Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

Further context: Why is ArcGIS Pro not allowing me to rename favorites?   I'm using a template created with Pro 2.1.x, and my folder alias's stick. But if I have to make new templates in 2.2.x..... ... View more

If I already have many many maps, the "drop" part of the drag doesn't work until I get to the "empty space" below the list of map, which, on a small laptop screen is a PITA. Yes I can drag it on top of "Maps" in contents, but that doesn't seem intuitive because I "could"  previously drag into the maps container in Cat View while there was still space to do so. Also note I can't drag anything unless I already have an existing default map, as the maps container isn't activated until a map exists in the project, also not intuitive nor makes any sense to the novice user, whom is not going to be reading any documentation. Think beyond your skills and experience, or mine with this idea. Many users we support are "novice" and only use GIS software for a portion of their work day. Intuitive..... ... View more

- delete the web layer from portal definitely isn't ideal, especially when you have itemid dependency. What authentication mode? I feel like I would have noticed this, using SAML.... ... View more

Update: Per https://community.esri.com/thread/208657-copying-maps-from-one-pro-project-to-another  it looks like this is possible, BUT, only if you drag it to the "white space" at the bottom of your list of maps. If you have a lot of maps where you have to scroll to get the "white space" at the bottom of the maps container in cat view, this doesn't work. Also doesn't work if you're on  15 inch laptop and your resolution just doesn't show any white space at the bottom of a list of many maps. Changing resolution is not an option for vision impaired and therefor is not a workaround.  So my idea still stands! ... View more

You'll do fine with the processor, IMHO it's # of cores, not clock speed, that makes the difference in Pro. Before you make your next house/car payment, skip it and bump that RAM up to 64 GB! I'm learning that the "Can I run it" (Pro) app is a bit misleading. We had a TS case where the outcome was "The minimum just means that Pro will start". I had a bit of an urgent situation last week where I had to get IT do dig my new laptop out of the shipping warehouse to meet an immediate need: Pro on a 4 core I7 and 8 GB of RAM simply would not even complete the simplest of mapping tasks, even with all offline data. And again, my opinion, you're gonna hate that video card. Should have at least a 4GB dedicated NVIDIA. Even with this:  I'm finding that Pro is sluggish, ramps up to 65% CPU just trying (and failing) to open a layout, frequently bogs down, and, I'm discovering, the thermal fan vent on my new laptop is on the right side, where I drive the mouse: I'm literally being burned by Pro.  Here's running two instances of Pro: 1 is just "sitting" there, 1 I made the foolish mistake of opening 3 layouts at once.  If anything, upgrade your HDD to one of those class 40 or 50 NVRAM Doo-hickeys. Fast. Like a Kangaroo.....I got one of these for the laptop: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-sm961-ssd,4608.html. The 2.5 " form factor SSD's are so...legacy! ... View more

There is a very fundamental problem with this idea: feature services are the backbone of this framework. I don't see any mention of being able to create a disconnected offline copy of a SDE geodatabase to a file geodatabase. It appears that ArcGIS Server will be required to implement offline editing in the Pro environment, which is the exact opposite of customer requirements and what is being repeated in many GN threads. I have no doubt there are advantages to web services architecture, but there are costs and barriers to implementing web and GIS servers that many of your customers will never be able to overcome. There's a lot of daylight between what you believe are inherent advantages in a services architecture, and what customer business requirements are. There is no dispute that Data as a Service via web architecture is the greatest thing in the world and the sync capabilities in ArcGIS Server are smoother, more reliable, and offer more capability, but the interpretation of your blog post here is, once Arc Map is put to bed, if you want to edit SDE data offline, you need to put an ArcGIS Server in front of it. I really hope ESRI hears this: Not everyone can stand up an ArcGIS Server in order to continue their offline enterprise GDB workflows. Nor do most folks have the capacity to publish every SDE feature class as a service. My ratio is out of 10 SDE feature classes only one of those is allocated the incredibly expensive access to a GIS server.  So, many of continue to seek an answer to this question: With Pro, and Arc Map out of the support picture (2022? 3?): Will Pro users and DBA's be able to, using ArcGIS Pro, connect to a SDE database and create a local copy for editing as they can with ArcMap without ArcGIS Server in the picture?  ... View more

I'll look for the registry URL, but my 2 cents is that every single "unpark cpu" app is a virus..... ... View more

BUG-000116606 Symbology updates slow after changing the cache settings for layer in ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

No! Never use an "App" that manages core parking. They're all viruses. There's a registry change somewhere.... ... View more