Latest Contributions by RyanUthoff

We're experiencing an "issue" when users re-publish feature services in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise and it un-shares it with the group it was previously in. Below is an example of the issue. I publish a feature service and share that feature service to a group. A second user (who is also an administrator in Portal) re-publishes the feature service, but it un-shares that feature service with the group if that user is not a member of the group.  We never had this issue in ArcMap, so I don't understand why it's an issue in ArcGIS Pro. If you're an administrator, you have access to every single group in Portal, even if you are not a member of it. So I don't understand why it would un-share it with the group. I realize that it is an "easy" fix to just become a member of a group, but some users don't know what group a feature service is a part of and it's an inconvenience to go to the feature service, see what groups it is a part of, and verify that they are a member of the group. Plus, there is the added inconvenience that you (even as an administrator) can't even add yourself as a member to an existing group. You either have to ask someone else to add yourself, or change the owner of the group to yourself which doesn't make sense because you're not allowed to add yourself as a member, yet you can change the owner of the group to yourself. Again, this issue did not exist in ArcMap. This is a pretty annoying inconvenience. I propose that re-publishing feature services in ArcGIS Pro does not un-share it with any group if the user who is re-publishing is not a member of that group. ... View more

I would like to see some additional data management options in the ArcGIS Data Store. I'm currently noticing some data management issues that could probably be easily resolved if Esri provided some additional data management tools. For example, the size of our ArcGIS Data Store is getting bloated and we have no way to reduce the file size. We host the ArcGIS Data Store on its own VM, but deleting the data from the hosted feature service (such as through ArcGIS Pro) does not actually release data back to the OS. I would like to see an Esri tool that would actually release the free space back to the OS (usually accomplished by using a Full Vacuum command in PostgreSQL). I understand that deleting records from the tables will release the space back at the table level (usually through the regular vacuum command which appears to be happening, at least according to the ArcGIS Data Store logs), but I would like to extend that further to release it back to the OS. I deleted approximately 100GB worth of photos, but none of that data is being released back to the OS, and our available storage space is still going down because we're still collecting data in other tables. It is not sustainable for us to just continually adding space to the VM. We need to be able release free space back to the OS to make room for other surveys that contain photos. I have access to the ArcGIS Data Store through pgAdmin, but would prefer to perform these actions using an "Esri approved workflow", such as using an ArcGIS Data Store command utility. Furthermore, since I do have access to the ArcGIS Data Store through pgAdmin, I am noticing that Esri is not always deleting tables it no longer needs (such as when deleting the hosted feature service in Portal or when updating an existing Survey that requires it to "delete" and re-add the table because it is making a schema change to the survey). It leaves the old tables in the database, and just creates new tables. This is very dirty data management which results in a bloated ArcGIS Data Store which Esri gives us no option to cleanup unless if we modify the ArcGIS Data Store directly through pgAdmin which Esri does not recommend. If there could be some cleanup operation that detected orphaned tables and deleted them, that would be nice. ... View more

I am trying to republish an already existing Survey123 in ArcGIS Enterprise. All I did was add a new field to the survey called "survey_version" and when I try to republish it, I get the following error message: ERROR: Field name collision found: survey_version." Error code: 500. Any thoughts on what could be causing this error message? I've been able to re-publish other forms with the exact same field name and haven't had any issues. ... View more

I am currently trying to change the ArcGIS Data Store backup location (using the configurebackuplocation command), but it is not letting me change the location. Every time I try to change the location, it says "Error encountered: Machine (machine URL) returned an error. 'There is a database backup process running.'" I've set the backup frequency to 0 so it no longer backs up and confirmed that it is no longer writing data to the backup location folder, but it is still giving me this error message. Are there any ideas on what the issue is or how to resolve it? ... View more