Latest Contributions by BrianFlood

hi andrew that's a cool workaround for custom searches in the AGOL apps until something better comes out, thanks. we're already experimenting with some lightweight services for AGOL Org accounts using Arc2Earth, so I decided to build your workaround into a full service without the need for an ArcGIS Server. You point the service back at any Feature Service you have hosted in your AGOL account, set a few options and voila, simple search on multiple feature services. some more info will end up here: http://bit.ly/1cwXu84 cheers brian ... View more

you could also look at https://www.arc2box.com for an automated backup to DropBox cheers brian ... View more

fwiw, several hours after all accounts stopped authenticating, everything started working again yet http://status.arcgis.com/ showed no issues at all. shrug. esri - you are asking developers to build products and services around this platform, more transparency is needed when things go wrong or break internally. AGOL is a complex system, I can accept things like this will occur in the future but it would be a lot easier to deal with if there was some feedback here in the forums or via some paid support channel cheers brian ... View more

we're testing a new integration service between ArcGIS Online and DropBox (https://www.arc2box.com ) and one of the features we wanted to add was using DropBox as a front-end to an AGOL account. Arc2Box would mimic your Org's folder structure in DropBox and then copy over any files that you have access to. Likewise, when new items are shared with you, they would appear in your DropBox folders automatically (which is great for desktop as well as mobile access).  From the desktop, you could easily drag-drop new items to DropBox and they would be added to your AGOL account. ArcGIS Online is great as an organizational structure for your data. DropBox is great for synchronizing files between that central location and all of your computer devices.  let me know if you want to try this out ... View more

this is still busted, need a fix asap esri I noticed a new login screen when beginning the AGOL OAuth login, has something else changed? anyone else using OAuth having major problems? ... View more

we're looking for AGOL users to beta test Arc2Box.  Backup, Sync and Alerts for your Feature Services Backup - Daily exports of your feature service data and atatchments to DropBox. Shapefiles for now but we'll support whatever formats ESRI adds in the future Sync - Near realtime edit detection for your services. Finds insert/updates/deletes and creates an Edit History that can be used for Undo/Redo. Sync WebHooks can be configured to receive notification of all edits, good for integrating with your own workflow or databases Alerts - Configurable filters that are triggered when edits occur. You can filter by edit type, feature attribute or by spatial proximity to another feature service (ex: "Alert me when a complaint is added within 200 feet of my School Zone layer"). Notifications can be Emails, SMS messages or Zapier subscriptions for easy integration with hundreds of other web services. cheers brian ... View more

thanks to the esri folks who helped out... fwiw, the issue was using the portal name instead of the portal urlKey in the Url used to call the service. I had thought they were interchangeable but it appears the urlKey is the preferred method in the REST api, use the Portal Self endpoint to get both values: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/#/Portal_Self/02r3000001m7000000/ use "urlKey" instead of "name" ex: http://sdl3.maps.arcgis.com vs http://sdltesting3.maps.arcgis.com ... View more

I'm starting to see Refresh Tokens expiring. This is what is described in the docs but, as patrick explained above, this should not happen. If this is the intended flow, how are we suppose to get a new refresh token? I've never seen another OAuth2 api that expired it's refresh tokens... fwiw, do calls to refresh the access token sometimes return different refresh_tokens? error: '{"error":{"code":400,"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"refresh_token expired","message":"invalid_request","details":[]}}' docs - https://developers.arcgis.com/en/authentication/user-php-other.html relevant section (no mention on how to get a new refresh token): "The refresh token can be used to obtain subsequent access tokens. Access tokens are short-lived. The app can get a new access_token by using the refresh_token obtained above. The lifetime of the refresh token that is returned by this call is controllable by the app. The default expiry time for the refresh token returned by this flow is two weeks. Using this flow, you can request a refresh token that is valid for a longer period by passing an expiration (in minutes) parameter during authorization. The refresh token that is returned may be valid for a shorter period than requested based on the maximum expiry time set by the user's organization or the platform." ... View more

hi woodybwp agreed, the best option for one-off downloads is definitely a FGDB w/attachments embedded. I believe esri is working on this right now. fwiw, the attachments that are copied to DropBox have the feature Id embedded in the name of the file. also, in the next revision, the geojson backup file also includes the attachment IDs/urls directly in the properties collection. We got some great feedback and are revamping the Arc2Box service to include some additional features that will help for continuous syncing of feature edits made in ArcGIS Online (via any of it's apps/apis etc). We will still use the AGOL export facilities for shp backup (and the FGDB when that's ready) but the main backup/sync engine now uses another method to continually find changes to the feature service layers (inserts/updates/deletes/attachments). The changes are then exposed as edit feeds that can be monitored by desktop apps (or any app) to keep their local datasources synchronized. Near realtime access to the edit feed also opens up a whole host of other services as well, but more on that coming soon. cheers brian ... View more

hi we're going to move to an open beta very soon, in the mean time if you want to test the service please send me an email directly (bFlood at arc2earth.com ) We're moving some of the internal parts around to make it more efficient for multiple Org users to backup the same data. We also want to support different backup file types (shp, geojson, kml, FGDB etc) At the same time we're layering some new functionality over the top of the service, more info to come next week cheers brian ... View more

fwiw, it appears the proper query syntax is "access: account" and not "access: org" cheers brian ... View more

if you are looking for on-demand or continuous backup of your Feature Service data/attachments, you could try out this new service: http://www.arc2box.com It connects to your AGOL account and exports your data to your DropBox account. It's free now during beta testing but we're targeting a low subscription price ($9/month) cheers brian ... View more