Latest Contributions by BrettFrahm

Saw @RPGIS's idea for ArcGIS Enterprise and thought I'd add the idea to the ArcGIS Online too.   The ability to use Arcade expressions for filtering data in ArcGIS Online's Map Viewer would be extremely useful. We already have the ability to use arcade for symbology and pop-ups, but filtering has been left out. A simple use-case for this would be checking to see if the CreateDate field is within the Current year. This is easily achievable with Arcade with IIF(Year(Today()) == Year($feature.CreateDate), 'YES', 'NO'). With this I could make it so my map is always showing relevant information, but instead I have to change the year on the filter manually every January. Lots of other use-cases become possible if Arcade Expressions are allowed in map viewer. ... View more

Noticed that there is no "Current Project" environment variable for geoprocessing. I like to create script tools to streamline workflows and a useful one for me would be to use the current project. I've made a fair number of script tools that need to reference a project and more often than not, the user will want to use it on their current project. If there was a "Current Project" environment variable then the default for a parameter could be set to that.   Some examples for script tools I've made that would use this. Export all layouts in a project as a certain format (.pagx, .pdf, .jpg, .aix) Change all data sources in a project to new one.   Image including some of the current environment variables   ... View more

I just found out that if you have SQL comments in your display filter query, that display filter will just not work in your published Vector Tiles. I need to be able to add SQL comments to keep it organized when I'm querying for Unique IDs in a road layer. Currently using ArcGIS Pro 2.9.5, will be testing soon with 3.1. Ex: For my display filter between 144K - 18K I only want to show highways and county roads (which is handled by "ROUTE_SYS"), but there are certain road segments beyond those road categories I need to show that are relevant so I'm using unique IDs from "ROADSEG_ID".  This query works with vector Tiles ROUTE_SYS IN ('04', '07', '05', '01', '02', '03', '22', '53', '41') Or ROADSEG_ID IN ('0805469A-1938-43E9-A18F-05FDFE2E7B4E', 'D6BE7AA6-D7A7-4BDB-87B6-05A045BE47DA', '00A91117-6B17-4DDE-A0CC-BF097A8D00DA', '00A91117-6B17-4DDE-A0CC-BF097A8D00DA', 'F0902E65-1277-4542-8E5F-6759E243FFF7', 'E8799B99-27AF-4743-8C56-F392B04B4557', '1439D56D-BBCA-464D-BA85-3F763C7F2C77', '32C5DD3A-00F7-4BC5-A0F9-50740DB4A449', 'E8350270-3BCA-4862-9B4C-328B2E9CC7C9', 'C1520FD3-30AD-4F53-99CE-0C0DFD4061CA', '9D479888-74DC-4970-91BD-03161FA0AF3A', '87EA2E09-005C-4A18-A81E-3B8F94B90825', 'BB054E48-2451-4C1A-8295-BB1B3AE47BB1', 'EC581F38-5B84-4BF6-A97F-3341B7B47E59', '8A97A63F-1A5C-428C-87A4-30B0C189C21C') but this query I use with comments to organize the segments does not work. ROUTE_SYS IN ('04', '07', '05', '01', '02', '03', '22', '53', '41') Or /*Special Cases for PDF Maps*/ ROADSEG_ID IN (/*Parley Lake Rd/Ln*/'0805469A-1938-43E9-A18F-05FDFE2E7B4E', 'D6BE7AA6-D7A7-4BDB-87B6-05A045BE47DA', '00A91117-6B17-4DDE-A0CC-BF097A8D00DA', '00A91117-6B17-4DDE-A0CC-BF097A8D00DA', 'F0902E65-1277-4542-8E5F-6759E243FFF7', /*Steiger Lake Ln*/ 'E8799B99-27AF-4743-8C56-F392B04B4557', '1439D56D-BBCA-464D-BA85-3F763C7F2C77', '32C5DD3A-00F7-4BC5-A0F9-50740DB4A449', 'E8350270-3BCA-4862-9B4C-328B2E9CC7C9', 'C1520FD3-30AD-4F53-99CE-0C0DFD4061CA', '9D479888-74DC-4970-91BD-03161FA0AF3A', /*Zachary Ln N*/ '87EA2E09-005C-4A18-A81E-3B8F94B90825', 'BB054E48-2451-4C1A-8295-BB1B3AE47BB1', 'EC581F38-5B84-4BF6-A97F-3341B7B47E59', '8A97A63F-1A5C-428C-87A4-30B0C189C21C')   Everything validates correctly in pro and functions properly there. If published as vector tiles though, the roads for this scale/display filter just don't work. (Left query with comments, right query without comments)         ... View more

Complex dash patterns (Ex: dash - dot - dash) published as vector tiles work in the regular Map Viewer but do not work in Map Viewer Classic, Javascript API 3.x, or ArcGIS Pro's map viewer. When I am creating vector tiles, I am using them for multiple maps and I need them to appear consistently across all of them so there is not user confusion. We use complex dash patterns to illustrate different allowed usages of our trails and if it appears incorrectly then that user might think they can do something on that trail that is not allowed. Map Viewer Map Viewer Classic   The only workaround I have found is using Vector Tile Style Editor to change the pattern. I duplicate the layer and change the pattern for each of them to mimic a dash dot dash pattern. This ensures that everyone is at least seeing the same thing. Layer Dash Template Original 1,3 Duplicate 2,6     Another good place in Geonet to see this issue is https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-vector-tile-style-editor-questions/vectortilestyle-dashed-lines/m-p/1084412. Also as an FYI I've spoken to @TommyFauvell & @DanielStephen so they are are aware of the issue. I'll be making a support case as well to get this logged as an enhancement request. Update 8/2/2022: Limitation logged as BUG-000151224       ... View more

Arcpy.mp's exportToPAGX is currently unable to export as an overwrite. Use .pagxs to store layouts and need to be able to overwrite with this function.    When attempting to exportToPAGX() with the same filepath as another .pagx in that folder, I get this error: <module> layout.exportToPAGX(out_pagx=OutputExport) File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\_mp.py", line 1526, in exportToPAGX return convertArcObjectToPythonObject(self._arc_object.exportToPAGX(*gp_fixargs((out_pagx,), True))) RuntimeError: Failed to export pagx to path: "......." ... View more