Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

‎07-01-2025

Has anyone else having issues with ArcGIS Enterprise Portal 11.5 not completely loading maps or data in Experience Builder, Instant Apps, or Web Editor? We are having to clear out the browser cache and site cookie each time it happens and sometimes even that does not work. When that happens we have to open the browser's dev tools and turn on the disable cache setting to get the content to load. We have also tried using incognito mode and I think the content has loaded every time. We are seeing things like Instant Apps stuck with spinning circles, Experience Builder loading everything but the operational layers, Experience Builder loading everything but the basemap, Experience Builder showing HTML text across the app instead of the widget container, or Web Editor loading the UI but no map. Oddly enough opening the maps behind those apps in Map Viewer works every time without any issues. I do not know if it is a coincidence that it started after upgrading from 11.4 to 11.5. Chromium-based web browsers seem to have more trouble, but even Firefox is not always loading the content. I did open a support ticket with Esri, but they closed it saying it was a web browser issue and not an Esri issue. So now I am curious if others are having issues with this.

GIS Leadership User Group · ‎06-27-2025

Just so you know I submitted an ArcGIS Idea for this four years ago but it never went anywhere. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/add-functionality-similar-to-public-editing-at-the/idi-p/1037846 I think one thing you could try is: generate a GUID add a text field to store the GUID to the survey make the new field required and read only create a constraint on the field that the submitted GUID must match the GUID in the constraint statement publish the survey to Everyone but make sure to leave the GUID text field blank create a URL for the survey with the GUID as a parameter value for the GUID text field share the special URL with just the Organization The idea being that if someone tries to submit through the public URL, the submission will fail because they don't have the GUID. However, when staff opens the survey the GUID should automatically be populated in the survey and allow the survey to be submitted. One issue I have found with this is if you are using ArcGIS Enterprise your users will have to visit https://survey123.arcgis.com/surveys?portalUrl=<insertPortalURLHere> before trying to access the survey or the survey will open in anonymous mode and not fill in things like username or email.

‎06-27-2025

We using distributed collaboration to sync data by copy only from ArcGIS Enterprise to ArcGIS Online. This requires enabling sync for the layers on the ArcGIS Enterprise side. We have discovered that for the sync to work correctly the edit tracking and GlobalID fields have to be included in the view that is being synced otherwise the sync will fail. We are syncing the data to ArcGIS Online to share it with the public and we would like to not include those fields in what the public can see. We would like to be able to sync the data without those fields or at least disable access to those fields in ArcGIS Online in a way that survives future syncs. We do not want to just hide the fields, but make sure that even the Rest API is not providing those fields.

‎06-27-2025

My organization has content syncing from ArcGIS Enterprise to ArcGIS Online through a one-way distributed collaboration. The collaboration is by copies only to share data with the public. A problem that we are running into is we are getting alerts for comments being made on the items in ArcGIS Online but the comments are often deleted before we have a chance to log in and view them. We are assuming the distributed collaboration sync is overwriting the comments. Please enable a way for comments to be ignored when sharing items through distributed collaborations. The added benefit to ignoring comments in the sync is public comments stay on the ArcGIS Online side and staff comments stay on the ArcGIS Enterprise side.

‎06-26-2025

I am getting "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator." when I click on the link provided.

‎06-26-2025

The new ratio appears to be 400x400 pixels, so now all our thumbnail images have to be squares.

‎06-25-2025

Create a way for admins to design thumbnail layouts for different item types that can automatically be applied when a user edits a thumbnail. This would allow consistent branding directly in the ArcGIS software. The template can have an area where user submitted images are applied.

‎06-25-2025

I think it would be helpful to have a way to generate thumbnail images using AI for items in ArcGIS Enterprise. Maybe a requirement could be that the item must have metadata and that used to provide context to the AI. This could be triggered through several places. Through the UI when a user clicks on the Edit Thumbnail on the item overview page A checkbox or prompt to update the thumbnail upon saving item metadata Through the ArcGIS for Python API so it can be scripted by admins

‎06-25-2025

Would not adding a check for features in the current extent add additional overhead and delay to everything? The check would have to happen on every request, so even layers with features would be slower to render because it has to check first. For layers with no features in the extent a response would still need to be sent to the map to say there are no features in the extent.

