Latest Contributions by mfcallahan

I haven't done this specifically for my ArcGIS Server instances, but when I want to monitor services I have running, I like to use Windows Task Scheduler.  I usually create a small console app or script that will make a test query to a service, and if there is not a response or the response is not as unexpected, it will send out an alert email.  So for example I have an application running on my web server that depends on a few external APIs and database connections to run.  I have a scheduled task running every 5 minutes (on a different machine than the server) and it will make sure each of the APIs is responding and the database connections are OK.  If everything is OK, the task will end without notification.  If anything reported an error, I send an alert email out to the dev team so we are aware of the poor health status of the application right away and can take immediate action. ... View more

Thanks - this is very helpful. ... View more

I think this might be what you're looking for: https://community.esri.com/thread/158148  ... View more

I prefer the whitelist approach when cleaning up file names, ID columns, etc.  Blacklisting chars you don't want like "$%&*@!" etc still would allow things like æ Ñ █ ╬ all of which are valid ascii characters, but probably not charterers you'd want in a primary key or filename. ... View more

Error messages are useful for devs, but when the errors are occurring in the minified API modules it is extremely difficult to understand or resolve the errors.  If my map or the layer in the map is causing the issues, the errors I'm seeing aren't making resolving that issue any easier.  The map does not throw any errors when opened by itself, so I'm not sure what settings to tweak to fix the errors in the story map.  But it's not just my maps - here's a public facing app I found that throws similar errors.  If something in a map is causing these errors, it's not being made clear to the user and they will end up with story maps throwing these errors and warnings like this. the vast majority of people reading story maps don't use their browser with dev tools open, so these messages don't have any impact on their experience. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude but I really have to take issue with this statement.  Yes, most people don't look under the hood, but that's not really a great excuse to sweep errors in the client side code under the rug or diminish the importance of resolving them.  How do we know for sure these errors aren't having any impact on the user's experience? (The Synchronous XMLHttpRequest warning is literally stating that it has detrimental effects to the end user's experience...)  If there are errors being thrown in the console, the application is not working correctly.  I'm glad there will be a debug option in future story map revisions. Following best web dev practices, I remove all console output from my applications as there may be situations where console is not defined on the client. ... View more

Sometimes I do this, and replace and illegal chars or spaces with an underscore: testStringCleaned = "".join([x if x.isalnum() else "_" for x in testString]) ‍# foo_bar_baz_qux_127__9_‍   ... View more

If by illegal characters you mean all non-alphanumeric characters, you can use a list comprehension with str.isalnum(): testString = 'foo-bar#baz?qux@127/\\9]' testStringCleaned = "".join(x for x in testString if x.isalnum()) # foobarbazqux1279‍‍‍‍ Found on Stack Overflow - Turn a string into a valid filename? ... View more

Thank you for this very comprehensive list of ArcGIS Pro SDK resources! ... View more

I wasn't referring to the Story Map Builder page in my original post (though it is also littered with console errors and random debug output).  I'm receiving these errors when viewing the live application - what my clients will see.  Here is a collection of screenshots displaying the browser console for various story map templates: AGOL Story Map Template Console Errors - image gallery I first uploaded a shapefile of sample points to AGOL to create a hosted feature layer, and then I added that layer to a simple web map which would be used in each Story Map Template demo.  There is no shared organizational shared content or themes, I'm literally just opening an empty story map template, adding my map, and nothing else.  Every story map template I've used continuously throws all these errors and warnings in Chrome 58, Firefox 53, IE 11, and Edge 40.  If story maps were working as expected, my console should look like this - no unhandled errors in minified files, no debug output, no warnings about Synchronous XMLHttpRequests (callbacks...use them!!!) ... View more