Latest Contributions by AaronKoelker

This could be an incredibly situational/niche need, but it's something we've run into pretty frequently over the past several years, and perhaps there are other similar organizations that could benefit from a solution. Our organization and staff are scattered across a large geographic area and grouped into several divisions/offices. Our GIS is somewhat decentralized, and so each of these divisions/offices has a 'GIS Coordinator' responsible for their program or division. These coordinators have been provided a custom user role in ArcGIS Online that falls somewhere between a default Publisher role and a default Admin role, giving them elevated privileges such as the ability to view all content, create groups with the 'Shared Update' capability, access advanced features like ArcGIS Notebooks, etc. Things needed to support their  specific programs without having to constantly reach out to admins. One capability that keeps coming up for discussion is the ability to reassign ownership of content. Staff leave, positions change, and we often need to redistribute a bunch of existing content to one or more new owners. This is a task best suited for the GIS Coordinator for the program area, since they know the staff, the work, and the content best. But as it is now, this capability in ArcGIS Online is all or nothing -- any user who has it is able to reassign the ownership of anything in the organization -- and so we have concerns enabling this permission for coordinators, as they could potentially reassign important content outside of their program area. The current process is for the GIS Coordinators to reach out to an admin and hash out what content needs to go where, which "works" but isn't very efficient or ideal. We've thought about leveraging Administrative Groups for this, which seem to have been added for organizations like ours, however we don't see a way to limit the ability to reassign ownership based on these groups. I'm not sure if it is technically feasible to update the Administrative Groups to allow for this kind of functionality, since they seem mostly based on the regular Groups with the added ability to prevent people from leaving---but ideally, if possible, it would be nice to have an additional 'Reassign Ownership' privilege added to the custom role options that is limited by Administrative Groups. Or some other similar solution like sub-organizations for users, but that sounds like it would much more difficult to implement.       ... View more

I have a notebook script which runs fine manually, and runs okay on a scheduled Task most of the time. But a few times now the the Task will go off at its scheduled time and then get stuck 'Executing' perpetually. This causes each subsequent scheduled execution to get 'Skipped' (see attached screenshot). This doesn't ever seem to resolve on its own. I've let it go on for a few days to see what would happen, but it never resolves.  The only way I've found of fixing it is to delete the Task from the Notebook entirely. (I also clear and restart the kernel, but I'm not sure that's necessary to fix the issue or not).  I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this further. I don't get an actual error code, since it is still 'Executing', so I have no idea where or on what it's getting hung up on. Again it runs fine manually, and I've seen it run up to a few dozen times before hitting this 'Executing' snag, so the problem seems inconsistent. I've started tracking the days and times it happens, but don't see a clear pattern yet, other than it might have something to do with the weekends. Any ideas or tips on how to go about troubleshooting this, since I can't replicate the error when running it myself?  It may also be a beneficial enhancement to have something that either lets the user see where the script is at while a Task is running (so you could see where it is hung up, at least) or have an option to interrupt and restart the Task without having to delete and recreate it from scratch.  ... View more

Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this - the ArcGIS Tracker Ideas page suggested posting in Field Maps, but I could also see this being a general ArcGIS Online suggestion, too. Currently, it seems that only AGO Administrators are able to create new Track Views from the Track Viewer web site , and there is no custom permissions option/toggle for this privilege when creating a custom role in ArcGIS Online. It would be beneficial to us if we could have a custom role in ArcGIS Online that allows for non-admin users to create Track Views on their own, instead of requiring them to coordinate with an Administrator. This would benefit organizations whose GIS is a bit more decentralized. For example, we have 'GIS Coordinators' spread around different program areas, whose responsibilities fall somewhere in between Publisher and Administrator.   ... View more