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DrewDowling
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04-29-2026
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My Ideas
(3 Idea Submissions)Latest Contributions by DrewDowling
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Thanks, Marlon. I was wondering if Esri has a preferred approach, as both are equal from a client's point of view.
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07-02-2024
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Does Esri have a preferred method of editing data? I've noticed that most of the new functionality coming out focuses on service-based editing, parcel fabric, Utility network, etc. Is traditional versioning still a fully valid approach to editing? I have a new project that can go either way: Traditional or Branch versioning. Traditional with direct database connections is going to be easier to set up and integrate with existing workflows, but it's not a deal breaker. Which approach does Esri recommend?
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07-02-2024
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Unfortunately, in this case, the module would have to already be present on the workstation. I'm trying to prevent editing from a machine where the module isn't present. For example, if an editor moved cube, and started using ArcGIS Pro from a workstation that doesn't have the module installed.
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07-02-2024
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Thanks for the suggestion, Charles, but I don't think that will work. To access that part of the SDK, the addin would already have to be loaded. I'm looking for a way for the map or layers to check if the addin is loaded when they are added to the map.
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07-01-2024
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I'm looking for a way to prevent edits to a geodatabase if an addin is not present in ArcGIS Pro. The extension listens to row change events on certain feature classes, and I would like to prevent edits if these row events are not triggered. In ArcObjects and ArcMap I was able to achieve this by using class extensions. Once an extension was registered with a feature class at the geodatabase level, the ArcMap client knew not to allow edit sessions if the class extension was not installed on that workstation. Is there a way to achieve a similar result using the Pro SDK? Unfortunately, the business logic I have to implement is too complex for attribute rules. I am considering SOIs but the preferred workflow is direct database editing.
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07-01-2024
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Thanks Marlon. Setting the user to sysadmin worked. I'll work on convicing the client to chage to an sde schemad geodatabase to avoid this type of issue in the future.
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06-19-2024
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I had the DBA create an SDE account, added it to db_owner but still got the error. @MarlonAmayaThanks for the suggestion. I'll ask the DBA to temporarily promote an account to sysadmin and see if that works.
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06-14-2024
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@MarceloMarquesThanks for the warning Marcelo. I'll refrain from any SQL edits to the system tables. Fortunately the data is in a separate schema.
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06-13-2024
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I totally agree with the SDE schema approach. Unfortunately, I inherited this geodatabase. Yes, we published the branch versioned data first, then tried to change the protection level. We just recently created branch versioning data, so deleting existing branch versions and feature services is an option if you think this would help. I also considered creating an SDE user and making it dbowner if I can get the DBA to agree. This is a SQL Server instance.
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06-13-2024
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I'm trying to change the protection level on sde.DEFAULT version for a branch versioning, but I get the error: Error 160228: The user does not have permission to execute the operation. This makes sense because there is no user sde in the geodatabase. It was created as a dbo schema database. The traditional versioning default is dbo.DEFAULT and changing the permissions on this still works. Should I change the owner of the Default branch version to dbo? Will it break the geodatabase? update dbo.sde_branches set owner = 'dbo' where name= 'DEFAULT' Does the branch version expect an SDE-owned schema?
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06-13-2024
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You could create a constraint attribute rule that tests fields for punctuation and returns an error if found—something like this where NoPuctuation is the name of the attribute you are trying to constrain. var testVal = $feature.NoPuctuation
if (Find (",", testVal) > -1)
return {"errorMessage": "Comma Found."}
else if (Find (".", testVal) > -1)
return {"errorMessage": "Period found."} //asas
else if (Find (":", testVal) > -1)
return {"errorMessage": "Colon found."}
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05-10-2024
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Yes, I tried to do this but couldn't get it to work. Esri has said that the widget only supports utility networks. https://community.esri.com/t5/trace-network-questions/can-a-trace-network-feature-service-be-added-to-a/td-p/1350505
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04-10-2024
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I'm getting this error as well. When I try to access the Map Viewer from a VM instance, the map is blank, and the console shows the error. Map Viewer classic draws fine. The VM doesn't have any passthrough GPU, so I'm guessing that's the issue. I get this error in Firefox. I switched to Chrome, and the map viewer loaded.
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04-01-2024
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My kudoed posts
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Activity Feed
- Got a Kudo for Re: New Technical Paper: Considerations for configuring antivirus software for ArcGIS Enterprise hosts. Monday
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 3 weeks ago
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 06-23-2026 04:06 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 04-08-2026 01:42 PM
- Got a Kudo for Re: Recommended startup order (and delay) of the ArcGIS Enterprise Services. 04-03-2026 12:21 PM
- Posted Can an advanced editor user type cross enterprises? on ArcGIS Pro Questions. 04-01-2026 03:30 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 01-22-2026 12:01 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 01-21-2026 04:41 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 01-21-2026 04:41 PM
- Kudoed ArcGIS Monitor in Action: Observability for GIS Environments of All Sizes by Quartic Solutions for AlyssaGrant1. 01-14-2026 10:51 AM
- Posted Re: AttributeTabEmbeddableControl on Feature Service Layer on ArcGIS Pro SDK Questions. 12-24-2025 11:15 AM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 11-05-2025 12:50 PM
- Kudoed File size limit in manager.overwrite for OGLEngineering. 11-03-2025 09:50 AM
- Kudoed Re: File size limit in manager.overwrite for Leo_Lerner. 11-03-2025 09:50 AM
- Posted Re: Arcgis API on AWS Lambda on ArcGIS API for Python Questions. 10-17-2025 12:20 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 10-16-2025 02:16 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 10-14-2025 03:16 AM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 10-13-2025 02:40 PM
- Got a Kudo for Prevent the Default version from being directly edited, only allow Post operations to update the Protected Default version. 10-13-2025 12:31 PM
- Got a Kudo for Re: Copy or Export/Import XML fail due to DBMS sequence not found. 09-29-2025 11:58 AM
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