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I had the goal of adding a third symbology class to my standard parcel fabric set up. I wanted some sort of visual indicator on parcels that were outside of our error tolerance. For instance, if a parcels deeded (stated) acreage is 10 acres, but the calculated acreage is only 8.5, I wanted that parcel to be highlighted in red since it is outside our target threshold of 10%. Setting up the symbology was fairly easy. I just tweaked the existing symbology expression from this:   to this:   That allowed me to set up the symbology that I was going for:     However, in my editing after, I noticed an unexpected behavior when using the "Shrink to Seed" tool. Rather than shrinking shirnking and applying the default blue symbology for a parcel seed, it shrinks and applies the error symbology.   It seems to be recognized as a seed since it is getting labeled by the seed label class, but it is also getting labeled by the Error label class, and I can't quite figure out why. Are there any hidden facets to the "Shrink to Seed" tool that could be causing this? Have I just missed something in my symbology tweaks? I would greatly appreciate any assistance that anyone could provide!   ... View more

We recently upgraded our ArcGIS enterprise server to the full ArcGIS Portal environment (data store, web adaptor, server and portal). What I'm struggling with is how best to use Portal. In the past, I have always published feature classes for online maps to AGOL. If those feature classes were updated by field editors, I would periodically manually sync them with the local copy of our data. As explained to me, the main benefit of Portal is that is allows you to publish your data from your enterprise servers to the portal. You can then add it to a web map, and it syncs immediately. As the field workers make edits, it should update in the enterprise database as well. That sounds great, but the first part that confuses me is that portal seems to be completely disconnected from ArcGIS Online. We have about 70 users in our AGOL setup, so it will be extremely inconvenient to have to move all of our users from AGOL over to portal. Is there a way to pass services published to portal into AGOL, so that AGOL users can make edits to data in our portal? The next area I don't understand is how best to manage content published to the portal. Our Enterprise was configured using a single-machine base deployment. The guy that help us set it up told me that he would recommend limiting the number of services published to portal. He said that if too many people started hitting the services at once, and you had a lot of services, it could cause performance problems. How can I figure out how many services I can optimally publish at a time? Building on that, how best should I publish services? We have around layers on our enterprise database, and of those, it would be helpful to have at least 60 of them published to Portal because they are regularly edited in the field. Should I publish each of those 60 services indidually? Or should I group them into one large service. Or is there an answer somewhere in between there? Ultimately, my problem is that I can't figure out best to implement portal while respecting our current hardware system specs. I love the features promised by portal, but I want to make sure I implement it in the right way. ... View more

I recently converted our parcel data to the parcel fabric. At no point in the conversion process are you warned about Bezier curves. I wasn't even aware my parcel data contained them or even how they were introduced into the parcels. They break the parcel fabric. Almost any interaction with a parcel fabric feature that contains them will lead to software freezes, crashes, or bugs. I verified this by manually converting them all to true curves and retrying the same processes that produced these issues and they worked like a charm once the bezier curves were gone. Currently, there is no easy way to identify bezier curves and there is no way to remove them short of manually converting each segment, one-by-one. When you are dealing with more than 100k features, this is obviously not practical. I would propose two things.  The parcel fabric documentation should be updated to mention that bezier curves are not supported. It should also document  a procedure for removing them from your data prior to converting to the fabric.  There should also be a software function for finding them and converting them to true curves. That way, if you are already in the fabric, you can at least track them down and fix them rather than stumble upon them unexpectedly.  ... View more

I'm not really sure how I ended up with Bezier curves in our parcel fabric, however, I recently came across an area that contained quite a few of them. They seemed to cause a ton of weird issues while editing. I manually converted them all to circular arcs, and that resolved the problem, but now I'm wondering if there are any more in my data. Is there an easy way to find and remove them? I would have thought that running the "Simplify by Straight Lines and Circular Arcs" tool did that, but it seems not because I ran my entire dataset through that prior to migrating to the parcel fabric.  ... View more

I have never had to use tangent curves but for some reason that is always the default in arcgis pro. I know you can change it under the traverse menu for the current project, but it would be great if there was an option in the application settings that would allow that you to select the default for all projects.  ... View more