Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

‎03-28-2025

When exporting data to a particular format, provide methods that enable users to check what potential limitations may be imposed by that format, in order to identify and address potential data loss. This would be for classes like, arcgis.features.GeoSeriesAccessor.to_featureclass(), arcgis.gis.Item.export, arcgis.features.FeatureSet.to_geojson, etc. This will assist users – both new and experienced – with quality assurance when managing the export of data to a more limited format, such as from a feature set or hosted feature layer to a shapefile. Issues can arise later on, particular with automations, where changes in the data may trigger unexpected results not caught during initial testing. To enable users to produce more robust code for dealing with such circumstances, provide methods for evaluating limitations imposed by an export format on the original data source. Some quality assurance testing for these situations is already provided by methods like arcgis.features.GeoAccessor.sanitize_column_names. I’m sure many folks regularly find themselves writing code to check original data sources against potential limitations of an export format, with logic to decide on a predictable way to address those shortcomings, or to log a helpful error message for manual intervention. It would be helpful to have standardized methods in the API for the former part, identifying those export limitations in the context of a specific data source and the chosen format (e.g., shapefile, csv, kml, geojson.) For example, if exporting from a hosted feature layer to a shapefile, then warn a user about field names that will get truncated (and what the autogenerated new field names will be in a shapefile, in case they want to capture a field mapping to metadata), datetime fields (which will have their time component truncated, which they may want to address before the export by splitting into two fields), attachments that will not be included (which they may decide to export separately to a zip file with a link table), etc.

‎03-20-2025

The Pro patch release versions generally do not include updates to the Python package versions. So all of the 3.4.x versions, including the just released 3.4.3, come with the ArcGIS API for Python version 2.4.0. While you cannot update to 2.4.0.1 via the Package Manager within Pro -- even in your cloned environments (hasn't worked for me at least) -- you should be able to update it via conda without forcing it. You do need to do so in an environment cloned from arcgispro-py3. In such a cloned environment you can use: conda update arcgis -c esri And that environment should end up with 2.4.0.1.

‎03-14-2025

I've had a similar experience with size and credit charges not going down as expected when features are deleted. See this thread about needing to use Compress and then adding a dummy feature to actually free up the storage: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/reduction-of-space-and-credit-consumption/m-p/1392911/highlight/true#M57968 You might give the Compress and edit route a try on your feature layer to see if that reconciles things with what your are expecting.

‎03-04-2025

@OwenGeo the Filter functionality achieves the goal! I think I would still want to keep this Idea alive as a suggestion for enabling the same thing through searching, should the limitations you mention go away (or as a reason for a new design without those limitations.) Searching is often a natural starting point for a question like this, particularly for people new to a product, while Filtering is typically something reserved more for those knowledgable about a product, who know more about what they are after. I did not notice that I could do this via Filtering. I think there are two things that obscure this functionality, which perhaps could be addressed. It isn't obvious that there is a filter functionality, as it is not present by default, as it is in other areas of ArcGIS Online. It is only accessible after one locates and clicks on the Filter toggle near the top-right. For example, if I am in My Content view in ArcGIS Online, the filter options are present by default in the same size browser window. Likewise, in the "my projects" view on the StoryMap website, the "filtering" options are already there on the left. I would suggest starting with the Filtering options displayed for the Gallery, when the screen width is sufficient to show the filtering options in those other areas. It isn't obvious that there is a level of filtering for specific features. When you first toggle open the Filter view, it shows one thing, Category, however, there is the greater-than sign as a visual queue to expand it. After expanding it, one sees a list of categories, like Features, however, there is no visual queue that it too can be expanded. It is only if one takes the time to click on Features that the additional options are presented. I would suggest adding a visual queue to indicate that the categories can also be expanded.

‎02-27-2025

When you are sharing from Pro to ArcGIS Online, there is an option to "Preserve editor tracking info." It sounds like you may not have enabled that when sharing? If you had editor tracking enabled for the data in Pro, then to carry that through to Online, you must check the box for "Preserve editor tracking info" when you are sharing your data. For example, see Configure a web feature layer for how to enable the option in that workflow.

‎02-25-2025

@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.

‎02-25-2025

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.

‎02-24-2025

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.

‎02-18-2025

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!

‎02-17-2025

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

‎02-17-2025

There are times with a StoryMap collection when it would be helpful to open up several of the stories in the collection into their own tabs or windows. Ideally one would be able to do this quickly by right-clicking on the StoryMap in the Collection and selecting open in new tab or new window or private/incognito window. Currently right-clicking does not present those options. For example, one might be showing some examples of stories from a collection, with a need to quickly jump back and forth between them by selecting their tabs, or to have two stories open side-by-side in different browser windows. In those cases you are looking for a quick way to open multiple stories from the collection in their own containers, rather than trying to use collection navigation to move between stories.

‎02-17-2025

Esri's ArcGIS StoryMaps Gallery is a great resource to which one can direct new users to explore great examples of storytelling using the app. It would be helpful if a user who is looking for examples of specific block types (e.g., Swipe, Image Collection, Audio, Timeline) could readily identify stories in the Gallery that used those capabilities. For example, for "swipe", if a user could enter it as a search term or if it was a selectable Filter option, then the user would be presented with the subset of stories in the Gallery that utilized the Swipe block.

‎02-11-2025

Sharing of an item can be filtered in search using the "access" item information field. For example, if you want to find all of the items with "test" in the title that are private to the owner (i.e., not shared with a group, nor shared publicly or with the organization): title:test AND access:private If you are, however, interested in your searching find items that are private to the owner (i.e., not shared with a group), but which may or may not also be shared publicly or with the organization, then you are out of luck. The "access" item information field only records a single value. It captures the highest level of sharing, so if an item is shared publicly or with the organization, then "access" is set to either "public" or "org". So there is currently no way that I have found in Search to determine if an item shared at either of those two levels is also shared with a group or not.

‎02-07-2025

This is a bug, which has been fixed for the next release. For more details see: gis.admin.usage_reports.generate_report() failing unexpectedly with "Specified output format not supported" #2145

‎02-03-2025

@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.)

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Latest Contributions by PeterKnoop

Methods for export format limitation checks

Re: API Version with ArcGIS Pro 3.4.2

Re: Hosted Feature Storage size doesn't change

Re: Enable identifying example stories using specific block types in Gallery

Re: AGOL Edit Tracking fields

Re: AGOL Item Usage Report Date Range 1 Year Query Limit - Increase Desired

Re: AGOL Item Usage Report Date Range 1 Year Query Limit - Increase Desired

Re: ArcGIS Online- Item Details Page- Ability to see groups item is shared to

Re: Create a new Hosted Feature Service in ArcGIS Online and add a Feature Layer with the ArcGIS API for Python

Re: ArcGIS Online custom role with admin privilege as new member default

Enable right-click open-in-new-tab for StoryMaps in Collection

Enable identifying example stories using specific block types in Gallery

Re: AGOL Advance Search terms for fun and profit!

Re: usage_reports generate_report report_type='itemUsages', duration='weekly' errors with invalid timeAggregate value

Re: Information Banner and Access Notice URL Links

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