Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

This is really perplexing me. Steps to reproduce: Create a feature-service check-out (Create Local Copy for Editing) using any combination of client/server from 10.1 through 10.3.1. Make a few edits, save and stop editing. Trash your ArcMap document that referenced the checked-out edit. (This is the part where you reproduce a user error such as catastrophic computer failure, or they closed the map without saving it). Of course, you've been down this road before so you know where the check-out feature service data is in .....\ArcGIS\FeatureEdits...... Right click on the geodatabase that held the checked-out feature data and your previous edits, and attempt to synch back to the SDE database that the FS sources from using either the Distributed Geodatabase toolbar or the Arc Toolbox Tool. Failed: version not found....but it's there! I've tried this after cleaning out ALL OTHER versions, so there was no question of what version/replica to synch. Same error. I can check in/out/in/out using Distributed Database tools hitting SDE directly all day long, move the checkout data to another computer, check it in, no problem. So how do you recover a checked-out feature service geodatabase following some error or issue that caused the loss of the original ArcMap document? This happens to me a surprising number of times, a user for some reason will lose the map, either the computer/network just crashes or they close the map without saving thinking they could just start editing from the local-copy geodatabase the next day. ... View more

Time-aware feature service not working. Desktop and Server 10.3.1. Following these instructions Configure time settings—ArcGIS Online Help | ArcGIS  and these Visualizing time-aware data in a web map | ArcGIS Blog I am not able to get a real-time-aware service to recognized any time range other than the one with which it was published. The service is sourced from an SDE feature class where animal GPS collar data is auto-updated every two hours, and the SQL/SDE part of this works flawlessly: every two hours, locations from the store-on-board collar get uploaded to the SDE table. Never fails once (vectronics). So I've created a MXD, with the time settings as such: and verified that time-aware features work via the animation tool: Note that I've highlighted the date range which is currently in the database table. I publish it as a map service: And yes, the REST info indicates this is a time-aware service. And therein lies the problem. When I add this to Portal, the only options for time settings are whatever date range is available when published. I can, of course, click on the start and end times and adjust the dates, which shows, at least, the time-aware data is coming through. The issue here is that when viewed in Portal, the time-aware data should show the full date range, not the date range that was present when published. This is a public-safety application, and telling users they have to click click click click apply to see the latest data instead of just "open this portal map" has not gone over well. ... View more

I've gotten Data Reviewer for Server 10.3.1 installed and working successfully, but the ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Server Concepts is a little sparse on how to use it. From Introducing ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Server… | ArcGIS Blog I see I can access the reviewer workspace and run batch jobs, but how to I connect Desktop Data Reviewer to this server extension? I'm pretty familiar with Data Reviewer on Desktop, not seeing how using the Server Extension improved  my workflow. ArcGIS Data Reviewer Apps mentions Report and Dashboard Widgets, but, alas, only in Flex. Installing anything related to Flex is a fireable offence is most IT shops these days, given the massive security holes in Flex. Are there any Java DR Widgets? Where does one get them? How can I connect and reviewer a feature service to this data reviewer server? Any examples out there on how this works? Thanks! ... View more

