Latest Contributions by James_Whitacre

I have been trying to update to Spyder 3.2.8, and I finally did by installing it first before updating to ArcGIS API for Python 1.4.1. However, now Spyder will not work...it keeps crashing. In a previous attempt, I tried to install ArcGIS API for Python 1.4.1 first, then install Spyder 3.2.8 via the Python Command Prompt with:  conda install spyder‍ This said that it would need to downgrade the ArcGIS API for Python 1.4.1 to 1.2.5. It didn't work... What is the deal? Spyder is a mission critical IDE for me as it is sometimes the only IDE that will work for syntax errors for arcpy in Python 3. Dan Patterson‌, do you know what is going on? Why does the Python Package Manager seem to be so fickle? Can this be fixed ASAP please? I think this may also have been an issue from a previous post of mine ArcGIS Pro 2.0 Python Manager Update Packages Not Working‌. ... View more

I am trying to update an attribute coded value domain using the ArcGIS API for Python using the Update Servcie Definition method. I am an admin for my AGO org. Here is my code so far (if you are testing it, you will need to used your own parameters): import arcgis username = 'username' gis = arcgis.gis.GIS('https://www.arcgis.com', username) url = 'https://domain.com/arcgis/rest/services/Service_name/FeatureServer/0' field_name = 'Field_Name' cv_code = 1 cv_name = 'Code Name' fs = arcgis.features.FeatureLayer(url, gis) update_dict = {"fields": [{"name": field_name, "domain": {"codedValues": [{"name": cv_name, "code": cv_code}]}}]} fs.manager.update_definition(update_dict)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ When I run in my Jupyter Notebook, I get the error below. What am I missing? Is my 'update_dict' not correct (I ma inclined to think it isn't)? Is there a better way to script this out? Thanks. Error: Unable to update feature service layer definition. Invalid definition for ''. Invalid definition for System.Collections.Generic.List`1[ESRI.ArcGIS.SDS.FieldInfo] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-7-4fbf02d770c9> in <module>() ----> 1 fs.manager.update_definition(update_dict) C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\features\managers.py in update_definition(self, json_dict)     981         u_url = self._url + "/updateDefinition"     982 --> 983         res = self._con.post(u_url, params)     984         self.refresh()     985         return res C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\connection.py in post(self, path, postdata, files, ssl, compress, is_retry, use_ordered_dict, add_token, verify_cert, token, try_json, out_folder, file_name, force_bytes, add_headers)    1151                                          verify_cert=verify_cert, is_retry=True)    1152 -> 1153                 self._handle_json_error(resp_json['error'], errorcode)    1154                 return None    1155         except AttributeError: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\connection.py in _handle_json_error(self, error, errorcode)    1171    1172         errormessage = errormessage + "\n(Error Code: " + str(errorcode) +")" -> 1173         raise RuntimeError(errormessage)    1174    1175 class _StrictURLopener(request.FancyURLopener): RuntimeError: Unable to update feature service layer definition. Invalid definition for ''. Invalid definition for System.Collections.Generic.List`1[ESRI.ArcGIS.SDS.FieldInfo] (Error Code: 400)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Follow up: Ok, in investigating further, I found this idea: https://community.esri.com/ideas/12962. Great idea, and a good solution for my immediate issue. However, I am foreseeing a need in my greater use case to automate other tasks in conjunction with this task or to have a set of tools (either Python or eventually shipped with ArcGIS Pro) that allows for editing/updating other service definition properties. I know this can be done with the ArcGIS API for Python, but it seems cumbersome when going back and forth between JSON and Python. I also don't have a lot of experience with working with JSON in Python, so that could be one of my hindrances here. Any help is still greatly appreciated. ... View more

In ArcGIS Online, what is the maximum number of custom roles allowed for an Organization? I ask because I work in higher ed and many instructors are creating custom roles for their classes, which I don't think is good practice. Therefore, I would like to tell them there is an upper limit as one incentive to stop this practice (I use other incentives too...). Currently we have over a dozen custom roles and they are growing. I do not intend for this space to become a discussion about proper and improper uses of custom roles. Thank you. ... View more