Latest Contributions by RandyBurton

I share your frustration.  For every feature I publish to AGOL, I have to go in and tweak the order for the symbol types of my feature layer.  With a long list of types (in your case, it looks like 20) it is tedious to do this when you create your online map.  To fix this, open your map in AGOL and click the edit button.  You will see a list of your symbols for adding a new feature.  Below this list of symbols, there is a "Manage" button; click it.  To the right of each symbol there will be a small arrow which will allow you to move the symbol up or down in the list.  Once the list is in the proper order save the changes, and then resave your map.  When you reload the map in Collector, you should see the updated sorting. As fixing it in this manner is tedious when the list is long, I prefer to use the REST API and edit the JSON file. I have posted some Python code that I use in this post: Feature type sort order in REST API using Python.  If you are not familiar with the REST API and editing the JSON file, work with a copy of your feature layer to get familiar with the process. ... View more

I have also been experimenting with the REST API ApplyEdits function.  In my case, it is with AGOL, so you will need to modify the URLs in the example.  Updates are sent as a list of dictionaries.  Here's a code sample. import urllib, urllib2, json, sys, collections # get a token - this is for AGOL, modify for portal/server username = 'xxx' password = 'yyy' referer = "http://www.arcgis.com/" tokenurl = "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/generateToken" query_dict = { 'username': username, 'password': password, 'referer': referer } query_string = urllib.urlencode(query_dict) token = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(tokenurl + "?f=json", query_string).read()) if "token" not in token:     print(token['error'])     sys.exit(1) #  items to update, based on OBJECTID # OBJECTID, POINT_X, POINT_Y, City to_update = [     [ 11, -16683056.055, 8668941.2456, 'Anchorage' ],     [ 12, -16188891.9816, 8873309.4627000019, 'Glennallen' ],     [ 13, -16682516.0441, 8661113.2519000024, 'Anchorage' ]     ] updates = [] # this will be a list of dictionaries for item in to_update     dict = {         'geometry' : {             'x' : item[1],             'y' : item[2]},         'attributes' : {             'OBJECTID' : item[0],             'City' : item[3]             }         }     updates.append(dict) # modify URL for your needs URL = "https://services2.arcgis.com/<directory>/arcgis/rest/services/<layer>/FeatureServer/0/applyEdits" query_dict = {     "updates" : updates,     "f": "json",     "token": token['token']     } jsonResponse = urllib.urlopen(URL, urllib.urlencode(query_dict)) response = json.loads(jsonResponse.read(),                       object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict) print json.dumps(response, indent=4, sort_keys=False) # formatted json of response ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ If you do not need to update geometry, you can delete lines 28-30 and modify the to_update list and indexing. For additions, the query_dict would contain the "adds" parameter which is a list of dictionaries similar to the "updates" parameter. Features to be added should include the geometry. Additional documentation on ApplyEdits #arcgis online rest api‌ ... View more

James, You should be able to use field calculator or something similar to replace spaces (ASCII 32) with non-breaking spaces (ASCII160).  I was using a REST API query/update for my testing.  Since the non-breaking space is a special character in html, it uses a special escape sequence.  AGO will use this escape sequence, so you get non-breaking spaces.  When you string several non-breaking spaces together, you will get the desired padding in the map's pop-ups.  The web browser will not combine non-breaking spaces into a single space. ... View more

See this thread for ideas: Compare value from n and n+1 row in searchCursor ... View more