This is really just to help me "bookmark" all of the SSL issues, as we're having many of them, hope it helps other folks out! Secure SSL services in Web App builder failing. ArcGIS Portal 10.3 - SSL Certificate for internal network QUESTIONS Includes a little-known REST checker that test certificate status: cool! https://%3Cserver.domain.com%3E:7443/arcgis/sharing/checkUrl.jsp?url=%3CinsertURLthatisboundtothecertyouneedtotest ArcGIS Portal 10.3 - SSL Certificate for internal network QUESTIONS Poster can't seem to get a cert working, explored using their own CA server Setting up SSL with a signed certificate in a multi-tier server architecture Take home message: use proper DNS Aliasing! SSL and esri/request Seems that enabling "HTTPS" only causes some app errors downstream Anyone else using SSL with AWS EC2 and elastic load balancer? Don't use Amazon ECW if you need PKI! Sharing Web GIS Services? Always enable TLS | ArcGIS Blog Another test of SSL functionality SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs) how to use portalpy with win-authenticated SSL PKI- Portal doesn't work with python ssl certificate to publish the geoprocessing tool Enabling SSL breaks GP Tools ArcGIS Server with Reverse Proxy using IIS and SSL The horrors of reverse proxy 40694 - Set up a reverse proxy with ArcGIS 10.1 for Server on IIS ARR with SSL How many SSL certificates does ArcGIS Server need? Certs must use FQDN Issues enabling SSL and accessing with HTTPS Another confirmation that wild card certs don't work Is it necessary to enable SSL if the ArcGIS Web Adaptor forwards request 2 ServerSite SSL is required to encrypt passwords Creating SSL Certificates for ArcGIS Server - do i need to use AGS Admin Interface CA Signed SSL Installation with Web Adpater on IIS 7.5 remember, ArcGIS Server is a separate Apache Web Server: Needs a trusted cert as well! AGIS Cert needs to be signed by trusted CA Latency on get token request via SSL (ArgGIS server 10.1 SP1) SSL kills performace. What a surprise..... Wildcard SSL installation help! Adding unsecured services This is a big problem: If organization requires HTTPS only, can't consume HTTP content in portal PKI auth. In portal with AD How to connect to a secure ArcGIS Server using HTTPS and a PKI (X509) Certificate Federating an ArcGIS Server site with your portal ... View more

Mapping and Charting 10.3.1 Breaks Python, beware! On a freshly-reimaged OS install, with a fresh install of Arc 10.3.1 and Mapping and Charting 10.3.1 with all features enabled, including Maritime Charting, you will no longer be able to import arcpy. Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:03:49) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> import arcpy Warning (from warnings module):   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.3\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 157     warnings.warn("Failed importing {0}".format(filename)) UserWarning: Failed importing C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\MaritimeCharting\Desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\NauticalRound.py Further investigation reveals the following is failing: from ctypes import cdll, CDLL, CFUNCTYPE, c_int, c_double, c_wchar_p class CFunctions() :   _dll = CDLL('SymbolizeRepsLib.dll')   prototype = CFUNCTYPE(c_int, c_int, c_double, c_wchar_p, c_wchar_p, c_wchar_p)   paramFlags = (1,),(1,),(1,),(1,),(1,),                         _round = prototype(('PLTSRound', cdll.SymbolizeRepsLib), paramFlags)   def round2(self, rr, depth):   integerString =  create_unicode_buffer(32)   fractionalString =  create_unicode_buffer(32)   valueString =  create_unicode_buffer(32)   rc = self._round(c_int(rr), c_double(depth), integerString, fractionalString, valueString)   return (str(integerString.value), str(fractionalString.value), str(valueString.value)) Which results in: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\MaritimeCharting\Desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\NauticalRound.py", line 3, in <module>     class CFunctions() :   File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\MaritimeCharting\Desktop10.3\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\NauticalRound.py", line 4, in CFunctions     _dll = CDLL('SymbolizeRepsLib.dll')   File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 365, in __init__     self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found My suspicion is that the attempt to call SymbolizeRepsLib.dll is failing, as that requires an elevated account, which, following recent events, is not a privilege that many ArcGIS users now have when using Mapping and Charting.  ... View more

There appear to be many separate ESRI Ideas requests for this feature: Allow Google Analytics tracking code in AGOL Item Details HTML Editor; The ability to track the website usage using Google analytics (similar to flex Google analytics widget; Google Analytics tracking for ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Google Analytics tracking for ArcGIS.com items? which have a total of 460 points. Does that rise to the threshold of getting changed to "Under Consideration"? Seems like if AGOL content was made more attractive to CMS managers (they're VERY VERY interested in GA statistics), more AGOL content would be consumed by CMS applications, ESRI makes more money, and we get more job security. See? I'm helping you make $$$ ESRI!!! ... View more

Currently one can access detailed useage statistics from an item description page or the organizations main report page: It would be handy to be able to grab that raw data, programatically, via the rest API, or as a direct download via the org page (e.g. download usage stats for all items, listed items, etc...). As AGOL becomes more mature, it is being incorporated into targeted audience content development, time-aware web media campaigns, etc...and it is increasingly hard to get web content managers to agree to consume AGOL content when they can't easily access use numbers. ... View more