Latest Contributions by DaraBurlo

Esri Community’s Tools & Tips series provides a power-packed serving of “How-To” every month. These micro-sized guides make it easy to level up your platform knowledge and get more out of Esri Community.    The value: You want to view content you have created in the past and find it without knowing the exact wording you had used, which could be entered in a search.    How to do it: You can filter your content whether you are signed in or not.  If you are logged out:  On the Esri Community homepage, click within the search bar at the base of the header. Type in your username and hit enter. Next, click the Members tab and click on your name within the member results. Then click View Profile.     If you are signed in:  Click your avatar on the navigation bar at the top of the screen. Click on My Profile from the menu that appears.    Next, click on the magnifying button on the search bar to bring up the filters. Optionally, use the filters to narrow the search results. For example, use the Type of Post drop down narrow and check off Questions to display results that are questions. Type a keyword or phrase in the search bar and hit enter.  Keep in mind: If looking for a reply or comment you have made, keywords that are in the original title of the post but not in the body of the reply will not be found. Use a keyword from the body of the reply or comment instead.  ... View more

Esri Community’s Tools & Tips series provides a power-packed serving of “How-To” every month. These micro-sized guides make it easy to level up your platform knowledge and get more out of Esri Community.    The value: There are many reasons why people may want to change their username. Perhaps you’ve legally changed your name, you have privacy concerns, or you just want to showcase your fun and creative side in a judgement free community. No matter what your reason for changing your username, Esri Community allows you to do this without affecting your account or content.    How to do it: Sign into Esri Community. Click your avatar near the top right of the navigation toolbar. Next, click My Settings. Under the Username tab, you will see a text box with your current username. Click in the text box and delete it. Type in your new username and click the Change Username button.  Change Your Username Keep in mind: A username cannot contain spaces and must be at least 2 characters up to a maximum of 30 characters in length. A username can contain letters, numbers, dashes and underscores.  ... View more

So, you’ve submitted an idea! That’s great, we truly appreciate that. You are so excited ... until you get a notification that it has been closed.   “Unfortunately, not all ideas are a good fit. These are not being considered at this time and will not be open to further voting.  Ideas may be closed for different reasons, and we will do our best to communicate and let the community know why this idea isn’t a good match for our current plans. Thank you for your contribution!”  Your heart might sink. Feelings of rejection could understandably surface. Please trust that it isn’t personal. You may even go through the five stages of rejection (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance plus a sixth stage of: utter abandonment - I'll never have an idea again!). Don’t get discouraged, treat yourself with compassion and follow the advice of James Clear.   "Don't wait to start writing until you have something to say. Start writing so you can find out what you have to say.   Your first idea is rarely your best idea. It can take a lot of reps before you discover something worth keeping." (Clear, J. 2024).  If you are having trouble submitting ideas review the Submission Guidelines and take a look at Tips for getting your ideas heard.     Citations  Clear, J. (2024, May 9), 3-2-1: On weaknesses, the secret to happiness, and what you want but haven’t said. https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/may-9-2024   ... View more

Esri Community’s Tools & Tips series provides a power-packed serving of “How-To” every month. These micro-sized guides make it easy to level up your platform knowledge and get more out of Esri Community.  The value: Translating a post allows you to convert a blog, document, question, idea or event into one of seven supported languages. Currently the seven supported languages are: Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish.  How to do it: Log into Esri Community. Then navigate to the post you would like to translate. Next, click the Translate Now button, located on the far right in the gray bar, immediately above the title. A message will pop-up stating ‘This thread is not selected for translation by the Author. Do you want to translate this thread?’ Click OK if you would like to continue with the translation. Use the Language Translation dropdown and select the language in which you would like to translate the text content to.  Keep in mind: It may take a little time to translate the content. If the content doesn’t translate, hit the Refresh button beside the translation language drop down to refresh the page.  ... View more

