Latest Contributions by DerekLaw

Hi there, This functionality will be available in the next Web AppBuilder Developer Edition update which will be released very soon, likely by the end of March (or sooner). We are in final certification testing for it. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Randy, I'm not exactly sure what your workflow is, as the description in your post is somewhat vague. I suppose you could create a web map that references secured web services, then share the web map with "everyone". In which case, the web map would be visible 'publicly' in your Portal for ArcGIS instance. Therefore, you would not need to be a named user to see and access the web map. But when an end user attempts to view the web map, the secured web services would prompt the user to provide credentials to see their content. Is this what you are looking for? Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Lucas, "I understand that if I create a map using Portal, I can make that site available to anyone in my organization without additional named user accounts.  However, if I only want certain people or groups in my organization to see the map, each person needs to be a named user.  Is that right?" Yes, that is correct. "To keep the maps locked down so they're only accessible by the appropriate Division, I'd basically need everyone in the Department (>6,000 employees) to have their own name user accounts?" I would suggest that you discuss your requirements with your local Esri account manager to assist in addressing this requirement. Another approach you may want to consider: instead of having your Portal end users go to the Portal website to find map information products, you could aggregate your Portal content into 7 groups (one per Division). Then leverage the Group Gallery function or embed the Group into a web page used by each Division. In this way, your Portal end users would only be aware of the content in the Group that concerns them and would not even be aware of the content in the other Groups. Please see this help doc "Share groups" for more info. Hope this helps, ... View more

@Matthew, "I'm hoping that someone can clear up a point for me. One of the pros with Portal is that since it can sit behind the firewall, Portal is available for everyone in an organization to search and use public items (public in the sense that's it's public for everyone in the organization) without a license, but with ArcGIS Online that feature is not possible....is that correct?" Your assertion is correct. If you use ArcGIS Online, your items will have to be either shared with "everyone" - it which can there is open access, or if you want to restrict access then an ArcGIS Online named user account is required. @Adam, "I can't explain Portal for ArcGIS because I am not using it yet, but I would check before I made the assumption that it is able to be used by anyone without a login to search and use "public" items.  Is "public a choice within Portal? .. IF Esri allows it, Portal installed behind your firewall could hypothetically be available to users without a login for items made "public"." Allow me to clarify. If you have Portal for ArcGIS configured in your organization, and you set a Portal item to be shared with "everyone", then yes - people within your organization (e.g., in your intranet network) should be able to access these items without requiring a named user login. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Christine, Apologies for the late reply, I somehow did not get notifications on updates to this thread until recently. Your questions: Q1) ... regarding free named users with ArcGIS Server: Are these per license? Ex: If we have 2 Advanced Enterprise licenses, do we get 2 x 50 free named users? A1) Yes. In the case above, if you have 2 ArcGIS for Server Enterprise Advanced licenses, you will get 2 x 50 named users for use with Portal for ArcGIS. Q2) How about staging licenses? A2) FYI: ArcGIS for Server and Portal for ArcGIS are licensed differently. Server is licensed based on cores, while Portal is licensed based on # of named users. For Server, you would need to get a Server staging license. For Portal, it is permissible to duplicate the Named User set for the staging environment of the Portal. So you can set-up a "production" Portal and a separate "staging" Portal, as long as both Portals are using the same named users. Hope this helps ... View more

Hi Jon, Apologies for the late reply, I somehow did not get notifications on updates to this thread until recently. Your question: Q: The "Managing access to your portal" page you mention above uses the terms: Users with an ArcGIS organizational account Members of the ArcGIS organization Are these terms synonymous with "named users"? A: Yes - both these terms are referring to "named users" for either ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS. Hope this helps ... View more

Hi Tina, > Is there any way to do this without the use of portal? No. You will need to federate your ArcGIS Server site with Portal for ArcGIS if you want to leverage SAML authentication for it. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi there, Please review this help topic, Managing portal connections from ArcGIS for Desktop—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi there, FYI, the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex currently has built-in support for 23 languages, Localization - ArcGIS Viewer for Flex To add support for additional languages, you will have to localize both the application programming interface (API) and the Viewer. This will require some custom development work. Further localization - ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Tina, At the 10.3 release, ArcGIS for Server Standard and Advanced includes Portal for ArcGIS. Portal for ArcGIS supports SAML 2.0 authentication. Learn more in this help topic: Configuring a SAML-compliant identity provider with your portal—Portal for ArcGIS | ArcGIS for Server You can federate your Server site with Portal, enabling your Server site to leverage SAML. Federating an ArcGIS Server site with your portal—Documentation | ArcGIS for Server Hope this helps, ... View more

@Anthony: We do have a matrix in the help doc that lists what you can and can't do based on your role type in Portal. It can be found here: Managing access to your portal‌ . Please look under the subsection titled: Understanding access privileges. As for a matrix that lists all the different apps as well ... good idea, we'll have to work on that. @Kreuzrsk: If you read the Pre-UC Q&A question that was referenced in Drew's post above, there was a note at the bottom of the answer: "NOTE: The License Entitlement description above is for non-ELA and non-Education program ArcGIS for Server Licenses. We are still working on the License Entitlement program for ELA and Education customers." Please contact your account manager for specific questions about your ELA license. Hope this helps, Derek ... View more

Hi Anthony, Good to hear from you! I hope all is well on your end and it sounds like you're working on an exciting project. As Drew indicated, at the Esri UC 2014, some key announcements were made regarding ArcGIS for Server licensing: - At 10.3, ArcGIS for Server Standard will include Portal for ArcGIS; - At 10.3, ArcGIS for Server users will get additional named users depending on their edition (Workgroup vs Enterprise) and level (Standard vs. Advanced). See the link in Drew's post for details. These are extra named users in addition to the named users that you get with the ArcGIS for Desktop entitlement (e.g., you get a named user for every license of ArcGIS for Desktop). As a general rule of thumb, Portal for ArcGIS items (e.g., web map, apps, web services, etc) that are shared with "everyone" can be accessed without a named user account. In your case, it sounds like you will be using enterprise logins for authentication, which means that any member of your Windows Active Directory or LDAP should be able to access and use these public Portal items. In the case of using the JavaScript application templates and the forthcoming Web AppBuilder (in Portal for ArcGIS 10.3), as long as the finished web apps are shared with "everyone", your end users will not need a named user account to access and work with them. With regards to Collector for ArcGIS, yes - a named user is required to login to work with Portal for ArcGIS. As for the Esri Maps for SharePoint web part: someone who is authoring the web part in SharePoint will need to be a named user, but a named user is not needed to access the finished SharePoint page (that the web part resides on). If you have additional questions, please send me an email to discuss further. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Melissa, If you've configured the ArcGIS Administrator dialog to connect to your internal Portal for ArcGIS instance, ArcGIS Desktop should be able to connect to the Portal. There is nothing that I am aware of that would cause an issue. Please contact Esri Tech Support and open an incident so they can investigate further. Sorry. ... View more

Hi Melissa, In the help topic I referenced, after step 7 - did you perform step 8 correctly? After you add the URL of the portal and click OK to save, in the Manage ArcGIS Portal Connections dialog box, did you click the Connect button? Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Adarsh, But can, if other factors permit, Google or related advertisements be integrated to a ArcGIS portal ? No - this type of workflow is not supported with Portal for ArcGIS. Hope this helps, ... View more