Latest Contributions by BrettFrahm

Idea: Users should be able to access shared tile layers in Vector Tile Style Editor(VTSE). Currently you are only able to access ESRI curated basemaps and tile layers in your own content. You should also have the ability to access shared tile layers in your organization and arcgis online as a whole through a search bar. My Specific Use Case: As an administrator in my ArcGIS Online organization, I should have access to all user content but this is not the case using VTSE. In VTSE you only have to access to tile layers in your signed in user's content. Even with items you can't do an overwrite save on, you could still allow a "save as" to make a copy of the tile layer style you just made. As an admin I have to change the owner of the item to my signed-in account to use it in VTSE. For non-administrators too you should really just be able to access any tile layer item that you have viewing access to. ... View more

I was recently creating and standardizing settings for layouts in bulk and one thing I was hoping to do was set specific guides for them. If this was possible with python I could have set the vertical and horizontal guides to a offset of 0.25 inches for 50 maps with one click. ... View more

With Arcpy.MP you are able to bring in .mapx and .pagx into your project using the importDocument() function. Once you run the function, the map and or layout is added to your project but the only way to access those again in your script is to do listLayouts() or listMaps() and find it using its name. It would be incredibly useful if after running importDocument() it would return the maps and layouts that were brought into the project. The function currently returns nothing, but if it could return a layout or map object or even a list, then it would be easier to work with it later in the script. I'm not always going to know the exact name of the map or layout that gets imported into my project. ... View more

We use display filters by scale extensively in our ArcGIS Pro maps, both for cartography and editing workflows. If a feature is not visible due to a display filter, you are currently able to select those features. This leads to many situations where we are editing features we did not intend to edit. The ability to select features that are not visible at your current scale due to a display filter should be disabled.       ... View more

If you have multiple map graphic layers in a map there are some things that could be done to improve how you interact with specific layers.   Make it so you are unable to select Map Graphics from layers that are not visible in the map due to scale limits. Ex: Currently you are able to select a Map Graphic that is limited to 1-4K scale even if you are at scale 1:72,000. Attached image displays this. Make it so you are unable to select Map Graphics from layers that are not your current "Target Layer" ... View more

When using a Spatial Map Series on a dataset it would be very useful to be able to just use the ObjectID as the "Name Field" and "Sort Field" parameters. Not all map series layouts are going to be on specifically named features. In my use-case I just want to make a layout for every single feature in a dataset and the easiest way to do that is to use ObjectID. ObjectID also acts as the best way to determine what layout is for which feature because it is a unique identifier. I realize that one way to do this would to to transfer the values to a integer field, but I'd much rather use ObjectID as I am using Production enterprise feature classes that are seen by our entire organization and I don't want this field to be visible and I don't want to maintain it.   As an expansion on my use-case I've thought about using Arcpy.MP to keep an up to date map series layout for every feature and with ObjectID I'd be able to instantly tell which features have not had a layout yet. ... View more

Does anybody have any information as to how the Patch Notification Utility gets its latest patch information and how fast it is supposed to update? I use this utility extensively and I've noticed that the new high profile Log4J patch for Portal 10.8.1, that was released  on the 11th, is not listed here.     ... View more

When using Arcpy you are able to use funtions like arcpy.AddMessage to print statements in the geoprocessing result messages. I believe there should be a nice simple and built-in way to do this within ModelBuilder so people are able to troubleshoot. It could be kept simple at first and utilize outputs that are already being made like counts from select geoprocessing, so you can add a message for the count. Ultimately though I think we should be able to add any message we want just like we are able to in python and also be able to utilize error messages too.   Also I realize that there is a custom way to do this by creating a script tool and adding it to the model, but this should be built-in to modelbuilder. ... View more

When you choose a default basemap in your organization settings, it will forever only use the services that the basemap had at the time you set the default basemap. If you were to ever update that basemap by changing a service inside of it, the default basemap will not detect this change. If you want the default basemap to update, you need to switch it to a different basemap, then switch it back to the original for the default basemap to reflect the change you made.  Example: 1/1/2020: Web map created and shared as basemap. Titled "Summer Recreation", the web map is using a service called "Summer_tiles_01012020" I then select the basemap "Summer Recreation" to be my organization's default basemap 1/15/2020: I update the basemap, "Summer Recreation", by changing the service used to "Summer_tiles_01152020 If anybody makes a new web map after this point, the default basemap is still using the old service, "Summer_tiles_01012020" instead of the updated version of the basemap using "Summer_tiles_01152020". I would like the default basemap to stay in sync with the basemap it is using. ... View more

Our organization currently uses the "Check for Arcgis Enterprise Updates" tool A.K.A the Patch Notification Utility to figure out what patches are needed for each of servers/portals/data stores. Using the subprocess library we have scheduled python scripts that run the command  "patchnotification.bat -c all " , which gives us a string output that then emails administrators about new patches and we would like to do other things with it too if it was easier to manage. The problem with this setup is that the string output is terrible to work with and I absolutely hate working with regex patterns. If there was a way to have a simple JSON output, I could categorize things a million times easier and make a half decent automation. Here is an example of how to get the string output with Python import subprocess bat_file = "*********" output = subprocess.check_output(bat_file) print(str(output)) Here is what the string output looks like. \r\n================================================================================\r\n                      ArcGIS Enterprise Patch Notification\n================================================================================\r\n\r\nInstalled Components\r\n\r\n    ArcGIS GeoEvent Server                        10.8\r\n    ArcGIS Server                                 10.8\r\n\r\n================================================================================\r\n\r\nAvailable Updates\r\n\r\n ArcGIS GeoEvent Server\r\n    (no updates available)\r\n\r\n ArcGIS Server\r\n    - ArcGIS Server 10.8 Utility Network Update Subnetwork Patch\n      https://support.esri.com/download/7795\n      Release Date: 4/9/20\n\r\n================================================================================\r\n\r\nInstalled Patches\r\n    - ArcGIS Server 10.8 SQL Server Enterprise Geodatabase Upgrade Patch\n    - ArcGIS GeoEvent Server 10.8 Patch 1\n\r\n================================================================================\r\nTo browse a full list of Esri patches and service packs, visit the Esri Support site:\r\nhttp://support.esri.com/Downloads\r\n' Dorothy Ho‌ Hilary Curtis‌ ... View more