Latest Contributions by SteveCole

‎03-27-2025

One of the worst ESRI decisions has been switching to the context sensitive Ribbon user interface. If you aren't accessing a ribbon area from the correct application state, then the ribbon section you want will be greyed out or the specific tool you need will not visible. The text description step by setp in the link I shared is a bit more specific. The first thing you have to do is create the layout, so in your screenshot, you would select Insert->New Layout and pick your desired page size (letter, etc). The layout should be open and then next you need to add the data frame onto the layout. Again, with the layout being the active tab, you would go Insert->Map Frames and select the map that you have set up that includes the point layer you want to base the map series off of. Again, with the layout being the active tab in your project, the Insert->Map Series command (chosing the Spatial option in it) then brings up the options to actually set up the map series.

‎03-27-2025

Spatial Map Series?

‎03-25-2025

I have experienced this within our Enterprise environment and posted about this in a thread here. The cliff note version was, in our case, our enterprise headless account had not been given privileges to some layers (manage->privileges in ArcCatalog or Pro's Catalog View). Once they were, the print service worked as it should.

‎03-20-2025

Yeah, it's absolutely misleading to think that the EB widget is equivalent to its former WAB widget. ESRI had often "reimagined" the widget so functionality you relied on in WAB just doesn't exist in the EB version. The Near Me widget is my huckleberry and source of aggravation.

‎03-19-2025

According to the EB Functionality Matrix, you should be looking at the Text Widget to obtain the same functionality. Sadly, the "functional equivalents" in EB from WAB usually include changes which make the EB widget act in a manner that isn't exactly equivalent to how it operated in WAB. Hopefully you have better luck than the rest of us trying to migrate from WAB to EB. Steve

‎03-12-2025

I posted a similar idea last year here. I basically wanted to see the ability to create subfolders within Hosted in order to provide that organization.

‎03-10-2025

You can probably target a specific CSS class to accomplish this but it would only work with a self hosted Developer edition version of EB

‎03-10-2025

@AzizaParveen1 Instant apps are narrowly focused in functionality so it's really isn't an option for my use case. I'm really mystified why ESRI would choose to develop an experience that returns information to the user one way (results on screen, formatted as pop up content) and then completely change it when the user wants to preserve that information (print to PDF as spreadsheet content). You already have an export to CSV option so the Print to PDF option you have rolled out is duplicative of Export to CSV *and* it clips the output so who really finds that useful? This makes no sense at all.

‎02-28-2025

Credit usage is laid out on the website here but you can always contact your rep to try and get a better idea for your situation (how many credits you get with your maintenance, etc). Something else that's less clear to me is if there is any "upcharging" of credit usage if you have something that suddenly becomes high demand (which would, in turn, require backside ramping up of capability). I don't see anything on the linked page about that but I feel like I had read or heard that somewhere. That's something your rep could probably confirm/rebuke.

‎02-28-2025

Our CAD files are in a known projection's coordinates so as long as the projection in the data frame is specified, we have no issue with them displaying, in the proper location, in their native format. I try as much as possible to not convert CAD files into GIS because it's duplicative & wasteful the vast majority of the time. I used to do this when Autodesk's product update cycle outpaced ESRI's but saving the CAD files in an older CAD version has alleviated that for me. @RTPL_AU I have added an idea as you suggested here.

‎02-28-2025

Prompted by the discussion in this thread, please add an option setting with respect to CAD layers that will dictate the default nature of how Pro treats CAD files. In Arcmap, adding a CAD file prompted the user to choose between the most basic of layers within the CAD file: But with Pro, you are presented with a much more diverse suite of offerings (at least with the CAD files I work with): I would like to see an application options toggle which dictates whether Pro presents the user with the simple structure of CAD files as found in Arcmap or the complex structure found currently in Pro. I prefer the more simplistic approach from Arcmap and I suspect less knowledgeable users would prefer that as well. These users may not realize that you can double click into a CAD file to select individual layers. If they just select the CAD file and click ok, Pro loads *all* available layers and it becomes a mess inside their map. This was something that prompted the thread I linked above.

‎02-27-2025

I believe I've read that Arcade is coming to Experience Builder so perhaps this is already in the works. If not.. While using the Near Me widget, the analysis results have a display field which is used for the record's title in the results. Unfortunately, the designer must chose from an existing list of attribute fields and one cannot select an expression field that exists in the layer in the web map of interest *or* create an expression field in this part of the Near Me Widget Analysis options for use as the display field. I work with census data and one of the attribute fields that stored the census tract or block group name is stored as text separated with semi-colons like this: "<Block Group>;<Census Tract>;<County Name>;<State>" and it would be very simple using Arcade to work with that string to parse out exactly how I want my label to be if I was able to use an Arcade expression rather than a physical field. Currently I'll have to add a new attribute field to my data in order to get the desired label for each record in the results. In summary please either add the ability to define an Arcade Attribution Expression for the Display Field in the Near Me Analysis Widget *or* make attribute expression found in the webmap accessible in the display field list.

‎02-27-2025

Yeah, I believe you're right. The other stuff really adds clutter and confuses the matter but I added the polyline in Arcmap & Pro side by side and don't see a difference. I just now need to instruct my co-workers to actually drill into the CAD file to select the polyline layer instead of just adding the CAD file (which brings in all the various layers in it).

‎02-27-2025

I tend to feel it most when editing because the contextual ribbon UI has to keep changing when you alternate between adding a feature & then modifying it. So many pregnant pauses..

‎02-27-2025

One of the annoying issues in Pro is how it treats CAD files. In Arcmap, when you navigated to add a layer from a CAD file, you had the basic point | line | Polygon | Annotation options: But Pro seeks to make this more complicated: Is there an option / setting to get Pro to treat CAD files in the same way that Arcmap did? My read on this is that I have to go through the extra step of using the processing toolbox to merge the various layers together into an entirely new layer in order to get "one" polyline feature class. This seems to be another example of MORE work to do the same thing in Arcmap. Am I wrong?

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Latest Contributions by SteveCole

Re: Screenshot of Individual Points.

Re: Screenshot of Individual Points.

Re: Experience Builder App Printing Issues with Layers

Re: WAB Summary Widget equivalent

Re: WAB Summary Widget equivalent

Re: Hosted feature service folder organization

Re: Change Legend Window Background to be semi-transparent?

Re: What’s new in Near Me (February 2025)

Re: How Do I Estimate Size Hosted Feature Layer will Be?

Re: CAD file treatment Arcmap vs Pro

Add toggle option for Simple / Complex CAD layer loading

Enable Arcade for Near Me Results Display Field

Re: CAD file treatment Arcmap vs Pro

Re: Is ArcPro just generally slower than ArcMap?

CAD file treatment Arcmap vs Pro

Re: How to Re-Create Near Me Widget in Portal

Re: ArcGIS Javascript API 3.x documentation

Re: Extracting data from public Mapbox map

Re: Extracting data from public Mapbox map

Re: Unable To Create Labels In 3.5 Desktop