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Matt Smith‌, You could also use this regex expression which might save you some trouble if you end up with some dodgy data thrown in. It should also simplify your output as well as [0] will be text and [1] will be numbers: import re   def regex(text):     split_list = re.split(r'^[A-Z]+', text)     return split_list[-1] ... View more

Karol Francis‌, The new Dashboard is currently in beta: Introducing the Upcoming ArcGIS Dashboards Beta  and will be releaseing sometime April! I haven't seen anything firm on the date of intergration with Enbterprise but normally it releases to ArcGIS Online first and then the next version of ArcGIS Enterprise. I'm hoping it will come out in 10.8.1 but I haven't seen any concrete news on it yet! 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

Patrick Ochaya‌, In the web map you can use clustering to make a merge the 3 points at higher scales and then they will split into the 3 dots as you zoom in on your map? Otherwise you can spatially join the points to county polygons which will create a count field. You would then add the new polygon layer to the map and symbolise it with Counts and Amounts (Size). It sounds like you are going to need to have 2 layers for what you want to show as when you spatially join the dots to the county polygon to get counts you will lose a lot of data. I would use the point layer to create my charts and the polygon layer for symbolising on the map. 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

Corey Wills‌, Glad the answer helped. I would recommend displaying the 200 features using the location only. Having 200 locations with different colors will make looking up what color relates to what municipality a real pain! Normally I would just use popups to allow people to interogate the data and get any information they need. Here is a rough example: You can even use the configurable app called Media Map so that it displays it on mouse over rather than click and have the details in a pane off to the side! Happy to discuss further if you have any other questions. Thanks, Ben ... View more

Hey Jim Lugosi‌, Are users logged in when they are accessing the map? If you have shared the application with everyone (public) and it is on your internal network then when people access it and run the routing the credits will come out of the admin account as the users aren't logged in. 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

Chelsea Dickerson‌, The Web App Builder allows you to customise a JavaScript application without having to write JavaScript yourself. When you use the Web App Builder you are effectively passing in configurations to a JavaScript application. To download the application you download the JavaScript application which lets you fully customize the Web App Builder. This is done in JavaScript and html (in you case you will likely just need to modify the html). When you download the application you get full control over what you configure but you give up the ease of use of the Web app builder. To download your application go to the applications Item page in ArcGIS Online and you will see the download button: This will download you a zip file containing the application. You will then need to unzip the application and edit the index.html file to change the favicon. Once you have changed this you will need to host the applicaiton in your own web server environment. For full list of steps you can see here: Deploy your app—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Developers  Unforutnately it is a long and convoluted process to just change the favicon however it does give you complete control of the application and full customisation. Thanks, ... View more

