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This article was last updated on 12/08/2023 ArcGIS for Excel has formulas similar to Microsoft Excel that you can use to geocode, geoenrich, and route operations. Each function starts with the equal sign in a cell followed by the function name and the cell range it applies to. Once you get acclimated to all these functions, you can easily access them from the Function Builder tool on the ArcGIS for Excel toolbar.  Note: You can use examples from the ArcGIS for Excel functions and formulas help topic to test these functions from the Function Builder.  Open an Excel sheet.  Access the ArcGIS tab.  Click the Function Builder button.  The Function Builder opens in the Task pane, with Choose function and Set parameters tabs visible.  4. Click the Don’t show this again checkbox to skip this welcome screen the next time you want to access the Function Builder.   5. Click OK.  6. The Choose function tab is enabled by default with function drop-down lists visible.  7. If you have chosen a populated cell, or an empty cell, that cell number will be visible in the Choose function pane description, for example G9 in the screenshot below:  8. Choose a function you wish to run from the following options:   Note: Once you choose a function, the related Set parameters tab opens immediately. After populating all parameter fields, you may choose to Add Header, or proceed with running the function by clicking Update.  Tip: To exit a function, click the Choose function tab. This returns you to the functions drop-down lists.  Geocoding functions:  Parameters:      GETADDRESS  Longitude(X) – required  Latitude(Y) – required  Spatial_reference   All_data – type this value as “TRUE”   geocode_service GETCOORDINATES  Address – required  Spatial_reference   Match_details   geocode_service       Geoenrichment functions:  Parameters:      ENRICHBYPOINT  Longitude(X) – required  Latitude(Y) – required  Spatial_reference   Distance   Unit   Travel_mode  Data_collections  Variables -   - browse through the list of data collections variables. Click Close to exit and return to the ENRICHBYPOINT function pane.  Include_derivative_variables  Include_point_details    ENRICHBYGEOGRAPHY  Area_id   – required. Browse through the list of areas. Click   to return to the ENRICHBYGEOGRAPHY function pane.  Geography_level_id   – required. Browse through the list of countries, and their respective geography levels. Click   to return to the ENRICHBYGEOGRAPHY function pane.  Data_collections  Variables -   - browse through the list of data collections variables. Click Close to exit and return to the ENRICHBYPOINT function pane.  Include_derivative_variables  Include_geography_details   ENRICHBYADDRESS  address - Required distance - Optional unit - Optional travel_mode - Optional variables - Optional include_derivative_variables - Optional include_point_details - Optional   Routing functions:  Parameters:      FINDROUTE  From_longitude(X) – required  From_latitude(Y) – required  To_longitude(X) – required  To_latitude(Y) – required  Spatial_reference  Travel_mode   - browse through the list of travel modes supported for routing operations. Click   to return to the FINDROUTE function pane.  Unit  Include_directions      FINDROUTEBYADDRESS  From_address – required  To_address – required  Travel_mode   - browse through the list of travel modes supported for routing operations. Click   to return to the FINDROUTE function pane.  Unit  Include_directions        Helper functions:  Parameters:      SUGGESTADDRESS  Text – required  Max_suggestions  Country  geocode_service     LISTGEOGRAPHIES  Country  Geography_level_id   – required. Browse through the list of countries, and their respective geography levels. Click   to return to the LISTGEOGRAPHIES function pane.  Search_term  exact_match     LISTDATACOLLECTIONS  Country – required  Data_collection_id  Search_term      LISTTRAVELMODES  This function has no parameters. It is already done and displaying results in your chosen cell.      ADDHEADERS  ARCGIS_function - required        Once your Excel sheet is populated with all desired information, do one of the following to return to the map frame:  9. Click x   10. Click the ArcGIS for Excel icon  11. Click Show map        ... View more

