Latest Contributions by BenTurrell

Hey Ricky Prowse‌, Your question sounds a lot like this one: Using choice_filter with a select_multiple question.  There isn't a well defined answer to it but there are some ideas that may help out in there! Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Angus Hooper‌, I have been looking for this information for a few clients now and it doesn't look like its a feature. The documentation covers the data in transit (HTTPS) but there is no mention of at rest. I have found this which may be useful for you. Its for 10.3 but suggests that whole disk encryption should be utilised: ArcGIS for Server 10.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide  Happy to discuss further. Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Filip Kuzman‌, I think this will be what you are after: Getting started with Arcade in the ArcGIS Dashboards Beta  You will be able to use arcade to change the display of data. Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Peter Klingman‌, Is there any news on if the ArcGIS Dashboard Beta will be rolled into ArcGIS Online as part of the June update? I'm quite keen for the Arcade functionality that is in the Dashboard Beta! Thanks Ben ... View more

Hey Corey Wills‌, Next to the title in your contents pane it shows what type of items they are. You are looking for Hosted Feature Layers or Feature Layer and you will be able to add it to your map. When you upload a shapefile you should see a tick box that says publish this file as a hosted layer. If you tick that and then try and add it to the map you should be good to go! Thanks, Ben ... View more

Hey Corey Wills‌, How did you upload the shapefile? Did you add it to a map or did you do the upload through My Contents -> Add Item? If you can send a screen shot of the my contents and the shapefiles item page it would help out! Thanks, Ben ... View more

Diego Llamas‌, It could be a few things. I would check the following: Can you access the ArcGIS Server on the ArcGIS Server machine? Can you access the ArcGIS Portal on the ArcGIS Portal machine? Are the services in services.msc running? Thanks, Ben ... View more

Hey Spencer Larson‌, I would have a chat with your Esri contact as they will let you know if they can help out with this sort of work. Depending on your level of database knowledge you may consider just using a relational data store which you will need to build when you do an enterprise build. When you publish hosted feature layers you can specify if people can edit the data which will allow people to edit the data using ArcGIS Pro or a variety of other products (Collecter, Survery123). For your servers I would recommend you start out with one as you grow the capability in your agency and give it 32GB of RAM and 4 cores. You can always split the capabilities off on to separate machines at a later stage. When we talk about high availability, active-active, active-passive we are talking about what happens if the server breaks. High availability generally means that you double up on everything so if one machine breaks the other one takes over. This is a more complex build and requires more administration so I would advise that you be aware of it and should you need to host mission critical data you look into it. When we talk about balancing the load there are a few ways people interpret that. WE do multi site machines which is each machine has its own capability on it (seperate Portal, Server and Datastore onto their own machines). Multi machine generally aims to remove bottle necks and allows you to spec the machine as required for the capability. You can also balance load using two machines that are built identically and then you can share traffic between the two which helps to alleviate load. A single machine installation will be the quickest and easiest to manage and will allow you to experience/test the capabilities that Enterprise has to offer. There are plenty of tools that you can use to monitor its usage and determine when you want to upgrade it to a more powerful machine, multi-site or load balanced. How long a single machine build will really depend on your agencies uptake of the Enterprise stack. If you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask! Thanks, Ben ... View more

Hey Spencer Larson‌, Some considerations and questions I ask before I do a deployment are: What capabilities do you need? How much downtime can users experience? (This leads to the next three questions) Does the environment need to be highly available? (Active- Active This doubles the amount of machines and licenses usually) Do you want a backup system in place? (Active-Passive This doubles the amount of machines but since only one Enterprise is running at a time you can reuse the licenses) What sort of data will be stored in the Enterprise system? (This helps you to understand the amounts of data you are likely going to need to store and backup) How many people will be administering the system?(How simple does the system need to be so that the admins don't get overwhelmed by the amount of work. Leads into the next question as well.) Do you want everything on one machine or each capability to have its own machine? (This depends on the capabilities you want as some need to have their own server for basic performance. Single site vs multi site build) What load are you expecting? (Internal users only?, External users?) Most of my builds use the following principles: 4 Cores, 8GB RAM is a minimum for all capabilities (Note: Minimum means it will start, users will not have a very good experience using the minimum!!) Using the above advice if I was building a test deployment of Enterprise (ArcGIS Portal, Server (Hosting), and Datastore (relational)) on a single machine I would be looking at 4 core and 24GB of RAM. For a multiple machine deployment for the same ( 3 machines with Portal, Server and Datastore on their own machine) I would look at each machine being 4 core 8GB of RAM. Again the above machines would not deal very well with more than 5 or so users and a handful or services. I would start off with 4 core and 12GB for each service in a multi machine deployment. I'm sure I've missed obvious things above so I'm more than happy to discuss! Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Estella Smith‌, It looks like your date is in epoch time(https://www.epochconverter.com/). Take a look at this link: Decimal date time—Survey123 for ArcGIS | Documentation  It talks about the different limitations for dates and times in the different apps. Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Emily Renkema‌, Take a look at this document for an idea of how you would get this working. The example is heavily focused on Survey123 however there are parts on how you can secure the hosted feature layer so that no one can see others inputs or edit others data: https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2016/11/10/getting-started-with-public-surveys  Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Diego Llamas‌, Can you access the server or portal using the direct url with port 6443 or 7443? Thanks, Ben If this answer was helpful please mark it as helpful. If this answer solved your question please mark it as the answer to help others who have the same question. ... View more

Hey Rob Ward‌, If you are using ArcGIS Pro 2.5 you could schedule a model builder to create and (I think!) publish the hex bin layer: Schedule Geoprocessing Tools and Models in ArcGIS Pro 2.5  You could also potentially use python and schedule it to run. Both of the above options should work however it would very much depend on how often you need to update the data and how long you are going to be running the service for! xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?  One other idea is you could create a web application and set the maximum zoom level. Happy to discuss further. Ben ... View more

Hey Edgaras Kalinauskas‌, Is this the program you are talking about: Esri Offers Free Access to GIS Training for Furloughed Professionals Affected by Coronavirus  Thanks, Ben ... View more