Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

I am working on setting up our organization with the new ArcGIS Pro based Address Data Management solution and I noticed that there is an attribute rule for splitting intersecting road when creating a new road that intersects an existing road. However, we often run into the issue where we need to split an existing road because it crosses an administrative boundary (municipal boundary, county boundary, etc.) or the block number changes even though there is not an intersection. Currently, I have to use a data owner connection, disable the Split Intersecting Road attribute rule, use the Split tool to split the required roads, manually do all the things the attribute rule takes care of (splitting the address range, ID updates, update alias table if necessary), save edits, and reenable the Split Intersecting Road attribute rule. Granted this does not happen often, but every time we find an issue requiring splitting a road using the Split tool we will have to use this approach. ... View more

ArcGIS Enterprise (AGE) deployments should have the availability to have pools of ArcGIS Online (AGO) service credits assigned to the AGE deployment. So in Settings for AGE instead of supplying an ArcGIS Online organization account you supply an authorization code and/or some kind of authorization info (maybe an Esri account that has My Esri access). Either way, then the deployment has a pool of credits that are not associated with an ArcGIS Online organization and AGE named users can be assigned quotas to use the service credits. The current all or nothing approach to service credit usage in AGE is problematic because premium Living Atlas layers are shared with the entire organization instead of a group so I cannot control which users are accessing those layers, much less keep them from using up all the service credits. ... View more

Currently when signing into ArcGIS Pro using an Enterprise named user two connections are made. One goes to Enterprise to authenticate and authorize the user and then a separate call to the License Manager to get the license. This creates an issue when a user is off network because the License Manager cannot currently be safely exposed to the internet. So a user can authenticate but not get a license when off network. Please create a way for ArcGIS Pro licenses to be safely obtained from License Manager over the internet. That could be through ArcGIS Enterprise acting as a proxy between ArcGIS Pro and the License Manager, or maybe creating a "web adaptor" for License Manager. ... View more

This is an ambitious idea, but it would be a great benefit to utility providers to be able to manage construction plans (my organization refers to them as as-builts or record drawings) directly in the Utility Network. How I see this working is kind of like how the new Parcel Fabric works where there is a record and then other layers that are associated with that record. So when you add a new construction plan you are creating a new record with whatever attribute requirements your organization has and attaching a PDF or image of the construction plan to the record. Then allow the user to either assign the record to an asset as the asset is being created, or by selecting several existing assets and assign a record to them all at once. Assets should be allowed to be associated with multiple records, so when a user selects an asset they can see every construction project that asset has been a part of. Likewise, selecting a record should provide an option to see every asset that is associated with it. APIs and Arcade functions could be developed around this to do things like return records associated with an asset, return assets associated with a record, generate a schematic for the assets associated with a record, or select all assets that have a specific value in the attribute table of the records. This would allow for easy access to construction plans in the field (either online or offline) and the construction plans have details that are not always captured in the GIS layers. ... View more

It would be very helpful, especially for emergency response related Hub sites, to expose the modified date as an element that can easily be added to an ArcGIS Hub site. This way when changes are made to the site some text on the site automatically updates to the latest modified date and time. Even better would be allowing site admins/managers to set the format of the date and time. For some sites the format Monday, April 4, 2020 is best for the audience and for other sites 04/04/2020 17:30 is more appropriate for the audience. Currently with multiple editors we have to make sure everyone is remembering to update the timestamp and use the same format for the date and time when they change the text. ... View more

It would be very helpful, especially for emergency response related Hub sites, to expose the modified date as an element that can easily be added to an ArcGIS Hub site. This way when changes are made to the site some text on the site automatically updates to the latest modified date and time. Even better would be allowing site admins/managers to set the format of the date and time. For some sites the format Monday, April 4, 2020 is best for the audience and for other sites 04/04/2020 17:30 is more appropriate for the audience. Currently with multiple editors we have to make sure everyone is remembering to update the timestamp and use the same format for the date and time when they change the text. ... View more