Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

@TracyMoy unfortunately even the ArcGIS API for Python only gets you the last ~2 years of data. The data still ages out and is purged. ... View more

If the timeline for keeping data around cannot be extended, then perhaps the limitation could be more prominently documented, along with a recommendation to remind oneself to regularly download the data via the report mechanism before it is lost. ... View more

It would be a nice addition, if this convenient list of group names -- right in the item details view -- was also linked to the group's item details page. Sometimes when investigating an item, you want to dig down and explore the one or more groups it is shared with. In which case it would be also helpful to be able to right-click on the group links and open them in separate tabs or windows, in order to do some quick-and-easy or side-by-side comparisons. ... View more

Great starting point for folks learning how to do this!  I might suggest adding a call to is_service_name_available to verify the service_name is not already in use; in our org with over 10,000 users, most of the common variations on "test" are already taken! ... View more

See also the older, related Idea: Make ‘create group with update capabilities’ a non-admin privilege ... View more

@BernSzukalski For the specific case of informing users what they need to do with their content before they leave our organization we've tried adding a message to the Home page. Such messaging, no matter how obtrusive you make it, is still generally overlooked or ignored when delivered via that channel. (In an educational setting, off-boarding of users is a common need, particularly at the end of the semester. With thousands of users leaving the institution at once, and no admin tools in ArcGIS Online to automate the process at that scale, proactively dealing with their content is something the users need to handle themselves, e.g., transfer ownership, move to a different organization, download a backup, delete.) The Access notice channel has the more intrusive option of forcing a user to acknowledge a message, which makes it much harder for a user to miss. Unfortunately the amount of text in the Access notice is limited, so it is hard to educate users on the variety of available options for disposing of their content. It would be a great help if we could include hyperlinked text in the notice to a page with additional information. Since you cannot add a hyperlink, nor include "https://" as text in the notice, the best we can do at the moment is rely on a user manually cutting-and-pasting text form within the notice to their browser address bar (e.g., "...for more information, please visit the URL: gis.umich.edu/leaving", with the user pointing their browser to the partial URL.) ... View more

@JasonHrubizna1 If you set the Parallel Processing Factor to a number of processes greater than or equal to the number of system cores on your machine, then it will result in worse performance. Under those circumstances, your are forcing the swapping of a greater number of process across a lesser number of cores, so the overhead slows things done. Hence, when you choose 100% (and greater), you were slowing things down with that overhead (assuming other factors, such as I/O or memory, were not bottlenecks.) To achieve the maximum performance boost from parallel processing, you should choose a number (or percentage) that results in at least one core being left available for running processes other than the tiling job. Depending on what else you are doing on the computer while the tile job is running, you may even need to leave additional cores available to get maximum performance out of the cores being used for the tiling job. ... View more

Would really like to see support for links added to the Information Banner and Access Notice options. We often want to keep the message short and simple, so that people pay attention to it, while still wanting to include a link to more, extended information for people who need more details. ... View more

Would really like to see support for links added to the Information Banner and Access Notice options. We often want to keep the message short and simple, so that people pay attention to it, while still wanting to include a link to more, extended information for people who need more details. ... View more

Hi Kevin, I think there are a wide variety of successful ArcGIS Pro version management strategies. I believe which one might work best for a particular institution depends on what their user community looks like. So hopefully more folks will chime in with what their community looks like and what works best for them. For our community of over 10,000 GIS users, we typically have 150-250 daily users of ArcGIS Pro, and more than 400 over the course of a typical semester. The frequent users represent a mix of students, staff, and faculty using Pro for classes, research, and administrative tasks. The other users are a similar mix using Pro for a class project or two during the term, or using Pro for a particular phase of their research or administrative work. The users are from a number of different campus units, or students from a variety of degree programs, so there is a broadly-based community that needs to be served. With the differences between Pro 2.9 and 3.x, which version was used where, represented a major concern in terms of keeping what people wanted and what was available to them coordinated. In recent years, for the various versions of 3.x, this has not been an issue. Our users access Pro in managed computer labs, managed virtual environments, faculty/staff labs and offices, and on a wide-variety of personally-owned machines (particularly students). In general, the managed labs and VMs are kept at a specific version of Pro during a semester to avoid changes in UX, functionality, capabilities, etc. being a source of confusion. Those environments are controlled by different IT groups across the institution; however, they strive to kept their versions synchronized each semester. The version used in such environments is usually the latest version from about 2-3 months prior to a semester beginning. For labs and offices, people can choose whether to have their version managed or not. If they choose managed, then the version is generally the same as in the managed labs, or one of several previous versions (the use can choose the version they run.) If they choose to take care of it entirely themselves, then they can run any version they want. Similarly, when it comes to personal machines people can choose to run what ever version of Pro they want. For those managing their own ArcGIS Pro installations, they can access instructions and installers via the same, familiar institutional workflow they use for other such software available for personal use. The installers and instructions are typically customized for our environment. For example, they are set to use Named User licensing and our main ArcGIS Online organization as the Portal and Licensing servers. The customized instructions also are designed to help clarify some of the common pain-points found in Esri's documentation for installing Pro. For example, directing them to the specific .NET package (i.e., .NET Desktop Runtime) they need to select from all the versions Microsoft provides on the same download page. We do not use MyEsri for distributing ArcGIS Pro to end-users, as the overhead of managing access to MyEsri for such a large, broad user community is unrealistic. That means our ArcGIS administrators take on the task of downloading the installers from MyEsri. Whenever there is a new version they redistribute/repackage it for access via those familiar institutional sites. Such sites are fronted by the same single-sign-on resource that determines if a user is authorized to use ArcGIS, so only those users who are authorized to use ArcGIS can get to the installation resources.   ... View more