Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

‎05-28-2025

It is possible for an ArcGIS Online feature service or hosted feature layer to become too big to export successfully as a File Geodatabase via synchronous methods, like the Export button on the item's overview page. It would be nice if there was a user-friendly error returned when this was the case, rather than getting no File Geodatabase, or a corrupt one, created after a long wait. One workaround for exporting large hosted feature layers is to use the ArcGIS API for Python, and its export method with the wait parameter set to False. This enables the export to run asynchronously in the background, and avoids potential timeouts interrupting the process. Once the export job completes -- monitor the export job via status -- you will have the File Geodatabase you were expecting.

‎05-28-2025

It is possible for an ArcGIS Online feature service or hosted feature layer to become too big to export successfully as a File Geodatabase via synchronous methods, like the Export button on the item's overview page. It would be nice if there was a user-friendly error returned when this was the case, rather than getting no File Geodatabase, or a corrupt one, created after a long wait. One workaround for exporting large hosted feature layers is to use the ArcGIS API for Python, and its export method with the wait parameter set to False. This enables the export to run asynchronously in the background, and avoids potential timeouts interrupting the process. Once the export job completes -- monitor the export job via status -- you will have the File Geodatabase you were expecting.

‎05-19-2025

See also Permit changing ownership of items shared with Shared Update groups.

‎05-02-2025

See also: Item storage quota

‎04-29-2025

I would like to be able to enable/disable pop ups for all of the layers in a group at once in Map Viewer. An example use case for this is when we have a group of GPS track point layers as part of map, as well as other data layers. There might be anywhere from a few to dozens of GPS track point layers in a group layer in the map. Typically the GPS track log layers are present on the map to provide visual context, showing previous tracks through the area. In this case, when a user is clicking on the map, pop ups for the track log layers are disabled, so the don't obscure the relevant pop ups from other layers. Sometimes, however, we do want to be able to access the popups for individual track points. For example, when planning a trip to the area, we might want to compare timestamps on points to see how long it took to travel in/out on a one-way portion of the track. It would be helpful in such cases to be able to quickly toggle on the pop ups for the group of GPS layers in the Web Map, explore the GPS track point data, and then toggle off the pop ups for the group again, rather than having to toggle on/off pop ups for individual layers in the group.

‎04-24-2025

When designing a survey in Survey123 Connect, it would be helpful to be able to comment out rows in the XLSForm so that they are not processed. Sometimes I want to comment one or more rows because something is wrong in those rows, which is preventing the survey from rendering in Connect. So I want to hide those rows from being processed, so that I can see how everything else in the XLSForm is looking. Another use case is to paste in some rows from another XLSForm that I want to use as models for building new rows in the current XLSForm. I don't want those pasted rows processed, however, I want them there as a reference adjancent to the rows I am working on.

‎04-22-2025

If one intends to run this Notebook in ArcGIS Online, then make sure to change the runtime from ArcGIS Notebook Python 3 Standard - 7.0, which is missing some of the required libraries, to ArcGIS Notebook Python 3 Standard - 10.0. (Do not go to 11.0 or above, as the API changes beyond 10.0 are not compatible with this Notebooks' code.)

‎04-18-2025

@JeremyWright that's great news!

‎04-17-2025

The workaround we have been using to do something like a Map Tour with multipoint "points" is to use a Sidecar with an Express Map: Insert a Sidecar into your story. Add an Express Map to the first slide's main media area, and add all of your points to the Express Map. You may find it helpful to use the group function to put all of the points for one project in the same group, as it makes it easier to style them all in one go in later steps. If you don't want popups on mouse-over for each point, then leave the fields empty for each point. Otherwise, if you do want popups, then you probably want to paste the same information into each point that is part of the same project. Duplicate the first slide, and edit the express map to change the color of all the points associated with your first project to make them stand out from the rest. (If you grouped the points in step #2, then you can do this all in one go, rather than idividually.) Enter information about the project in the slide's text and extra media area. Repeat Step #3 for each project you have. Hide (or delete) the first slide with all the points, if you don't need an overview slide with all the project points, and none of them highlighted. One of the shortcomings of this approach is if you need to add more points after you've made your initial Express Map. You would need to add the new points to original and each duplicate of the Express Map. Hope that helps!

‎04-16-2025

See also Set coordinate system when creating New Feature layer in ArcGIS Online.

Re: Need user storage limits · ‎04-09-2025

Related to earlier Idea: Item storage quota.

‎04-01-2025

You might find this resource on self-check quizzes to be helpful: How to add a self-check quiz into ArcGIS StoryMaps using Survey123

‎04-01-2025

In my experience, StoryMaps does not correctly enforce the 10MB limit. Instead, it appears to checking to see if the bytes value is greater than 10,000,000. (10MB does not equal 10,000,000 bytes, but rather is equivalent to 10MB x 1024 kB/MB x 1024 bytes/kB or 10,485,760 bytes.)

‎03-31-2025

There are a number of solutions that would work here. Many of which folks have already suggested. If you are using Survey123 Connect to design your survey, are comfortable with Survey123 JavaScript functions, and your sites are far enough apart for the user's GPS to clearly distinguish one location from another, then I would suggest a variation on @ClayDonaldsonSWCA's use of the geospatial aspect, which would calculate your Site ID in real-time. You can use a custom JavaScript function to populate the site ID in your survey form based on where the person filling out the survey is standing. The script would use the geopoint question's location to identify the closest site from a feature class that contained the site locations and site IDs. This has worked well for us in similar situations, where we are trying to keep things as simple as possible for the data collectors, who are typically not GIS folks. Typically we hide the GeoPoint question in the survey, so that the user has a nice, clean, simple form. If we foresee the use case where a user might need to enter data while standing elsewhere, however, then we do present the GeoPoint question, so that they can move their position close to the desired site, so that the correct site ID is calculated. An example of such a script is provided by @IsmaelChivite on github, getNearsestRecord. It returns the whole record for the nearest site, however, you can modify it to return just your Site ID attribute, so that it can populate your survey question with that value.

‎03-28-2025

Be nice if one could choose to delete the SD file from such as warning as well.

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Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

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Re: Allowing for the switching of ownership to other members in the ArcGIS Group

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Enable/Disable Pop Ups at Group Level

Survey123 XLSForm comment out rows

Re: Try the Classic Story Conversion Helper

Re: ArcGIS PRO export to .stl format for 3D printing

Re: How can I display multiple points when clicking on a single card on the Map tour template?

Re: Option to select a Spatial Reference / Projection when creating a Feature Layer in AGOL or Portal

Re: Need user storage limits

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