Latest Contributions by MelanieWawryk

Esri provides great solutions that you can easily deploy but they have not included any feature level documentation, XML Workspace Documents or File Geodatabase to go along with the solutions. Why would you need this for an online solution? We need to give documentation to other users so they can decide if the fields are what they need or if we need to add more or change them to suit our organization. Often times domain values also need to be tweaked to suit our organization. We also need a way to compare the solutions over time. The blogs are a great starting point but we need to see what the schema changes are so we can evaluate if we need to use the new feature layer or keep the one we were using.  Currently to do this we need to export each layer as FGDB and then download it from AGOL. We then have to export the FGDB to SDE geodatabase so we can produce a report with field information for the planning group to decide if they want changes. By providing feature level documentation, XML Workspace Documents or File Geodatabases to go along with their solutions would save a lot of time.Howard Crothers ... View more

Please create a proper executable instead of the AppxBundle for Collector for ArcGIS on Windows. The entire program should be able to be installed using the install file. The windows store is too flakey and involved between firewalls, security group permissions, and azure active directory connections. We actually had to temporarily unblock X-box live on our firewall to get the windows store to finally install it. Side loading is not an option for many organizations and it only worked on a few machines. Please just release it as a proper program and not an app for windows 10. ... View more

I am using a hosted tracking layer in ArcCollector that shows up in AGOL, in iOS and Android devices. On both iOS and Android you need to turn the tracking layer on to see it (even though visibility is set to true in the AGOL map and in the JSON of the map). They layer does not show up at all in the windows version of ArcCollector and there is no functionality to turn layers on and off. Two questions: Is there a way to force the tracking layer to be visible in all OS but specifically Windows since you can't turn it on in the app? When is the New Collector going to be release for Windows? ... View more

When trying to search and update content on AGOL there is only the option to search close matches and then somehow figure out if you have the correct one prior to updating the one from the list returned using gis.content.search. There should be an option to search for an exact match and not bother with a list that is returned. If for example,  I want to update Traffic_Closures the search will return Traffic_Closures_Historic. You have to know ahead of time which result will show up first so you can tell the search to give you the first result or the second result. In this case, I want to update both layers so I can't just get rid of similarly named features to make sure my first result is always the correct result. The use case is in https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/api-python/analytics/updating-your-hosted-feature-services-with-arcgis-pro-and…  It will often find a similarly named layer rather than the one you asked for. print("Search for original SD on portal…") sdItem = gis.content.search("{} AND owner:{}".format(sd_fs_name, user), item_type="Service Definition")[0] print("Found SD: {}, ID: {} n Uploading and overwriting…".format(sdItem.title, sdItem.id)) sdItem.update(data=sd) print("Overwriting existing feature service…") fs = sdItem.publish(overwrite=True) You can improve the results by adding in title sdItem = gis.content.search("title:{} AND owner:{}".format(sd_fs_name, user), item_type="Service Definition")[0] but it still returns  Traffic_Closures_Historic as the first result when you search for Traffic_Closures Please add a search that will return an exact match without having to get a list back. ... View more

We like to have all of our web services with database locking turned off.  When the schema is locked the services can prevent SDE from compressing. I would like to change this so when we add a new web service, it is database locking unchecked (false) by default rather than checked (true).  There should be a config file somewhere that can be changed so the default is set to false but there doesn't seem to be.  I realize that we can easily change it every single time I add a web service but it only takes on to be forgotten to cause issues and if it is on by default it should also be able to be off by default.  Tanu Hoque‌ Nidhin Karthikeyan‌ brian bieber‌ Alison Gaiser‌ Jason Greenlaw‌ behavior  ... View more

In the contents page of AGOL you can use HTML to create formatted text. It would be nice if that was replicated over to open data (geoHub). For example, in our description, we include a list of fields with an explanation of what they are in a table format. However, in Open Data, the table just comes across as a text squished together as shown in the two attached images. ... View more

A way to easily update the source of a map layer in AGOL would be nice. It looks it can be done using AGOL online assistant https://ago-assistant.esri.com/  but it would be nice to be able to do it within the map itself like in ArcMap where you can update the data source in the properties window. ... View more

Have a "Used by" tab in AGOL on the contents page that shows where services are being used elsewhere in AGOL. This would be similar to the "used by" tab in Toad for Oracle so you can see what apps, maps etc need to be updated when layers change. It would be great if there was a feature that allowed you to notify users of the service that a service has changed so they don't have to be surprised when one of their apps fails to work. ... View more