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Currently, ExB designers have no control over the units of measurement presented in the Measurement widget. There is a predefined list of units for linear and areal measurements. The ExB designer cannot add to, remove from, or sort the list of units. We have many lawyers and surveyors that use our ExB app and they frequently must deal with old Imperial measurement units such as rods (16.5 ft) and chains (66 ft). My idea: In the config for the measurement widget, present a list of all the default units in a table with the unit’s name, abbreviation, and conversion factor from metres (or sq metres). Allow the ExB designer to add, remove, and sort the rows of the table. For example, linear units, the current default list of units is: Name Abbreviation Conversion to metres Inches in 0.0254 Feet ft 0.3048 Yards yd 0.9144 Miles mi 1609.3 Nautical miles NM 1852.0 Feet (US) ft(US) 0.3048006096 Millimeters mm 0.001 Centimeters cm 0.01 Decimeters dm 0.1 Meters m 1 Kilometers km 1000 If I were able to edit this list, I would immediately make the following changes: In my opinion, there is no need for units smaller than feet or metres in the mapping apps my organization will publish. Adding the units of rods and chains are useful for users referring to old deeds or survey plans. There are several other similar "Ideas" proposed by other users - see links below. These have a total of 56 kudos as of 2025-07-09. Many people are asking for improvements to the Measurement widget. Let’s get started! https://tinyurl.com/ym79ho3u https://tinyurl.com/ywq9vk5l https://tinyurl.com/yrjflwka https://tinyurl.com/yl2fvas5 Thanks, Bernie.
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If the features are filtered in the web map I believe the load would be carried by the end-user's web browser. So less load on your server. Bernie.
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Wow - I only posted this a few days ago and it has already been implemented! Thanks @Jianxia and @ShengdiZhang. However, the bigger issue is Shapefile downloads require an AGOL account. This feature will not be useful to my user community until the Shapefile can be downloaded directly to the user's device. Best regards, Bernie.
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@JunshanLiu why is creating an item required? The feature identified in the pop-up window is coming from a service (map service, feature service, etc). My web browser has access to the feature. Why can't the geometry and attributes be extracted and packaged in my browser and made available for download to my computer? It does not make sense that some formats can be downloaded and other formats must be items in AGOL. Thanks, Bernie.
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The June 2025 update for the measurement widget did not address custom units.
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I was excited to see Shapefile exports added to ArcGIS Experience Builder in the June 2025 AGOL update. However, after a quick test in the GeoNB Map Viewer (https://lnkd.in/eNam9NC) I was quickly disappointed. The map projection of the Shapefile is forced to Web Mercator, EPSG 3857. Even though our map service is published in EPSG 2953, the output is transformed to 3857. I understand KML and GeoJSON require 3857, but a Shapefile can have any projection. Why not leave it in the source projection?? We do not use Web Mercator for any of our map services. They are all published in EPSG 2953 - New Brunswick Stereographic Double. It is the official map projection for the Province of New Brunswick and it does an excellent job of minimizing distortion. My Idea: By default, all file exports maintain the map projection of the source data whenever possible. But also add a check box "Transform to Web Mercator". The checkbox should be automatically checked and greyed-out if the user selects GeoJSON or KML as the output format.
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I was excited to see Shapefile exports added to ArcGIS Experience Builder in the June 2025 AGOL update. Our users need a widely supported format for exporting a few features to be used in CAD or other software. However, after a quick test in the GeoNB Map Viewer (https://lnkd.in/eNam9NC) I was quickly disappointed. The user must have an AGOL account to export a Shapefile. We share most of our map viewers with the Public. We cannot expect members of the Public to have an AGOL account just to receive a tiny Shapefile. Users can still download a CSV, JSON, or GeoJSON directly to their computer. However, exporting to Shapefile, FGDB, or KML requires an AGOL account. I cannot imagine a scenario where this makes sense. My Idea: By default, all exports can be directly downloaded to the user's computer. But also add a check box "Export to AGOL". If the user selects "Export to AGOL" then the AGOL login would be triggered and they can choose the AGOL folder for the exported data. Doesn't that make more sense? Arbitrarily restricting the export of certain file formats to AGOL is non-sensical.
