Latest Contributions by ZacharyHart

I'd like to hear more about this scenario too! ... View more

Very similar situation here. We keep unearthing small issues with security and configuring the environment, so heavy testing has yet to occur. My primary issue I've yet to test-out and determine a path forward for is dealing with our current need for multi-user editing for our local team (onprem ArcGIS Desktop) while still having an enterprise GDB (and therefore SQL Standard instance) in Azure for publication of map & feature services [without needing 2 ArcGIS Enterprise licenses and 2 SQL Server instances]. My ideal is that our local connections to the enterprise GDB on Azure will magically have sufficient speed/drawing times. If that doesn't work out I'll have to rethink our data model/data flow. This could leave us in a situation where each workstation has an SQL express instance to host 2-way GDB replicas and then implementing scripts run via task scheduler that keep everything synced up. Its far from ideal, but that may be the reality I'm facing depending on how testing works out. There are a number of other factors at play here; I'm happy to compare notes with you. I'm a bit surprised there isn't more discussion about this yet but I suspect most organizations have well-funded GIS infrastructure which takes care of many of these issues. ... View more

I see...that makes sense now, thanks! ... View more

Dan, thanks for that. Couldn't figure out what the target script was! One other thing since my Pro install (and therefore python 3.x) was placed in C:\Program Files, any user setting up the target in the Windows shortcut will have to use quotes to handle the spaces in the path: "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\stuff\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\stuff\script.py" [Or just use the C:\PROGRA~1 notation for the executable]. Part of me is still curious why the package manager install didn't configure the shortcuts right in the first place, but this got me setup. Thanks Dan! ... View more

Randall, thanks. I actually found another thread that went into depth on this. I was ready to call the relational data store a hoax or misnomer, but apparently there is Postgres under the hood somewhere. I also learned that 10.5.1 is going to be the last version you can register an enterprise GDB as your site's managed DB for a hosting server! That's pretty insightful right there.... ... View more

Just verified, editing other FS works just fine...sigh...I was worried that some extraordinary sanitation was going to be the only fix. On top of that, I can't get the copy runtime gdb to fGDB to work (I've read everything I can), so all the field data is lost I guess. Thanks for your help looking into this, I'll keep you posted. Doesn't bode well for enterprise deployment though... ... View more

copied local, tried different drives, shortened the folder name, then shortened the file name itself and still no luck... Error 001730 EDIT: this is a runtime geodatabase from Android ... View more

Ok, now we're getting somewhere: Service is started just fine. Much to my surprise, when I edit in AGOL, the edits are not transacted to the backend DB (nor can I see the changes in the mobile app for whatever that's worth). This makes no sense to me since its not a hosted feature layer, but a legit feature service on our GIS server. Furthermore, we have other feature services where the edits do take place. I did check via the REST interface and replicas are indeed being created for what that's worth. But its a little odd that the first replica doesn't have that numerical suffice... ... View more

Jeez...I feel dumb now. Um, both Jake & Neil are correct (and I marked as helpful). Totally works now (although I'm totally at a loss as to why the other script works as expected w/o setting a parameter for the output). EDIT: in a twist of fate, i'm going to have to roll up the output into a zip anyway to account for multiple shapefiles in the input zip). EDIT x2: so in modifying my script further I realized what the difference between the two script tools is. Even though I did not set a parameter for the output, because I supplied a default value in the script tool parameter properties, it will add that as a GP result...I'm guessing that is poor practice and will be implementing  set parameter instead. ... View more

I like your logic, and looked to see if I implemented in that my other script but I didn't and it works fine. I'm thinking I could trick this into working by setting the output parameter as 'required' (but whatever the user enters for that, the tool creates the name of the output on its own anyway). ... View more

Hah! let me edit that....doh! ... View more