Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

‎10-22-2019

Apparently the new Map Viewer based on ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.x will eventually be able to group feature services, but there is no timeframe that I have found from Esri on when it will be available. Good news is as of ArcGIS 10.7.1 there is an alternative workflow. Starting at that version, print services support dynamic legends for map services. However, you will have to republish the map service to ArcGIS Server 10.7.1 using ArcGIS Pro to enable the functionality. I have not been able to test this myself since I am stuck on an older version of ArcGIS Server for the time being.

‎10-08-2019

I am hoping this is a one time endeavor. This time I will be recreating all content from scratch. I will not be moving anything over simply because I do not trust the integrity of any of our existing content. Services will be republished, maps and apps recreated manually, etc.. I want to avoid accidentally bringing over a corrupted item from our existing installation that will break the new install. After this new install I will try doing an in place upgrade again. I do not want to do a clean install for every upgrade, but that depends on how much Esri fixes their server software installers. I am curious what quality improvements ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 brings. I am assuming that will be out December/January time-frame since that is Esri's current release cadence.

‎10-08-2019

Sorry but of the many issues that I have had with ArcGIS Enterprise that is not one of them. So far, my ArcGIS Data Store continues to validate correctly. Every upgrade I have done for ArcGIS Enterprise has broken things that used to work just fine. It has gotten to the point that I will not be doing an in place upgrade of ArcGIS Enterprise, but will start over with a fresh install the next time I move to a newer version. In my experience I would be very careful not to put any critical data solely in the ArcGIS Data Store. When I upgrade to 10.6.1 all of our existing hosted feature services got stuck in a weird state where ArcGIS Portal thought they were regular feature services and ArcGIS Server thought they where still hosted feature service. We can view the data but we can no longer manage those hosted feature services. New hosted feature services are working correctly so far.

‎10-08-2019

The PublishingToolsEx service is only accessible through the ArcGIS Server Admin site under the Services/System section. However, restarting that service has not been a permanent solution for me. I still have the PublishingToolsEx service crashing at times. I restart the service again and that clears up the issue for a while.

‎07-09-2019

The ArcGIS Arcade version matrix page on at the ArcGIS for Developers website states which Esri products support which version of ArcGIS Arcade. ArcGIS Online is not on the list but it should always support the latest version of ArcGIS Arcade. Version Matrix | ArcGIS for Developers On the ArcGIS Arcade function reference page when you click on a function it will tell you at what version of ArcGIS Arcade the function was introduced. Arcade Function Reference | ArcGIS for Developers It would be nice if the function reference page would just let you filter functions by version number to make it easier to see what you have to work with. I hope this helps.

‎06-18-2019

The way ArcGIS R Bindings tries to install to the user's default user profile folder does not work for us because the directory the tool tries to use is not valid. The tool that installs the R Bindings throws a directory not accessible error every time. Please make it possible for the user to set the installation directory for the R Bindings or change it to be the ArcGIS folder that always gets created in the user's Documents folder.

‎06-13-2019

Yes, I performed those steps when going from 10.6 to 10.6.1 because I first had to do that when we went from 10.5.1 to 10.6 to get the Continue Server Upgrade to show up. We had issues with the Continue Server Upgrade and had to call Esri Support afterwards to fix several issues. ArcGIS Server Manager and the config-store json file have the version as 10.6.1 now. The only remaining issue that I have noticed is with hosted feature services published before the upgrade. ArcGIS Portal thinks they are regular feature services and ArcGIS Server thinks they are hosted feature services. So neither interface will allow me to modify those services' settings. In comparing the JSON of the old hosted feature services to new hosted feature services I noticed that the JSON schema is very between them and the old hosted feature services have old version numbers.

‎05-20-2019

I have been trying to figure out why after upgrading from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 to 10.6.1 all my hosted feature services published before the upgrade are treated like regular feature services in ArcGIS Portal but are still treated like hosted feature services in ArcGIS Server Manager. All hosted feature services published after the upgrade are operating as expected. I did some comparisons of the JSON of hosted services before the upgrade and hosted services after the upgrade. The formatting of the JSON is very different between the services before and the services after. I have even found hosted services with the "currentversion" value listed as 10.31, 10.5, 10.51, 10.6, and 10.61. I do not know how we have hosted feature services at version 10.31 since we did not start using ArcGIS Portal until 10.5, but our ArcGIS Server was originally at 10.31. My guess it that ArcGIS Portal 10.6 and older could understand the JSON format of the older hosted feature services but ArcGIS Portal 10.6.1 cannot. The config-store for ArcGIS Server has the currentVersion listed as 10.61. I have always had trouble getting the "Complete Upgrade" part of the ArcGIS Server upgrade process to either run at all or run correctly on our server. Does anyone know how to manually force ArcGIS Enterprise to upgrade a hosted feature service's JSON to the current version?

