Latest Contributions by KoryKramer

I'm on the Customer Advocacy team as the Lead for Desktop. Our team is part of Esri Support Services and is dedicated to collecting customer feedback and communicating that feedback to Product teams. Our team covers Apps, ArcGIS Online, Desktop, Enterprise, and Geodata. The ArcGIS Ideas site is an important feedback channel for us.   I wanted to take a couple of minutes to share my excitement about progress we're making on Ideas in the ArcGIS Desktop space. First, here’s a little bit of background on what happens after you’ve submitted your idea.   Once your idea is up on the Ideas site, you'll notice that it has a status of New. Feel free to refer to Submitting a New Idea‌ for more details. This quick post isn't to repeat what can already be found in the online help documents. Be sure to categorize your idea appropriately and give it some good tags that will help others find your great idea. At this point the idea gets reviewed by the Customer Advocacy team. We don't dig in super deeply, we make sure that it isn't a duplicate of an idea that already exists and we double-check those categories and tags that you diligently included. If all looks good, we simply mark the idea as Reviewed. That's what you see on your side. We also check to see if we have a similar request already logged through our Support system. This would likely be in the form of an Enhancement Request. If so, we make sure that the idea is linked with the Enhancement Request. By doing this, we can get a clearer picture of Customer demand for the functionality.   As time goes by, ideas get up votes, down votes and comments from the user community. Advocacy Leads frequently monitor the site, and usually on a monthly basis report on trends to our respective Product teams.  Ideas may be discussed because they have a high overall score.  But if that were the only criteria, as it takes time to accumulate a high score, relatively new ideas wouldn’t make it into the discussion.  So we also look at things like how fast an idea’s score is growing – how many up votes this month? – how many up votes this year?  Sometimes we also see an idea collect a wide variety of user stories.  It may not have an incredibly high score, or even be growing as fast as other ideas.  But what if, out of 15 up votes, the community has provided 15 unique and compelling user stories in the comments?  Those user stories may reveal that the functionality could be used across a number of different industries, meaning that implementing the idea would have a greater impact than something that is a niche use.  This is a really good reason to not only vote for ideas that you’d like to see, but also provide your user story in the comments!   I think that does a pretty good job laying down the background. Now for what I really wanted to share - we've been moving a lot of ideas forward in the Desktop space recently. Ideas move from Reviewed to Under Consideration or In Product Plan. Under Consideration means we are actively considering and researching this Idea. In Product Plan means that we have scheduled the Idea for inclusion in a future release. Take a look at Statuses for ArcGIS Ideas‌ to understand the finer details about what a status actually means. As we review just how much movement we've made on the ideas below, keep in mind that this is just in the Desktop space and there is a lot of progress being made across other products and technologies as well!   In the past month, here is a snapshot of status updates. 15 Desktop ideas have been moved from New or Reviewed to Under Consideration: Add a spellchecker to ArcMap for text elements in the layout  Alter Field Order during New FC or Table Creation New Geodatabase Tool in Folders in ArcGIS Pro Give us back the ability to create folders within dialog!  ArcGIS Pro - Copy Path Drag & Drop Data into ArcGIS Pro Make Definition Query able to be turned on/off with Check Box Polygon Outline Color Ramp Dual scale bars showing different units Allow ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro to interact with ArcGIS Server Dynamic Layers Clip map to shape in ArcGIS Pro Add Export Model to Python Script back to ArcGIS Pro Disable "Authorize ArcGIS Pro to work offline" Create geodatabase from ArcGIS Pro dialog Add basic find functionality to ArcGIS Pro table view! 13 Desktop ideas have been moved to In Product Plan: Saving Service and SDE Connection in ArcGIS Pro ArcGIS Pro: make layer from selection Summary Statistics Workflow in ArcGIS Pro Fix Duplicate Parcel to Preserve Line Points Warn on missing type field when loading parcels into a fabric Cancel Button to Abort Closing Parcel Details Window Close the Parcel Details window instead of deactivating Parcel Fabric - Line Search in parcel details construction box Attribute Transfer in Parcel Editor Tools Business Analyst for ArcGIS Pro Preview Attribute Table in Pro Adding attribute table in ArcGIS Pro Layout Rename Shapefiles (better data-management) in ArcGIS Pro (1.4) As we go, ideas that are In Product Plan will graduate to Implemented, many ideas that are Under Consideration will move to In Product Plan, and as you continue to enthusiastically submit more great ideas, the cycle will continue. I hope that sharing these updates is insightful.  I wanted to thank you for participating in the process and let you know that we’re listening!  ... View more

