Latest Contributions by mpboyle

We have an externally exposed Enterprise deployment (10.8.1).  Each individual component works over the internet BEFORE we federate Portal and Server.  Once we federate Portal and Server, we are getting errors when trying to access our Server Manager via the internet. I believe, but am not certain, the issue is that the Portal URL in Server Manager is using the internal URL for the Portal (ex: https://servername/webadaptor) and not the external URL (ex: https://gis.webdomain.gov/webadaptor).   Is there a specific workflow when exposing your Enterprise externally to the internet?  Or, is there a reason why once we federate our Portal and Server, the internet side of things are not working as expected when they do work internally? ... View more

We are looking to do a fresh install of ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 with a multiple machine deployment (each component  on a dedicated server).  Is there any Esri documentation on the preferred/recommended install order? I don't have any problem finding installation guides for each component, but can't seem to find anything on the install order.  I'd like to avoid installing a component and then realizing it's dependent on something else. ... View more

I recently downloaded Experience Builder Developer Edition 1.3, and am getting the error below when trying to authenticate to our ArcGIS Enterprise. Experience Builder Developer Edition requires an ArcGIS organization account with a user type that includes privileges to create content.   I have created an app for authentication purposes with a user that has a Publisher role, and a user that has an Admin role, and get the error for both.  These two users have the ability to create content in our Portal, so I'm not sure why I'm getting this error. We are running Enterprise 10.7.1, which should be compatible with Experience Builder dev edition.   Also...there is only one url in the readme.txt file provided in the Experience Builder dev edition download, which when I try accessing it, I get a 404 error. ... View more

I have a survey that references a service published from our ArcGIS Server.  I can access the survey and submit data as expected when pulling up the web form, however, we'd like to have the survey embedded in a dashboard.  When we try to do this, the survey keeps returning "this survey does not exist or is not accessible". The only way we've gotten it to work is to share the items publicly, which is not desirable.  I am the owner of the service published from our Server, the web map used in the dashboard, and the survey...what am I missing in order to get the survey to work as embedded content in a dashboard, while not having everything shared to the public? We are using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1, and ArcGIS Survery123 3.10. ... View more

Is it possible to geocode a table using the Esri World Geocoder in a stand alone script using Pro and the function  arcpy.GeocodeAddresses_geocoding ? If I'm in Pro and use this tool, and use the Esri World Geocoder we have as an item in our Portal (with an AGO user credentials stored), I can successfully geocode the table as expected. If I try writing a stand-alone Python script, it fails every time, and I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below is a sample of my code: # portal variables portalUrl = '...our AGO for Organizations URL...' portalUser = '...userName...' portalPassword = '...userPassword...' # geocode variables geocodeTable = '...path to table containing addresses...' geocodeUrl = r'https://geocode.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World/GeocodeServer' OR geocodeUrl = r'...url to our Portal item referencing the Esri World Geocoder with AGO credentials stored...' geocodeFieldMap = 'Address SiteAddress;City SiteCity;Region SiteState;Postal SiteZip' geocodeOutput = '...path to output feature class...' arcpy.SignInToPortal(portalUrl, portalUser, portalPassword) arcpy.GeocodeAddresses_geocoding(geocodeTable, geocodeUrl, geocodeFieldMap, geocodeOutput, None, None, None, None)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ I seem to always get this error:  arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000005: Could not open the address locator. Failed to execute (GeocodeAddresses). I have also tried using arcgis.geocoding.batch_geocode ... but this doesn't preserve any of the other attributes within the table, other than the address information used to locate the point, which is pointless for what we're trying to accomplish. ... View more

We recently moved some of our low priority services to the shared instance pool on our ArcGIS Server.  One thing we noticed almost immediately after moving these services is that we have A LOT more connections to our enterprise databases. We log the number of connections to our enterprise databases so we have a good baseline of the number of connections to expect, and once we moved these services to our shared instance pool, the number of connections exploded. Is this an expected behavior of the shared instance pool?  Has anyone else noticed this?  Does this have any negative affects on performance for the database? Below is a query showing the number of connections to our enterprise databases, and you can see after we moved services to the shared instance pool, at around 9am on Wednesday (10/14/2020) the number of connections ballooned.  The previous day, Tuesday 10/13/2020 shows our typical number of connections. Environment Settings ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1 (Portal, Server, Data Store, Web Adaptor) --- each component is installed on a separate server RDBMS: Sql Server 2014 Standard Number of shared instances per machine: 4 ... View more

In ArcMap there is an option within the Fields view to reset the default field order.  I believe it would be nice to have the same functionality within Pro. ... View more

Now that ArcGIS Pro includes some replication tools at version 2.5, I'm wondering if there will be a workflow similar to the one outlined in this technical article for creating replicas in different coordinate systems? Better yet...could the the environment variables arcpy.env.outputCoordinateSystem and arcpy.env.geographicTransformations be used as substitutes for this manual workflow? We would like to have all (or as much as possible) of our web services in Web Mercator to avoid any type of on-the-fly projection...but the only method I've found for create a child replica in a different coordinate system is the workflow linked above. ... View more

Is it possible to search/filter for empty strings in the Portal/AGO map viewer? We are using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7.1 and have text fields that contain empty strings.  I can't find a way to search/filter these values.  An empty string is not the same as a NULL value, which can be filtered using "is blank". While we could calculate all these fields to NULL since this particular field is nullable, what if it were a text field that did not allow NULL values? Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions are welcome.  Thanks! ... View more