  The sign-in experience when you open ArcGIS for Excel has undergone great enhancements. We have removed the radio buttons and instead your organization administrator can now preconfigure connection urls for all members to access. Learn how.      2. With the June 2022 release we introduced you to the world of custom functions with the use of formulas. The December 2022 release has the Function Builder on the ArcGIS for Excel toolbar for quick access from the Task pane without leaving your Microsoft Excel worksheet!  To begin, select a cell in your Excel worksheet and choose a function you would like to run from the drop-down lists.   When a function is chosen, the next step is to set related parameters.    You can add a header (this is optional, but good to have), or click Update. The function runs on the cell you have selected on your Excel sheet, and results populate the Excel sheet with information.  3. Pivot table support has been added with this release. You can calculate, summarize, and analyze data that lets you see comparisons, patterns, and trends in your data to make better decisions.   Read a blog article on how you can use the pivot table to work with your data. 4. The ArcGIS for Excel December 2022 release is now supported by Enterprise 11.  5. The Print tool has a new enhancement! You can now Export the image to ArcGIS for Excel.   With many quality updates and enhancements, the ArcGIS for Excel December release provides an improved way to work with your data; visualize, analyze and share it within your organization and beyond!  How to get it, product documentation, additional resources and Esri Community  Get ArcGIS for Excel from the Microsoft app store. Follow these steps To learn more about the product—such as system requirements, full descriptions of capabilities, and more—head over to the ArcGIS for Excel documentation site.  Read our blogs, interact with experts, take a survey, or just connect. Join us in the Esri Community to ask questions, share ideas, and let us know about your experiences with ArcGIS for Excel.  If you have an idea for a new ArcGIS for Excel feature, submit it on the ArcGIS Ideas site.  ... View more

All right folks, the ArcGIS for SharePoint June release is now available in the Microsoft app store for your use! Before we proceed into the awesome tools and functionalities that are now a part of this new release, let’s get you started, if you haven’t already, with an ArcGIS account. What’s new? #1 The Print tool exports a printer-friendly page of a map in various formats including PDF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, EPS, and SVG. You can print the map layout or only the map extent.       What’s better? #2 ArcGIS for SharePoint allows you to use ArcGIS mapping, geotagging, and geosearching capabilities seamlessly between Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. You can now Synchronize Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. Learn more #3 You are already familiar with the immensely powerful geotag and geosearch capabilities in ArcGIS for SharePoint. We listened to our users, you feedback is vital to us to keep being better, and we have added a term store addition workflow to our documentation when you want to create and organize geotagging terms in dedicated term sets. Read on #4 What if, in addition to zoom-in and zoom out capabilities, you could also populate the entire screen with your map? It’s now available with the nifty Full screen button!   #5 ArcGIS for SharePoint allows you to add content to the ArcGIS for SharePoint web part from several sources, including SharePoint lists in your site collection and ArcGIS. But, before you can add data to the map, the list items must be spatially enabled (geocoded) using the ArcGIS Maps Locate workflow. You can map x, y coordinate data which now has DMS notation map support. Get more details Learn more about how ArcGIS for SharePoint supports several degree-based notation formats Pro tip: Love the basemaps you see throughout this blog? Learn how to get them for your maps!   How to get started and resources to help you…   Visit the Microsoft app store to use the ArcGIS for SharePoint component, or read the steps if you are the Microsoft 365 admin making the app available to an organization. Follow along with our Learn Lesson to Get Started with ArcGIS for SharePoint. To learn more about the product, such as system requirements, full descriptions of capabilities, and more—head over to the ArcGIS for SharePoint documentation site. Read our blogs, interact with experts , take a survey, or just connect. Join us in the  to ask questions, share ideas, and let us know about your experiences with ArcGIS for SharePoint.       ... View more

