Latest Contributions by DougBrowning

I asked this in person a few years ago now and they said it was and "easy add" but 2+ years later I am still not seeing it so starting a post.  It may have been @JonathanUihlein who I love talking to each year Dev Summit! New Map Viewer We can group layers which is nice esp on big maps.  Big use case is to have our Reference layers in a different group than our own data. But you cannot group the tables section at all.  So it turns into a garbage pile fast.  Can we please add grouping to tables.  Most of our data is tables so we really need it.  In general we should be able to work with tables the same as layers at all times. Even better would be to NOT separate tables into a different section than the layers.  I personally cannot think of a single use case where I would not want to see my layers and related tables all together in a nice neat group.  Our users are always having to go hunt around and complain about it daily.  Esp now that the Show Related Records button is gone (BTW bring that back ASAP) it is so hard for users. Pro can now group layers and tables (which is sweet thanks) but even if we do this and publish Map Viewer just pulls them back apart.  Even in Pro tables are still stuck at the bottom which I also wish would fixed. Why do we want tables and layers right next to each other - for related tables!  Esp with Survey123 if I have a main parent layer and then a related data of table from a repeat the user needs to somehow know which table matches the layer.  Now they have to go hunting down to the bottom, or worse go to a completely different map section and try and find it.  With several forms in one map this gets to be a lot of work flipping back and forth. BTW I would love to be able to add other items in the map too like links to PDF help files.   thanks a lot! ... View more

Does anyone with Pro 3.5 know if the new Append To Existing tool can handle relationship classes?  Or has the unmanaged behavior been changed?   I posted to this blog but have not heard anything.  https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/analytics/overwrite-options-arcgis-pro My post Will this properly handle relationship classes? I have had this issue for years when we need to swap out the records of a parent table. Even though our relationship classes are set to “Unmanaged” Arc will still set all the child keys to null on me if a delete the parent! This is not what I would expect from an “Unmanaged” relate. Will this new tool have a way around this? If not when the delete fires all the child record keys get set to null and then there is no way to tell them apart anymore. Preferably “Unmanaged” relates get changed to be truly unmanaged, but if not, this tool should have a way around this. Esp when we have replication going it gets hard. It is also hard since we have 15-20 relates off the parent. It can take hours to delete since it goes and touches every single child. BTW the way I have been getting around this the last few years by doing this - First calculate all the parent keys to the word Delete. Then replicate if you have a replica. Then finally delete the records. This way when it goes hunting for children it finds none. thanks for any advice here ... View more

I have a toolbox with optional inputs that I want blank unless the user picks something. This works great in Pro. But no matter what options I try WAB Geoprocessing widget forces a value to be picked and it cannot be left blank at all.  This does not make sense as it is an optional parameter. I have set Remove default values in both places when publishing.   I think I have seen this before.  I really do not want to add a None option.  I am guessing this will not get fixed at this point but its worth a shot if anyone has a way? thanks   ... View more