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We are pushing out one last beta before our final release, and it's got some great stuff we want you to try out. Things like: Support for on-demand offline map areas A relatively new feature in ArcGIS is the ability to create offline areas based on web maps. It can be done two ways: map authors can predefine areas for mobile users to take offline, or mobile users can define the area they want to take with them 'on demand' whenever they like. We brought you the former in the last beta, and we bring you the latter in this beta. On-demand offline workflows provide great flexibility for your field workers. Feel free to try it out with your web maps! Be aware that taking maps offline on-demand packages up all your layers and basemaps in real time and can be somewhat resource intensive. Support for adding and removing favorite maps Does your organization have too many maps to keep track of? Would you prefer to have the handful you work with regularly pop to the top of your map browser in Explorer? Try out 'favorites', an easy way to keep track of maps you work with often. These favorites sync across ArcGIS, so maps marked as a favorite in Explorer will also show up as a favorite in ArcGIS Online or Enterprise (and vice versa). Switch to basemaps with different spatial reference systems You asked for it, we're delivering it. If you have basemaps in your organization that have different spatial reference systems, you can now switch easily between all of them in Explorer. No longer are you stuck being able to only open basemaps that are in the same spatial reference system as your original map! In addition to those items, we've also been working hard to add: Support for group layers in mobile map packages Ability to refresh screen while browsing list of maps Download on WiFi only setting Feature search sorting enhancements Definition query now honored when searching MMPK Capability to search for a coordinate Improved error messages when using custom URL schemes Various bug fixes Updated translations You can find all of these updates in the Microsoft store by searching for 'Explorer for ArcGIS beta' (they will be available soon as a sideloadable package; I'll edit that into the blog here when it is ready). Dig in, try it out, and leave us feedback to let us know how it's going. We look forward to wrapping things up in the beta and getting the initial release of Explorer for ArcGIS on Windows out soon! Happy Exploring! Scott and the Explorer for ArcGIS team
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Hey folks - at this time we do not have a mobile user client for Windows 10. That said, Windows 10 support is an ongoing conversation here at Esri. It's something we're monitoring to see how much demand there is. So far, there hasn't been enough demand to justify the significant costs of building and supporting Workforce on a new platform. That being said, if it's something that is important to you and your organization - reach out to your Esri account manager and let them know. Also email workforce4arcgis@esri.com and let the product team know directly. This does two things: 1) it allows us to keep track of how many people are asking for Windows support, and 2) it gives us your contact info so if we do end up developing a native Windows client we can contact you early to get you involved with any pre-release beta programs we might have.
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Beta 3 is now available in the Microsoft Store! We've got lots of great updates for you, including: The ability to side-load Explorer onto your Windows device. Can't use the Microsoft Store? Use the info in Justin's blog to download and install Explorer locally. Support for web maps that have pre-planned offline areas. Map authors can define areas within web maps that mobile users can download and use when offline. Windows 10 Explorer users can now download and use these areas on their devices. Markup improvements such as adding notes to the markup objects, changing the color of markup items after they've been created, and toggling the fill shading for enclosed markup objects. You can now copy text from a popup. Anonymous logins are now supported, so you do not have to have an ArcGIS account to use Explorer beta 3. This is really handy if you want to create public / anonymous mobile maps (requires the Publisher extension) and share them with people outside your organization. The option to return to the default basemap for the current map. The ability to specify the preferred coordinate notation. You can view map details from the Map card, including summary, date modified, and description. There are now separate tools for viewing map layers and the map legend. Updated localization. Lots of bug fixes. You can find all of these updates in the Microsoft store by searching for 'Explorer for ArcGIS beta' - or by downloading and installing Explorer locally using the instructions in the sideloading blog. We're getting close to an official release later in the summer, so make sure you keep trying things out and letting us know what's working - and what's not working - so we can keep trying to get all those bugs squashed. Happy Exploring! Scott and the Explorer team
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We have no special partnership or agreement with Google and I can't speak to their licensing requirements. From a technical standpoint, they allow applications to use Google Maps as a destination for addresses for the purposes of routing, so we are simply allowing the user to select which application they want to use. For any questions beyond that about non-Esri apps you will need to follow up with the app publisher.