Q: An upgrade is required to use ArcGIS for Excel. Please install Microsoft Edge WebView2 control.   Solution: Install Microsoft Edge with WebView2(Chromium-based) control. Follow these steps to install: Ensure that the installed Microsoft Office version on your machine is greater than version 13530. Check for Office version -> Open Excel -> Go to File tab -> Account 2. Install Edge Webview2 on your machine – https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ 3. Select Standalone x64 installer, download, then run the installer. 4. Create this registry key “Win32WebView2” in your machine at this location  – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\WEF\ 5. Set its value to 1. 6. Clear cache. Open Command prompt as administrator, and run the following command - rmdir /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Wef" 7. Open Excel -> Go To ‘ArcGIS’ Tab – Show Map. ArcGIS for Excel map opens without any warning message. ... View more

The March 2022 ArcGIS for SharePoint release is a great mix of new tools and enhancements, the highlights of which are as follows:  Tip: Don’t have an ArcGIS account? See Create an ArcGIS Account.  Measure  Part of the Analysis tools family, you will need to sign into ArcGIS to access the newest analysis tools. The measure  tool leverages linear and perimeter distance using advanced algorithms to account for the true/ unique shape of the Earth (ellipsoid-based geodesic calculation).   Measure tool with Measure distance, and Imperial Unit chosen:  Measure tool with Measure area, and Imperial Unit chosen:  Color and Size  Explore your data in different ways through a variety of smart mapping styles. When you style map layers, the type of data determines the default styling options. You can experiment with color ramps, line weights, transparency, symbols, and other graphic elements, and see your choices reflected immediately on the map.  In the Styling pane when you style with two variables (by size and/ or color), you can study this association through a table or visualize it in a graph. You now have this where you can establish relationships and see that colors gradually change to show a pattern.    For example, in the image below two data attributes on a map that study the relationship between an area’s zipcode and the tree species population in them shown.  Pro tip: Love all the basemaps in this blog? Get more information on changing and adding basemaps here.  Learn more about this enhancement and the workflow steps to see the visualization on a map here. Connecting a SharePoint list to ArcGIS for SharePoint  You can then use a SharePoint  list to interact with the map. When you add  ArcGIS for SharePoint  and a  SharePoint list to a  SharePoint  page, you can connect the two web parts and interact with the map layers using the added list or lists. Once a link is established between the two web parts, you can use the SharePoint list to interact with the map by selecting records from the list and viewing the filtered features on the map.      Earlier when you enabled the time-slider on, while working in the Time pane, there was no way to close the slider pane. We now have a x button on the slider itself, for an easy exit.  You can now link ArcGIS for SharePoint to Microsoft Teams. Follow these steps to set up the Microsoft SharePoint Framework (SPFx) in the app catalog.  No more hovering the pointer over the ellipsis to view the full text of long attributes or property names. You can now adjust the width and height of widgets to view the full text!  When checking the Use traffic check box to determine Driving time, Trucking time, and Rural driving time, you can now use the 12-hour or the 24-hour time clock when calculating Traffic based on typical conditions! The Buffer/Drive time analysis capability creates areas around input point, line, or polygon features to a specified distance or uses Esri service areas to calculate the area that can be reached within a specified travel time or travel distance of point features along a street network based on a travel mode.   Want to know where your data is coming from? The Layers pane now has icons for data sources and type of layer. ArcGIS for SharePoint also has specific icons for data source that has date-time fields.  How to get it, product documentation, and Esri Community  We have a new Resources page and Discovery path for you to follow and explore!  Go through an at-a-glance video, get started with ArcGIS for SharePoint, then follow a detailed step by step workflow to view the incredible power of geotagging documents to map features, then geosearching them using keywords and pre-set attributes.  ArcGIS for SharePoint documentation is available from its Resources Page, which is a one stop shop for everything you want to know about the product.  Read our blogs, interact with experts, take a survey, or just connect. Join us in the Esri Community to ask questions, share ideas, and let us know about your experiences with ArcGIS for SharePoint.  If you have an idea for a new ArcGIS for Office feature, submit it on the ArcGIS Ideas site.  ... View more

