Latest Contributions by RyanUthoff

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

I'm not sure if this is by design or not, but I am noticing that the Survey123 Sync settings (when publishing a Survey123 form) are not being honored on the item page in Portal. According to this page (Publish your survey—Survey123 for ArcGIS | Documentation ), you can choose to either enable or disable sync when publishing a Survey123 form. However, when I publish a Survey123 form to Portal with sync disabled, on the Survey123 hosted feature service item page, it has sync enabled regardless if I choose to enable it or not.  The documentation I linked above leads me to believe that if I choose to disable sync when publishing a Survey123 form, it will be unchecked in Portal because the documentation states that I can enable it at a later time via the settings tab on the item page. However, it's checked as being enabled regardless if sync is enabled or not. Is this normal behavior or am I just missing something here? I'm using Survey123 Connect 3.6.137 and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1. ... View more

I am having an issue with the Explorer app (only tested on Android) when it draws feature services pulling from ArcGIS Enterprise. I am noticing significantly slower draw speeds/timeouts when using the Explorer app as opposed to using Collector or a web browser. Most of the time, the maps stop drawing in Explorer and I get error messages in the server logs saying "Error performing query operation Wait time of the request to the service has expired." I don't receive this message or have any issues when accessing the map through Collector or the Portal web browser map viewer. Is there a reason why Explorer would be much slower than the other applications? ... View more