‎06-25-2025

I believe you can limit the size of uploads using parameters in Survey123 Connect. But after the request is processed, I do not know of a way to compress attachments. I believe even if you delete the attachments, they are technically still in the database when using hosted feature services. I think ArcGIS Online/Enterprise just marks the record as "deleted" and no longer shows it to the user. I have read of complaints from users being unable to reclaim disk space after "cleaning up" large, hosted feature services. I think there are some database commands you can run outside of ArcGIS software, but that is unsupported and always risky. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/desktop/create-surveys/xlsformparameters.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_8E28292396E148A2A60BD0126A58CFC1

‎06-25-2025

I thought you could do this through the silent install or config settings file but now that I go back and look through that stuff I do not see the license warning as a parameter. I do know you can adjust the number of days before the expiration to warning the user in ArcGIS Online if you are using Named User licensing. You cannot globally disable the warning, but you could drop the number of days down to one day.

‎06-18-2025

We have been using resampling with image services to accomplish what you are asking about. But it only works with the new Map Viewer (https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/the-image-service-fails-to-honor-the-resampling-paramet-bug-000127841). Set the resampling to your highest and lowest view scales and when you go to cache the image service make sure you uncheck any scales you do not need (anything below 1128 in your case). Here are the Resampling parameters for one of our image services using the ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme. Our cache stops at 1128 for this service but the maximum scale for the resampling is zero so users can zoom in completely without the image disappearing in ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Pro.

‎06-11-2025

This is more a work around than a solution, but it might be worthwhile to create a simple Python tool that loops through the template geodatabase from the FAA and exports the contents to a new geodatabase setting the projection as it goes. The only inputs would need to be the input geodatabase, output geodatabase, and the projection for the output geodatabase.

‎06-11-2025

I do not understand Esri's response. If the issue is the spatial tolerances, why not have the Define Projection tool clear out those values when the tool is executed and have a warning that is what will happen if you run the tool. Another option is to leave the spatial tolerances and produce a warning that those values do not fit the applied coordinate system. I really do not see how any of that could be a problem for empty features and tables.

‎06-11-2025

I gave up trying to print directly from ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro a long time ago. Whether it was a plotter or desk inkjet printer there were always issues with printing (usually scaling where the map would be bigger than the page size or shrunk to only like 1x2 inches). The printout would look find in the ArcGIS preview. I recommend exporting to PDF and then using PDF software or software from the plotter company. I have enjoyed using HP Click to send prints in PDF format to our HP DesignJet Z6dr with V-Trimmer.

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Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

Content failing to load completely

Re: GIS Request Management Solution Released!

Distributed Collaboration allow hiding of edit tracking fields

Keep comments on distributed collaboration items

Re: What's new in ArcGIS Field Maps (June 2025)

Re: Thumbnail Size

Item thumbnail templates

Generate item thumbnails from AI

Re: Optimization of Feature Requests during Map Interactions

Re: Request Management Solution - File Upload

Re: Turning License Renewal Message off at Organization Level (or by user role)

Re: Is there a way to extend visibility of cached Aerial Photo Image Service beyond the cached LOD?

Re: Unable to define projection on undefined coordinate system in ArcGIS Pro version 3.5

Re: Unable to define projection on undefined coordinate system in ArcGIS Pro version 3.5

Re: print layout to HPDesignJet Z6dr V-Trimmer not respecting set up properties from ArcGIS Pro

Re: GIS for Asset Management

Re: deploying ESRI solutions on Enterprise GDB

Re: ArcGIS Data Store upgrade 11.5 to 12.1 fails

Support dynamic date filters in Map Viewer

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