ArcGIS for Office, an add-in for Microsoft Office brings mapping capabilities from ArcGIS into Microsoft Excel. With ArcGIS for Office, you can create a geospatial view of your data by creating an interactive map that includes data from Excel and ArcGIS services—all without leaving the Excel environment. Don’t have an ArcGIS account? See Create an ArcGIS Account. The March 2022 update includes new functionality and enhancements in ArcGIS for Office, the highlights of which are as follows: Measure Part of the Analysis tools family, you will need to sign into ArcGIS to access the newest analysis tool. The measure widget leverages linear and perimeter distance using an ellipsoid-based geodesic calculation.  Measure pane and tool with Measure distance, and Imperial Unit chosen: Measure pane and tool with Measure area, and Imperial Unit chosen: Color and Size Explore your data in different ways through a variety of smart mapping styles. When you style map layers, the type of data determines the default styling options. You can experiment with color ramps, line weights, transparency, symbols, and other graphic elements, and see your choices reflected immediately on the map. In the Styling pane when you style with two variables (by size and/ or color), you can study this association through a table or visualize it in a graph. You now have this where you can establish relationships and see that colors gradually change to show a pattern.   For example, in the image below two data attributes on a map that study the relationship between an area’s population and the sea level rise (SLR) that affects its migration and density are shown. Learn more about this enhancement and the workflow steps to see the visualization on a map here. Earlier when you enabled the time slider on, while working in the Time pane, there was no way to close the slider pane. We now have a x button on the slider itself, for an easy exit. Pro tip: Love all the basemaps in this blog? Get more information on changing and adding basemaps here. No more hovering the pointer over the ellipsis to view the full text of long attributes or property names. You can now adjust the width and height of widgets to view the full text! When checking the Use traffic check box to determine Driving time, Trucking time, and Rural driving time, you can now use the 12-hour or the 24-hour time clock when calculating Traffic based on typical conditions! The Buffer/Drive time analysis capability creates areas around input point, line, or polygon features to a specified distance or uses Esri service areas to calculate the area that can be reached within a specified travel time or travel distance of point features along a street network based on a travel mode.  Want to know where your data is coming from? The Layers pane now has icons for data sources and type of layer. ArcGIS for Office also has specific icons for data source that has date-time fields. How to get it, product documentation, and Esri Community The Download page guides you through the steps to set up and configure ArcGIS for Office. To learn more about the product—such as system requirements, full descriptions of capabilities, and more—head over to the ArcGIS for Office documentation site. Read our blogs, interact with experts, take a survey, or just connect. Join us in the Esri Community to ask questions, share ideas, and let us know about your experiences with ArcGIS for Office. If you have an idea for a new ArcGIS for Office feature, submit it on the ArcGIS Ideas site. ... View more

As the new year begins, we are excited to add more quality enhancements and functionalities to ArcGIS for SharePoint, ArcGIS for Office, ArcGIS for Teams and ArcGIS for Power BI. We thrive on information of how our valued customers are using these products to solve problems. We look forward to your feedback on how we can keep improving. Do connect, we are listening! ... View more

As the new year begins, we are excited to add more quality enhancements and functionalities to ArcGIS for SharePoint, ArcGIS for Office, ArcGIS for Teams and ArcGIS for Power BI. We thrive on information of how our valued customers are using these products to solve problems. We look forward to your feedback on how we can keep improving. Do connect, we are listening! ... View more

As the new year begins, we are excited to add more quality enhancements and functionalities to ArcGIS for SharePoint, ArcGIS for Office, ArcGIS for Teams and ArcGIS for Power BI. We thrive on information of how our valued customers are using these products to solve problems. We look forward to your feedback on how we can keep improving. Do connect, we are listening! https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-for-sharepoint-blog/arcgis-for-microsoft-365-2022-looking-ahead/ba-p/1132551 ... View more

