Latest Contributions by mfcallahan

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

I didn't rule those out, I've been referring to the API docs as I'm learning. I was wondering if Esri has anything beyond the API documentation though.  Training courses, tutorials, demonstrations, etc - Esri has tons of this stuff for everything.   I'm having a bit of difficulty learning about how ArcGIS add-ins work - I'm completely new to Esri/ArcGIS Pro and don't have much of an ArcMap background.  I need something beyond a "hello world" button example and just reading thru the namespaces and methods for each API assembly.  I did find some good info on YouTube from previous Esri conferences, so I will be viewing those today and hopefully that sets me in the right direction.  ... View more

Do you have the "esri/layers/ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer" module loaded? ... View more

I'm not experiencing any issues, I'm just watching this post out of curiosity as I will be installing the latest .NET version on my machine in the near future. ... View more

Thanks for the reply, this is exactly what I need! ... View more