Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

I have noticed in ArcGIS Pro 3.5.7, you can add fields and use tools that add fields when interacting with feature classes in a geopackage in the Catalog Pane or Catalog View. Interacting with a feature class in a geopackage through a Map treats the feature class as read-only (a warning is visible when trying to add a field through the Contents Pane). Currently, file geodatabases support things like datasets, attribute rules, topology, utility networks, parcel fabrics, domains, and other Esri specific functionality. I think the another difference is file geodatabases are able to compress the geometries stored and geopackages cannot. I am not sure what you mean by "full functionality", but I do not expect geopackages will support any of those Esri capabilities because the purpose of the geopackage format is interoperability between software. There are also Esri mobile geodatabases which is kind of a hybrid between file geodatabases and geopackages. They do not support everything that a file geodatabase does, but they do support most of Esri's database functionality. Mobile geodatabases are also built on SQLite but use ST_Geometry to store the spatial data. My recommendation would be to use either file geodatabases or mobile geodatabases and then export to a geopackage when you need to share the data with someone that does not have access to Esri software. ... View more

I have noticed this in ArcGIS Pro 3.5.7, you can add fields and use tools that add fields when interacting with feature classes in a Geopackage in the Catalog Pane or Catalog View. Interacting with a feature class in a Geopackage through a Map treats the feature class as read-only (a warning is visible when trying to add a field through the Contents Pane). ... View more

Our ArcGIS Server instance is on a different server from ArcGIS for Portal. I have never checked the RAM usage on our ArcGIS Server when doing I portal patch. I will keep that in mind next time. What you are describing sounds a lot like what I went through trying to upgrade 11.5 to 12.1. The install completed but most of the directories were empty. Checking the installer logs it looked like the 7zip process to extract the patch files crashed with an error but the installer just kept trying to do things with missing files until it finished. The Portal for ArcGIS Security 2026 Update 1 Patch D for 11.5 is supposed to fix that 11.5 to 12.1 issue but I wonder if it needs to be installed before doing any other 11.5 portal patches? ... View more

I ran the Portal for ArcGIS Security 2026 Update 2 Patch on 11.5 last night and did not see anything out of the ordinary. RAM usage was normal during and after the update. We have been on 11.5 since last summer and have installed every portal patch as they came out. So, I installed Portal for ArcGIS Security 2026 Update 2 Patch on top of Portal for ArcGIS Security 2026 Update 1 Patch D for 11.5. I manually execute the patch MSP files. Did you use PowerShell to execute the MSP file? That might have something to do with it. Two things that come to mind are the patch file needs to run with admin permissions and sometimes security/antivirus software can mess up portal patches/upgrades. We use separate physical servers, so I do not know much about snapshots. Restoring the folders to a time before installing the patch should have removed the patch files. Does the Patch Notification show the patch installed? ... View more

The way to do that is using a related table to track the repairs using a one to many relationship. Unfortunately with the way ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise currently work, you will have to republish your layers after creating the relationships between the asset layers and the repair tables in ArcGIS Pro. Here is Esri's documentation on relationship classes: https://doc.esri.com/en/arcgis-pro/latest/tool-reference/data-management/create-relationship-class.html?tabs=dialog  I would recommend one repair table for each asset layer you have, instead of trying to relate one repair table to many asset layers. For example, a sprinkler point layer should have one related table and a valve point layer should have a different related table. ArcGIS Field Maps has much better support for related tables now. Select an asset on the map and in the popup there should be a button to add a related record to the asset. Also, the ArcGIS Solutions Irrigation System Data Management solution already has a related inspection table for its assets that you can add a repair cost field to. ... View more

I have never seen anything official from Esri about OS patching. I will say, unofficially, I patch and reboot servers running ArcGIS Enterprise in the order of database server first, then services server, and finally the portal server. I wait for each server to come back up before rebooting the next one. Over the years if I do not reboot them in that order or reboot them all at the same time, I have had ArcGIS Enterprise sometimes behave oddly until one or more of the services running the programs were restarted.  ... View more

I republished my viewing services for our utility networks after removing any asset groups or asset types that we are not using at this time. Now I can remove the old utility services, add the new utility network viewing services, and the map will now save in Map Viewer. @PierreloupDucroix  We are using Microsoft IIS web adaptors, but it seems I am hitting a max upload size somewhere when saving the web map. However, I am not seeing anything in the server logs about a limit being exceeded. @RobertKrisher  I think my workaround will be sufficient for the time being. As we expand into collecting new asset types available in the utility networks, I will open a support ticket. ... View more

Hello @prmhara we are also on Enterprise 11.5 and use distributed collaboration to sync between ArcGIS Enterprise (AGE) and ArcGIS Online (AGO). At this point, I just sync my feature services as copies to AGO and build my public facing maps and apps in AGO. If staff need to use that public app as well, I add the app as a new item in AGE using the URL from AGO. When I have tried to sync maps or apps as copies I have often received a login prompt in AGO as well. Usually because something in the map or app is still pointing back to AGE when it should be pointing to the AGO version instead. If I manually fix the issue the next sync would just undo the fix. However, according to Esri's own documentation what you are trying to do should be possible without any additional configuration on your end. "Organization utility resources included with an app, such as printing, are updated to use the recipient's corresponding utility services." https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/share-maps/share-content-with-collaboration-participants.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_62623E63071D428F8DD1F64E70C9DC1C  ... View more