Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

As one that has updated solutions manually in the past, I agree that it would be great to have the ability to do an inplace update sometimes. That said, I understand why Esri does not do inplace updates. Once a solution is deployed we can customize it however we choose, from a little to a lot. An inplace upgrade would surely break those customizations, or even cause conflicts that cause things to start throwing errors. Esri's current processing of do a new deployment and migrate your content and customizations into the new deployment is the safest way to migrate. Maybe Esri could develop a way to test if a solution has not been modified and then offer an inplace update? ... View more

This would be very helpful for map or feature services where the user cannot add a new field to manually convert to the desired units. I do wonder what the performance hit would be especially if an attribute table had many unit based fields with lots of records that were all being converted at the same time. ... View more

@JSuingthe DJI SDK that added support for the Mini 3 Pro is only for Android. Currently, the Site Scan Flight app is only on iOS and thus cannot use this newer SDK. Either DJI needs to create a new SDK for iOS that is on par with the Android SDK, or Esri needs to port the Site Scan Flight app to Android. ... View more

@LeviCecilthe WAB district lookup will be retired when WAB is retired. Here is a link to Esri's functionality matrix comparing WAB to EB: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-documents/functionality-matrix-for-web-appbuilder-and/ta-p/1113766 . Esri recommends using the ArcGIS Instant Apps Zone Lookup template to replace the WAB district lookup widget (https://doc.arcgis.com/en/web-appbuilder/latest/create-apps/wab-exb-widget-functionality-matrix.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_F77D8297C3A94223AD7B07ECD1C9E30F) ... View more

Thank you. I had seen that other cities had added apartment complexes and I wanted to make sure I was submitting the data the correct way. Would it be possible to add a new landuse category for apartment complexes/multi-family dwellings? Wouldn't that make it easier to control the labeling behavor for them? ... View more

I have not received any update on this from Esri. The issue is still present as of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1. ... View more

I am also a one man GIS department and we started using ArcGIS Enterprise in 2016. I would also recommend running the three main ArcGIS Enterprise components on different servers (physical or virtual) for the same reasons stated above. I would recommend virtual servers to have the snapshot availability. I guess I do not fully trust Esri's backup and restore tools. I still use the backup tools, but I think using both is safer. Start with a fresh ArcGIS Server instance for the hosting server. I would not recommend trying to federate an existing ArcGIS Server instance. I did that back in 2016 and had all kinds of odd issues over the years that went away we I migrated to new servers and started with a fresh install of everything. Be patient, some of the installers can take a long time to complete and look like that are not doing anything. Depending on the servers it can take awhile. But... sometimes the installers will hang for some reason. I do not think that happened during my last fresh install but it has happened often with upgrades. Contact Esri Support before trying to cancel or close anything. Read and re-read the ArcGIS Enterprise help documentation about installing and configuring. It is really helpful to know what to expect and make sure you are not skipping any steps. Create an admin account to manage the deployment and a separate account to publish/create content. Come up with some standards for naming conventions (for services, items, folders, tags, etc.) and content organization before you start loading content. Make sure your storage for ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Portal config directories have good performance with small, random input/output. Otherwise ArcGIS Enterprise will be slow for many operations (https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/install/windows/choosing-a-nas-device.htm). I hope that helps. ... View more

The print templates are being stored locally on the ArcGIS Server server. They were being referenced using a UNC path but I have changed that to a direct path. I added antivirus exceptions to the print templates folder and the custom print service folder. Those changes had no affect on the duration. The default printing tools service only takes a 2 seconds to get a response from the Get Layout Templates Info task and it is stored on the same local drive on the server with no antivirus exemptions. My custom print service has fewer layout templates than the default print service so it seems reasonable that the Get Layout Templates Info task would execute faster. ... View more

I would go with the least privilages mindset. Creating a new member role for the consultant and give the role only the permissions that they absolutely need to have to do their work would be my recommendation. Then assign that role to a new account for the consultant. This gives you complete control over what they can do. This requires more thought and coordination up front but is the most secure way to go about it. If they absolutetly have to have administrative access, I would still create their own admin account. Sharing admin credentials is usually not recommended. ... View more

Have you tried running Firefox's developer tools while loading the page to see what is happening when the page loads? In my version of Firefox pressing F12 opens the developer tools and the Network tab should show any errors that may be occuring. I upgraded from 11.0 to 11.1 last week and have been using the method above to try to figure out some issues that started up after our upgrade. ... View more