Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

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. ... View more

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. ... View more

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. ... View more

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. ... View more

After following Shane's steps, it looks like you have to make those changes to every vector basemap that Esri has. The problem with Shane's "answer" is there are still Esri products that only work with the raster basemaps and you are stuck with the incorrect content. We were starting to switch from our basemaps to Esri's because we thought we could ensure Esri's would be basemaps would be up-to-date with us participating in the Community Maps program. Now that we know that are contributions are largely ignored we are re-evaluating that decision. ... View more

Shane, Thank you for your response. I tried your steps late yesterday and they worked great. However, I am still puzzled why community content is displayed by default on the World Topographic Map but hidden on all the other basemaps. Also, the steps you provided only work for vector tile basemaps. What about the old raster tile basemaps that are still the only basemaps supported in some of Esri's products? Joshua ... View more

Well the fun is not over for me yet . I don't know when it happened after the upgrade, but now all my previously published hosted feature layers and views are no longer recognized as being hosted by Portal. The options for hosted feature layers on the items Overview, Data, and Settings pages are missing. Portal is treating them as a standard feature service. ArcGIS Server on the other hand still thinks they are hosted services and will not let me configure the services. The old hosted feature layers and views are running just fine and seem to have their previous settings still applied (editing enabled or disabled is still applied correctly). Host feature layers published after restarting the PublishingToolsEx are displaying the correct options on the settings page and I have the option to create hosted feature layer views. Of the 3 upgrades to our setup over the last 2 years, this upgrade from 10.6 to 10.6.1 by far the most troublesome upgrade yet. ... View more

Alex, Thank you so much for your post. I was having an issue with being able to publish hosted feature services after upgrading from ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 to 10.6.1. I was getting a completely different error message than what you had, but doing step 4 from above fixed the issue. I had already restarted the PublishingTools service but forgot about the PublishingToolsEx service since it does not show up in server manager. Joshua ... View more

So I fixed the issue this morning. I came across this post, Problem publishing to hosting server Portal 10.6.1, and I took Alex's advice of manually restarting the PublishingTools and PublishingToolsEx services. I did not do his first two suggestions because I didn't want to mess with our Data Store. I have manually stopped/started the PublishingTools service since this issue, but I never noticed that the PublishingToolsEx is only accessible from the Server Admin site, so I had not restarted that service. Manually stopping/starting the PublishingToolsEx fixed the issue. I still question the stability of ArcGIS Enterprise, especially the upgrade process, because as I mentioned earlier I have never had a smooth upgrade experience with the ArcGIS Server part of ArcGIS Enterprise. The keystore is corrupted by the upgrade every single time, system or utility services are missing or not working properly, and I had to manually rename a file to finally get the "Continue Upgrade" button to show up to finally upgrade our config-store for the first time in three versions. I know this sounds like I don't like Esri software, but I really do appreciate everything that is possible with Esri's software when it is working properly. It is amazing what we can do with maps now and how much easier it is to get the right maps to the right people. I just would like to see a release or two from Esri that is not focused on new features, but improving the quality of what we already have and providing a better foundation for future functionality. ... View more

The supportsHostedServices property is set to True. ... View more