Latest Contributions by HeathBrackett1

I was about to post the same question.  There seems to be no folder access in the REST API.  I'd not only like to access the folderID, but also the folderName.  I'd like to be able to change a folder name via the API. Heath ... View more

I know that they are available in the UX, but we want to be able to automate many of these tasks so would like the ability to access the full functionality via the API.  Accessing and assigning custom roles through the API seems like a no-brainer to me and I look forward to the 10.3 release.  Why wouldn't you make the API used in the activity dashboard available to everyone?  I understand that most of it would require more monitoring than most organizations would be willing to perform, but as we build out our administrative tools, we'd like to have as much access to these resources as possible. ... View more

Mike, We are just beginning to implement enterprise logins in our ArcGIS Online Organization.  We have over 100 members in the organization, but many of these members 1) have no content and 2) have not logged in to ArcGIS Online in over 4 months.  So I plan to delete these accounts before migration so that there are fewer accounts to migrate.  But, I need to store things from their user information, such as group memberships and roles so that if they request to join the organization at a later date I can restore those things.  I am also working on writing a tool that allows an adminitrator to assign new users roles and group memberships once they have logged in for the first time.  (We have set up our enterprise logins to allow members to log in automatically without an invitation). ArcGIS Online is becoming a popular and important platform for our organization and we are trying to stay ahead of administration by scripting as much as possible.  It would be fantastic if the ArcGIS REST API could keep up with the emerging technology.  I still don't see any documentation on how to access credit consumption on a per user/item basis although I see the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS has that granularity. Heath ... View more

Mike, I'm using PortalPy and can't access any roles other than org_user, org_publisher, and org_admin.  I can only assign one of the ESRI-defined roles to a user via PortalPy.  And if I query a user's role (a user with a custom role), the response role is one of the standard 3 ESRI-defined roles.  I assume it returns the role that was used as a template to create a custom role.  How/when are we going to have access to these custom roles via the API? Heath ... View more

Joe, You can script this process to make it much, much faster.  Have you checked out PortalPy?  You can call the delete_user function and specify the new user that should receive the old user's content before deletion.  Just a few lines of code will take care of all of that. Heath ... View more

Our agency uses IE 10 and Google Chrome.  Each browser works pretty well now using ArcGIS Online (we used to have IE 8 which was wrought with issues), although we tend to still recommend Chrome over IE.  We've done some testing with Firefox and generally think that it performs well, although it is not currently supported by our agency. We are in the beginning stages of migrating our users to enterprise logins through ADFS.  We actually find that Chrome performs better than IE 10.  Users in Chrome are directed right in to the ArcGIS Online environment, while in IE 10 a separate tab opens and then IE prompts the user to close that window before being logged in to AGO.  In Firefox, the user is prompted for their ADFS credentials before being logged in.  We will be doing some more testing with the initial round of users that we migrate.  We figure that we will experience a few hiccups along the way, but have decided to move forward.  I'm most nervous about losing content in the migration process from an old username to the new enterprise username since we don't have any mechanism for creating backups of the content in AGO.  I'm very interested in hearing others' experiences.  Thanks for starting this thread. Heath ... View more

Hi Allen, I've found that it's not that difficult to script tasks your self using some of the Python tools that ESRI has made available on GitHub, especially PortalPy.  I use those tools and the ArcGIS Rest API Help.  I don't consider myself a programmer and it doesn't take much code to get specific tasks written using those resources.  The one thing that is missing is a resource on how to access credit usage through the ArcGIS REST API.  It is not listed in the Help documents.  When will the ArcGIS REST API Help be updated to include access to credit usage? Heath    ... View more

Hi Alex, I ended up using the Esri/ArcREST - GitHub module for some of the processes that I needed to do.  It worked.  I didn't know about the Esri/portalpy tools though.  Thanks for sharing that link.  I'll look into incorporating those into my scripting. Heath ... View more

I don't think I can mark this as answered since I am not the person who started this thread.  At least that's how it used to be in the old forums... Thanks again. ... View more

Thanks David!  That works well for me and it just may be the solution that we use to begin to incorporate these dynamic kml layers in our web maps.  The only thing I see that is unfortunate about this method is that the actual kml layers are embedded deeper into the service if you need to go deeper to turn particular layers on of off.  But that's a relatively small consequence in this case. Heath ... View more

This is a hosted feature service hosted in ArcGIS Online on an ESRI server.  The REST endpoint structure is dependent on the ArcGIS Online Organization ID and the name of the Feature Service.  So that URL will not change unless the name of the service changes or it is deleted.  If I look at the ArcGIS Online REST endpoint for this organization https://services1.arcgis.com/GE4Idg9FL97XBa3P/ArcGIS/rest/services, I don't see the Feature Service that you are referring to.  It looks like that feature service is not shared with everybody, so the proper credentials must be given to the server for it to be viewable.  Meaning that you must always be signed in to ArcGIS Online and the service must be shared with you in order to view the service. ... View more

You projected your data into WGS 84 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere, but is the Data Frame of the mxd also in WGS 84 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere?  It's more important to have your data frame in that coordinate system than your data. ... View more