topic Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation in ArcGIS Pro Questions

MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:30:50 GMT

I see that the new Pro annotation is not yet supported in mobile map packages. Is that on the road map?

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkBockenhauer — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 01:52:48 GMT

It is a known Enhancement request.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:48:09 GMT

Any progress on this, Esri? Would it be more sexy to designate it as a mobile client friendly technology, such as label tiles?

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

Robert_LeClair — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:31:03 GMT

In reviewing the AGP 2.3 (internal) Help Doc, topology, annotation, and route layers are not supported in *.mmpk's. As Mark referenced above, it's a known enhancement request - not sure where it falls in the Dev process though.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:39:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply. There are genuine cartographic principles at issue here. Representations were also an attempt to address them some time ago, and what happened to that? Perhaps cross-platform, web/mobile mapping is still not considered a place for serious map makers.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

Robert_LeClair — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:40:48 GMT

Sorry - correction to my last response. The internal help redirected to the 2.2 help. According to What's New at 2.3 - "Upgraded annotation can be packaged in Mobile Map Packages" - so yes!

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:44:38 GMT

Rejoice! I look forward to my first demo to my Electric clients!

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkBockenhauer — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:54:50 GMT

Mark,

Still, in the coming soon category. While ArcGIS Pro 2.3 will write annotation into a mobile map package, we still need to do the work client side (Esri Runtime) and release new versions of the apps (Explorer, Navigator, etc..) that can read the annotation.

The Esri Runtime is schedule for completion in March, updated apps will be released soon after..

Also, you will need to create your annotation with ArcGIS Pro 2.3 and future versions. Prior annotation is not supported for packaging in a Mobile Map.

Mark

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

JosephTauer — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:27:56 GMT

ESRI Mark,

Curious to know if there has been any recent progress and/or news on the updated ESRI apps to be able to read upgraded ArcGIS pro 2.3 annotation? Thanks...

Based on the What's New in 2.3, I was excited to upgrade our annotation file(s) to test how this would work on a mmpk, but didn't know ESRI apps can't read it yet.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:29:45 GMT

I just got back from the DevSummit, and the word is that Runtime release 100.5 is supposed to support annotation and reference scales, and is due out the end of March.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkBockenhauer — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:39:08 GMT

Joseph,

We need to release the apps on Runtime 100.5, it's difficult to give a precise timeline for when each App (Navigator, Explorer) and OS (Android, IOS, Windows) will be released on ArcGIS Runtime 100.5, but we are actively working on it.

Mark

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

EricBader2 — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:35:52 GMT

Hey Mark!

We have Pro 2.3.2 and Runtime 100.5. We are trying to use Pro to create MMPKs with Annotation Layers, to be used in a 100.5 app, and Pro is giving us the dreaded...

"The layer type is not supported in runtime content:"...<the annotation layer name>

I thought anno was now supported in Runtime 100.5?

Thanks for any assistance!

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:39:00 GMT

You have to convert the annotation to Pro annotation. I use a Python script that creates a file geodatabase and performs the conversion before calling the create MMPK tool.

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

EricBader2 — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:53:34 GMT

Great, thanks Mark. I missed this helpful piece of info in the Help docs. Can you point me to where that resides?

Thanks again!

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MarkCederholm — Thu, 02 May 2019 22:58:02 GMT

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/sharing/overview/mobile-map-package.htm

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

EricBader2 — Thu, 02 May 2019 23:00:35 GMT

Gold, man. Thanks!

Re: MMPK: Pro Annotation

MichaelVolz — Fri, 03 May 2019 03:05:08 GMT

So if you are a shop that uses both ArcMap and Pro, once you upgrade annotation for this new functionality available in Pro, the annotation will be completely unusable in ArcMap? Makes it kind of difficult to upgrade without at least read access in ArcMap.