Allow ArcGIS Solutions to Be Used in Disconnected ArcGIS Enterprise Deployments

[Timothy]

ArcGIS Solutions are a great way to quickly set up useful workflows. But right now, they can’t be used in ArcGIS Enterprise environments that are disconnected from the internet.

Many organizations work in secure or remote locations where internet access isn’t allowed. It would be very helpful if Esri made it possible to download ArcGIS Solutions and install them manually in these offline environments.

This would save time, reduce setup errors, and help disconnected users benefit from Esri’s best practices.

[EdenPunter]

Our organisation would also benefit from this as we are entirely disconnected from the internet. +1 for this!

[BrendaButton]

It seems that all Esri cares about is deploying solutions that only fit their arcgis online connectivity model, they just don't seem to worry much about the little guys on disconnected deployments anymore.

[Joshua-Young]

This probably sounds crazy, but I think Esri should make an app, be it a web app or computer app, that allows you to modify or create what I will call solution packages. Keep the current solutions website and functionality but add a download link for each solution.

Having an app to open, modify, save, and deploy solution packages would meet the needs of people needing offline support, allow exploring the solution before committing to deploying, and allow organizations to customize solutions before deploying.

I think the app should be able to do the following:

1. Work with online or offline environments.
2. Reproject layers to a different coordinate system.
3. Remove components that you do not plan to use or are not supported by your environment. This could be removing an entire item or being able to modify apps to remove parts of the app.
4. Remove components that you do not have licensing for (seems to be becoming more of an issue with new solutions).
5. Substitute solution layers with your existing layers.
6. Create your own custom solutions to share with other organizations or deployments you have.

[ChrisFox]

Thank you for submitting this idea. We are working on adding support for this in a future release of Enterprise. I will update this idea when we have more clarity on when this will be available.