Latest Contributions by AndrewRudin1

Thanks for the response.  I think I'm going to put in a support ticket.  For me, running print(arcgis.__path__) returns the path to my default environment, even though the cloned environment is shown as the active one in the Pro python package manager. ... View more

Thank you! I used the "Settings Keys" section here: (https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk/wiki/ArcGIS-Pro-Registry-Keys#settings-keys-1).  Manually created a new registry key and pasted in my folder path.  Appears to work.  If I open Pro and remove the add-in, then close and reopen it appears.  Will try on Monday with a colleague logging in for the first time. ... View more

Okay, I think I see the issue.  I do not get those options to create a view or alter time settings on the SBDS layer I created in GeoEvent manager. To be specific, in GeoEvent Manager go to Site->Spatiotemporal Big Dat Stores->Create Data Source.   I guess GeoEvent created SBDS layers are not considered hosted layers.  To test I created a second SBDS layer a different way...by going into Pro and running GeoAnalytics->Copy to Data Store on the sample data housed on my PC.   That creates a portal item labeled as hosted and does provide the "time settings" and "create view" options. Perhaps if I create a hosted SBDS layer first via Pro, I can get GeoEvent to write to it.  Something to try later.  Regardless, given this little discrepancy, sounds like we'll have to put some forethought into how we want to use any data from GeoEvent for analysis before we put any GeoEvent services into production. Thank for walking through this example with me.  This really helps me understand how these servers fit into solutions for our business needs. -Andrew ... View more

Thank you Sarah,  That helps to know the projection I'm aiming for so I can design GeoEvent processes to do as little as possible.  Would hate to project to State Plane only to have the data auto-reprojected back. I'm using fresh 10.6.1 servers and Pro 2.2.3.  I've now redeployed a default GeoEvent SBDS output layer and have some sample data populated.  When I try to create a space time cube from it using the GeoAnalytics toolbar in Pro, I see that it was just giving me a warning about the coordinate system and that the tool will apply the "World Cylindrical Equal Area" projection.  However, right after that it bombed out because the input layer is time interval based, and that is what caused it to error out. I pasted the results window text below.   The data I'm using for my sample are city 311 service request tickets.  There are 500,000 records covering requests for all the various City services and we have history for the last 5 years, so it seemed like a good candidate to try spatiotemporal hosting on, I used Geoevent to create it since I can see us loading in tickets as they come in during every day.  The data has a few date fields in them that would be useful in various spatiotemporal analysis operations depending on what an analyst wants to look at. In my case those fields are created_date, last_status_update_date,  and close_date. When I defined the GeoEvent Definition for this data, I tagged the created_data as the START_TIME tag, and the closed_date as the END_TIME tag.  Therefore, I guess when the overlying feature service got created , it was then time-enabled as interval based with those two fields hard coded as start-end time values.  The space-time cube wants a dataset that is instant time...meaning only one field like created_date is used to time-enable.   So as an analyst, if I stumble upon this amazing GeoEvent output layer in my Portal and I want to do spatiotemporal analysis on it, then how would I go about it?   For example, maybe I want to investigate "how many tickets were created in various parts of the city over space and time the last 5 years?" and then "is there a spatiotemporal variance in how long tickets are open in parts of the city". With how it's setup now I don't see how I can do it without extracting the SBDS data to my desktop or another hosted copy where I can redefine the time-enablement on a Pro layer or a separate nearly-identical feature service.  If I load the SBDS feature service into Pro, the time-enablement section of the properties is grayed-out so I can't redefine it there before creating the space-time cube.  I also don't see a way to alter the properties of the feature service in GeoEvent or Portal to tinker with the time-enable properties.  I think hosted views aren't an option for this kind of data either. I really wish users could alter/override the time-enablement of web layers inside of applications (Pro, Portal map layers), rather than it being hard coded into service definitions. This would give analysts freedom to explore lots of different attributes from a single dataset, rather than being limited to whatever the data admin that initially created the web service picked. Here is the output from the processing. Parameters Point Layer AustinOpenData_311UnifiedData\AustinOpenData_311UnifiedData Output Name junkspacetimecube.nc Distance Interval 1000 Feet Time Interval 1 Months Time Interval Alignment REFERENCE_TIME Reference Time 1/1/2013 Summary Fields Output File Messages Start Time: Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:04:48 PM Running script Create Space Time Cube... Submitted. Executing... Executing (CreateSpaceTimeCube): CreateSpaceTimeCube "Feature Set" 1000 Feet 1 Months ReferenceTime 1/1/2013 [] junkspacetimecube.nc # Start Time: Thu Oct 11 17:04:51 2018 Using URL based GPRecordSet param: https://coagisentd1.coacd.org/server/rest/services/Hosted/AustinOpenData_311UnifiedData/FeatureServer/0 WARNING 120094: Bin generation and analysis requires a projected coordinate system and a default projection of World Cylindrical Equal Area has been applied. ERROR 120040: Wrong time type for 'Input Features'. Expected 'instant', got 'interval'. Failed to execute (CreateSpaceTimeCube). Failed at Thu Oct 11 17:04:55 2018 (Elapsed Time: 3.91 seconds) Failed. ERROR 000582: Error occurred during execution. Completed script Create Space Time Cube... Failed to execute (CreateSpaceTimeCube). Failed at Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:04:55 PM (Elapsed Time: 6.66 seconds) -Andrew ... View more

No, I have just started working with ArcGIS Enterprise for the first time in a sandbox server.  I didn't want to start hacking it on day one before I started exploring.  I've also heard that vector tile hosted layers rely on the package item for the data when users view it, so I'm leery to start deleting data from the back end. ... View more

Also you mention that I could delete the .sd files after the layer is published via a script.  I tried deleting the .sd file via the Portal user interface but it gives the error message "This item cannot be deleted until these dependent layers are deleted:" then it lists the hosted feature layer name. That lead me to believe the .sd file was used by the hosted feature layer service.  Do you think a backend script would avoid this same error message? ... View more

Thank you, Jonathan.  This explanation really helped.  ... View more

Thanks for the clarification.  In our existing pre-Enterprise architecture we have ~600 feature classes on an Oracle SDE referenced by our ArcGIS Desktop users and our ArcGIS Server web applications.  As we start to look at Enterprise, I've heard mumblings that migrating the SDE layers to data store hosted feature layers would increase performance and/or scalability...provided the data store server had very fast disk read/write speed.   Ultimately we can size the portal server to be bigger to handle the .SD files if need be if the hosted feature layers perform better than RDBMS registered feature layers. ... View more