Latest Contributions by JayLarsen

I'm having a persistent problem in AGOL.  I make a mundane layer, like a drive-time layer or something, and when I go to use "enrich layer", I can click on it, but it doesn't work.  It doesn't bring up the parameters, its as if I didn't click on it. If I exit the map, make a new map, stick in the layer I want to enrich in this new map, I can enrich no problem.  Then I exit the new dummy map, re-open my old map, and add the enriched layer, and I can use it fine.  This has been going on for about 2 months, and persists across new maps, old maps, new layers, old layers, whatever. Is this a bug?  Anybody else have this? ... View more

I have a need to create a sort of "drive time force field" feature.  The idea is that I have several points, and I start driving from all of the simultaneously, and I want to get the resulting area feature from all of the start points where they run into one another.  Then I could look at population and other things inside those areas. Kind of like this: There's 3 locations, and they all run into each other in the line scratched in red on the blue "iso-drive-time" lines. I want to get the "zone 3" polygon for each dot.  The idea would be I don't want anything over 15min, I just want to get the zone of contention, so to speak. Maybe like in physics, I'm thinking of calculating where gravity/electric/magnetic field would null out from the distance of the points? It would like running the drivetime function on 3 points at a time, but somehow using a smart version of the "split" option for the "areas of different points" input, only it would be smart, stop moving at the intersections with the other points' drivetimes. Any ideas on how to do this in AGOL?  Any ideas in general on doing it in Pro or any other platform? Thank You. ... View more

What are the best ZIP, Census Tract, and Block Group layers to use in AGOL? I used to use for ZIPs the "USA ZIP Codes (2015)" layer.  Now I see that Living Atlas has what looks like Esri maintained layers for ZIP, Tract, and Block Group with no years on them.  The blurbs say they are special versions that work good on AGOL.  Is this true?  Should I use these? In the past, I did tract uploades form Census .shp files, a pain. And didn't bother with blocks because it seemed like too much time to draw. Will somebody at Esri say that "yes, we made these new layers, use them, we will maintain them, and not screw them up ever." for the following layers: https://honorhealth.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2a0f46361c05465eb89d4aa417d6ad08  https://honorhealth.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fe6374385966414687ec0396146fdba6  https://esri.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0a2fde8aa7404187917488bafcbc77e6  I'd love to know the exact use case of these layers and their release history, if there is such a thing? ... View more

How exactly does PowerBI work with AGOL maps?  We have authors that are full #AGOL users, if we make a map, put it in PowerBI dashboard, can anybody see it? We are a typical larger company, we have high-skill ESRI users with about 5 years of assets on #AGOL. If we stick a map into a PowerBI report or dashboard, can anybody in the company view it without any other login? I can't tell if the "Plus" account is based on authoring, or viewing? I need to know this answer before doing any more testing or recommendation. Thank You. ... View more

I was using the ESRI for Office plugins in Excel the other day, and needed to use one of my AGOL layers for our locations.  No problem loading it, but I couldn't figure out how to set up filters?  All of our basic locations layers require filters to display as we keep status information like "closed", "WIP", "open", etc in there. Can it be that there is no way to set filters in ESRI for Office? Furthermore, when I loaded my locations layer, ESRI for Office didn't obey the default filter set up in AGOL, either? I searched for ways to do filtering, but came up with nothing. After all the interesting and useful adds to the product recently, I can't believe there's no interface for filters? Anybody else run into this or know? Thanks! #filter ... View more

I was working on deadline this week with 2 colleagues on a project that utilized the same map one of us had made. I started to get strange results, and it makes me ask, "what exactly is going on in the multi-user situation with shared maps?" 1.  Colleague made map set up a bunch of layers we would need and we all started work. 2.  I open the map while she is in it.  How does it arbitrate what happens if we try and change styles on the same layer? 3. Whose edits get saved? 4. A lot of work was taking this one big master layer, and restyling it for about a dozen different views.  I dupe the "original" layer, and then rename the copy.  I do my setups.  I save her shared map.  I come back the next day, and not only is my dupe layer not in there, neither are my edits.  Huh? 5. I did the same as above, but compelled a local layer save by doing a "save layer" on my dupe layer that was set up with my needed settings.  That did save locally in my content, but did not appear in the content list when I open the map.  She reports that she does see my layers fine.  I have to go re-add them, and start work again from that point. Is the multi-user broken?  Buggy?  Was something weird going on?  It really shakes our confidence when we do a bunch of work and it disappears like this. Anybody know what is going on? ... View more