Latest Contributions by JoshuaBixby

Is that what you are perceiving to be the inconsistency, the fact that one polygon starts in the SE corner while the other starts in the SW corner?  The order of the vertices is determined when a shape is created, not when a shape is read, so the source shapefiles are not following a consistent rule with building polygons. ... View more

Seeing you are working with multiple polygons in multiple shapefiles, it is best to start isolating the issue by isolating the data.  What happens if you take a single polygon from a single shapefile and run it many times, do you see different results? ... View more

@DavidForbuss1, don't worry, @JoeBorgione  is going to be like Dan P. and be more active on Esri Community after he retires from his day job. 🙂 ... View more

It is always helpful to paste the exact error and traceback rather than just saying "getting syntax errors."  Does your syntax error look like this? >>> basins=!Basin_ID! File "<stdin>", line 1 basins=!Basin_ID! ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> You can't assign a column value using the Esri's exclamation point syntax within the code block, it has to be in the field expression and passed to a parameter defined for the function. I suggest you read through Calculate Field Python examples—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation, it has many examples, and should give you a better idea of how to pass table values to Python functions. ... View more

You are asking several questions here.  Although the questions are related to tuning your site, and that is good background information to included, I tend to find threads focused on single questions get a bit more engagement from the community. You don't mention what version you are working with, that is a critical piece of information to include.  The Esri Technical Support article you reference was last updated in 2018 and it was original written for 10.2.x.  Esri has made a fair number of structural changes within ArcGIS Server starting with 10.6.x, which came out in 2018.  Coincidence?  I don't think entirely.  I am not saying the Esri Support KB has incorrect information, it just has dated information that may not entirely apply to recent versions of the product in the quite the same way it did to older versions. Optimizing an ArcGIS Enterprise deployment is very situational.  There are some common themes among the various documentation, but there is no silver bullet nor recipe one can follow step-by-step.  Understanding what documentation applies to a specific deployment comes from experience with managing ArcGIS Enterprise deployments and detailed knowledge of both a deployment and the organizational practices with using the deployment.  As Don Knuth famously said, "premature optimization is the root of all evil." I would focus more on optimizing the use of the system rather than the architecture/deployment of the system.  Shared Instances are a powerful new feature, although not a perfect one.  They are definitely worth considering early. In terms of services themselves, garbage maps make for garbage services.  When a map is small in terms of content or geographic extent, a lot of bad practices can be overcome simply by how powerful modern computer systems are, but there is a point where bad practices can not only impact the performance of an individual service but the system as a whole.  As an IT service provider, I have had many battles with lazy GIS staff who don't want to take the time to craft a high-performing map, but then somehow expect ArcGIS Enterprise to work miracles and turn it into a high-performance service. ... View more

It is best to either define acronyms or avoid them, "ED" can mean a whole lot of different things to people from different fields or backgrounds. Sample or example data is always good, screenshots can be useful too. What have you tried already?  ... View more

I think I understand the question, but an example using some sample data would be most helpful.  If you want to select the maximum value in a group: ID Value A 5 A 2 A 10 B 3 C 4 C 6 It can be possible, but it depends on the back-end data source because SQL support is based on the data source. ... View more

If statements are executed in order, so looking at your first statement: if fld != "Soil or Fill: Every record but those with "Soil or Fill" will return True, which means they all will get mapped to the value 1.  Records with "Soil or Fill" will be caught by the second statement elif fld != "Alluvium": and get mapped to the value 2. In short, given your existing if statement structure, records can only have a value of 1 or 2 with most of them all being 1. ... View more

Since you are using Oracle, the following should or might work: WHERE ID IN ( SELECT MIN(ID) as ID FROM APP_ARCHIVE.RX_INCIDENT_DEVICES_ARCHIVE GROUP BY INCIDENT_DEVICE_ID ) ... View more

@LauraGiboo, as I mention in an earlier comment, the SQL that is supported with the Select By ... tools varies depending on back-end data store. What is the back-end data store, file geodatabase? ... View more

How are you licensing ArcGIS Pro?  Single-Use, Concurrent-Use, Named User? ... View more

In general, ArcGIS Server simply relies on the underlying database client configurations for making the connections to databases.  The same client configuration that will work on a machine for ArcGIS Desktop will work on a machine for ArcGIS Server. ... View more

Formally, the Admin URL is "/arcgis/admin" and not "/arcgis". REST API Admin—ArcGIS REST APIs | ArcGIS Developers ... View more

William's code was messed up, the indenting that is, in the transition from the old GeoNet hosting platform to the new hosting platform.  It happened to a lot of code.  Below is William's code reformatted.  Just note that MXDs with versions newer than 10.6 will likely cause code to fail unless you update the code to include newer versions.   Although fixing indentation is a nuisance, being able to do it successfully is a critical step in learning and understanding Python.  import os, sys, arcpy, re mxdFile = "C:\\temp\\map_document.mxd" mxd101 = '10.1' + u'\u0013' mxd102 = '10.1' + u'\u0013' mxd103 = '10.3' + u'\u0014' mxd104 = '10.4' + u'\u0015' mxd105 = '10.5' + u'\u0016' mxd106 = '10.6' + u'\u0017' mxdList = [mxd101, mxd102, mxd103, mxd104, mxd105, mxd106] result = [] with open(mxdFile, 'rb') as mxd: fileContents = mxd.read().decode('latin1') removedChars = [x for x in fileContents if x not in [u'\xff',u'\x00',u'\x01',u'\t']] joinedChars = ''.join(removedChars) for m in mxdList: location = joinedChars.find(m) if len(joinedChars[location:location+4]) > 0: result.append(joinedChars[location:location+4]) print result[0]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍   ... View more

I think your assessment is correct, ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Portal do not have any built-in task scheduling functionality.  My impression is that Esri's introduction of scheduled tasks with Notebook Server is their approach to introducing scheduling within the ArcGIS Enterprise platform. Even though ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Portal do not have built-in scheduling mechanisms, both products implement the ArcGIS REST API, and you can run scheduled tasks from other systems to call the REST API to automate work.  In short, not having built-in scheduling doesn't mean it can't be scheduled. ... View more