Latest Contributions by Trippetoe

The wholly unsatisfying and quite troubling answer from Esri was to republish the hosted feature layer.  Esri said the source hosted feature layer had become corrupted. There was no explanation for what was corrupt about the layer or how an otherwise perfectly functioning feature layer was corrupted, but republishing solved the problem.  It also caused a bunch of extra work for us as well because of republishing the layer.   In a recent AGOL update, Esri has offered up some interesting possibilities by allowing VIEWs a sort of independence from the hosted feature layer source. I haven't tried this yet, but supposedly you can update the Source for a hosted feature layer view without impacting the view.  ... View more

@JakeSkinner Thanks for the follow up. I suspected there was a "bug" with the attachments so i opened a tech support case late last week. If you want to follow along, it's case #03125736.  I'll reply back here if i learn anything relevant.  Thanks again for all your help and sharing of code. I greatly appreciate it. ... View more

Hey @JakeSkinner . I've spent some additional time poking around at the append() method, and it seems like append() doesnt work as expected with attachments - that is, the attachments aren't associated with their features. I reduced the file geodatabase down to a much more manageable number of around 100 or so features and around 200 or so attachments.  The append() operation works fine when using that file geodatabase EXCEPT that none of the features have attachments.  I verified that file geodatabase export in the ArcGIS Pro project has the attachments. And i published the file geodatabase as a new hosted feature service in AGOL.  The publishing operation worked as expected - the features had attachments. I'm happy to talk via email if that works for you, or i can submit a Tech Support request if you think that's a better approach.    Thank you for your help. ... View more

Thanks @JakeSkinner . I added you to our orgs 'Esri Support Testing' group and named the file 'For Jake Skinner'. Let me know if you can't access the file or have any questions about what's in there. ... View more

@JakeSkinner my apologies for bugging you, but i'm not able to find the Help i'm looking for in the Esri documentation nor in the community website (highly possible i'm just not looking in the right place). My call to the feature layer 'append()' function fails on a large-ish dataset (about 9K rows) that has attachments (mostly jpeg photos).  Other feature layers without attachments work fine. So, i am assuming that there is a timeout issue happening, although the error message is not clear about what went wrong.  So, i'm trying to use the 'Future' object option, assuming that's an async way of doing the append, but when i include that option in the append() arguments, per the API documentation, i get the error message  append() got an unexpected keyword argument 'future'  So, now i'm even more confused.  Any thoughts on how i can extend the timeout window of the append call, or make the call asynchronously.  I am running the script in a Pro Notebook, version 2.8.6 ... View more

@JakeSkinner This is great! Thank you. It's already saved me a bunch of time and headache. Do you know if there is anyway to do the truncate/append in a sort of transaction - so that it all completes or none of it completes?  I'm thinking of a worst case scenario where the Truncate works perfectly, but append fails (maybe there's an internet outage at the exact perfectly wrong time). A similar use case might be that i am updating multiple layers within the same AGOL hosted feature service and one of the updates works but the other one does not. In that case, my data is out of sync with one sublayer updated and the other not.   ... View more

Hi @CraigGillgrass  I am using AGOL and I see the exact same behavior.  If the 'last save' of my map was done in the Field Maps app, i get the dialog Zoe describes when i next save the map in the (new) web map viewer.  If the 'last save' was in the (new) web map viewer, the dialog does not appear upon Saving. ... View more

Thanks @Anonymous User . I'll give your suggestion a try and let you know how it goes. One additional question. When you wrote: the only downside is that the business logic is stored in the form so if you made changes to the data in another app that doesn't use the form, the logic wouldn't apply is the new Web Map Viewer an example of where the logic wouldn't apply? I'm imagining a single map that is available to our field crews working with Field Maps and our Admin staff working in the web map viewer.  If i understand correctly, in that case both apps are reading the 'form' info from the map so it should work in both of those apps Thanks again. ... View more

Hello. Thanks for your questions: - the group type seems to have no impact on the app behavior. Regardless of being shared update or not, i can reproduce the behavior for all groups (again, i am an Org Admin so i've tested groups I own, groups i don't own, collaboration groups, shared update groups, plain-ol-vanilla groups, etc. The behavior is the same.) - there isn't an error message - its just that the Save button in the Change Owner popup is never enabled. Using chrome dev tools, I checked the response whenever a user name is selected in the popup, and a big load of json is returned, including a list of privileges that includes 'portal:user:receiveItem' - subscription is not suspended. Everything else about AGOL seems to work fine - including being able to change owner of the group via python script. - the behavior is the same in Chrome and Edge ... View more

Here's a nice twist that i just learned....   my admin account is able to transfer ownership via a python script. However, i cannot perform the same operation via the UI.  So it seems like an issue/bug specific to the UI? ... View more