Latest Contributions by GarethBaker1

I think I probably already know the answer to this but thought it might be useful sharing and possibly getting an update to the ArcGIS Enterprise documentation. I'm using ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 and want to create polygon (not rectangle) map areas for an offline map. My map meets the requirements for taking data offline but if I have a vector tile package as my basemap then the polygon sketch tool is disabled in the create offline areas interface. If I switch the basemap to a raster tile package then the polygon sketch tool is enabled. I've done a bit of a trawl through the documentation and can't find any reference to this. Take web maps offline—Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise  Step 7 just says To draw a shape representing the map area, click one of the buttons on the Sketch toolbar. To draw a box around the area to take offline, click the Sketch rectangular map area button   and draw a box on the map. To draw a polygon to define the area you need to take offline, click the Sketch polygon map area button   and draw the polygon on the map. The equivalent ArcGIS Online documentation has a specific note about this in step 7 Take web maps offline—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation  To draw a shape representing the map area, click one of the buttons on the Sketch toolbar. To draw a box around the area to take offline, click the Sketch rectangular map area button   and draw a box on the map. To draw a polygon to define the area you need to take offline, click the Sketch polygon map area button   and draw the polygon on the map. The map's basemap must be an ArcGIS Online hosted tile layer or a tile layer from an ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 or more recent release portal; otherwise, the Sketch polygon map area button will not be active. So can we assume that the same restrictions apply when working in Enterprise and would it be possible to get the documentation updated to reflect this? Is there any timescale when polygon areas will be supported with vector basemaps? Does the restriction still apply if the package is created without a basemap and relies on a map on the user's device instead? Regards Gareth PS I've just spotted this blog which I think confirms the restrictions, but still would be good to get in the docs. Define polygon offline map areas for Collector  ... View more

I've not really done anything with Image Services before so apologies if I'm missing something obvious here. I have a DTM layer in a file geodatabase which I'm publishing to ArcGIS Server 10.7.1 by right clicking in ArcCatalog and selecting Share as image service. For info we don't have the Image Server extension installed, but I don't think that matters as I'm not publishing a mosaic. The rest services end point shows the following details (which is what I would expect) single band floating point image. I can bring the layer into Portal and enable pop-ups in a web map so that it returns the elevation value for each pixel. This is all fine and as I want it to work except that the default symbology doesn't suit (I've tried changing that in the web map but it often seems to reset itself - maybe something I'm doing wrong, but not the focus of this question, for now at least).  So I have created a layer file with the symbology that I want to use - stretch, percent clip, colour ramp etc - and used ArcCatalog to share as an image service.  This meant that the layer had the symbology I wanted when I brought it into a web map - however I then went to check the pop-up, expecting to see the elevation values and what I got back was the RGB colour values for that pixel, which are fairly meaningless in this situation. Interestingly the rest end point for the image service now has the following details - 3 band integer image. So my question is whether there is an easy way to publish this image service so that it has the symbology that I want to use by default but has the underlying pixel value for elevation shown in the pop-up? Can I do something clever with function templates? Thanks in advance for any help. Gareth ... View more

Is there anywhere that documents which browsers are supported for each of the configurable apps in AGOL and/or Portal? Specifically I'm trying to work out if the AGOL Map Styler app supports IE11. I'm guessing not, but am also wondering if it did at some point because I've just been looking at a Styler app that I published last year which doesn't seem to work in IE11. I can only assume that it did at the time I published it because I tend to use that browser to test things and don't think I would have used that app template if it didn't work with IE. I guess it's possible that the version of the JS API that it uses has incremented over that time and no longer supports IE? I've looked in both the AGOL help page and the AGOL content item for the app but don't see any mention of browser support.  The closest I can find is the recent blog post about the minimalist beta template which doesn't support IE. Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here but just trying to make sure that I'm not going crazy! ... View more

We recently migrated a large address geocode service from the hosted server on our Portal to a non-federated multi machine ArcGIS Server site (all 10.7.1). I switched over the URLs in the Utility Services section of our Portal's organisation settings and also spent quite a long time going through individual Portal applications switching the search widgets to point at the new service URL. The old address geocoder service is now stopped but I have noticed that I'm still getting the occasional flurry of error messages in Server Manager on the hosted server.  Error performing reverse geocode operation Service Locators/comp_Address/GeocodeServer not started Error finding address candidates Service Locators/comp_Address/GeocodeServer not started I didn't actually think this particular service was getting used for any reverse geocoding but that's not too important.  The main question is how do I go about tracking down where these requests are coming from? There isn't a great deal of useful information in the server logs - requestID field has a value but nothing in the user name field. Thanks Gareth ... View more

I've created a MMPK file that uses a VTPK where the most detailed level cached is 1:5000 scale. I've then download to a device and loaded up within Explorer.  Will I only ever be able to zoom in on that MMPK to 1:5000 scale or should it be possible to go beyond that scale (not sure if the phrase overzoom is the correct one here but it sort of sounds right) even though I'm not getting any increased detail from the VTPK? From what I can tell if I have a vector tile service as part of an online/dynamic map I do seem to be able to go beyond the largest scale that it is cached at. So just wondering if the same is theoretically possible with MMPK and if so is this handled in the VTPK creation side of things, the MMPK creation or both?! Thanks Gareth ... View more

Is there a way to exclude a particular error code from a query against ArcGIS Server either within Manager or via the Admin Directory? I've read the REST admin help which describes all the different filters that can be applied but there is no mention of any operators that exclude particular codes (unless I'm missing something obvious here).  Looks like there is an option to provide a comma separated list of codes to filter for but I assume this list would be massive if I wanted to include every code except the one I don't want (in this case 104001)?! ... View more