‎04-24-2019

Organizations that rely on ArcGIS Online for their GIS need the ability to design simple print templates in the browser and make those templates available to the default print service. Support for print templates as items in ArcGIS Online Support for the default print service to be pointed to print templates to build a list of templates available. I think this should be a parameter list so that things like the Print Widget can be used to populate the list. Support for standard ArcGIS Online security/sharing so that print templates can be secured if needed A new WYSIWYG layout editor app in ArcGIS Online (not looking for ArcGIS Pro here just basic elements). Allow users to define: the map frame text boxes images (PNG, JPEG, SVG, etc.) legend (needs better options for handling overflow of legend items than the way it works now) scale bar north arrow simple graphics (points, lines, and polygons) page orientation page size support for Shared Theme I know the trend in GIS is to go all digital, but in my opinion there are still many users that need access to printable maps that quickly convey a story to the person looking at it.

‎04-24-2019

I really hope this starts getting more votes because this functionality is essential for users that still need to print/export maps. I have users that need to still print out maps for meetings or going into the field. They are frustrated that you have to make several guesses on where to pan and zoom the map in order to get the desired results in the exported file.

‎04-24-2019

I figured submitting this idea was the "request" to the local government team to look at this functionality. Does the local government team have their own feedback process? You are correct that you have to have an ArcGIS Server instance to use custom print templates (which is another issue that I wish Esri would sort out), but I figure that it would be no different than the current print widget. That way people than can use custom print services have the option to do so.

‎03-28-2019

Sorry, I meant to say the ArcGIS Portal part of the upgrade took just over 2 hours to complete. The ArcGIS Portal upgrade was so much slower than the ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Data Store upgrades.

‎03-28-2019

In my experience with upgrading and patching ArcGIS Enterprise, the progress bar will be blank for a really long time but it is still running. I think when I went from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 to 10.6.1 it took just over 2 hours to complete.

‎02-06-2019

After upgrading from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 to 10.6.1 I discovered that all my previously published hosted feature services and hosted feature service views are now showing up and regular feature services in ArcGIS Portal. On the ArcGIS Server side they still display their settings as if they are hosted feature services. All the previously established hosted feature service specific configurations seem to be intact, but the settings page in ArcGIS Portal just shows me the URL for the service instead of all the settings. Publishing new hosted feature services works just fine and the settings are there. I cannot find anything different in the configuration JSON other than the new hosted feature services have a currentversion value of 10.61 whereas all the old hosted features services have a currentversion of 10.6. Does anyone know of a way to force ArcGIS Portal to recognize the old services as actual hosted feature services? Worst case it looks like I can use the Copy Features functionality in ArcGIS Pro to download a copy of the data and republish all of them that way. However that is not idea as there are many old hosted feature services and the Copy Features tool does not grab the domains.

‎11-27-2018

So the answer is apparently Esri only uses Community Maps content in the World Topographic map and that our content not showing up in other basemaps is by design. Shane's response is helpful for forcing Esri's vector basemaps to show the Community Maps content but cannot be applied to the older raster basemaps (which some Esri products are still forced to use). If Esri will not use the Community Maps content in the default Esri basemaps, I would at least like to see an Esri group that has all the Esri vector basemaps setup to show the Community Maps content by default so every organization that participates in the program does not have to manually configure them on their own. Hopefully the Esri vector and raster basemaps will show Community Maps content in the future, because right now I fail to see the benefit of taking the time to participate in the Community Maps program if those submissions are largely ignored.

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Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

Re: Layers from feature service are not grouped when added to a web map

Re: Problem publishing to hosting server Portal 10.6.1

Re: Problem publishing to hosting server Portal 10.6.1

Re: Problem publishing to hosting server Portal 10.6.1

Re: Looking for a source which lists Arcade limitations across products?

Change R bindings default install directory

Re: Hosted Feature Services running at different versions

Hosted Feature Services running at different versions

ArcGIS Online Print Templates

Re: Print Widget Web App Builder - Show preview of print area

Re: Public Notification widget export map option

Re: Upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 and Portal installation has no progress

Re: Upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 and Portal installation has no progress

Change feature service back to hosted feature service?

Re: Why is a Community Maps Program update inconsistent among basemaps?

Re: Portal Backup Files

Re: Minimum text size for accessibility

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