Latest Contributions by MalcolmMeyer2

For those out there that have Enterprise up and running with Portal, when you publish your feature layers, are you referencing the data directly from your main editing enterprise database, are you copying the data to Portal and referencing that data, or are you doing something else? Basically I am looking for publishing data workflows for folks that have actually implemented Portal. We are looking at implementing Enterprise and I need some more info on how this all fits together. Any comments regarding the workflow below would also be appreciated. We would only have one database in this scenario, no versioning, staging, etc. From ArcGIS Pro, for each layer I want to publish (which is every layer) Publish Web Layer (Feature Service) to Portal (or is this actually published to Server?)- not sure where this data actually lives, however Create Vector Tile Layer/Package, this data lives on Enterprise somewhere... From Portal Create Layer View (Read-Only from Feature Service) lives in Enterprise somewhere... --OR-- Create a web layer without editing privileges in step 1... From Windows via Model Builder, Python, and Task Scheduler (Nightly task) Overwrite Web Layer - this does not seem possible in Model Builder directly...?? (if this is referencing my edit geodatabase I should not even need to do this...) Overwrite Vector Tile Layer (new in Pro, but haven't tried this yet) ... View more

Is there a way to add third-party vector tiles to an AGOL map? Since we can add vector tile basemaps and ArcPro vector tile layers it would seem the technology is there, but it is just that there seems to be no clear way to add a %.pbf or style.json source. If this is not possible currently, will it be possible in the new beta AGOL map viewer/editor? I also added a feature request here if it is not possible - https://community.esri.com/ideas/16570  ... View more

Survey123 is truncating auto-filled geopoints. The form is opened with the url parameters -  center=39.944407072286424,-82.00622538104653 However the coordinates end up as  center: -82.00623,39.94441 The survey was made with Connect. Is there a field that needs filled out to expand the number of decimal places that the survey will allow?  ... View more

After two days of debugging the Feature Compare tool in ArcCatalog 10.7.1 and reading through this forum it would seem the tool does not work as expected. It seems way too comprehensive. It would be great if there was a "simple" compare checkbox that would just compare the shapes and attributes...debugging all these errors is just not going to cut it. See workaround below if you are in the same situation. Workflow: Import feature into a backup SDE from production SDE Compare Features with Feature Compare (making sure to change the names of the features so they are both the same) Sort by ObjectID If Features are different, delete existing backup and copy new features to backup Expected Result = Features are the same Actual Result, features are different Tried a variety of methods, with a variety of what I consider errors... FeatureClass: ObjectID 21 is different for Field Shape (Base: Geometry, Test: Geometry). SpatialReference: Spatial References have different M precision (Base: 0.000000000000, 1.000000000000, Test: -100000.000000000000, 10000.000000000000). SpatialReference: Spatial References have different Z precision (Base: 0.000000000000, 1.000000000000, Test: -100000.000000000000, 10000.000000000000). So either the tool does not work properly or the documentation is missing key information for users to use this tool properly. Similar Questions with no real answers Feature Compare tool -- why is it comparing geometry?  Feature Compare explained  Feature Compare Results  Feature Compare Tool not working  feature compare results show fields mismatch but they are identical  Workaround - I am exporting to GeoJSON (with esri2open because the built-in tool Features to JSON tool is not 100% consistent), hashing the files and comparing the hashes, super simple and works 100% of the time. ... View more

I have two maps, a main map and an overview map with an extent indicator in my layout. I have some layers clipped to an extent in the overview map. However, these layers show up when the map is exported to a PDF, image, PDF as image. Anyone else have this issue or found a workaround? I am running the latest Pro 2.4.1. ... View more