Latest Contributions by CalvinHarmin

‎09-17-2025

I find when diagnosing the warnings like you're seeing where domain coded value is not being recognized in a selected feature: For that layer in your map, if you open the attribute table, there is an option to specifically show domain CODE values instead of DESCRIPTION values. This also changes the behavior of what you see in the attribute pane (but not pop-ups, I believe; you have to change that field value display behavior separately by using an arcade expression to show the domain code value rather than description). This at least helps you see what the 'actual' value of that field is. Changing domain description values in the domain menu should automatically reflect the new description value in your attribute table/attribute pane, unless ArcGIS Pro is being glitchy you may want to close and reopen the project. However, if you change any domain code values, you have to manually update features that need to have that new code value applied.

‎09-15-2025

Update: https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-configure-smtp-servers-in-arcgis-portal-for-test-000033359 I added a test smtp email account to add to my Portal (11.1 in my case) to see what may change. The behavior DOES change in at least 1 way. Although creation of a new account still requires you to enter a password, when performing the password reset step I mentioned above, as the Admin, you no longer see the popup with temporary password information when resetting a user password. Instead, the user is directly sent a boilerplate email with login instructions with the temporary password: I searched around in the Portal Settings but I don't see where this boilerplate email can be customized. In my case, I'm not sure that this is good enough since my users sometimes are being onboarded to our org and have no idea what GIS is and maybe have never even used web maps much. I try to put in some extra information in my emails to new users to give more context to why they are receiving this and what this account is to be used for. For example, we use Portal user store as our single sign-on for Cityworks. I add important context that this account is what is used for Cityworks login, or other secured GIS resources, etc. I often customize the boilerplate email a little bit if I know the user has particular use cases. It appears an idea for customized emails for AGOL has been open for many years and it doesn't seem to have any official response. So I assume Portal is in the same boat. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-ideas/customizing-arcgis-online-administrative-and/idi-p/1029626/page/2#comments

‎09-15-2025

The standard procedure for me is to create the account, put in a junk password. Then in Portal members menu you can 'reset password' for that user and it provides a randomized 8-character temporary password. I then send a boilerplate email to the user providing a link to the Portal login and their username and temporary password to login for the first time. Using this method, they are forced to create their own unique password (and security question). --- THAT SAID, I completely agree that Portal should make this process basically native so that as an admin you don't have to go through this 'external' hoop of sending an email manually to a user, which is a big pain if you are adding a lot of users at once. Portal ought to be able to send an invite via email with a link to create a unique password for their account, similar to AGOL. I am not sure if the options exist/change if you add an Email configuration in Portal > Settings > Security > Email settings. I don't have that set up in my configuration currently but maybe someone else can confirm if this changes anything when email account is setup with Portal for notifications.

‎09-12-2025

Just curious: for the publisher using ArcGIS Pro, are they using the web adaptor url for signing into your Portal, or the fully qualified machine name:port? And just to confirm, is your Server federated with Portal?

‎09-11-2025

For what it's worth, if you are an admin of the Portal/AGOL organization that you are signed into Pro with, you could potentially change the org's 'default' basemap to a projection that you all primarily use. In my case it's NC State Plane. I created a custom vector tile basemap using that projection and set it as my Portal default basemap.

‎09-11-2025

Ah hah, thank you for clarifying. Here is the commit charge level from resource monitor. I think you've helped me exhaust the necessary steps to confirm things are fine. I'll consider this issue resolved and make sure ArcGIS Monitor doesn't scream from that pagefile metric on this machine. I appreciate your detailed answers, thanks again!