Hey Anthony Mosinski‌, I don't have any documents for you but I do have experience with running GIS in small and larger organizations. As technologies change we are in this sort of grey zone where GIS administrators are required to have a lot more understanding of IT concepts than previous. This is largely due to cloud technologies meaning everyone needs to be full stack administrators. Smaller organizations often use ArcGIS online as they don't have to worry about the underlying IT infrastructure. It is quite quick to get up and running. Normally in these size organizations you have just GIS analysts as they aren't quite at a size where it is worth bringing on more specialized support GIS staff. These types of organizations often have between 1-5 analysts and depending on how long they have had ArcGIS online for can have some rather organically grown data structures. Depending on the work load I would often recommend that each of those people start to specialise in a different aspect of GIS to help grow the capacity and to increase efficiencies in the team. This would mean one person start looking at data structure and one focus on capability improvement (new technologies or different ways of displaying data). Obviously this would change based on team size, skill sets and the staffs future career goals. In larger organizations you would generally start to see teams of 10 or so with a clear split in team responsibilities. You would often have GIS analysts either as a centralized team taking requirements from the whole agency or embedded in various teams around the agency. Depending on the amount of GIS the agency does or the need for its GIS capabilities I have run a team with a dedicated GIS Enterprise Database expert, a GIS Server Administrator, a Fieldworker Administrator (Survey123, collector, quick capture, etc) and a Cloud Administrator/IT Administrator. Generally IT is separated from GIS however there is often a tight coupling between the two teams. Generally I would suggest that IT deal with things such as provisioning machines, patching Operating Systems, virus scanning, vulnerability patching, networking, firewalls, backups(snapshots), etc. A GIS Administrator would look at things like installing the software with the permission of IT, configuring it, data management best practices, software updates and upgrades. For databases I would again recommend that IT deals with the creation of databases, upgrade of databases and backups of databases and that a GIS Enterprise database administrator only deals with the spatial components such as implementing the Enterprise geodatabase, upgrading the enterprise geodatabase and configuring tables and permissions related to the Enterprise Geodatabase. Your GIS Analysts would be working primarily with the GIS administrators to get help in sourcing data (not duplicating it!) and ensuring the end product or report is delivered to the client in an appropriate fashion (pdf report, web map, application, storymap, etc) Happy to discuss more if you would like! I'll put this on the other question you asked as well in case one generates a discussion. 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 Anthony Mosinski‌, I don't have any documents for you but I do have experience with running GIS in small and larger organizations. As technologies change we are in this sort of grey zone where GIS administrators are required to have a lot more understanding of IT concepts than previous. This is largely due to cloud technologies meaning everyone needs to be full stack administrators. Smaller organizations often use ArcGIS online as they don't have to worry about the underlying IT infrastructure. It is quite quick to get up and running. Normally in these size organizations you have just GIS analysts as they aren't quite at a size where it is worth bringing on more specialized support GIS staff. These types of organizations often have between 1-5 analysts and depending on how long they have had ArcGIS online for can have some rather organically grown data structures. Depending on the work load I would often recommend that each of those people start to specialise in a different aspect of GIS to help grow the capacity and to increase efficiencies in the team. This would mean one person start looking at data structure and one focus on capability improvement (new technologies or different ways of displaying data). Obviously this would change based on team size, skill sets and the staffs future career goals. In larger organizations you would generally start to see teams of 10 or so with a clear split in team responsibilities. You would often have GIS analysts either as a centralized team taking requirements from the whole agency or embedded in various teams around the agency. Depending on the amount of GIS the agency does or the need for its GIS capabilities I have run a team with a dedicated GIS Enterprise Database expert, a GIS Server Administrator, a Fieldworker Administrator (Survey123, collector, quick capture, etc) and a Cloud Administrator/IT Administrator. Generally IT is separated from GIS however there is often a tight coupling between the two teams. Generally I would suggest that IT deal with things such as provisioning machines, patching Operating Systems, virus scanning, vulnerability patching, networking, firewalls, backups(snapshots), etc. A GIS Administrator would look at things like installing the software with the permission of IT, configuring it, data management best practices, software updates and upgrades. For databases I would again recommend that IT deals with the creation of databases, upgrade of databases and backups of databases and that a GIS Enterprise database administrator only deals with the spatial components such as implementing the Enterprise geodatabase, upgrading the enterprise geodatabase and configuring tables and permissions related to the Enterprise Geodatabase. Your GIS Analysts would be working primarily with the GIS administrators to get help in sourcing data (not duplicating it!) and ensuring the end product or report is delivered to the client in an appropriate fashion (pdf report, web map, application, storymap, etc) Happy to discuss more if you would like! I'll put this on the other question you asked as well in case one generates a discussion. 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 Tracy Schloss‌, These can be tricky concepts as they have a lot of overlapping features. I often refer to this page for a refresher of what each type is: Feature layers—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation  My interpretation is that feature collections are often generated by users and are not as easy to update as you need to make changes and then save the layer. Feature services are for an organization to host feature data on their own servers which means that they can have the ability to share it as required but updating it happens only on there end. Hosted feature services means that you are hosting the feature data in ArcGIS online and this is the most flexible way as you can control who sees it, who can edit it, and it can be used for display and other purposes in the various web apps. Often I find that all the different types of feature layers will meet my needs but ever once in a while one of them won't have the functionality that I need. My latest example is that Feature collections can't be used in Dashboards for Dashboard elements only for display purposes. 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 George Floros‌, You could have a hidden date field that you check to see if it is greater than the close date. If the date is greater than the close date of the survey you could then hide all the other fields. 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 Chelsea Dickerson‌, I had a look because I though this would a reasonably easy fix however I have had very little luck! I thought it might be a setting in the json that I could edit with ArcGIS Online Assistant but no luck. You should be able to download the application and then change the icon in the index.html in the root of the application folder. It should be around line 9 and look like so: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/shortcut.ico"> You will then need to host it using your own web server. 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 Marco Poetsch‌, Trusted Servers may be what you are after: Configure security settings—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation  Have a look and let me know if that isn't what you are after. 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 Karol Francis‌, The ArcGIS Dashboard map does not support popups on mouse over only on click: Map element—ArcGIS Dashboards | Documentation  There are configurable apps that do support this functionality like the Media Map: Media Map—Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise  If the media map isn't a solution you may need to look at developing a custom JavaScript solution. 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

Hola Carlos Andres Camacho Acuña‌, Mira este video: Dashboard and Arcade - YouTube  Gracias, 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