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@JoshuaBixby , Is there any documentation or warnings from Esri that ArcGIS Server 11.x requires more RAM to run the same number of services as ArcGIS Server 10.x? This thread is the first time I have come across this information.
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Thanks Joshua. That is great info for the planning of our 11.5 upgrade.
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@JoshuaBixby wrote: The organization I used to work for initially had instability problems with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.x until we analyzed memory utilization of the ArcGIS Enterprise processes and subprocesses. It turns out the ArcGIS Pro runtime used in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.x results in ArcSOC.exe processes having about 50% increase in total memory footprint. I say total memory footprint because it wasn't more RAM being used but more virtual address space by the processes. It turns out we were hitting or nearly hitting the committed memory limit of the server, and the entire ArcGIS Enterprise framework would become unstable at that point. Once it became unstable, the only option to stabilize it was to stop the ArcGIS Server Windows service and restart it. I suggest you monitor the Committed memory usage of the server, and not just RAM. If you are getting over 90% committed memory for any period of time, I would update the virtual memory (page file) settings on the server. Just the other day I had one of our server admins tell me: "With the latest versions of Windows Server we prefer to let the OS manage the size of the page file". That was a general comment on Windows Server 2022 - not specific to ArcGIS Enterprise. I had asked the server admin to collect information on the paging file size from our 3 existing VMs running ArcGIS Server on older Windows Server 2016 VMs. @JoshuaBixby is your recommendation to increase the page file size? Bernie.
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We had a similar problem with an upgrade. We went from two ArcGIS servers running 10.2.2 to three ArcGIS Servers running 10.7.1 on new VMs. It was great to have the new system on new VMs so we could do comparisons between the old and new system. You have to figure out where the bottleneck is that is slower in the new system compared to the old system. You can't just throw up your hands and complain that it is slower. It took us a lot of time and benchmarking but we figured out it was our file server. The location for the config-store required OpLocks to be OFF. The location for our FGDB required OpLocks to be ON. The problem is likely different in your situation so you are going have to dig in and find the bottleneck. We were lucky - we had a networking genius on our IT team to help with the diagnosis. But it still took time. Bernie.
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Can you filter on another attribute? Are the polygons assigned a sequential objectID? Could you filter for the largest (e.g. newest) objectID? Here is a similar example from my own work: I have a Notebook that writes records to an AGOL hosted table. I truncate the data to the 2000 most recent records. This means the oldest record has objectID = 1 and the newest record has objectID = 2000. I use these objectID values to filter data in an ArcGIS Dashboard. Bernie.
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Thanks for the response @CodyPatterson. I am aware of the Health Check URL. I was more interested in some guidance on how to implement this on a Windows VM so the script would trigger following a reboot. What language to use? How to force a reboot in a script? etc. I would imagine it should be tricky to force a reboot. Bernie.
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Hello, We have three ArcGIS Servers in a site running on Windows Server 2016 VMs. We reboot our ArcGIS Server VMs twice a week on a schedule. We only reboot 1 VM per night. Occassionally, ArcGIS Server fails to start after a reboot and it will get marked "unhealthy" by the web adaptors and it will be excluded from incoming requests. I would like to create a script to test the VM for a healthy ArcGIS Server following a reboot. If an unhealthy state is detected the script should correct the problem, possibly even reboot the VM. Has anyone created a script like this? Thanks, Bernie.
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I just watched a recent OGC webinar recording. It clearly laid out the relationship from the old OGC OWS services to the new OGC API standards as shown in the image below: My question is: How do all of the ArcGIS Server services fit into this diagram? We publish map services, feature services, image services, geoprocessing services, and geocoding services. Would it look like this? Please take a copy of the image and correct my mistakes. Thanks, Bernie.
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