Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

@JoshuaBixby, as @jcarlson alluded to, the actual costs for educational institutions for the Microsoft and Google productivity suites, as compared to the Esri Education Institution license, is exactly opposite of what you're suggesting. The cost of access to the Esri ecosystem of software per user is significantly less than for Microsoft or Google.  And that is counting active users of each system; not everyone -- yet -- on our campus is using GIS. If instead you consider your whole institution as potential users -- the goal of empowering everyone with everything GIS -- then it becomes an even more lopsided comparison; crumbs to a loaf of bread. Also, I didn't read @BrianBaldwin's post as suggesting that "ArcGIS-for-anyone" means "ArcGIS-Desktop-for-anyone". I think that was the view for our parent's GIS, a world that was mostly limited to ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server.  Today I would interpret "ArcGIS-for-anyone" in the view of Modern GIS, meaning the whole Esri ecosystem of products, with different users finding their way to different tools to meet their needs and levels of expertise. (Some may know Modern GIS as Web GIS or the Geospatial Cloud, but regardless of the terminology, GIS today is about much more than desktop GIS.) Desktop users have not gone away either. They are still a key constituency in an institution's Modern GIS. In fact, their numbers grow as more people find their way to GIS, when you make GIS available to everyone, and they are able to discover the power of geospatial. The largest growth in GIS users in a Modern GIS, however, is in the non-desktop software: ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps, Collector, Survey123, Hub, Business Analyst Online, GeoPlanner, ArcGIS Maps for Creative Cloud, and so on. Those users individually may not use GIS as often as our Pro users, however, on an average day they outnumber our Pro users at my institution. In a Modern GIS world, the breadth of tools included in the Esri Education Institution license is reflected by the breadth of users. People from all across an institution can now make use of the wide variety of GIS tools in the Esri ecosystem; GIS is no longer the realm of a privileged few using desktop GIS software.  For example, see the breadth of use today at the University of Michigan. The majority of units and degree programs have someone using some part of ArcGIS. And, that dashboard is just for Esri products, we have people "doing GIS" with other commercial and open-source solutions too. (Check out other examples too, such as Penn State.) ... View more

@MadhuraPhaterpekar We have users experiencing this as well on their Macs; getting the "unknown format and cannot be opened" error when trying to open a .aix file in Illustrator 2021. The machines in question are all macOS Big Sur 11.2.1, Adobe Illustrator 25.2, and ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud 2.2.1. The machines were updated to their current states in various ways. Manually un-installing/re-installing the ArcGIS Maps extension does not help. Rolling Illustrator back to 2020 (version 24.3), and then installing the ArcGIS Maps extension (version 2.2.1) restores the ability to open .aix files, however, we of course would rather be using Illustrator 25.2. ... View more

@msa4012 the Notebook assumes you are using ArcGIS built-in accounts for simplicity. I've added a note to make that clearer.  For enterprise accounts, like those using SAML or ADFS, you need to modify the code making the connection to match your GIS systems' requirements.  For an overview of using different authentication schemes with the ArcGIS API for Python, please see Working with different authentication schemes, find one that matches your setup, and use it to replace the connection code in the Notebook for your source and/or target GIS systems. Hope that gets you back on track! ... View more

@Anonymous User I too have entirely missed the "Existing" tab in the past! It would certainly save time in some cases for cutting-and-pasting, though its scope seems to be limited to an individual layer? The way you've interpreted "global scope" is what I was thinking of: common functions that can be referenced by multiple arcade expressions.  Though when I am editing a web map, I am thinking of "global" as being at the level of the web map, so including all the layers. It looks like the scope of the Existing tab may be limited to just an individual layer in a web map? So while Existing enables me to access symbology arcade expressions for a layer when I'm configuring a popup arcade expression for the same layer, it looks like I cannot see arcade expressions from other layers in the web map I'm editing?  (If I was editing the visualization settings for a layer under its Item Details, then I would expect "global" in that context to be just the layer.) Passing parameters to functions sounds intriguing, though I cannot think of a user story that would call for it off the top of my head. It feels, however, like that capability would be important if global functions were supported at the level of the web map.     ... View more

You could perform the same steps manually in Online or Enterprise via the user interface. Or, via the REST API. I had a bunch of similar layers and fields to fix, so I automated the process using an ArcGIS Notebook. ... View more

I recently encountered this as well, and found this Esri Technical Support document that explained the situation. Problem: Unable to modify the nullable property of a hosted feature service from the REST endpoint ... View more

I too would like to see the links to the groups brought back. I often end up looking at an item and then want to navigate to a group with which it is shared to see or work with other items in that group. Having the link to the group anywhere the icons are used would make for more direct navigation for many use cases. Whether that is the Share list on the Item Details page, the Share column on the My Content page, etc. On ArcGIS Online currently, mousing over no longer displays the names of the groups either. Another step backwards 😞   As for the destination of the link, going to the group's overview page is nice, however, I most often need to get to the group's content page. Hopefully that could be the goal for this improvement.   ... View more

Sometimes there is overlap in your Arcade Expressions, and you want and copy-and-paste a section from one to another. That is a cumbersome process currently, as you have to navigate out of the expression you are looking at, go to the other expression to copy the content you need, and then navigate back to the original expression and paste in the content.  If all the expressions were in one place, that would make this kind of process a lot easier. Also, if there was some notion of global, as mentioned, then I might not need to copy-and-paste between multiple Arcade Expressions. Instead I could put the common code in a function, which multiple expressions could reference. ... View more

I was hoping that sharing a Notebook to a Shared Update group would do the trick, but alas, no.  It would be nice if sharing a Notebook to a Shared Update group did enable multiple users to edit it. This would be helpful, even with the caveat of having to avoid multiple users simultaneously editing, as is the case for other item types, like StoryMaps, and Shared Update groups. ... View more

Interested in this as well. In addition to the above use cases, we would look to a solution like this to provide an avenue for hosting StoryMaps using our own domain names, rather than only at https://storymaps.arcgis.com. ... View more