Latest Contributions by MōnoSimeone

@Jim-Moore the draw shapes tool in the web browser is primarily designed for touch/fingers to draw the shapes on a mobile device --  a user touches the screen and moves in one motion to create the shape. A user with a mouse trying to draw a circle, rectangle, or square is a challenge and drawing irregular polygon drawing is a mess. The experience with other editing tools/widgets is a point, click, click, click to draw the shape. Will the team consider offering a mode or toolset that predefined circle, square, rectangle that only need a scale and rotate option, and for irregular polygons a point and click, point and click experience for users on the desktop using a mouse? I'm happy to share a screenshot of what our users are submitting which show the challenge we are encountering. ... View more

@RichardKochthe chart person for Esri is @FloraVale though this request is something of a mashup between a chart and the time-slider functionality - at least in my concept of the chart. What may be helpful to this idea is to explain how you/your teams would use the tool because the first thing Esri does is ask why you can't achieve this functionality with the existing tools. For example, in construction logistics or event planning, in the GIS we want to be able to see how long each activity occurs (this is the gantt bars) to identify conflicts (aka clash detection) and then be able to click on a specific day/time or select a range of time and highlight those records in the map (and to be able to filter by a specific day/time or range). In addition, I need rollups in the Gantt chart to see the subparts of an activity. One can almost achieve a gantt chart "look" with a bar chart in ExB but it's not a workable solution and falls short of what this request is seeking due to the additional parameters needed to get the expected behavior of a true gantt chart. Happy to coordinate to push Esri on a solution. ... View more

Ran into this issue when adding columns that list the building # and name from an Excel file. The column headers are not needed as it's self-evident that the first column is the map pin # and the next column is the building name.  There are alternatives to achieving a similar look: 1) copy/pasting the excel into the layout as a picture element; 2) using one of the text types (but this takes some work and isn't semi-dynamic like reading from an Excel file); or 3) ignore column headers in Excel, and then change the Heading background to the color of your choice (Table Frame > Display > Heading > background), and change the heading text appearance font style to Regular to match the fields text style. @AubriOtis It would be helpful to have an override setting to turn off the display of the header while still showing the desired fields. ... View more

@SWilanderuse "+" to connect the arcade statements.   ... View more

@TimothyCallahan @FloraVale a master construction activity/project schedule only gets logistics and planning so far - the hurdle is as you say is to "draw project boundaries...that link to a Gantt chart". This would enable logistic teams or planners/PMs to identify conflicts or opportunities as well as understand task relationships (dependencies) based on time and location, while maintaining a view project durations which provide the overall schedule view. Gantt charts are critical in construction project scheduling and event planning because the planner/PM can visually view the project activities in a way that is logical to planning and managing the project(s) for "what if" scenarios, and to avoid delays and re-work. Microsoft Project, P6, and other PM scheduling software have become more open/exportable for other systems to use. Adding a geographic link to a Gantt chart is not novel as existing project construction software does this with BIM data for both internal construction and site logistics; scheduling staging and material (or parking, Big rooms, etc.) around a construction site as the structure is being built. Another scenario:  20 projects are scheduled on a segment of Street A over the course of a 12 months. One project's boundary covers the entire street segment while the other 19 projects are all smaller footprint boundaries but also overlap/cover each other. The time-slider will display all "active" projects as it relates to the time-range defined by the user (1 day, 1 week, etc) on the slider but as a planner/PM I need to see the list of projects, their duration, and how they relate to each other to leverage the geographic view presented to understand conflicts, opportunities, and dependencies. The time slider does not convey to the user that project A is just about to end, and project B has just begun, which a Gantt view would provide. ... View more

Has there been any 3rd party Gantt chart widgets built for Pro, WAB, or Dashboards? Will need something in the near future to satisfy area-wide logistics. ... View more

Cole Andrews‌, yes based on the feature class date fields. Gantt charts for scheduling rely on [start date] and [end date] of an activity. A few other considerations if this was to be added as chart type in Pro/WAB/EB/OD... Settings or options that would enhance a Gantt widget: a) Range selection > user has the ability to set a date range to see only the activities within the user-defined date range; or, to define a date range as part of the Gantt chart, removing the ability for the user to change it. b) Level selection: Typically, in construction or event planning, there are different "levels" to an activity "Level 1" is the rollup of all underlining activities. For example, the Level 1 activity may be to "repave road", this has an overall start and end date; Level 2 would be the more specific individual activities (each with their own start/end dates) such as grind pavement, replace catch basin, pour concrete, set asphalt, add lane striping. These 5 activities "rollup" to the main activity of repaving the road. Therefore, a P6, or Microsoft Project schedule may have several Level 1 activities, and each Level 1 activity has its own subset of Level 2 activities.This would also satisfy looking at a master schedule, each project would be a level 1 activity. The user should have the ability to filter by a non-date field that expresses these "levels", so only to see Level 1 records, or the level 2 records, or both level 1 and level 2 records. The user should also have the ability to filter by a specific Level 1 record. There might be several Level 1 activities, this would allow a user to focus/filter on a specific activity to be represented in the Gantt chart. c) Display the activity duration as a numeric value next to the Activity (and have the ability to choose the time unit: days, months, years) I can't believe it's been 3 years since I wrote this idea 😕 ... View more

I support this enhancement as we have many legacy and campus in AI and it would be useful to make them data-driven. An easy import of the vectors into a file geodatabase with a parameter for setting the scale of the drawing and the map extent. Once in the gdb, georeferencing tools can be used to rectify if necessary. Using a process similar to the GP tool to import a KML file, or as the author, aaddision, suggests the CAD import tool. Conversely, if I export an AIX then I should be able to import this file back into a file geodatabase and have the geometry in the correct CRS....perhaps involving a CAD like "world file" to be associated with the .AIX. ... View more

How is this problem addressed in Pro when <null> is an appropriate value? Is there an 'else if' approach to summarizing across fields but excluding the <null> values? Part 2: How to calculate for the frequency of a 0 or 1 but not <null>? ... View more

I also encountered this issue. Aerial basemap from Esri set to 75% transparency. I imported an .mxd created in v10.6 into Pro 2.4. I removed the aerial basemap and re-added it in Pro, exported to PDF (300 dpi, Best, Adaptive) but that did not affect the output and the tile outlines still appeared. What I found, as a temporary workaround, was to reduce the image quality from Best to Normal, it didn't remove them all but enough that it didn't look like a checkers board. ... View more