Latest Contributions by MaazaMekuria

‎12-06-2019

I am not sure if the libraries I am using are older, but I am getting an error when using the featureTypes qulaifier in the Python API geoding command below arcgis.geocoding.reverse_geocode(begcoord,distance=intersearch,featureTypes=StreetInt) The documentation (reverseGeocode—ArcGIS REST API: World Geocoding Service | ArcGIS for Developers ) says that I should use featureTypes as "return_intersection=True" is being phased out. but it does not work at this time for me. What can I do? It gives me the right result with this command arcgis.geocoding.reverse_geocode(begcoord,distance=intersearch,return_intersection=True)

‎12-06-2019

I was surprised that the Version 3.6 Connect completely overwrote the "My Survey Designs" when I created a new one using the connect user interface. It appears that there were two sessions and the second session could not access the first session's database (I can't understand that this would happen since the database is sqlite and it is multiuser and transaction aware storage). I had moved an old survey out of the directory and wanted to overwrite with a new survey from an XLS form. As soon as I created the new one, it changed to say that the others are in the cloud! I had many other surveys and all were deleted so that now I only have one survey, the new one! It is showing that I have to download the surveys from the cloud! Any way I can restore these directories without downloading what may or maynot be the most current data? I also want to ask if I can share the surveys with my colleagues, such that we can write to a shared folder and anyone can access the forms and update them in the shared folder. The survey has become an enterprise wide system and we would like to have multiple people to maintain it. Is there anyway we could do that?

‎12-02-2019

I am late in replying, but the error is indicating the data you have is a list not a dictionary. Check out if what you are getting is what you are expecting. I also notice that the index 'layerMod' of the 'operationalLayers' variable seems to be erroneous.

‎11-27-2019

How to overcome the timeout error 400 that is hindering a perfectly good request. I can enter the same commands on the command line and they work alright. But the script is ending in timeout! I feel like a little child being put on a timeout with no reasonable cause. I can run the same command while in a Pythn debug session and it perfectly executes. In fact I trap the error and right then I execute the command at the debug session command line and there is no timeout error at all. The feature layer has about 2000 records and I am just calculating a single column. Is there anyway to have the process repeat by parsing the error code I get this error message when executing from a script either in a manually run python script or using a windows task scheduler of the same script. resultupd1 = wmlnclyrsects.calculate(where=qryStr0,calc_expression={"field" : fldx , "value" : valx}) Error message : Unable to calculate fields. Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. (Error Code: 400) The error code 400 is meant to be a bad request as per the code definition in this link Platform error codes—ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET | ArcGIS for Developers What can I do to mitigate the problem.

‎10-22-2019

Brittney, check the permissions for the specific form to see if the user is allower to edit data. We have no problems editing as long as the form and the underlying data security is properly assigned. That setting is in "Collaboration" on the survey123 editing page.

‎10-22-2019

There was a setting in the webform that needed to explicitly request a trigger for edits that I missed and that took care of the problem.

‎10-10-2019

We made a feature layer (hosted view) out of a feature service and then added a few fileds on the feature service. But that update is not propagated into the feature layer. we don't want to delete and recreate the view as other applications (dashboards, etc) depend on it at this time. How can we overwrite or update it using some automation script so that it include the new data fields? I checked on all the posts and was not able to find a good solution. The closest I came to was using the feature collection and then it actually overwrites the data, which I think is not what we are interested in since this feature layer is a hosted view. Thank you for your help.

‎09-10-2019

Thank you Chelsea for the response. The Flow connections are very unstable and sometimes they detect and many times they don't detect the submissions at all. I have had success with the forms that are not embeded in a dashboard. But the dashboard is still not working porperly. I did see some communication come into flow history data, but now it is not showing anything. I recreated a new flow and am still not able to see the triggers work.

‎09-05-2019

I find that the Survey123 Form Submissions do not trigger response in Microsoft Flow when embeded in a ArcGIS Dashboard. Is there any way I could have these submissions get registered to be recognized in Flow?

‎08-30-2019

I have an interesting problem. I setup Microsoft Flow as an aid to communication of Survey123 activity, when a submission is made from a form it triggers other actions. I find that the trigger is not activated if the form is embedded in an ESRI Operations Dashboard. Is there any workaround this problem? Thank you,

‎08-23-2019

I am updating the post to say that I was able to change the code to obtain the "username" by directly using a username question in the type column and collect the variable instead of the "property('username')" calculation and that has worked very well. Now what I really have a problem is that I can't limit access to the submit button to query a record but should have no submission privileges. I have been struggling to stop submission by those who should not submitt at all. Is there any way to stop the submission of records that are unauthroised based on the user account. I tried every possible way but it seems the submit button is just ignorant of any restriction I set using required information etc that is behind the scene. I don't want to allow user input, I have the logged account and the account that has privileges to edit and submit. What else can I do to revent unauthorised submissions? Another issue has come up and Nicholas below has experienced it, that if an unauthrised person submits, it just makes a new record with partial data from the form (not all data is written to the new record). . This is not very good and defeats the purpose of editing in the first place. What can we do to mitigate this problem? Help!

‎08-08-2019

Thank you, James. The use of the username type resolved the implementation difference between the web form and the field app and loss of username.

‎08-06-2019

Hello, James: Could you provide a snippet where, in the URL scheme, the "autoRefresh=true" gets appended? I tried to add it to the url schema after the mode=edit and it does not work.

‎08-06-2019

I think i shared the discrepancy between how the survey form behaves in the Field App and the browser is causing complications implementing it within a dashboard earlier. I am surprised that the username attributes are not accessible in the browser form, while they are visible in the ( property('username')) field app. Is there any reason why I am unable to retrieve the username data within the browser, and the dashboard embedded form. The form has user security enabled, and every one has to login in order to access it. I also can see on the top of the embedded form the username displayed. The login information should be available and I am wondering if there is something that I can do to retrieve the value. the form uses username to perform validation checks against users.

‎08-01-2019

I am encountering a problem with the username variable being available in the field app but not in the webform. Is that normal. I am using the username variable value to check display fields and ability to post data. I don't know why the two implementations appear to act differently. A piece of the form is posted here, I can't access the variable 'uname' in the web app. Users must be logged in to view the form as it is shared to only certain groups. Any ideas?

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Latest Contributions by MaazaMekuria

Reverse Geocoding result with Street Intersections

Survey123 Designs got deleted when Creating a new one.

Re: Filter layer inside webmap

Feature Layer Calculate Timeout Error Code 400

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

How to Overwrite a Hosted Feature Layer View

Re: Dashboard embeded surveys do not register with Microsoft Flow?

Dashboard embeded surveys do not register with Microsoft Flow?

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

Re: Survey123: Parsing “property('username')” calculation value to get clean user name

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

Re: Survey123 Tricks of the Trade: Editing records in a web form

Re: Survey123: Parsing “property('username')” calculation value to get clean user name

Re: Dynamic Choice Lists using Search Appearance

Re: Relationship between layers and styles

Re: Error converting XLSForm when any changes are ...

Re: Counting "unique" selections across repeats

Disable the Submit Button on Survey123 Form