Latest Contributions by MDB_GIS

We are looking to deploy an Open Data Hub initiative in ArcGIS online. I want to have all of our publicly shareable layers readily available for the public to download. We have quite a few layers, so manually keeping the data up to date would have been a huge headache. I have about 30 feature classes that I am looking to publish and keep updated on a weekly basis. To get ahead of this issue, I have used this excellent post (Thanks @JonahLay!) to customize a python script that will publish and overwrite the layers from an input arcgis pro project to an AGOL service on a weekly basis.  When publishing services to AGOL, are there any best practices regarding publishing multiple feature classes in one service versus publishing them as single feature class services? I have worked with ArcGIS Online data for a long time but have never seen a concrete answer for this. Would you run into bottlenecks by publishing too many feature classes in one service? If so, is there a rule of thumb for how many? Is one way more "efficient" in terms of credit consumption? I know whatever we publish is going to consume credits, which is fine. Just not sure if one method is more efficient than another.  Would appreciate any insight that you can provide. Thank you!   ... View more

It would be very helpful to have a geoprocessing tool for publishing and overwriting services in portal and arcgis online. It is possible to manually create one using this method, however not everyone has the time or knowledge necessary to make it up. This would be a helpful solution to esri's no/low code options. It would allow users to quickly automate the update of online data using modelbuilder.  ... View more

We periodically use the traverse tool to sketch in polygons, and it has always worked without issue in Pro. I'm not sure when exactly, but some time in the past month, the "Adjust" function of the tool seems to have broken. You can type in all the measurements, switch to the closure tab, hit adjust, and it appears to do so at first. But once you "finish" the traverse it reverts back to the unadjusted form. Has anyone experienced this issue before? It occurs on both local feature classes and data that is on network drives. If I switch to ArcMap 10.8.2 and do the traverse there, it works fine. I've created a screen recording below to highlight the issue. You may have to click on it to see the full resolution. Has anyone encountered this issue before? Edit:  Have done some additional testing, none of which worked. Uninstalled and reinstalled arcgis Pro.  Cleared arcGIS Pro cache Reverted to arcGIS Pro 2.9 ... View more

Right now, we have one main enterprise database that has all of our data on it. It is using the old LGIM structure. There are probably around 75 feature classes of varying sizes stored on it. Most are fairly small, however. Largest feature class is probably a point address file with ~40k addresses in it followed by a parcel file with ~30k parcels.  My goal is to have the current version that our entire organization (including editors) is connected to act as a "Read-only" version. I want to clone it and make that clone the editing environment for our editors. I'd then like to have that edit version overwrite the read-only version on a schedule basis (ideally nightly).  First of all, is this a practical workflow with an enterprise database of this size? I have no idea what the limitations for replication are. I have no idea how long it would take for it to overwrite the entire database and I can't find any resources that discuss that. If that isn't practical, are there any other alternatives? Second, assuming it is feasible, are there any pitfalls to this method?  I appreciate any help that you can provide! ... View more

The additions of groups to the new map viewer is very helpful and makes organizing maps with many layers very easy. Unfortunately, if you plan to use that map in a story map and individually display some of those layers, then you can't use groups as the story map will only give you the option to show and hide all grouped items rather than the layers nested under it. This is what the layer looks like in the ToC of the web map:   In the Story Map, you only have the option to toggle off the group. You can't show or hide layers indivdually.    ... View more

I am trying to create a map to allow some of my users to only edit 3 specific attributes of a feature class, but still allowing them to view the rest of them. I have created a view layer and configured the attributes as follows: I have all layers set to display, but only the relevant fields set to edit.  When, I open it in map viewer, however, it gives me full access to edit all fields and still saves them. What is the proper workflow for configuring which attributes are editable in the new map viewer. I haven't seen anything in the settings for the layer and it doesn't adhere to what I have set up in the view layer. This process was much simpler in the classic map viewer.    ... View more

I created a model to automate the database management tasks for our enterprise database. It works great, however I had one glaring oversight. The first step is to reconcile and post the versions. I have the option checked to abort if conflicts are detected. I was thinking that would make the model stop as well, but apparently that isn't the case. The model proceeds to roll through the warning message, delete the (unreconciled) versions, compress, analyze and rebuild indexes. I just realized this when I lost about two hours of edits because of this. Lol. Not a huge deal because we have hourly backups, but surely there must be a way to configure this to abort on a warning message, right? ... View more