Latest Contributions by GarethBaker1

I'm using the Export Tile Cache tool in ArcToolbox to create a TPK file which is then sideloaded into Collector iOS using the methodology described here: http://doc.arcgis.com/en/collector/ios/collect-data/offline-use.htm All this is working fine but I noticed that when using the Manage functionality within Collector to look at the TPKs that it shows a default thumbnail for each item. It would be quite useful if each TPK could have a custom thumbnail image to help users distinguish between the different offline basemaps.  If I poke around in the TPK file on a PC then I can see that there is potentially provision within the esriinfo\iteminfo.xml file for a thumbnail e.g. <thumbnail>thumbnail/thumbnail.png</thumbnail> but there doesn't seem to be any kind of workflow that I can find to actually set this to a custom image. It's really not a major problem but thought I'd post just in case anyone else had cracked this particular nut. Thanks Gareth ... View more

Add the ability as Portal administrators for restrict the types of content that users can create. In effect this would be splitting the Content > Create, edit and delete privilege in the roles to different types of content such as web maps, layers, apps (which might be further split into Story Maps, templates, web app builder etc). The reasoning behind this is that we only want users to be able to use properly managed, authoritative apps built by the GIS team to meet a specific business requirement. Similarly we'd also prefer them to only use authoritative data layers that we've uploaded to avoid multiple copies of datasets popping up across the Portal. We've been running our Portal for about six months with a small number of core apps for users to consume and we've restricted user roles to not allow any content creation.  We're getting close to rolling out more functionality starting with the ability for users to add corporate layers into the map viewer and then save and share their own web maps.  There doesn't currently appear to be a way of doing this without opening up the ability to also create apps and upload their own data.  There may well be future use cases where we're happy for them to do this but for now it's almost as if Portal offers too much advanced functionality for our users - we have to support and document all of this, how do you explain that there is this option to create different types of app but we'd actually prefer it if you don't use it?! The best we can probably come up with for now is to restrict sharing of content only to certain groups (rather than organisation wide) and then do some kind of regular trawl through users' content directories to remove any items which are applications possibly using the Python API. ... View more

Add the ability as Portal administrators for restrict the types of content that users can create. In effect this would be splitting the Content > Create, edit and delete privilege in the roles to different types of content such as web maps, layers, apps (which might be further split into Story Maps, templates, web app builder etc). The reasoning behind this is that we only want users to be able to use properly managed, authoritative apps built by the GIS team to meet a specific business requirement. Similarly we'd also prefer them to only use authoritative data layers that we've uploaded to avoid multiple copies of datasets popping up across the Portal. We've been running our Portal for about six months with a small number of core apps for users to consume and we've restricted user roles to not allow any content creation.  We're getting close to rolling out more functionality starting with the ability for users to add corporate layers into the map viewer and then save and share their own web maps.  There doesn't currently appear to be a way of doing this without opening up the ability to also create apps and upload their own data.  There may well be future use cases where we're happy for them to do this but for now it's almost as if Portal offers too much advanced functionality for our users - we have to support and document all of this, how do you explain that there is this option to create different types of app but we'd actually prefer it if you don't use it?! The best we can probably come up with for now is to restrict sharing of content only to certain groups (rather than organisation wide) and then do some kind of regular trawl through users' content directories to remove any items which are applications possibly using the Python API. ... View more

Two relatively simple things which I believe would significantly increase the usability of this template: Be able to specify which layers from my web map are included in the summary panel. At the moment it just assumes that you want to be able to show results for every layer in the map, whereas some of them such as a boundary layer are really only there as a visual reference so I'd like them to be drawn at all times. Allow the option for the buffer distance to be consistent across all layers. At the moment if a user adjusts the search distance for the first layer, it resets back to the default once they move on to the next layer. They have to keep resetting the distance for each new layer that they look at. I'd like the user to be able to set it once and then be automatically applied to all layers. ... View more

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