Latest Contributions by TimMinter

Hi Derek, Thank you for confirming.  Unfortunately, I've had recurring problems with that ideas site.  It says there is a problem with my account and won't let me in.  I worked with Esri support to get it sorted once, but the problem is back.  I've lost interest in spending more of my employer's time messing with it. It would be pretty cool if GeoNet had an action or button or something that would submit a post that has been identified as a good idea to the ideas site.  Do you think that might be a possibility? Thanks! tim ... View more

It appears to me that the Esri web world is still pretty flat from a schema perspective.  I'm hopeful that with the build-out of ArcGIS API for JavaScript 4.0, Esri's web tools will be able to make full use of its native data structure - the geodatabase. Until then, I'm having to do the same thing you are - flatten out our data via a crazed Rube Goldberg ETL process in order to enable staff who are authorities for information to keep their info up to date and let other staff make use of that info. happy Friday, tim ... View more

Hi bilal celik​ - I'm experiencing oddities with ArcMap and other 32-bit ArcGIS applications, but I superstitiously chalk that up to the old Esri apps not being updated to handle Windows 10 and present day display technologies.  Among my oddities are your symptoms.  ArcMap can get distracted from the task at hand with indexing, investigating contents of folders, having extended unnecessary conversations with web services, and such.  I'm assuming these distractions are what it's doing when it's not responding to me. I do have a spinning disk as secondary storage, and that clicks a little when I access content on it.  If ArcMap is looking at data on local spinning disk storage on your machine, that may be where the weird clicking is coming from. cheers, tim ... View more

Oops, "owns" is the wrong word in this context.  The organization owns your position.  When you win the lottery, the organization gets to load someone else into your position.  So, maybe more along the lines of "who stewards the robot?"  or from Paul's example, "of which ArcGIS Online for Organizations named user is the robot an extension?"  Typically, IT scripts, apps, tools, processes, products, etc. have a "go-to" person (loosely described as an "owner"), and if you're lucky to be scaled, some backup people.  This person could be proposed to Esri as having the named user account in Portal and/or AGO when discussing terms of service. (shakes head) licensing...  certainly keeps you busy. tim ... View more

Hi Dirk - who owns the robot?  This might be a useful perspective to take when considering the Portal terms of use.  For argument's sake, let's say you own the robot.  My current understanding is that one human being is allowed to have more than one named Portal user account, and in fact Esri benefits financially from this condition.  You may be able to delegate one of your named user accounts to your robot.  Definitely talk to your Esri rep about it... ... View more

We have similar requirements, so I'll describe our approach.  Your requirements may be similar enough to use and/or adjust the approach below. User story As the Emergency Manager, I need to access confidential features managed by each business unit so that I can make decisions based on all confidential features that the organization has.  Managers in the business units choose whether or not to allow staff in other business units to see the confidential features they manage. Solution idea (Portal or ArcGIS Online) Each manager: creates a group and adds their staff and the Emergency Manager to it creates a hosted feature layer; enables editing, tracking, and per user editing as desired; and shares the hosted feature layer to their group each manager creates a web app that uses the web map below and enables the desired capabilities to support the editing process. The Emergency Manager: creates a web map and adds all business unit hosted feature layers to it.  This gives the Emergency Manager access to all of the confidential features. shares that web map back to all of the business unit groups (if useful to the managers).  This allows each group to see only its confidential features on the commonly shared web map. creates a web app that uses that web map and enables the desired capabilities to support her decision process. The solution designer: Notes that ArcGIS Online terms of service explicitly prohibit using some types of confidential information http://www.esri.com/~/media/Files/Pdfs/legal/pdfs/mla_e204_e300/english > 2.4 Prohibited Uses of the Online Services Configures: tries out the solution idea and adjusts until it meets requirements or finds its limitations within the ArcGIS Online capabilities.  Limitations will include non-existent capabilities and bugs in existing capabilities.  requests new capabilities at Esri Arcgis Ideas | Ideas Submission Portal. pursues bugs at  https://my.esri.com/ > My Organizations > Support Customizes: If there are firm requirements that cannot be met through configuration or delayed until configurable solutions are available, then commit to all of the costs of customizations and start customizing. My 2¢, inflation adjusted as much as I can to 48¢ My two cents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CPI Inflation Calculator  Happy Friday, tim ... View more

Since asking the community, I've opened an Esri support case.  The support specialist was able to reproduce the behaviour, and is working internally at the moment.  I'm hoping that the ArcGIS Online SaaS model proves its value in this case...  I'm imagining a bright and shiny world where the dev team fixes the widget code, pushes the fix to ArcGIS Online, the support specialist emails me to try again, and POOF! it's fixed . ... View more

ArcGIS Pro System Requirements note that up to 32 GB will be used if available, suggesting some logic exists to use the storage resources kindly. ... View more

Don't forget to max out storage i/o - that speed matters, too.  ArcGIS Pro makes huge wads of cache. Notebook - Dell Precision 7510, Feb 2016 Win10, build 10240 Intel Core i7-6820HQ, HD Graphics 530 16GB , DDR4-2133MHz SDRAM (i'm set to add another 16GB to support local SQL Server sandbox) M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD & 7200 rpm SATA HD Nvidia Quadro M2000M 4GB GDDR5 Happy enough.  Power vs. mobility is balanced.  Machine is bigger than I like for a notebook, but smaller didn't support the necessary components.  ArcGIS Pro is relatively zippy on this machine and does its work generally well.  ArcGIS for Earth ( 😉 eh?) is mysteriously slow, but I don't care enough yet to figure it out.  ArcMap and its senior 32-bit brethren don't get along with the modern display technology, but that's a known and pinned issue.  Non-Esri geotools are all quite happy and ripping around at high speeds.  I've developed a bad case of iFinger (MacSwipe?) that's causing me a little difficulty with the touchpad, but that's just an olde dawg re-learning an olde trick thang... ... View more

Thanks for confirming the current capabilities Matthew Baber, good info.  Do you know if security by item is on the AGO / Portal development roadmap at this point? We'd love to be able to set staff free and allow them to exercise their best professional judgement when using Portal.  At the same time, we think that it's appropriate to try to help them avoid realizing some of their risks when sharing items categorized at a certain information security level (e.g. jail time, noteworthy fines, etc.).  Kind of like providing a bridge over a river, including the guardrails. tim edit:  next time i should proof-read before I click that big button... ... View more