Latest Contributions by NathanHeickLACSD

I was performing a restore using webgisdr.  Some of the hosted feature services would not load into the Map Viewer after the restore.  I noticed that in the config-store/services/hosted, the folders were missing for those services.  The items were present in the portal.  Does anyone have an idea what could cause this? In the short term, I copied these folders from the backup into the hosted folder and the services worked, but I don't trust that other things may not be wrong as well. Thanks, Nathan ... View more

I'm migrating content between two portals using the ArcGIS API for Python and I wanted to know if the code attachments associated with Web AppBuilder items are required or important. ... View more

It would be much more efficient when browsing through items in a folder or other type of view if there were arrows to page through the items once you selected one.  I'm trying to migrate a portal using the ArcGIS API for Python and I'm doing a lot of item inspection.  It would be faster if I didn't have to click on an item, then go back, and click on the next item. ... View more

When using a DNS entry to configure your ArcGIS Enterprise installation, does the record need to be an A record or a CNAME record?  In other words, should it map a domain name to the host name or to an IP address?  I'm seeing smatterings that point to CNAME but I want to confirm. Thanks, Nathan ... View more

I was wondering what the recommendation is for installing ArcGIS Enterprise if we want to use an alias for the server.  Would you use the actual server's name throughout the installation process and then use the alias to access the server or would you use the alias throughout the installation process?  Right now, we have a mixture of both in different locations throughout the server.  The alias would just be a DNS entry on the network.  We think we're having issues because of the multiple server names.  Our old server was installed with just the actual server name, but aliases worked fine to access it. ... View more

I'm migrating a Python script that starts and stops services from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1 to 10.9.1.  In the ArcGIS API for Python, the function gis.admin.servers.list hangs now.  If you enter gis.admin.servers.__dict__, there is an attribute _server_list that is None.  Through the portal admin API, I can see our one server as being federated with the portal.  I did not setup the server so I don't know all the details of how it was set up.  I'm just wondering if anyone knows what direction to go. ... View more

This idea is the product of struggling with defining line symbology using ArcGIS Pro 2.9.6 and ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1.  The challenge was the inconsistency of display and the unintuitive experience I went through to figure it out.  If these issues have been fixed in newer versions, I would happy to hear that.  Below are the findings of my investigation and my recommendations. In the ArcGIS Pro symbology editor, the pulldown menu for dash type is as follows:   I would qualitatively characterize the second to fourth line types as short dash, long dash, and dot.  You might also think of the short dash as a dash.  However, when you actually select the symbols and they are displayed on the map, the dashes get lengthened.  The dot becomes a short dash; the short dash becomes a long dash; and the long dash becomes a very long dash.  See below: When you publish the map to ArcGIS Server as a dynamic map service, the actual symbology displayed in ArcGIS Pro is served up when you request map images.  However, all three line types that use a dash effect above get mapped to esriSLSDash when you look at the layer renderer in the REST API.  Therefore, if you add the layers individually as feature layers to the Map Viewer, they all look like shorter dashes. I realized I had to edit the symbology in the Map Viewer to be able to get different line types again.  I did it using the web interface and editing the JSON.  I learned that esriSLSDash, esriSLSShortDash, and esriSLSLongDash all display as a shorter dash.  Maybe that is a JavaScript 3.X  API thing.  At least, I accepted that for what it is.  So, my options were down to esriSLSDash and esriSLSDot.  I didn't want something as inconspicuous as a dotted line but I needed two different line types and those were my only options.  I was not interested in any other mixture of dashes and dots. It would have been nice if the dash type pulldown menu actually matched what you got on the map.  Then, it would have been nice if the different dash effects were mapped to the right ArcGIS Server line types.  I can see how there are an infinite number of dash templates that can be entered manually, but could you at least map the ones that match up with the pulldown menu to the right line types in ArcGIS Server or use some logic.   ... View more