Latest Contributions by DavidMedeiros

A common issue with large ArcGIS enterprise organizations, especially higher ed, are users who have locked themselves out of ArcGIS Pro. This most often happens when users who checkout offline licenses for use in the field (or because they routinely work without an internet connection). If the users computer or HD dies and is replaced by the university, the user is then unable to license a new installation of ArcGIS Pro until the old offline user status is rest. This could be as simple as the user contacting their site admin and having them verify the status of the old machine then toggle a license reset for the user as appropriate. Instead it currently requires an Esri ticket that can take several days and many redundant back and forth email exchanges to complete. In the latest example from my org it took 3 days, 7 email exchanges, and 735 typed words to complete a license reset. Most of that time was spent reiterating the information that was posted to the original ticket (user name, email, reason for reset, org info). On top of that, Esri requires the user or admin to "sign" a permission statement that reads like an amateur legal contract and is essentially redundant to the licensing agreement the org already has in place with Esri. Please make resetting offline user licenses an admin operation. ... View more

I'm in the midst of an old user cleanup run and finding some discrepancies between what my Member report says for items owned by old members vs what I'm actually finding in AGO when I pull that member account up for deletion. Example of one user attached, but I'm finding that many of these older accounts say they have way more items than I am finding when I look them up in  my admin dashboard in AGO. Any idea what is going on? If I delete a user in AGO that shows only 4 items but the report says they have 75 items, am I orphaning items in the org that can't then be found or removed?     ... View more

I'm attempting to clean up our AGO Org by removing older inactive user accounts (permanently deleting the accounts and data). From the Org Members page I can filter and select all members with log in dates beyond our threshold then bulk delete them. However, I always get the error message "Unable to delete members that own items with delete protection enabled.". AGO fails to delete ANY of the accounts if just one has a delete protected layer. Just before the bulk delete there is an option to view the combined data layers from the selected members. But there is no way to bulk edit the delete protection settings. This basically just leaves me having to remove in-active accounts one at a time and manually change any data protection setting these old accounts have set up. As an admin, I need MUCH better tools than this to run our org. Am I missing something that would allow me to bulk remove these old account and their data regardless of data protections wettings?     ... View more

I'm helping a researcher with a network based analysis problem. The researcher has a set of Origin and Destination locations. These represent farms as the origins that truck out their animal waste (manure) to offsite destinations. Most origins have multiple destinations they truck to.  The analysis goal is to find all the routes between each Origin and all of its destinations, and represent those links as the actual route line, not a straight line. OD Cost Matrix does the correct kind of linking, but it does not create a real route as an output. Route Analysis can create real linked routes as an output, but it connects linked locations as linear routes only, not as a radial Origin and Destination set of routes. Any help in bridging these analysis tasks and outputs would be greatly appreciated! ... View more

I'm working with a researcher who is running an OD Cost Matrix analysis in Madagascar using the Middle East and Africa 2024.1 MMPK data, hosted locally. She would like to show the road network in her maps that match the network used in her analysis, but in the newer versions of these network tools or data, I don't see how to add the actual network as lines to the GIS project. Am I missing something in how the MMPK is used or unpacked?  ... View more

I'm the admin to a university ArcGIS Online Organization. One of our researchers has an AGO projects that includes data collection using Field Maps and partners from two other Universities (each with their own AGO Orgs). Is a partnered collaboration the only way allow the two researchers from other orgs to access and edit our hosted feature layer in Field Maps, or is there a simpler way for them to all work together? ... View more

I'm helping a researcher run a Zonal Statistics analysis for counties over a multi band raster of yearly average temperatures for the US. The temp data is stored in a either 12 band TIF or a .nc (NetCDF) file. The goal is to use model builder to iterate over the bands so the researcher is not manually running Zonal Stats for each month (12 times for every year they need). But when I load up model builder, I don't see an obvious way to iterate bands in a single raster. Any help is appreciated.  ... View more