Latest Contributions by DavinShokes1

NIM100346 wont be addressed NIM099522 open ENH-000085269 open ... View more

Actually, here is  a very important use case that does not involve globalIDs: Imagine that the parent layer in a hosted service contains points of addresses. These addresses originate from a non-spatial business system within your organization. As expected the system generates unique integers for each address. Meanwhile, the ArcGIS child layer exists to track visits to addresses with Collector. Certain fields contain information you would like to bring back to your business system. By using an integer field (AddressID) for the relationship,  the transfering and synchronizing with the external database is simpler. Where as trying to force globalIDs into your bussiness system would just complicate the workflow. One caveat is that you may want to prevent null values for the related field in the parent layer. That is unless the workflow allows users to create orphaned features in the child layer. ... View more

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FeatureLayer.applyEdits() always erroring on update when it actually worked see Ben Fousek 's this.applyEdits(null, [feature], null, function (a, u, d) {      console.log(u[0]);    }, function (error) {      console.log(error);    }); ... View more

Do you use the rest to get around the feature return limit? Yes I use it to sync 70k+ features with a business system. The ArcREST code checks max feature count, breaks up large queries into chunks, and then combines them before returning the result. Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<module1>", line 21, in <module>   File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\lib\site-packages\arcrest\agol\layer.py", line 740, in query     return FeatureSet.fromJSON(json.dumps(results))   File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\lib\site-packages\arcrest\common\general.py", line 590, in fromJSON     for feat in jd['features']: KeyError: 'features' Its tough to say without seeing the featurelayer.query() line, but try # Set Geoprocessing environments     Scratch_gdb = r'C:\Python\scratch.gdb'     arcpy.env.scratchWorkspace = Scratch_gdb     arcpy.env.workspace = Scratch_gdb print fl.query(where="1=1",out_fields='*',returnGeometry=False, returnfeatureclass=True, out_fc='tempfc') That may help narrow in on the issue. Also is there any docs on any of this... All i can find is the comments in the code                replicaName - string of replica name                layers - layer id # as comma seperated string                keep_replica - if the replica does not have returnAsFeatureClass set to true,                               the feature service creates a permanent copy of the replica.                               If this is just a pull, then erase the replica in order to prevent                               build up of replicas.                layerQueries - In addition to the layers and geometry parameters, the layerQueries                               parameter can be used to further define what is replicated. This                               parameter allows you to set properties on a per layer or per table                               basis. Only the properties for the layers and tables that you want                               changed from the default are required.                                 Example:                                   layerQueries = {"0":{"queryOption": "useFilter", "useGeometry": true,                                                  "where": "requires_inspection = Yes"}}                geometryFilter - Geospatial filter applied to the replica to parse down data output.                returnAttachments - If true, attachments are added to the replica and returned in the                                    response. Otherwise, attachments are not included.                returnAttachmentDatabyURL -  If true, a reference to a URL will be provided for each                                             attachment returned from createReplica. Otherwise,                                             attachments are embedded in the response.                returnAsFeatureClass - If a local copy is desired, set this parameter to True, else                                       the service will return information on how to download the                                       json file.                out_path - Path where the FGDB will be saved.  Only used with returnAsFeatureClass is                           True. This is the only documentation currently. ... View more

If you're primary purpose is to export to fgdb, you could bypass ArcMap altogether with ArcREST Esri/ArcREST · GitHub . This ArcREST/create_replica_fs.py will get you a a local backup of the data (no bidirectional option yet). If you want to keep the data in one location, you can follow ArcREST/query_agol_layer.py to query features since the last backup. The in-memory featureset can then be incorporated with the existing local data via arcpy cursors for fgdb or the pyodbc library for sql databases. It is also possible to programmatically build 2 way synchronization with arcpy and arcrest. Then you can use windows task scheduler to sync your local version every 15 minutes. Hope this helps, Davin ... View more

Thanks for the info! ... View more

I have not seen this behavior but would love to be able to do this with a local html file. My android users currently click an image in the popup that links to file://mnt/sdcard/CollectorCalculator/index.html#field1={field1}&field2={field2}. The local url simply runs a lookup table so the user can copy field3 back into collector. If I could actually get the html to load in collector, it would save numerous steps hopping in and out of collector. Bert Havekes, could you please type out the syntax for your link so I can try and reproduce on a local file? Thanks. ... View more

You are correct. sd files are compressed packages. I can provide some images of components in the sd file. This is top level. I found the feature templates definition in the featureserver.json within .../servicedescriptions/featureserver/. I just ran another test. Here is an image of feature templates in the mxd. a subset of all available symbols and domain values starting with letter "A" or "B": After staging the sd file I checked the featureserver.json types and see every domain values listed in a random order. Here is the map view edit panel after publishing I could script sorting of the types in the json file in the sd file and overwrite the service, but REST updateDefinition is easier. ... View more

Xander Bakker, the publishing issue is improper template order. Since ArcMap 10.1 up to 10.3.1 feature templates seem to reorganize, with no discernible pattern, while staging the service definition file. It occurs when I use picture marker symbols matched to style on a string field with a unique values domain. Other users have posted about this same issue. Tickets and bugs closed in the past were marked low priority/no work around. Since support has trouble reproducing the issue, I've made my own workarounds to script bulk symbology and template changes directly on the services. Downside: It's a grey area for getting support and I tend to stumble upon other bugs/unintended usages of the REST API. Upside: My scheduled sync scripts aren't phased and I don't have to download data with 100's of attachments after everyone goes home just to send it right back up. ... View more

Using 7zip or WinRAR etc.  right click the .sd to get some options. You may be able to modify the json without uncompressing by replacing the .json file inside with the one you have modified. ... View more

Try to make stage the sd file locally. Unzip it and edit the templates found within <sd file> / servicedescriptions / featureserver / featureserver.json Then recompress the sd (you may need to change the extension back to .sd) and try to publish through ArcMap, Arcpy, or after uploading the .sd to your organization. ... View more

Randy Burton​, I have found some more out while testing. 1. I've extracted the featureserver.json from an sd file and confirmed the template order is wrong after staging is complete. Although I haven't checked, one may be able to sort the templates in the json, compress the sd file, and publish. 2. all "contentType" values are set to "" for esriPMS picture marker symbols everytime I programmatically update the service definition via REST. It occurs regardless of whether changes are made or not. 3. When managing templates through the map viewer I tried to pick a new image symbol for a templates. After saving, the "contentType" was set to "image/png". 4. While using the style and templates management panels in map viewer, I found that changing the symbol size and keeping the image did not update "contentType" to "image/png" 5. Map viewer doesn't care about "contentType" but Collector for ArcGIS offline does. ... View more