Latest Contributions by Mike_Koutnik

I am using the Dissolve tool to aggregate groups of parcels based on common tax bill address. The parcels have had various extra attributes added to parcels, both numeric and string. It would be most useful and appropriate for our use case for the Dissolve tool to support a MAJORITY "statistics type." This would allow me to capture the dominant characteristic among the possible values for a specific attribute. I imagine some users might also find a "MINORITY" statistics type useful. Thanks.  ... View more

One VERY nice feature in Web AppBuilder is being able to explicitly set the presentation order of values in a predefined choice list. Apparently, Experience Builder automatically sorts value choices alphabetically. That option surely has some utility for some. But for our needs, allowing explicit placement is far superior. We have several long lists of choices in one application. Some dictated by regulations or policy, others by convention. Users a very familiar with these choices being presented in a specific order. In each case, there is an inherent grouping of the individual choices they are familiar with a comfortable with and makes sense to them. To not see those options in the familiar order is disorienting to them. It would be VERY helpful if an option could simply be offered NOT sort filter value choice lists and just use the order of choices as configured in the builder. Thanks ... View more

I spend quite a bit of time selecting and fine-tuning symbolization options for layers in web maps. The palette color picker in the "classic" Map Viewer saves me gobs of time. A color I pick there, often with transparency adjustments. That makes it quick and simple to set an appropriate color. But a BIG side benefit is that this approach allows me to assure that a color I use in one map or app can easily and quickly and confidently be "reused" to provide consistent color use across use cases. It thus sets up the ability to "enforce" standards for a set of maps and apps. When I go to a new map with a layer that I want to "reuse" a color, I can go to the palette and quickly pick, say, the magenta in the 3rd row in the last column. Choosing from the palette also sets--and continually reinforces--a spatial and visual "muscle memory" for often-used colors. Overall, this leads to clarity for users of your information products. With the new Map Viewer, you are faced with having to always use slider bars, or remember and type in hexadecimal codes, constantly referring back to another map or layer to make sure you have the color right. It's tedious and frustrating. Picking from a palette is SO much easier, faster and repeatable. PLEASE add the palette to the new Map Viewer. Thanks. ... View more

In ArcGIS Pro I sometimes need to mimic the symbology of a raster layer in a vector layer.  I also sometimes have the need to do the opposite: mimic vector symbology in a raster layer.  It would be very helpful to enable the Import Symbology tool in the Map button bar to import the symbology from one layer to another of different type.  Obviously the data types for the two layers would have to align, e.g., an integer raster and a numeric column in a vector  layer.  But it should also be allowed to import symbology for a text categorical raster into either a numeric OR text column in a vector layer, if the categorical values in the raster are numeric.  This capability would eliminate tedious manual creation of classes and copying of RGB values between the layers.  ... View more

When reviewing and configuring a feature layer data item, for some reason, not all fields in Data view are set as visible.  And as a table gets modified which fields are visible by "default" is not consistent. Please add the following three cabilities: 1. When setting column visibility in Data view, make those changes persistent.  As is is now, if I go to Visualization view briefly and then come back I have to reset as visible those fields which are again now hidden.  Every time. It wastes time. 2. Add an option in the Fields view so that the visibility of each field in Data view can be set explicitly. 3. Any time an attribute table is modified (even if by Pro) the default setting for visibility for a field should be "on."  Where I experienced this issue was when I added three fields via the NEAR tool in Pro.  For those fields I need to make those three fields visible every time I try to view the table in Data view.  But for a field I added later in ArcGIS Online, that field IS visible by default in Data view.  ... View more

I work in Pro with several portals.  I am constantly opening a project and then realizing just as the project finishes loading that I am signed into the wrong portal. The projects I create often take a while to load since they reference live services from several external providers.  So this wastes time.  There is already an indication of which portal your are signed into tucked away (almost unseen) in the far upper right corner.  Just moving it next to the Recent Projects list and having an explicit button there to "Switch Portals" would help.  But it would be better if your portal list was shown.  Then you'd click on a portal to choose, when a popup would appear to allow you to select which option you wanted, such as "Set as active portal" or "Sign out."  But an even more human-friendly approach would be as Pro loads a project, to check whether there is a portal dependence in that project.  If you aren't signed into the needed portal, Pro could display a prompt stating which portal is needed by the project, and asking if you want to switch. THAT would be helpful! Thanks.  ... View more

"Statistics" on columns in Map Viewer attribute tables is VERY handy.  But they are only available for numeric fields.  I very frequently find myself needing simple "statistics" for a categorical field.  All that is needed is a list of the values in the column with a count of the records for each value. ... View more