Latest Contributions by AmyWork3

We are seeing this error recently with several classes on our campus. We are using ArcGIS Pro 2.9.3 on a .net 4.000 framework. They are experiencing this when trying to export a layout (pdf,jpeg) to a network storage drive. File paths have been updated to remove all spaces. They aren't using raster data. Their projects are now corrupted. Has anyone else experienced this recently? ... View more

Thanks @KoryKramer . Here are some additional thoughts to good questions.  1. The software is installed on both campus controlled lab machines and personal laptops. For the campus based machines, we do NOT currently block notifications. Sometimes it is useful to know that there is an update, regardless if you can update or not. Most instructors can clarify with their students what version they should be using for class. Of course there will always be those who don't listen and still upgrade, but that's on them.  2. I agree with @PatIampietro and @Willen that the idea would be able to allow users to select what supported version they want to download. Again, more on making other versions available rather than just the latest and one version back. While we as a campus encourage users to be on a particular version, we still have some researchers who are on a particular version due to certain tools and others. For example we are in a trial with ArcGIS Indoors, and the ELT tool would not work with the latest versions of ArcGIS Pro. It would only work with ArcGIS Pro 2.7 (Esri is aware of the incompatibility with the ETL tools and Pro). So we had to go in and find that version and make it available to students. It would have been great to just tell the students to go and download that version from AGO.  3. I don't think I would need to cap the number of versions of ArcGIS Pro per student. We have students who are enrolled in classes and then many other students and researchers who are using the software outside of the class. I would like to enable the SSO we have setup for our AGO to say, if you are affiliate with our AGO and you would like to download the software go here. Currently I'm still having to be very involved in providing access to earlier versions of software in addition to providing technical support on the use of the software. I would just want the option to make the software available and enable the user to select what version to download based on their research needs or class instructions. It would be up to the campuses or Orgs to specify to their users what version their campus is using.  With this last line stated about providing guidance to their users/members on what version they should download, it seems like it would be extra work to build in a function that would add say an * next to the "this Org recommends this version". Again, I would look at going with a simple implementation of just making other supported versions of ArcGIS Pro available for download from the AGO interface.  ... View more

Simultaneous collaborative editing of StoryMaps would support more use of StoryMaps in courses where GIS is not the focus. We have a number of faculty who do not teach GIS, but who are incorporating StoryMaps as part of a final project. For those who would like to do group projects, the inability to edit a StoryMap simultaneously has created some frustration for the faculty and students. No matter how much they try I still wind up with someone who has lost content because they were trying to edit at the same time.  When so many platforms exist for simultaneous collaborative editing (Google Docs/Sheets/Presentation, Miro, and many others), the inability to edit at the same time just seems inefficient. I've even had some faculty not want to use StoryMaps because of this. Yes, I realize there are shared update groups. But this doesn't solve the editing-at-the-same-time. Yes, I realize that students could create their own StoryMap and then combine them using a collection. But sometimes students need to work on the same content. As Reina mentioned above, it's hard to schedule time. And that one time when someone leaves a tab open..... ... View more

We are encountering this issue as well. A user copied text from a Google Doc and pasted into the StoryMap. The StoryMap appeared to have saved the text, but when it was published, the text was lost. We haven't tried the "paste-as-plain-text" as mentioned above, but we did save the Google Doc out as a .txt and then copied/pasted from there. ... View more

You can't inhabit two roles at the same tile under the same user account. You could create a new account to test out the permissions. We do this when we want to test how user settings without the administrator permissions. My understanding is that an Admin has access to all permissions. As an Admin, you may need to assign the extension to yourself (assign licenses), but that you won't need to activate the Role permissions.  For a non-admin account, you would have to both activate the license extension AND adjust the role permissions.  ... View more

We just encountered the same issue. Would be great to know that it's not just enabling the license, but that there is another permission that also needs to be enabled.  ... View more

Agree! As we are exploring ArcGIS Image, and have students running image analyses, we would like to more closely monitor file storage and tile storage size (feature storage size would also be nice). We can't pull that from the Organizational Credits report. However, it is available in the Organizational Items Credit report. Why can't a summary of each individual's credit consumption be summarized in the Organizational Credit Report? ... View more

I support:  that ‘create a group with update capabilities’ be made a non-administrative privilege in order to more easily facilitate collaboration amongst users. Our University struggles with the same thing. We would like this function to be part of the new member defaults, however because it is listed as a admin privilege, we cannot automatically assign this to users to enable them to "create group with update capabilities."  Our current work around is to have all members assigned a default role and then we transition them to a role that is not assigned as a new member default.  We haven't encountered the Notebook issue, but users are still ramping up on using those. Given the warning you are getting @Caitlin_Dickinson, that would confuse our users as well. ... View more

Fully support customizable emails. This would help alleviate some of the emails that come in from students on password resets, as well as license updates. ... View more

I second this for Higher Education institutions. While we have SAML enabled for our campus affiliates, our license also covers students enrolled in Extension courses. For these Extension students, we must create AGO accounts for them. It would be great when I create them to assign at the time of creation a disable date. Or if not at creation, then allow me to go in an schedule them ahead of time to disable at a certain date.  ... View more

I am getting several questions from researchers who would like to take their StoryMaps offline so that they can share their work with communities around the world where internet connection is not reliable or not as accessible. As mentioned above, could someone have the option to export the StoryMap into some type of file that would enable offline exploration. Perhaps the file is stored on a laptop, or accessible through a phone or tablet.  I would think there would be limitations in the zoom functionality of any maps (defined by StoryMap creator) As for embedded websites or videos, perhaps there are workflow considerations to enable either a screen shot of a website or videos would need to be included in ArcGIS Online. Is this a consideration for StoryMaps or still not even on the radar for development? ... View more

Thanks for the feedback. I've been working with some students / researchers who would like the option to center some text in certain text boxes. This is primarily with the main text boxes, not the sidecar content. Specifically they would like to center some of their references, acknowledgements, and contact information at the bottom of the StoryMap. ... View more

Hi, I also have this same question. I would like to center text on a text block, similar to what can be done in any document program (e.g. Word). So Align Left, Align Center, Align Right or Justify. I do not see the ability to align the text in something other than the default, Align Left.  Can I specify how I would like to text aligned in StoryMaps? ... View more

CONS A recent change to the interface which frustrates me is how hidden "enable Esri access" is.  Do you know if there is a way this can automatically be enabled when using a batch upload? PROS Groups make allocating certain content or collaboration easier. I'm really looking forward to having SSO enabled which will make time management easier.  ... View more