Latest Contributions by JoshuaBixby

Make sure to read Specify the maximum token expiration time - Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise, it covers default and maximum timeframes for various tokens used to connect to Portal and services.  Allowing up to 14-days for some of the tokens is fairly generous from a security standpoint.  As convenient as months-long refresh tokens would be, they would represent a security risk that I doubt many system security officers would be willing to live with.   ... View more

Have you read through all of Types of authentication | Documentation | Esri Developer?  The introduction of API key authentication at 11.4 really streamlined personal automation scripts. ... View more

One issue I see, that likely isn't the same issue you are asking about, are the following lines: elif (cleararea_travellane is None or cleararea_travellane is "No"): return "Clear Area Travel Lane Error" elif (cleararea_crosswalk is None or cleararea_crosswalk is "No"): return "Clear Area Crosswalk Error" The code won't generate an error, but it will generate a SyntaxWarning because checking variable values should be done with the equality operator (==) and not the identity operator (is).  When checking for None, the identity operator is used because None is a singleton representing nothing. There are several places where TypeError can occur.  For example, elif (lvl_width < 48): return "LL width too small" will generate an error if lvl_width is None because None can't be used in an ordering operation like less-than or greater-than. ... View more

Commenting on a tool that is deprecated, or now it seems retired, isn't going to change the fact that Esri is retiring/deprecating it.  Esri states you should be using Export Features (Conversion) -- ArcGIS Pro | Documentation, so the question back to you becomes what isn't working with that tool for your workflow? ... View more

Since Arcade can be used with many Esri products/platforms and in various places within a given product/platform, it is helpful to state what product and where exactly you are using Arcade. ... View more

Any machine that has the stored credentials for a service will need to be updated once the domain password is updated (this assumes you are not using group managed service account (gMSA)).  If you are using the account to run your Portal, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Datastore; then you will need to update all 3. ... View more

Your leadership is failing you by letting IT off the hook.  Everything you state "IT cannot" do is easily doable by even a marginally component IT shop, so it is really about what "IT won't" do.  My experience with SOIs is they should only be used when absolutely necessary because they require effort to create and deploy and technical debt to maintain, so they are definitely not a free lunch.  Good luck. ... View more

@DEWright_CA , when looking at the requirements for Linux:  ArcGIS Server 11.5 system requirements- ArcGIS Enterprise | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise: The X Window System package group is required on the machine to run the following using the operating system graphical user interface (GUI): ArcGIS Server installation wizard ArcGIS Software Authorization Wizard Check for Updates tool Linux only requires an X Window System, i.e., Linux Desktop Experience equivalent, if one is going to use GUI install or configuration tools.  There is no mention of needing a desktop to support printing functionality, and printing functionality is supported on Linux. ... View more

Very much undocumented from the Esri side; however, a couple Esri staff did chime in on comments from a non-Esri blog post over a decade ago: From Exploring ArcGIS Server 10.1 Logs (Part 2) | Geodatabase Geek: Trevor H on 04/06/2013 at 09:08 said: Looks like the setting (in 10.2 at least) adds some additional usage monitoring. It adds INFO level entries such as the following; outBytes=9928; numObjects=1; costUnits=1.000000; taskName=export So I assume they are AGOL related. The outBytes could be useful for capacity planning. Also still no mention of this option in the help at 10.2.   Vivek Gupta on 16/07/2013 at 06:38 said: The usage metering enables the user to log information about usage for billing purposes. When you enable this option ArcGIS Server logs information at the INFO level about the usage parameters which includes cpu, bandwidth, number of features/request etc… This information then is reported to the owning portal. Portal administrators can then use this information to bill the consuming users and users can view their usage. ... View more

It is better to state what issue you are running into specifically than ask how to turn a functionality on or off.  The handling of relative paths in ArcGIS Pro is more complex than in ArcMap, and there is no single check box to enable/disable.  If you share what you are trying to do and what isn't working than community members can offer suggestions on workflow changes as well as software configuration. And I assume you have already read Re: How can I "store relative pathnames" in ArcGIS Pro?  Although you are interested in not using relative paths, that discussion dives into the general topic of relative paths in ArcGIS Pro. ... View more

I think leaving it here makes the most sense since the issue wasn't with Arcade code itself but how a published service was behaving with Arcade. ... View more

Is the data versioned?  If so, the query that ran for 53 seconds is not comparable to the query from ArcGIS software because ArcGIS software will be using the versioned data and not base tables. If the data is versioned, what does the state tree look like? ... View more

The results indicate the issue isn't with using arcpy.env.extent with a polygon.  The fact a polygon filter took twenty minutes while a simple "REGION='REGION1'" query took two or more hours tells me:  1) the dataset is quite large (which you already indicated), and 2) the REGION field probably isn't indexed or indexed correctly if the operation is taking that long. At this point I would run the same attribute test outside of ArcGIS.  If you see comparable relative differences when connecting to the database from a client outside of ArcGIS, it points to more a data structure and database performance issue than an ArcGIS software issue. ... View more

Calling Get Count on an entire dataset is fast because it is basically a metadata lookup and not actually counting records.  Twenty minutes does seem a bit long for Get Count, even on 5 million records, but enterprise geodatabase connections are very sensitive to latency as well as the usual factors that impact database performance.   How long does a Select Layer By Attribute take when you run a query like "WHERE region = 'name'" ?   ... View more