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Hey Carlos - It really depends on what you want to do with the ArcGIS map visual. It comes with Power BI for free and gives an impressive amount of capability for free out of the box. If you want to access/use/share private GIS content from your ArcGIS organization into Power BI, you'll need an ArcGIS named user license to do so. Because you are already an ArcGIS user I didn't mention our Plus subscriptions, because I think your needs will be best served by an ArcGIS named user license - which includes all the capabilities in a Plus subscription. If you want to review the different license options and the capabilities within, take a look here: ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Power BI | Get Started
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Hey Nevin - yes, the 'multi-layered' nature of the basemap is what I think is the issue. The ArcGIS Map visual doesn't support multi-layer maps or services.
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That's odd. One question - does the feature service have multiple layers in it? The ArcGIS Maps visual only supports single-layer feature services, so multi-layer feature services are filtered out from the list you see in Power BI.
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Hey John - Power BI service is the 'cloud' version of Power BI. Microsoft thinks 'cloud first' so features and functions will often come to Power BI service first. More info about Power BI service here: Get started with Power BI service (Power BI online) - Power BI | Microsoft Docs Thanks for the info about the local file reference. I'm assuming that local file would still be built using Power BI report server as the backend, correct? If so, that will prevent you from being able to use ArcGIS Maps for Power BI unfortunately.
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Hey John - a primary use case for Power BI Report Server is to work in a disconnected / offline environment. The ArcGIS Maps visual relies upon a connection to Esri servers for nearly all of its functionality. The visual just wouldn't work in a disconnected environment, so the decision was made to only make it available in Power BI Service, Desktop, and Mobile. I'm not sure I understand the second part of your question about a locally published file - can you expand on that a bit?
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Hey Michael - We're still looking into the technical feasibility of supporting ArcGIS Enterprise (including Portal for ArcGIS). As a consequence of 'living' inside Power BI, there are some authentication types that can't be supported by the app. We're currently trying to evaluate what's possible vs what's useful to users. Could you help us with that by providing your company / organization name and security protocol your company uses to authenticate to ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal)? If you prefer not to share that publicly feel free to email me at sball at esri dot com. Thanks!
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Hey Tyson Taylor - another follow-up question regarding your request: at your company do you use the out-of-the-box version of Power BI that is based in the cloud ("Power BI service"), or do you use the on-prem version ("Power BI Report Server")?
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There hasn't been any talk of adding this capability to the visual, as Power BI handles data connections through their data connectors in the 'Get Data' area of the product. Our map visual simply visualizes the data model you've set up. To my knowledge there have been no talks of adding an ArcGIS data connector into Power BI, but it's an interesting thought. Might want to add it to the Power BI ideas site and see if it catches on...
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Hey Kimberley - I think you're asking for something slightly different. It sounds like you're wanting to add tabular data from the ArcGIS feature layer into Power BI as a table in the Power BI data model so you can then use Power BI visuals to display data from ArcGIS - is that right? If so, that's not something that is supported. At this time you can add ArcGIS feature layers as reference layers in the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI map visual for visualization and spatial interaction on the map (more here). You can view the information for each feature via popups on the map but we don't provide a direct connection to those underlying data.
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Hey Steven - sorry to hear the process has been so frustrating. Can we start with what tools you have access to and are familiar with? Are you using ArcGIS Online, ArcMap, or ArcGIS Pro when trying to publish you hosted feature service? Once we identify a good starting point I'll try to help walk you through it.
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Hey Tyson - at this time no, this map visual does not support ArcGIS Enterprise / connections to Portal for ArcGIS. It's a hot topic of discussion here at Esri, though, and we're working through some technical challenges to see if it's possible to provide ArcGIS Enterprise support. One of the technical challenges is supporting secure connections from Power BI back to ArcGIS Enterprise. The underlying technology (chromium) that Power BI provides for visuals doesn't support all authentication types. It would be great if you (and anyone else requesting ArcGIS Enterprise support) could email me information about how you authenticate to ArcGIS Enterprise. This would help us understand if what we can build will actually work for those of you who want this feature. You can reach me at s b a l l @ e s r i . c o m - thanks!
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