Latest Contributions by AaronKoelker

Long story short, I have a need to transfer photo attachments from one feature class to another based only on an overlap/intersection. I'm having trouble thinking of a workflow for this (or perhaps I'm overthinking it). I do not have any reliable attributes like a GLOBALID to join between the two feature classes and transfer that way, I just have the matching locations. Fortunately the points I need to transfer attachments for overlap the points with the attachments exactly. Any ideas? I'm open to either something I can script with python or do manually through ArcGIS Pro if necessary.  I do have thousands of points, however, so manually saving the photos one by one and reattaching them to their new points is something I'd rather avoid. ... View more

Having the option to add short descriptions below the thumbnail for each story on the initial Collections gallery/splash page would be helpful in cases where commentary  from the collection curator regarding each item can provide additional context or insight as to why it is in the collection.  For example, we are running a StoryMap of the month for our organization to highlight internal content from our various program areas, and being able to say what we liked about each item or say more about the program area who worked on it could add more overall value.  Thanks for your time and consideration!  ... View more

Hello there. For context, I'm using Fields Maps on an Android smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S9+ with ~6.5" screen). Currently, hint text will appear within its associated input box, but is not actually visible until the user taps the input box. (Before tapping the input box, the field name is displayed there.) However, if the field has a domain, tapping the box immediately opens up the list of choices for that field, meaning you do not get to see the hint text unless you back out, without choosing a value. Additionally, when it does display, the hint text gets cut off if it is longer than 6 or so words, limiting its usefulness. This is probably less of an issue on larger tablets. It would be helpful to have the hint text placed below the input box (or at least an option to), similar to how the descriptions for field Groups are currently displayed, and to how hint text is placed in Survey123. Alternatively, having the hint text appear in a bar near the top of the screen only after the input box has been tapped (especially if there is a choice list for that field), might be another option. Thanks for your time and consideration! ... View more

I have a request for adding a text field to a dataset with a large field length. (5000, maybe 6000 characters o_o). This would be on a feature class stored in an enterprise file geodatabase, which is hitting an editable web service on ArcGIS Server for use in the Collector app. The idea is that this field would contain keywords, or each unique instance of a word found in an attached text document for that feature, hopefully creating a simple way to search document content via ArcGIS Desktop or an ArcGIS Online web app, without needing to store the entirety of the document text content in the attribute table somewhere but still having it available via the related attachment, if needed. My question is: is this a terrible idea, and if so, why? My gut says that nothing good will come out of a text field with that many characters, seeing as the default is only 255, but I've never actually tried it or heard of anyone doing something like that. I know it will be unreadable in the attribute table, but it's only for querying. There's just that nagging voice in the back of my head that says to keep the field length as short as possible, no matter what. I have no idea what it will do to the file size and performance of the dataset. Not every record will have 5000 characters contained in that field, (it's more likely to be 1-2000 on average), but some of them will. I know the limits of a text field in a fgdb feature class are techincally 2 million+ characters in length or something equally absurd, but I know just because we can doesn't mean we should, lol. So while my gut says no, I don't really have an alternative solution. Just curious if anyone has already gone down this path before and can save me some grief ahead. ... View more

Hey all,   I'm trying to script out an overwrite workflow using the method found here:   *Relevant code from above link (Overwrite Feature Layer section near the bottom): from arcgis.features import FeatureLayerCollection cities_flayer_collection = FeatureLayerCollection.fromitem(cities_item) #call the overwrite() method which can be accessed using the manager property cities_flayer_collection.manager.overwrite(os.path.join('data', 'updating_gis_content', 'updated_capitals_csv', 'capitals_1.csv'))   I've used this in the past for other scripts and it works swell. However, I now have a need to create a single "master" feature layer comprised of multiple datasets that have been merged together, and it comes out as a pretty big file size when zipped together in a fgdb for upload (2.1 GB). When I manually execute the Overwrite using the menu buttons on the item detail page in ArcGIS Online, it uploads and overwrites the feature layer from my zipped fgdb with no problem.   When I try to replicate this via the scripting method above, I get the following error:   Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:/Users/user_user/.PyCharmCE2019.3/config/scratches/DRP_Update_SNAPP_Master.py", line 146, in <module>     flayer.manager.overwrite(newdata)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\features\managers.py", line 1268, in overwrite     if related_data_item.update(item_properties=params, data=data_file):   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\gis\__init__.py", line 8165, in update     large_thumbnail)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\portalpy.py", line 2228, in update_item     resp = self.con.post(path, postdata, files)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgis\_impl\connection.py", line 1106, in post     resp = opener.open(req)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 526, in open     response = self._open(req, data)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 544, in _open     '_open', req)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 504, in _call_chain     result = func(*args)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1361, in https_open     context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1318, in do_open     encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\http\client.py", line 1254, in request     self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\http\client.py", line 1300, in _send_request     self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\http\client.py", line 1249, in endheaders     self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\http\client.py", line 1075, in _send_output     self.send(chunk)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\http\client.py", line 996, in send     self.sock.sendall(data)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\ssl.py", line 975, in sendall     v = self.send(byte_view[count:])   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\ssl.py", line 944, in send     return self._sslobj.write(data)   File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\ssl.py", line 642, in write     return self._sslobj.write(data) OverflowError: string longer than 2147483647 bytes   I haven't found any sort of note within the API reference stating that the overwrite uploads are limited to 2GB -- and it works when I do it manually -- so I'm confused what I'm running into here, and unsure how to work around it. Is it a limitation of the urllib or ssl packages that the .overwrite function uses?  ... View more