Latest Contributions by GarethBaker1

I'd like to be able to include the current map scale in the labels for a feature in Portal 10.5.1. The documentation on this page suggests that only the feature to be labelled is available as a global variable in Arcade expression https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/guide/profiles/#labelling However within the playground section on the same site the current map scale is available under the labelling profile If I try to use the map scale global in an Arcade label expression on a layer in a Portal 10.5.1 web map I get an error about the view identifier not being found. I'm guessing that the reason it works in the playground is that the page is built with the JS API and that has a slightly different implementation of Arcade than Portal 10.5.1 perhaps? My question is will the map scale global be available in later versions of Portal? ... View more

We're about to launch an internal Portal site with a couple of main apps that we want to direct initial users towards. We're keeping what they can do on the site down to a bare minimum and will roll out more of the Portal functionality over time.  One behaviour that we've just noticed is when searching for content with a phrase such as "esri" - which returns 645 items - see attached screenshot. It looks as if the search is returning a lot of internal items such as regional variations for each of the different Story Map templates.  When you click on the content owner these appear to be some sort of internal ghost accounts rather than Portal members. I know the likelihood of users searching on something like esri is probably quite low but we'd prefer it if these items didn't get returned at all in any searches and instead only content that we'd approved via the standard sharing mechanisms were shown. There is an option to exclude some system users from the results of searches in the advanced Portal options config file at  <Portal for ArcGIS installation directory>\customizations\<version number>\webapps\arcgis#home\js\esri\arcgisonline\config.js http://server.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/configure-a-disconnected-deployment.htm However it only seems to be effective with the five system accounts listed below. systemUsers: ["esri_nav","system_publisher", "esri_livingatlas", "esri_boundaries", "esri_demographics"], // on-premise Portal list of system users to filter out of user searches If we try adding one of the regional Story Map owner accounts such as esri_et and then restart the Portal it doesn't make any difference and their content still appears. I suspect that it is something to with the fact that if we list all Portal users via the ArcGIS API for Python we only see those five system accounts and not the regional ones. If I try to change the sharing on one of the items so that they aren't visible to general users then I only get the option to share with groups that I own (even as an admin) rather than the Everyone and Portal options that you get with "normal" Portal content items. Is there another way to get around this such as deleting the regional templates from the Portal apps directory? Regards Gareth ... View more

I've successfully used the Python API to add a non-secure map service from a non-federated ArcGIS Server site (10.2.2) to a Portal (10.5.1).  However if I turn security on for the map service then there doesn't seem to be an option in the API reference that allows me to specify credentials. It will still go ahead and add the service as a Portal content item but then when you try to load the layer into the Portal map viewer it prompts for the credentials (strangely the layers from the service are already loaded and drawn in the background before anything is entered in the credentials box). Is there a way via the API to save the security credentials for the service within the content item in the same way that you can if you add the same service in manually? Thanks Gareth ... View more