‎09-10-2025

Thank you that is an excellent collection of information and explanation. This machine has ~111GB of C:\ disk space allocated, currently at ~73gb free. So it seems the 1/8th cap (~13 to 14gb) you described isn't being hit. (EDIT: however, virtual server clusters can be weird, where although it has an 'allocation' of 111GB, it might not actually have that 'dedicated' to it on the server node unless the machine actually uses it all. Not sure if that could have any relevance here). EDIT #2: my postgres tablespace for my databases are on a secondary .D: drive (same ssd pool of the server node as the C: system drive). I'm not sure if that introduces any weirdness into the discussion. Postgres itself is installed on the C: drive. Here are the results of the wmic pagefile list /format:list command I checked Event Viewer and it seems there are no System log entries relating to low virtual memory condition. I tried manual review, and also specifically filtering for Event ID 2004 in the entire history, but I didn't come up with anything. I also filtered for all warning/error/critical level events and thankfully found nothing of note that has any relevance so far that I can tell. So that seems good that windows isn't screaming behind the scenes! Your note on the dynamic allocation base size is interesting though. It seems in theory, since my utilization remains above 90%, and that I haven't hit a cap of either 1/8 the hard disk volume, or 3x the physical RAM, that it should be automatically expanding the base size in my circumstance? But since there are no System errors being logged, it's not actually hitting a cap in a way that causes issues? One big gap in my understanding still is if postgres is holding on to this allocation without using it, or if the OS is independently holding on to it for some other reason/cause. I am not even at a level where I can ask the right questions about postgres' behavior this since this level of software/database architecture goes far beyond my level of understanding.

‎09-10-2025

Is the expected behavior to 'batch' the data using the maxRecordCount as each batch size, and it would just draw in slowly but surely? Or will the server literally stop responding with any more features?

‎09-09-2025

This maybe different in your version of Pro (i'm on 3.2.5) so take this for what it's worth. Sharing a map as a web map will basically make your whole map layer contents into a hosted feature layer, or hosted tile layer, depending on if you choose the configuration for exploratory/editible or the visualization option. I think if your map layers contain a raster image (e.g. your hillshade) then it doesn't give you the option and instead it will default to creating a Tile Layer. Although you can drill down and configure some properties of the Tile Layer that it creates, it seems it locks you into using the Tiling Scheme of the current basemap of the map you're publishing from. Maybe that's fine, as long as you get to choose the LOD you need: --- Alternatively sharing certain groups (or individual) layers as a Web Layer means you potentially have more control; you can have different layers that you publish from different ArcGIS Pro maps, to become separate hosted feature layers or hosted tile layers items in AGOL, and then you can choose what you want to add to a web map in AGOL, rather than having them all bundled together. I would generally highly recommend this if you tend to have different versions of web maps or need to republish map layers for various reasons as you're developing a map/app product. You won't be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak, if you find most of the layers are working the way you intended and only need to modify or republish certain ones.

‎09-09-2025

Ok just for a real quick test, it looks like when publishing a web layer and choosing 'Tile' you are presented with some Configuration options. If I pick auto-suggest, it seems to present a maximum LOD of 18 in my case. However, ArcGIS tiling scheme should let you go to level 23 (1:71). If you need an even higher LOD, or a different projection, you'll have to create your own Tiling Scheme which is not incredibly hard but it's a separate process. I had to do that, for example, for a custom basemap for some of my users to be able to zoom into features that are relatively close together, in order to be able to distinguish the features and their labels where necessary.

‎09-09-2025

Were you the user who originally 'published' or 'uploaded' this to ArcGIS Online? Do you recall the process that was used to do it? Edit: sorry I forgot you said that in the original post info. I have a feeling there must be a step in the creation or publishing that would have 'baked in' this LOD setting. I think there are a few different ways of creating a Tile Layer in ArcGIS Online, but if you remember your exact process then maybe there's a step along the way that can be modified to prevent this from happening. I'll see if I can test publishing a Tile Layer on my end from Pro and see if I can find anything that might help.

