Latest Contributions by Robert_LeClair

Jamal - function wise deserves an explanation: The Compress GP tool does 2 things:  it deletes orphaned lineages of states (i.e. edits) that are left behind after a Reconcile operation.  These orphaned states may be seen in the States, States_Lineages, MVTables_Modified, and Delta tables.  Second, it moves edits common to all versions to the Business (or Base) table - this empties the Delta tables for all versioned or versioned with the move to base option to the Base/Business table so 3rd party applications can "see" the data.  As a result of this GP tool, one could say it improves view performance as the application does not have to traverse unnecessary records to show you the current view of a VERSION.  Every time a user does a pan, zoom in, zoom out, etc. - the versioning tables are all queried.  So fewer records in the versioning tables, faster query performance, faster display performance. Rebuild indexes rebuilds attribute and/or spatial grid indexes built by ArcGIS (i.e. ObjectID) and those built by the user.  Indexes are also rebuilt on repository tables owned by the SDE administrator that control versioned workflows.  Attribute indexes are just that - they optimize attribute queries.  Spatial grid indexes are used for draw performance in the map view.  Spatial grid indexes may get out of date over time due to large data loads that change the average size of the features, the number of features in the feature classes change over time and the coordinate system of the feature class. Analyze and Analyze Datasets rebuilds database statistics on feature classes/tables owned by the data owner as well as rebuilds statistics on the repository tables (owned by the SDE administrator).  These statistics can include business tables, feature tables (for SDEBINARY), rasters, delta tables and archive tables (for the archive class created when Archiving is enabled).  So again query performance here. Hope this helps! ... View more

Jamal - a lot of these workflows can be automated using a Python script associated with Task Scheduler in Windows.  I show my Versioning students this link - of course it's Python27 so you'd have to run the Analyze Tools for Pro GP tool to ensure it will work in AGP as the Python release is much different in AGP. ... View more

Justin - glad it worked!  I'm fairly confident that renaming just ArcGISPro to ArcGISPro_Old in both the local and roaming directories should suffice.  You are correct that it "resets" ArcMap, ArcCatalog, the normal.mxt and *.sde files to factory settings.  Or you can copy/paste those *.mxt and *.sde files to the "new" folder for Desktop 10.x. ... View more

A couple things to try/consider - from several previous Esri Support Services cases" Error was most likely coming from password change and/or token authentication expiring. Users need to re-login to Portal after a password change to refresh the credentials. Users also need to re-login to obtain a new token. However, token expiration times can be set to a custom length through this work flow: Cleared out user Pro Roaming Profile and AppData and tried to publish map. Publishing succeeded without issue. Dismantled standalone site and rejoined server to original site.  We believe the issue was a corrupt profile, though no definitive log entries were identified. (To clear out or rename, go to C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Roaming\ and C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Local\ and rename the Esri folder to Esri_Old Remove and add the Portal connection again in ArcGIS Pro.  Sign back into the Portal using your credentials.   Hope this helps! ... View more

Bimall - there is a lot of labeling functionality in ArcGIS Pro 2.6 for various chart types.  You can read about bar chart labels starting here. ... View more

You bet Jeremy!  I tried to review your ArcGIS Idea but a warning page comes back saying I'm not authorized to see it or it's not available.  Did you share it out to the ArcGIS Ideas page? ... View more

Jeremy - I reviewed the internals and ArcGIS Ideas to see if/how to change the Button Image of a custom tool but don't see a way to do so unless one of the AGP developers reviewing GeoNet knows of a way to do this.  I'd recommend adding an ArcGIS Idea to get this on the radar.  This is how you did it in ArcMap I'm sure (see below). ... View more

Thx for the update Jason.  One thing to note, towards the bottom of the Calculate Field GP tool to the left of the Run button is the "Enable Undo" slider that allows you to undo your field calculation if there is an error.  Might be helpful to prevent catastrophic data issues. ... View more

Jason - try this workflow and let's see what happens.  Instead of applying a Definition Query on the hosted feature layer (HFL), select by attribute those features you wish to run a GP tool on, right-click on the HFL, select Selection->Make Layer from Selected Features and do your GP work on the selection layer.  Is the result the same?  Please advise. I don't see the behavior you described.  I selected a hosted feature layer from AGOL, built a Def Query, and ran the buffer tool on the hosted feature layer.  Only those features that were screened out by the Def Query had a polygon created for them. ... View more

Benjamin - by chance are you clicking the Green Check "Finish" command on the toolbar bottom center of your Map View?  This will finish the sketch and commit the edit.  You may learn more about the workflow here. ... View more

VERY interesting workaround!  And I like seeing the list of GP tools in the *.txt file that has the Undo tab ability.  Interesting... ... View more

Outside of Esri Training Services, there's another Esri Department that develops free training for the Learn ArcGIS website referenced here.  The Lesson Gallery has training broken down by software product - ArcGIS Pro - for example, industry and more.  Enjoy! ... View more

Gregory - thank you for the update and your workflow to migrate to a AGP Task.  Working for Training Services, I'm not privy to the development process of AGP but do suspect that this functionality will be added in a future release.  If this does occur, then you "should" be able to use your updated Python3 code to work in the Layer Properties of AGP.  I recommend that you add this as an ArcGIS Idea so it's viewed by the AGP Development Team and up-voted by your peers too. ... View more

Gregory - you are correct that this functionality seems to be missing in AGP.  In reviewing this 2018 blog, it discusses using Arcade to launch a process such as viewing a PDF doc, etc.  I wonder if your Python script can be converted to Arcade to add the georeferenced image to a Pro Map View? I did scan ArcGIS Ideas to see if this was previously mentioned but did not see it there either.  Perhaps you may want to add this to ArcGIS Ideas so it gets visibility with the AGP Developers. ... View more

Steven - I did not find anyway to associate an F2 accelerator to the Rename command in the context menu within ModelBuilder in AGP.  I did find it's command ID value of esri_modelbuilder_renameElementButton used by the programmers but can't find a way to get an accelerator assigned to it.  Perhaps one of the AGP developers will weight in. ... View more