About Translation  The translation tool is a machine translation used to convert certain text content to one of seven supported languages, without leaving Esri Community. Currently the seven supported languages are: Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. Content that can be translated includes blogs, documents, questions, ideas, and events.   Note: Text and voice within images & videos will not be translated.  How to Translate To translate a blog, document, questions, idea or event, use the following steps:  Log into Esri Community. Navigate to the document, question, idea or event you would like to translate.  Click the Translate Now button, located on the far right of the in the gray bar, immediately above the title.  A message will pop-up stating ‘This thread is not selected for translation by the Author. Do you want to translate this thread?’ Click OK if you would like to continue with the translation. Use the Language Translation dropdown and select the language in which you would like to translate the text content to. Available languages are Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. Note: It may take a little time to translate the content. If the content doesn’t translate, hit the Refresh button beside the translation language drop down to refresh the page. Note: a legal disclaimer will appear indicating that the content has been translated.  How to view translated content  To view a blog, document, questions, idea or event, that has already been translated use the following steps:  Navigate to a board or a specific document, question, idea or event you would like to view as translated Locate the Language Translation dropdown, located beside the subscribe button on a board or on the far right of the in the gray bar, immediately above the title of a specific post.  Use the Language Translation dropdown and select the language in which you would like to translate the text content to. Available languages are Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish. Note: If the content doesn’t show the translated content, hit the Refresh button beside the translation language drop down to refresh the page. ... View more

How to @mention   To @mention, use the following steps:  Navigate to the content (i.e. question, idea, blog, document, video or event) you would like to draw someone’s attention to. Using the Reply (on questions and videos) or the Comment (on Ideas, blogs, documents, and events) field, start typing your message. When you are ready to include someone into the conversation type ‘@’ and immediately, without any spaces, start typing the username or User Group. For example, ‘@BriannaEttley’. As you start typing, suggestions will appear. When you see the username, you are looking for, click on it to add it to the reply or comment. If you do not see the username, click Show more to view more usernames. When you have finished composing your reply or comment, hit the reply or comment button to complete the post.  The person or people in the group will receive a notification with a link to the content in their notification feed and email. Note: If a user has turned off email notifications, unsubscribed to automated Community emails, turned off push notifications, turned off all real-time pop-up notification, or turned off all mobile notifications, the member may only see the notification when checking their notification feed.  ... View more

Esri Community’s Tools & Tips series provides a power-packed serving of “How-To” every month. These micro-sized guides make it easy to level up your platform knowledge and get more out of Esri Community.    The value: Creating a permalink allows you to produce a URL that takes you directly to a comment or response on a post. For example, if you want to share with a colleague the 3rd of 5 comments on a question, sharing the link to the question won’t take them to the specific comment you would like to highlight to your coworker. However, a permalink will take your colleague directly to the 3rd comment on the post.    How to do it:   From a question, idea, article, video or comment, click on the Post Options dropdown menu on the right hand side of the content. Click on Permalink. The URL in the address bar will update to include the new permalink information. Copy the URL from the address bar. Paste the URL to your medium of choice and send it to your colleagues.  ... View more

Esri Community’s Tools & Tips series provides a power-packed serving of “How-To” every month. These micro-sized guides make it easy to level up your platform knowledge and get more out of Esri Community.  The value: Direct Messaging another member, allows you to connect with other members by taking a conversation offline for a more personal interaction. For example, you notice another member is posting about a hot topic in your field of interest and you want to learn more about other trends they may have been investigating. How to do it: From a post or blog article, click on the member’s name and click ‘View Profile’. Scroll down to the ‘Contact Me’ section on the left-hand side. Click the ‘Direct Message’ button. This will open the ‘Create New Message’ form. The member’s username will already be auto filled in the ‘Send to’ field.   Alternatively, click on the ‘envelope’ button  in the top left corner of Esri Community. This will open up your Inbox. Click on the other ‘envelope’ icon  beside the ‘Inbox’ dropdown on the right-hand side of the screen. This will open the ‘Create New Message’ form. In the ‘Send to’ field, type or search for the member’s username(s).  Optionally, check ’Send as Broadcast Message’ if it is being sent to multiple members and you’d like the message to be sent out individually to each member.   From here, fill out the ‘Message Subject’ and ‘Message Body’. Once you have finished composing the message, click the ‘Send Message’ Button at the bottom of the form.   The message will be sent to the recipient(s). If the user is subscribed to automated Community emails in their email settings, an email will be sent to the recipient notifying them of the message as well as a notification on the envelope button  in the top left corner of Esri Community.   Keep in mind: If a user has turned off email notifications, unsubscribed to automated community emails, turned off push notifications, turned off all real-time pop-up notification, or turned off all mobile notifications, the member may only see the notification when checking their notification feed.  ... View more

