Latest Contributions by NathanHeickLACSD

If we have to submit a bug to Technical Support, then that's what we will have to do.  I just tested it once more.  It was not consistent.  It stole the focus from Google Chrome 1 out of 2 times.  It did not steal the focus from Outlook or Teams.  It definitely is better than when I created this idea, but it's very hard to see a pattern. ... View more

Thanks for putting in the hard work with Technical Support.  That can be slow sometimes.  I did update my script to retry if it fails and wait 30 minutes in between.  It hasn't been a problem since. ... View more

Hi Scott, Esri Technical Support eventually registered what I described as a bug.  I'm not sure that your situation is the same problem.  I would talk to Technical Support if you want to find a resolution.  I spent a long time just getting to the bug declaration. ... View more

I think that npm ci must have failed and the node_modules directory was empty.  I was running it from PowerShell and I thought it succeeded.  Now, I am running it from the Command Prompt and getting two main varieties of errors related to our network security settings.  First, there is a certificate error:   npm ERR! code UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY npm ERR! errno UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY npm ERR! request to https://r.cnpmjs.org/cssfilter/download/cssfilter-0.0.10.tgz failed, reason: unable to get local issuer certificate     I was able to fix that by running the command:     npm config set strict-ssl false     I don't know if that is very wise, but I will return it back to true in a minute.  The second type of error is:     npm ERR! code E403 npm ERR! 403 403 Forbidden - GET https://r.cnpmjs.org/cssfilter/download/cssfilter-0.0.10.tgz npm ERR! 403 In most cases, you or one of your dependencies are requesting npm ERR! 403 a package version that is forbidden by your security policy, or npm ERR! 403 on a server you do not have access to.     I think our security policy is blocking .tgz and .bz2 files. ... View more

Thanks for your help Kory and Andres.  I'm slowly working my way through this problem between my work computer and my home computer.  It's definitely my work computer that has the issues.  For one, we use Zscaler and the first package (.bz2) is being blocked as unscannable.  I think we will have to add exceptions for those.  Also, we're having SSL errors, probably because of our root certificates. ... View more

In my case Vincent, I was getting the 504 errors and when I reviewed the data, the requests were failing somewhere in the middle.  I even load the data in chunks.  When everything is going well, my addFeatures request completes well under 30 seconds.  When it's not working, it just times out on AGOL's side.  I definitely like your idea of checking it over and over.  Did you see that the issue happened at certain times of day? ... View more

After accepting this is a longstanding issue that could continue on for a lot longer, I just modified my script to start the entire sequence over again if one of these errors occurred.  This meant wrapping a large block of REST calls into one try-except block.  However, it has worked very well.  I have it wait 30 minutes between attempts and I try 5 times.  I would be very displeased if I needed 24-7 support. ... View more

Good to know that about layout elements.  I guess I am just ignorant.  The saving grace is that it means you're doing a good job by following common patterns.  I need more UC. ... View more

Hi Kory, Well, right now, I am working on a developing a complex application.  There is one primary map service with a lot of layers and I often open it up, inspect some data or try out some symbology changes.  Then, I want to discard all the changes and reopen the map as it was previously saved.  I could just undo all changes.  I could do what Rhett said.  However, I feel like the way Microsoft Office does it is pretty good.  They have a Close option under the File menu like this: I am proposing the same type of Close option.  They also have a Close command that you can add to your Quick Launch toolbar.  So, I have the following on my toolbar: I have New, Open, Save, Save As, and Close.  If I have multiple Excel spreadsheets open, I like having the Close option next to New and Open.  These are the main operations.  In ArcGIS Pro, however, there is no gray screen like when you close all open spreadsheets.  You can close the whole window using the X in the upper right hand corner.  My brain tells me why do I want to close out completely and reload ArcGIS Pro into memory.  I just want to close the project, not ArcGIS Pro. So, if I could go to the Project tab, click on Close, and then go back to the initial launch screen for ArcGIS Pro that has all the Recent Projects listed, I could reopen the same project in three clicks.  Also, if there was a Close command in the software, I could add it to my Quick Launch toolbar in ArcGIS Pro.  That would mean that I could close the project from wherever I was working, see the Recent Projects list immediately, click that project again or a different one, and move along my way without unloading a lot of memory and reloading it. This would require the concept of closing a project that doesn't completely shut down an ArcGIS Pro window.  Who knows what's really going on in the background, but it appears like each window is an instance of ArcGIS Pro.  So if I could reopen my project in two clicks, that would be great.  I think this also applies to closing my current project without saving and opening a different project.  I guess you need to add on another click to not save any changes to the project, but that is unavoidable. I am trying to keep that project that I publish the service from very clean.  I even have it in source control.  I could make a copy of it, but it's in recent files often times.  If I mess it up, I can discard changes in GitHub.  So, I am totally happy playing around with it and discarding changes.  However, I make changes for a lot of reasons related to application development. ... View more

@KoryKramer pointed out that you can press CTRL and then drag and drop a layer to a new location and it will copy it, even between different maps in different projects.  My idea above might be more user-friendly to those who don't have the keyboard shortcuts memorized, but the shortcut approach works very effectively. ... View more

Hi Kory, No, I was not aware of that feature.  It works pretty well.  Some of these features really require training or studying the documentation to be aware of.  I posted another related idea that is covered by this. Thanks, Nathan ... View more