‎09-08-2025

I'm a relative newcomer to postgres but it is working well for us after migrating our data from SQL Server to Postgres about a month ago. Our organization does not have a DBA, so I'm it! In order to upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1 to 11.4+ we needed to upgrade our SQL Server licenses but that won't be done for another year from now at least; I had actually been planning the postgres migration for more than a year ago for this reason, and I finally did it. This also gives us (GIS) more isolated administrative control and ability to monitor performance of our data instead of it being squished on a SQL Server instance that is shared with loads of other databases from the organization. First and foremost, we are not experiencing any noticeable degradation in performance. Everything is running smooth. However, I did notice that Windows' pagefile utilization on the postgres machine is ~95% persistently, so I'm generally just asking if that's normal or expected? Should put it out of my mind, or is this something I need to address? --- Our postgres server is a virtual server on our local server cluster that was already pretty darn fast, and then we just upgraded our nodes recently, so it's even better. The OS is Windows Server 2019 Datacenter. The machine has 4 vcores and 32gb RAM. Our postgres database use case is fairly simple and straightforward, and not very intense. We have a few Enterprise Geodatabases, with one main production db that houses, for example, our core utilities and municipal datasets that we generally serve out as map/feature services for internal use. We generally use Traditional versioning rather than Branch. Only myself and my GIS coworker hit the database directly in ArcGIS Pro, or with various automations with Python (mostly using arcpy). We do multiple backups a day with pg_dump (for each db) & pg_dumpall (for global objects only) and I've done disaster recovery testing and restoration using ESRI's recommended process and everything checks out. The only config customizations I did for postgres was to set shared_buffers to 25% of physical RAM, so 8GB, per a lot of general recommendations I could find. All that is to say that we don't have an extreme burden on the postgres server. It runs pretty cool between 5-20% CPU with a few sustained few spikes to 40-50% (never seems to get saturated). About 30-40% of RAM is persistently 'In Use' with nearly the rest of the RAM is listed by windows resource monitor as on 'Standby'. Since so much RAM is available, I'm wondering why Windows (or postgres) isn't 'releasing' the pagefile, if that's the right term? Is it normal for postgres to reserve that pagefile for use? Windows is set to manage the paging file size automatically. The machine has been through at least one reset recently but the pagefile persistently is 'utilized', according to ArcGIS Monitor metrics. This Monitor alert is how I realized there even may be an issue, otherwise I would not have thought to check on the pagefile since we are not having any performance issues. Thanks for any info or tips.

‎09-08-2025

Looks like a sub-layer in there (the Tile Layer itself I guess) still has a visibility range set: Even if you change the visibility in the map viewer, the service may still be honoring the Tile Layer's settings from its creation (publishing). Can you show the method/settings you used to create/publish the Tile Layer? If I look at the REST service information for this Tile Layer, it shows a scale limit that will affect everything within it: https://tiles.arcgis.com/tiles/iiEO9Ir7FRiWwFTn/arcgis/rest/services/Saddle_Butte_WTL1/MapServer EDIT: woops @RhettZufelt beat me to it 😆 ... and I was looking at the wrong map service, but it appears they are both published with the same settings.

‎09-08-2025

According to this thread https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/where-is-the-label-placement-property-for-lines/td-p/1356010 Line label placement options were added around Q2/Q3 of 2024. So I wonder if 11.3 Portal map viewer was buttoned up before that option was implemented? EDIT: It seems if you compare the 11.3 to 11.4 documentation, 11.3 does NOT include the note about line label placement. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.3/use/configure-labels-mv.htm For point and line features, click the Placement selector and choose a different placement location of the label in relation to the feature or cluster.

‎09-08-2025

If I had to guess, the for each action is being provided an empty array [], so it is skipping the action since there are no items to iterate over. My suggestion is to look at the 'outputs' of one of your flow attempts: Fetch updates action Does the body of the outputs for this action actually contain a reference to a polygon feature? If not, you'll need to diagnose that to understand how and when it actually pulls info of a new feature If so... Get data from feature layer Does the output body have an array of 1 or more intersecting features?

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Re: Windows PostgreSQL server for Enterprise data: pagefile utilized ~95% persistently, system managed (8gb currently)

Re: Windows PostgreSQL server for Enterprise data: pagefile utilized ~95% persistently, system managed (8gb currently)

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