Latest Contributions by BrendanDwyer

I think I figured out what was going on.  IT guys swore up and down that no previous versions of Arc were on the machines on which we're having the problem.  But the python 26 folder and registry entries are there.  Finally noticed that Military Analyst 10 was loaded on the machine.  My guess is that the extension loads some python 2.6 libraries and the system gets 'confused' as to which one the toolbox should run.  Testing now by uninstalling the extension.  If that doesn't work, I'm going to have them build a new machine from scratch w/o the extension ever loaded. ... View more

If I go into the python window in arcmap or catalog and print the sys.version, it returns that the version is 2.7.5.  But on these systems that had 10.0 installed previously, a toolbox with the da module will work sometimes, and other times have a red x over it, with a syntax error stating that it can't import name da.  Why does it work sometimes and not others?  If I don't have admin rights on the machine, am I SOL? ... View more

Doesn't the web adaptor give you the option of a portal and a server in the post-install?  Why do you want two installs of the web adaptor on one machine? ... View more

Alexander, Curtis, Thanks for getting back to me.  The error is on machines with 10.2 installed, and I don't plan to use it on any machines with 10.0.  I think it's really odd that the toolbox will reference different versions.  Alexander, can you tell me more about updating python paths?  I think that's what I'm going to need to do.  Also, I think I need to uninstall the older version of python. btw Curtis, good to hear from you.  I used to work at the St Pete USGS office under Mr. Wertz. ... View more

Jake, Riyas, Kevin, Thanks for your help. ... View more

Jake, Thanks for responding.  I ended up using the append tool instead. The idea is that another department posts an excel file online and we want to update a feature class with the new data.  We want to completely replace the existing records with the new data.  So I am using the delete rows tool then the append tool instead of opening an edit session with a data access cursor. ... View more

Have you enabled feature access on the service? ... View more

The behavior you described is also something we experienced.  If the GIS service you are trying to access does not respond over SSL, then you cannot utilize it in Portal for ArcGIS.  Some services, however, respond to HTTP and HTTPS.  Below is an example: http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D/MapServer https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D/MapServer Both URLs resolve; one over port 80 and the other over port 443. One thing I had thought about was attempting to use the IIS Redirect Module for IIS 7 to see if perhaps HTTPS URLs could be re-directed to HTTP in order to "trick" Portal for ArcGIS.  I've not tried this, but it might work.  Assuming you're using Windows. Thanks for replying.  We're on windows/iis.  We were thinking of something along the same lines, trying to spoof an https service on our end, but didn't know how to go about it.  I'll check out the redirect module. Some odd behavior I've seen: We use a copy of the esri road map service as the default basemap and also use the same service listed as a separate basemap named Street Map.  With ssl only enabled, it will display the default map.  But it will not allow the street map if you try to switch to it, giving the warning listed in my earlier post. Odd... ... View more

The error message when I try to add a non-secure basemap states: "Notice, This portal is configured to require that only urls accessed over HTTPS can be added." For user authentication, we have to allow only SSL.  But not being able to bring in non secure services seriously degrades the utitlity of the portal.  There's got to be a way to do this, right? ... View more