testing.  ... View more