Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

‎02-26-2026

The read only connection should be pointing to sde.DEFAULT. That is how it works on my read only connections and the Versioning tools in ArcGIS Pro are greyed out. You mention geoprocessing tasks. If the branch versioned data is being used as read only input in the tasks, then you should be able to use the Enterprise Geodatabase connection without issue. Only editing requires you to go through the feature service.

‎02-26-2026

We have been running ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 since June on Windows Server, and we have not encountered that particular issue. We are using ArcGIS Web Adapters for our reverse proxies. It sounded like when you access the internal URL the issue does not occur and the issue only happens from the external URL. That to me sounds like the issue is in the reverse proxy.

‎02-26-2026

I am sorry to hear that you are locked out of your data now. Esri did announce the change would be happening for new and renewed accounts in June 2025 and I want to say I got another email sometime in the fall. I wonder if it has to do with the ArcGIS Online licensing changes and Professional including more software than Esri would like. Dropping it down to Basic aligns ArcGIS Pro with the Creator license which is what a Personal license used to include. But all of that is just me guessing. It was fun to show my kids some of the advanced things GIS can do while it lasted. This also reminds me that I need to renew my personal license as well.

‎02-26-2026

Are you using a ArcGIS Web Adaptor or your own reverse proxy? I ran into a similar issue with ArcGIS Monitor when I tried to create my own reverse proxy and I got a regex expression wrong. I do not think this would be the issue, but have you installed Portal for ArcGIS 11.5 Web Applications Patch? https://support.esri.com/en-us/patches-updates/2025/portal-for-arcgis-11-5-web-applications-patch

‎02-25-2026

It is not possible to create a join in ArcGIS Online through the UI without using the Join Features tool. The current options are to use ArcGIS Pro to publish the layers with a relationship class defined or to use the REST API to create a relationship between two layers that are in the same feature service. I posted an ArcGIS Idea about this topic a few years ago for ArcGIS Enterprise and it is "Under Consideration". https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/ability-to-create-and-manage-relationship-classes/idi-p/1008648

‎02-24-2026

@StephenKing3 one thing you can try is to add a text field to your survey, have it ready only and required, and set the constraint to a GUID. Then update the link to your survey URL to include "?field:surveyid=<GUID>" at the end of the link. Do not include the "?" if it is already in the URL. You could even go a step further, add "?field:surveyid=<GUID>&encodeUrlParams=true", and reload the page to get an encoded URL so your users cannot change the GUID. I recommend changing the pocname and pocemail fields to not auto populate because it will be blank for your viewer users. Once you have the URL with the suveyid included, make sure you set the GIS Service Center and Service Portal hub pages to not be public so the public cannot access the URL with the surveyid. The survey must be set to public for this to work. When a viewer license clicks the survey link, they should be taken to the survey form but not signed in. That is what happens on ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5. To recap: Add a surveyid field to the survey in Survey123 Connect that is read only, required, and has a constraint set to a specific GUID Change pocname and pocemail to be required, remove the readonly flag, and remove the pulldata calculation Set the GIS Service Center and Service Portal pages to not be public Add to the end of the survey URL on the Service Portal page "?field:surveyid=<GUID>" Make the survey public (Optional) Periodically change the GUID in the constraint rule and URL for improved security Here is what I have in Survey123 Connect for one of our surveys. I removed the GUID so you will need to enter your own. I found constraint rules do not work if the field is hidden, so do not hide the surveyid field. type name label hint guidance_hint appearance required required_message readonly default calculation constraint constraint_message relevant choice_filter repeat_count media::audio media::image bind::type bind::esri:fieldType bind::esri:fieldLength text surveyid Survey ID yes yes .= "<Enter a GUID Here>" Survey ID Required esriFieldTypeString 255

‎02-20-2026

@Cplagge_Brd I created a task that has the user first select the primary address for the property, the tasks copies the attributes from the primary address, the user adds the points for the secondary addresses, the task pastes the attributes from the primary to all the secondaries, and then the user then updates the unit type and unit IDs of the secondary addresses. They do they by selecting all the secondary addresses and setting the unit type and any other common attributes, but then they still have to manually enter the unit IDs. Creating a task like that saves some time but does not auto assign the unit IDs.

‎02-11-2026

Looking forward to it. The work of your team has been a great help to our organization over the years.

