Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

BUG-000110910 ArcGIS Pro locks up when changing symbology  ... View more

This could be avoided if https://community.esri.com/ideas/12258 is implemented. ... View more

Yup. All the mandatory ones. Mandatory as in there's no choice, discussion, option, or request to not have them installed.  ... View more

The latest M$ Update also broke symantec AV. Unfortunately for most of us, rolling back M$ security updates is not an option in organizations that employ security models.  ... View more

Anything coming from a SDE source essentially shuts Pro down, whereas ArcMap does not exhibit anywhere near the same slow performance with the same data. I think the idea has significant merit and isn't wanting the software to be "faster" just for "faster's sake": the user, whom is using data not in a sanitized test lab, like many others, is experiencing serious performance issues (that aren't present in Arc Map) that make switching to Pro a barrier.  ... View more

The easiest way to do this without a lot of custom code on your front end (which will have to change everytime there's a backend change)...would be to add a trigger to pull the coordinates out of the geography (or geometry) object. This gives you a permanently populated and updated XY field.  CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[tigger] ON [dbo].[feature class] after INSERT,UPDATE NOT FOR REPLICATION AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; UPDATE p SET SHAPE = CASE WHEN i.SHAPE IS NOT NULL THEN p.SHAPE ELSE Geography::STPointFromText('POINT(' + CAST(p.LON AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + CAST(p.LAT AS VARCHAR(20)) + ')', 4269) END, LON = CASE WHEN p.SHAPE IS NULL THEN p.LON ELSE p.SHAPE.Long END, LAT = CASE WHEN p.SHAPE IS NULL THEN p.LAT ELSE p.SHAPE.Lat END FROM feature class AS p INNER JOIN inserted AS i ON i.globalid = p.globalid ; END‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ ... View more

"I think Pro communicates with the network more." is an understatement. Think I found out why every single change to a symbology property takes forever and locks up Pro: Simply changing a symbol from "ArcGIS 2D: Circle 1" to "ArcGIS 2D Circle 3" resulted in 10,475 separate TCP calls evenly split between send, receive, and copy events which took 00:00:02.10 seconds to execute; the same exact operation in ArcMap? 0 TCP calls, 00:00:00.23 seconds to execute. Sometimes the delay is several minutes. It appears that with every symbology change, Pro is re-downloading the entire layer from the source. Why? Arcmap doesn't do this (and isn't as slow at common operations such as symbol styling). Making pure SQL queries to the same data in a variety of clients other than Pro is near-instantaneous. This is regardless of the layer cache settings applied in Pro (I tried all of them, same barely-usable response).  ... View more

very handy! I wonder if this can be mixed with some other python tools for archiving and downloading between AGOL and on-premise databases to achieve a true "two-way" sync without having to rely on flaky portal or pay for a data interop license.  ... View more

I think the root of user frustration, perfectly exemplified by the last users post, is: In the future, Arcmap will be gone/unsupported; Pro is the replacement; Many users are dependent on a wide variety of Arcmap tools, functions, and workflows, and have already spent valuable time and effort advocating for their presence in ; Pro does not support many of (3) above; The knee jerk response is "Well what exactly doesn't Pro support?" which then requires taking time out of an already busy day to exhaustively demonstrate in intricate detail what exactly Pro doesn't do that Arc Map does; Whereupon the user, scratching their head in wonderment, asks themselves "It's already supported in the current software? Why do we need to re-justify it in the replacement?" Maybe I'm just thinking like a dinosaur, but back when I worked in software, if the customer wanted a rainbow unicorn as the splash screen while the software started, by god, they got a rainbow unicorn as the splash screen....we didn't argue with the customer and try to convince them that what they really needed was a grumpy cat splash screen.... ... View more

Not sure if this is possible with the way label placement is baked into Maplex, but an easy solution here is to simply expose the label engine to CartoCSS-style editor, which would allow complete control over the style, as well as a preview of what it's going to look like without having to generate tiles. Or, allow editing of the json within the tile package before it's uploaded. Those of us that use AGOL (Only) for tile hosting don't have the luxury of editing the json post-publication.  ... View more

For everyone that complains about my use of all CAPS: " INFO is case sensitive and requires all parameters, data set names and variable (item) names to be typed in UPPERCASE" ... View more

More detail, from Pro, when I select "Copy Python Command", note the first few letters (extra dots).... arcpy..DownloadService(True, False, ... View more