  2021 was a BIG year for the ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 team here at Esri! We had completely new releases of ArcGIS for Office and SharePoint, that provided a consistent mapping experience and huge performance gains across both products. We also improved the integration of these applications with ArcGIS Enterprise, making it easier to connect to existing GIS services. ArcGIS for Teams was newly released in April, which provided an integrated experience to access and share maps where the conversation is happening. We’ve heard some great stories about how this application is streamlining access to critical maps and dashboards. Next on our list, we released the next generation of ArcGIS for Power BI, which included an upgrade to the latest ArcGIS Javascript API as well as other performance improvements. The UI was also slightly altered and now aligns with the other ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 integrations within Office and SharePoint. This was a big step to provide a consistent mapping experience no matter what Microsoft productivity application you are using. We closed out the year by adding ArcGIS connectors for Power Automate. This work was driven by our user community asking to bring ArcGIS data into Power BI, as well as geocode data for reports and enrich records in an automated fashion. There are a lot of exciting things coming in 2022. Please take a moment and send us your thoughts on what you want to see us add this year! We're listening. ... View more

What's new in the October ArcGIS for Office release you ask? Not much really, except that this is another QUALITY upgrade! Our team views software quality as one of the most important features of the product, and it is something we continue to improve on in each release.  For the October 2021 release, we addressed a number of issues that have been reported or discovered through our own workflow testing.  If you experience something we missed, we want to hear from you! Your feedback is what helps us take ArcGIS for Office to the next level.   There are lots of ways to get in touch and stay up to date with the ArcGIS for Office universe:  Visit our new Esri Community page to view blogs, videos, ideas, leave a comment or just connect with our subject matter experts . We’ll also regularly post early access and beta program opportunities, among other things.  What would you like to see next in ArcGIS for Office? We are listening! Share your ideas on the ArcGIS for Office Ideas site.  Visit our Help pages to explore what you can do with ArcGIS for Office, with detailed workflows and functionality descriptions.  ... View more

Updated doc at June 2022 ArcGIS for SharePoint Release! This is an optional, one-time process that should be done by the SharePoint administrator. The ArcGIS for SharePoint geotagging workflow creates terms as geotags in the SharePoint term store; these terms are stored in the built-in Keywords term set by default. If you want ArcGIS for SharePoint to create and organize these terms in dedicated term sets, install and use ArcGIS.Microsoft365 management PowerShell. Learn more       I created a new SharePoint page and added the new ArcGIS Maps web part. After adding a layer using a SharePoint list or adding a layer from ArcGIS Online, I click the Geotag and geosearch tool to geotag documents, I receive a notification and I am unable to geotag documents. Solution A: Please make sure that you are added as a term store administrator in your SharePoint org.  Follow these steps: • Login to your SharePoint Online Admin center (E.g. https://-Admin.SharePoint.com) • Click More Features in the left hand side navigation bar. Click the Open button under the Term store to open the Term Store Management Tool.   On the term store management page, select Taxonomy in the tree view. From the General tab, enter desired names in the Term Store Administrators box. You can add multiple users by separating them with semicolons. Click the Save button to commit your changes.   Solution B: Request your SharePoint org’s administrator to perform the following steps: • Login to your SharePoint Online Admin center (E.g. https://-Admin.SharePoint.com) • Click More Features in the left hand side navigation bar. Click the Open button under the Term store to open the Term Store Management Tool. • On the term store management page, select Taxonomy in the tree view. • Add new term group with the name “Esri” (case sensitive). • Under the newly added term group (“Esri”), please create a new term set “M4SP” (case sensitive). ... View more

