Latest Contributions by MelanieWawryk

In open data, you should be allowed to put multiple tags in the tag query. This would make working with federated sites much easier because you can not always control what tags other groups are using for their data. Currently we have to pass our tags to all of the other federated groups and hope that they use them in addition to their tags or we have to agree on a common tag across all organizations. Currently you can only have one tag per category.  ... View more

The AGOL Dataset attributes should be editable. It looks great but contains little to no information. Ideally it would pull from the oracle data dictionary(field comments) (or other database equivalents). Better still you should be able to edit the field comments in Arcatalog/Desktop and they should port over to AGOL so you don't have to type them in more than once. Field level metadata has always been lacking in ArcGIS and even when it is added as comments on the database level it doesn't pull over in to the ArcGIS world. ... View more

The AGOL Dataset attributes should be editable. It looks great but contains little to no information. Ideally it would pull from the oracle data dictionary(field comments) (or other database equivalents). Better still you should be able to edit the field comments in Arcatalog/Desktop and they should port over to AGOL so you don't have to type them in more than once. Field level metadata has always been lacking in ArcGIS and even when it is added as comments on the database level it doesn't pull over in to the ArcGIS world. ... View more

Does anyone know how to find the keys in the SDdraft file? They are used in the scripts that are posted for updating AGOL by Esri and used by many people. See here: arcrest.common.servicedef — ArcREST 3.5.4 documentation  The script uses the keys to set up  things like feature access and turning off caching but Esri support will not give me list of the keys. I am pretty sure some of the other settings I would like to set are in as keys but I don't know how to figure out what they are. Does anyone either know how to read the keys from the SDfile or have a list of what the keys are?    For example, root_elem = doc.getroot()     if root_elem.tag != "SVCManifest":         raise ValueError("Root tag is incorrect. Is {} a .sddraft file?".format(SDDraft))     # The following 6 code pieces modify the SDDraft from a new MapService     # with caching capabilities to a FeatureService with Query,Create,     # Update,Delete,Uploads,Editing capabilities as well as the ability     # to set the max records on the service.     # The first two lines (commented out) are no longer necessary as the FS     # is now being deleted and re-published, not truly overwritten as is the     # case when publishing from Desktop.     # The last three pieces change Map to Feature Service, disable caching     # and set appropriate capabilities. You can customize the capabilities by     # removing items.     # Note you cannot disable Query from a Feature Service.     # doc.find("./Type").text = "esriServiceDefinitionType_Replacement"     # doc.find("./State").text = "esriSDState_Published"     # Change service type from map service to feature service     for config in doc.findall("./Configurations/SVCConfiguration/TypeName"):         if config.text == "MapServer":             config.text = "FeatureServer"     # Turn off caching     for prop in doc.findall("./Configurations/SVCConfiguration/Definition/" +                             "ConfigurationProperties/PropertyArray/" +                             "PropertySetProperty"):         if prop.find("Key").text == 'isCached':             prop.find("Value").text = "false"         if prop.find("Key").text == 'maxRecordCount':             prop.find("Value").text = maxRecords     # Turn on feature access capabilities     for prop in doc.findall("./Configurations/SVCConfiguration/Definition/Info/PropertyArray/PropertySetProperty"):         if prop.find("Key").text == 'WebCapabilities'             prop.find("Value").text = "Query,Create,Update,Delete,Uploads,Editing" ... View more

Currently when you see the list of items in ArcGIS online open data it defaults to showing the data by relevance. We would like the default to be by name but I believe this functionality is currently not available as a configurable option or through customizing the HTML code. In the Site Editor, the search bar is not an item in the Site Header or the Body Content. This is the default setting that resides in the back-end of ArcGIS Open Data. ... View more

You should be able to specify which geocoder to use when using the Find URL parameter for webmaps. You can add in a custom geocoder to a webmap and that works fine but when you use the &find parameter with the URL to the webmap it still uses the world geocoder. It should either use the one that was set up for the webmap to use or allow you to specify the one you want to use in the URL  ... View more

There is a bug in the way ArcGIS reads add-in if you use profiles that are set up in an unconventianal way. The problem is that ArcGIS cannot find the add-ins after you make changes to them so they buttons show up with red x's and don't run. In Visual studio for each project you will need to do the following: Right click on the project in visual studio>Add New Item> under common Items select Text File and name it 'Dont_EsriRegAddin.txt' Set the build directory under properties - Right click the project,go to properties, go to build tab and set output path to a common location Example: C:\ArcObjects\Completed Add-ins Compile the project, visual studio shouldn't create an add-In GUID in folder "\\<servername>\home\<yourname>\Documents\ArcGIS\AddIns\Desktop10.1" Open ArcMap, Go to Customize menu -- > Add-In Manager --> Options tab and add the build folder you set in properties C:\ArcObjects\Completed Add-ins and press OK. Add-in should now open automatically even after changes Hope this helps if you have the same issue, it took weeks to resolve ... View more