The content of this blog is now out of date.  Since its writing, the ArcGIS Pro help has been updated and should be used as the official resource.  Start here: Named User licensing in ArcGIS Online—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  I’m the Customer Advocacy Lead for Desktop products and part of what I do is keep an eye on trends in the cases that are logged with technical support.  Since the first release of ArcGIS Pro a couple of years ago, we have noticed that a big chunk of Pro-related questions boil down to getting Named User licensing set up.  This makes sense, as this licensing model is fundamentally different than how single-use or concurrent-use licenses function. As there has been greater adoption of ArcGIS Pro, we’ve seen that the rate of licensing and setup related calls has slowly decreased.  But we want to do better at reaching out to help customers who haven’t yet set up their Pro licensing be successful the first time.  Setting up your ArcGIS Pro license is as easy as following three simple steps. Step 1: Activate Your ArcGIS Online Organization The first step in making sure that you and others in your organization can work with ArcGIS Pro is to activate your ArcGIS Online organization account.  If you’ve already activated your account, go to Step 2.  If you haven’t activated or just aren’t sure, you can go to arcgis.com and sign in with what you think might be your username.  If you sign in to arcgis.com and the URL includes your organization name (it will look like www.<orgname>.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html) then you’ve confirmed your username is linked with an organization account.  Go to Step 2.   If you sign in to arcgis.com and the page shows you as signed in but the URL still says www.arcgis.com/home/index.html, you’re using a public account and you won’t be able to use this to license Pro. You need to log in using the Named User account associated with your ArcGIS Pro license. If you’ve found that you have not activated your ArcGIS Online organization, and you can’t find the activation email that was sent to you, go to the Need your ArcGIS Online activation code? section towards the bottom of this landing page.  It looks like this: Once the organization is activated and set up, go to step 2.   Step 2: Add Members to Your Organization If you’re the one who activated the organization account, you will automatically be an Administrator and will be able to invite and add members and assign ArcGIS Pro licenses. When signed in, go to the My Organization tab and verify your Role.  Here we see that I am an Administrator. If you only want to license yourself to use ArcGIS Pro, go to step 3. If you have other users who will be using ArcGIS Pro, they will first need a username that is part of your organization.  From the My Organization tab, invite users to your organization by clicking Invite Members.     The Add or Invite Members wizard gives you three options.  The quickest way to go is to choose ‘Add members without sending invitations’.  With this option, you set up the username and password for each member. You must inform the member of their username and password. More details about the other ways of adding members to the organization can be found in the Invite and Add Members documentation.  ArcGIS Pro requires that members have a Level 2 license. Step 3: Assign ArcGIS Pro Licenses Once you, and optionally others, have a username that is part of the ArcGIS Online organization associated with your ArcGIS Pro licenses, you can then assign the licenses to users. From the My Organization tab, click Manage Licenses.  Only organization Administrators can manage licenses.  For others, the Manage Licenses button is not visible. ArcGIS Pro licenses can be managed from this page.  You can assign licenses individually by clicking “Configure licenses” next to the user’s name or collectively by clicking on the member names to add them to the Selected Members list and then clicking the Configure button. Then you can assign ArcGIS Pro at the Basic, Standard, or Advanced license level and assign ArcGIS Pro Extensions. After you’ve assigned ArcGIS Pro licenses for you and other users in your organization, those users will be able to sign in to ArcGIS Pro on any machine that has an internet connection and Pro installed. It’s worth noting that this licensing model extends beyond ArcGIS Pro, and licenses for other Esri premium apps such as Navigator for ArcGIS, AppStudio for ArcGIS Standard, Drone2Map for ArcGIS, Esri Business Analyst web app, Esri Community Analyst, GeoPlanner for ArcGIS, and other apps sold through ArcGIS Marketplace that use a per-member license type can be managed through this page. Beyond the Named User model discussed here, it is also possible to license ArcGIS Pro using a Named User with Portal for ArcGIS or using single-use or concurrent-use licenses.  Configure ArcGIS Pro Licenses with Portal for ArcGIS How to: Get started with ArcGIS Pro using concurrent and single-use licenses As always, Esri Technical Support is awesome, and they’ll happily help you set up your ArcGIS Pro licensing. ... View more