This past October, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop facilitated by Tamsen Webster, author of Find Your Red Thread. Her talk was all about getting your ideas heard. Of course, I was intrigued and all I could think of was how this could apply to you, the creators of many ideas on Esri Community. In her talk and her book, she goes through the process of making an idea delectable by turning it into a story with a process that covers more than the basic elements of having a beginning, middle and end. She discusses a blueprint and a process of defining the goal, problem, truth, change and actions. She makes it easy to create stories from your ideas with her worksheets found here by breaking it down into two parts: the pieces of the story and the case for it to be heard.   I thought it might be nice to help those struggling to get their ideas submitted and see this method in action by taking an existing idea and reframe it using her method. I chose this idea just to reframe it, not because it is good or bad or because it was implemented recently, I just chose it as an example. The original idea captures the concept of sorting by geometry type in the ArcGIS Pro Catalog pane.    First using Tamsen’s Red Thread Worksheet, I created the pieces of the story to reframe the idea as follows:  Audience: Who is this message for?  ArcGIS Pro Catalog Users  Goal: What question does the audience already want answers to?   How can I look at my data based on geometry type (i.e. point, line, polygon, etc…)?  Problem: What pair of words or short phrase captures your AND their perspectives on what’s in the way?  Organization & efficiency  Truth: What truth or provable fact makes the problem impossible to ignore?  When it comes to organization, seeing geometry types allows for confidence in adding the correct feature.  When it comes to efficiency, accessing large amounts of data by the geometry type will allow you to access the specific data quickly thereby creating positive impressions.  Change: What’s the new thinking or behavior?  Viewing data in a different way.  Actions: What’s necessary to create the CHANGE?  Sorting your data in the ArcGIS Pro Catalog pane by geometry type    From here, I moved the story pieces over to Tamsen’s Conversational Case worksheet to get the case to be heard (aka the idea to submit):  ArcGIS Pro Catalog Users often want to look at data based on geometry type (i.e. point, line, polygon, etc…) so users can add data efficiently. Currently, the ArcGIS Pro Catalog pane focuses on names and feature types rather than on geometry types. Yet users believe that seeing geometry types allows for confidence in adding the correct feature and efficiency when dealing with large amounts of data. That’s why it is recommended to sort data in the ArcGIS Pro Catalog pane by geometry type.    Next time you have an idea and are struggling on how best to write your submission, try this method for some assistance. Don’t forget the submission guidelines and include screenshots/images if necessary to enhance clarifying your idea.    Citations  Webster, T. (2021). Find Your Red Thread. Page Two Books.  ... View more

About the Share Tool The share tool is used by Esri staff and Esri Community MVPs to duplicate a message to one or more boards of the same type. For example, posting a question regarding sharing a feature service from ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Enterprise, could be created on the ArcGIS Pro questions board and then shared to the ArcGIS Enterprise questions board to provide higher visibility of the question.   How to Share a Message  To share a message, use the following steps:  In a Place or Group, create your question, doc or blog.   NOTE: Events and Ideas cannot be shared. Open your published question, doc or blog. Click the Share Message Button located beneath the title.  A dialog will appear. Expand the nodes and select a target location(s) to which you would like to share. You can share your message up to 5 boards at one time.  Scroll to the bottom of the dialog and click the Share button.  A thank you note will briefly appear and the dialog will exit.  NOTE: Labels and tags will not be shared with your message. You will need to go to each target message and add any labels or tags.  Your post is now shared. You will notice a new icon beside the title of your original message indicating that this is a source shared message.  (notice the direction of the arrow goes to the cloud symbol)  You can go directly to the target posts (those that the source post has been shared to) by clicking the status button located beneath the title.  A dialog will appear indicating the creation and any updates on the message for each board it is being shared to. Click the link under the Target Message ID to open the target message in a new browser window.  Click OK to exit the dialog.  The target message(s) will show a different icon beside the title indicating that it is from a shared source.  (notice the direction of the arrow comes from the cloud symbol). Every target message will show the author of the message as a system user named ShareUser. It will also contain a board name from which it was shared and the original author’s name. Below we can see this message was shared from the arcgis-pro-questions board and the Source Author is DaraBurlo.  NOTE: When a post is shared, all copies of it remain connected so that comments, thread replies, and Accepted Solutions added to any of those copies will sync across the others so that users can build on the same conversation from multiple locations. Syncing occurs on a 24 hour cycle.   ... View more