‎01-29-2026

@kurtia thank you for the example code. I used to use folder['title'] in my scripts and now that no longer works. Apparently folder.name is the way to do it now.

‎01-28-2026

Please add a UI/UX to allow users to import coordinates from another item in the portal. This would save a lot of time when trying to make extents consistent between items such as a feature layer, web map, and web app.

‎01-28-2026

It would be very helpful if the bulk publishing process would check the metadata of layers being published and use the extent from the metadata to set the extent of the item being created. This would need the ability to convert coordinates from local coordinate systems to Web Mercator coordinates. This would save us a lot of time because right now I have to manually set the extent of all items published from bulk publishing because it sets the extent to the default whole world.

‎01-28-2026

Please add any layers that are in the item to the Set Extent map to make it easier to visually set the extent for an item.

‎01-22-2026

Editor tracking is enabled and there is no enterprise geodatabase involved with this hosted feature service. I have a support ticket open with Esri Support and they have been able to replicate that hosted feature services properly configured have the supportsFieldsToCompare set to false in at least ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, 11.5, and 12.0. I recreated the data in an enterprise geodatabase and that got the supportsFieldsToCompare to be true, but now other extractChangesCapabilities are set to false and Extract Changes fails with an error "The field 'layers' is required" even though the URL has layers=0 set. If support or I can figure out a way to get this to work, I will post it here.

‎01-21-2026

I used Jake Skinner's post https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-documents/automate-arcgis-enterprise-backup/ta-p/914090 to automate full and incremental backups. The incremental backups run daily, and the full backup runs once a week. The full backup clears out the walarchive folder each week, but the incremental backups mean I should only lose one day. Jake's setup is for full backups only, but you can make a copy of the files and change the settings to do incremental backups. Then you just have to two tasks to setup in Windows Task Scheduler. One that runs once a week for the full backup, and the other runs daily (except for the day the full backup runs) for the incremental backup.

‎01-15-2026

Some of the elements are going to be hidden in the dev tools. This is not a perfect solution either but below is a simple JavaScript function that can be run in the dev tools console to output all the font-sizes on the page to a table in the console. It groups the font sizes by the element tag names but you can try other element properties to try to narrow down where a specific font size is being used. Just change el.tagName on line 7 to another element property like el.title (() => { try { const elements = document.querySelectorAll('*'); const fontSizesByTag = {}; elements.forEach(el => { const tag = el.tagName const fontSize = window.getComputedStyle(el).fontSize; const fontSizePt = Number(fontSize.slice(0,-2)) * (72/96) const fontSizePtString = fontSize + '|' + fontSizePt.toString() + 'pt' if (!fontSizesByTag[tag]) { fontSizesByTag[tag] = new Set(); } fontSizesByTag[tag].add(fontSizePtString); }); // Convert Sets to arrays for easier reading const result = {}; Object.keys(fontSizesByTag).forEach(tag => { result[tag] = Array.from(fontSizesByTag[tag]); }); console.table(result); console.log("Font sizes grouped by element tag:", result); } catch (err) { console.error("Error while retrieving font sizes:", err); } })(); Here is the location to run the script. You might get a prompt to allow pasting into the console before you can run it. JoshuaYoung_2-1768497613432.png

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Latest Contributions by Joshua-Young

Re: Read EGDB Feature Class After Publishing Versioned Feature Service

Re: Experience Builder Apps Not Working After Upgrade to 11.5

Re: ArcGIS for Personal use new licensing from 2026

Re: Experience Builder Apps Not Working After Upgrade to 11.5

Re: Joining table to layer by parcel ID in ArcGIS Online without using Join Features (1 million records)

Re: GIS Request Management - GIS Service Request Form

Re: Address Data Management Solution and Unit Numbers

Re: Sneak peek - Next Generation of ArcGIS Solutions App

Re: Get User Folder Name Provided the Folder ID

Item Set Extent add import coordinates from another item

Bulk publishing set extent from metadata if available

Item Set Extent show layers on the map

Re: Compare updated value to previous value?

Re: Portal Backup Files

Re: Minimum text size for accessibility

Re: Order of Operations for Enterprise Upgrade

Add Partnered collaborations to ArcGIS Enterprise

Remove primary service account dependency

Re: Distributed Collaboration Access to both Organ...

Re: Attribute Rule Generate ID - Create Sequence E...