Latest Contributions by MDB_GIS

I'm not sure if this is a bug or intended behavior, but if you run the "Rebuild Address Locator" tool on a locator that is in your current instance of ArcGIS Pro, when the tool completes, the locator is completely removed from the current project and has to be re-added. If you run the tool by scheduling the GP tool, this does not happen. But if you have ArcGIS Pro open and rebuild the locator, it will be removed. Very annoying to have to constantly re-add the locator.  ... View more

I want to start keeping track of subdivision phases and boundaries in our parcel fabric. It is already published to the portal. I can't figure out how to add a new parcel type, however. There doesn't seem to be a way to do it on the portal version, so I figured that meant it needed to be done on the enterprise geodatabase side.  I stopped the service in portal, and ran the add new parcel type tool, but it tells me that I can't add a non-versioned feature class to a dataset with a versioned topology. So next, I unregistered the dataset as versioned and ran it again.  This time, I got the dreaded Error 999999. So I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do from here. Any advice? ... View more

I receive a lot of CAD data for utilities for our local government. When I add a CAD file into ArcGIS Pro, it usually loads in fine, but in a practically unusable way. Here is an example: As you can see in the first picture there is a ton of large and awkwardly formatted text. If I look at this same file in DWG trueview, it does not look like this. The text is much smaller and doesn't overlap  itself. The second, and largest problem is that all of the cad layers are grouped together so you can't cut things off individually. I don't care about 90% of the things in this drawing. I am only interested in water line data. In DWG trueview, I am able to cut the various layers on/off as needed. But when adding the dwg to arcpro, it just lumps all the lines into one file, all the polygons in another, all the points in another, and all the text in another. There is no easy way to quickly toggle the individual layers on/off without diving in and doing definition queries on the layer. Is there an easier way to make this data usable? I don't have ~$2000/year to buy Autocad that allows you to export shapefiles easily. Any other alternatives?       ... View more

GIS at my organization is rapidly expanding beyond being something that just the GIS department is using. We have a rapidly growing AGOL footprint (soon to be portal within the next year), but AGOL org has historically been setup with just the GIS department in mind. No broader consideration given to departmental data and users outside of the GIS department. I'm looking to change that retroactively, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what a good organizational structure looks like. One area I've always struggled with AGOL is the lack of nested folders. My content page is just pure chaos, mostly because I'm not really sure how else I should be storing things. I'd love to have a folder for each department/project and organize further from there, but that isn't possible. So I'd love to get a peak into a "model" organization that is both easy to maintain and easy to find and share data through. That way when we move to Portal, I can start from a clean slate with a better system in mind. Thank you! ... View more

More specifically, the actual name that is in the service definition. Not the individual layer within the service and not giving it an Alias by editing the name in the AGOL item details page. All that does is mask the original name. Specifically, this is what I'm looking to change the name of:     ... View more