Getting to know the Microsoft Integration team and their products like ArcGIS for SharePoint, ArcGIS for Office, ArcGIS for Teams and ArcGIS for Power BI has been a very rewarding experience for me. I get to play with some really cool functionality as I get more and more acclimated with the software. The biggest high for me is the realization of how empowering it is.  As a business owner trying to expand my business, or a student going through mounds of written data waiting to impress peers and teachers with infographics, or emergency personnel like the Police, Paramedics, Fire Fighters trying to understand just how much is within their vicinity and beyond - the ability to make maps from rows and columns of data which have geospatial information like addresses and X Y coordinates, is a powerful feeling.  People are visual learners and appreciate infographics more than pages of text. Many people think that making maps requires GIS expertise. The Esri collaboration with Microsoft now allows users to think beyond charts, tables, and shared documents! It makes skills like map making available to everyone. Using basic geospatial data like addresses, these apps familiarize people with the complexity, colorfulness and convincing power of maps, without being complex to use themselves. This workflow uses ArcGIS for SharePoint 2021.1 What’s happening in the world of ArcGIS for SharePoint as of July 2021! Get started with ArcGIS for SharePoint to get acclimated with the new UI: Add layers from SharePoint or ArcGIS.   Note: The data you want to add to your SharePoint is allowed only if the + is enabled. This depends on your data having information such as date, address, longitude, latitude. Most of us know of “geospatial” information like dates and addresses, so that’s a great start! I am choosing USA Forest type. As soon as I add the layers, the data appears on my map.  To zoom in/ zoom out of my map, I need to activate those buttons.  Click the  Edit web part pencil icon. In the resulting ArcGIS Maps Appearance pane, I locate Show map controls and toggle the button to the right hand side. I now want to see how the data changes over time. Note: When you bring in data from any source, make sure it has date and time information. If your data contains temporal values (date), you can add a time-aware layer to a map and run an animation that shows how patterns in the data change over time. The data/ layer of my choice isn't activating the Time button on the UI, so some time-aware information must be missing. I go back to adding layer options from ArcGIS Online, enter specific search keywords, and choose a dataset with time attributes: Because this data satisfied the “time” necessity, the Time option is now enabled. I move the toggle for Enable time animation to the right and could not only view the changes in data over time but even customize the time slider to define the time intervals shown. Learn more about mapping time-aware data. I can also check if the data I added indeed has the time information. For example if I add data from ArcGIS, I can click on the data link to view more details: It takes me to my ArcGIS Online account where in the Data tab I can see where the SharePoint data is getting the “time” information from:   Note: If you are adding data directly from SharePoint, make sure you have such “time” sensitive information in it. For example, it could be from an Excel sheet. This is great way to not only get used to what the July 2021 ArcGIS for SharePoint release has to offer, but also while playing with it, adding your own data and visualizing the various ways it manifests itself on the map. You can test what in that data can and cannot enable in the ArcGIS for SharePoint UI, while also checking and getting to know how that information affects your decisions! It would be great to get feedback on this blog, was it effective, was it useful? Would you like to know about any other button, control or UI element that’s eluding you? I would love to co-test! ... View more

In 2020, ArcGIS Workflow Manager introduced a service-based implementation pattern that allows users to connect to a service for web-centric workflows. We continue to release new capabilities in this pattern and now have a new and refreshed product page that describes the value propositions, use cases and features available in this service-driven implementation pattern. Check out the page!   Interested in learning more? Complete the Contact Us form on this page or email workflowmanager@esri.com. ... View more

The 10.9 release includes support for multiple Maritime Chart Services in one application, support for Bathymetric Inland ENCs as well as other enhancements.    The Maritime Chart Service  (MCS) sample widgets illustrate how web applications can consume and interact with MCS layers exposed by the ArcGIS Maritime sever extension https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-maritime/deployment/server-extension.  The MCS sample widgets allow you to quickly integrate MCS services into new or existing ArcGIS Web AppBuilder 2D and 3D web apps for your workflows.  You can quickly display and analyze your MCS data on any device without writing code or developers can customize the widgets and extend ArcGIS functionality.  The source code for these widgets is available for reuse or modification and to integrate it within custom web apps outside of the ArcGIS Web AppBuilder framework.  To view a sample application created with these widgets please visit https://esriho.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html and click on one of the Maritime Chart Service applications. To download the latest sample widgets, visit our ArcGIS Maritime product support page. You can also access various sample applications on our Esri Hydrographic Portal, that demonstrate these widgets as well as other capabilities of the ArcGIS Maritime server extension. ... View more