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TimMinter
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(30 Idea Submissions)Latest Contributions by TimMinter
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@MarceloMarques - yep, aware of the opportunities to manage my own data stores. trying to understand if a hosted feature layer can be configured to use a file geodatabase under the hood based on choices I make when publishing from an ArcGIS Pro layer. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/use/publish-features.htm
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02-07-2024
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Thank you, @MichaelJenkins. I'm holding the "publish a file geodatabase, and make a service from it" path to success in my back pocket for now. Last time I looked at ths approach, it was unclean for several reasons. Maybe it's improved at AGE 11.1.0.
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02-07-2024
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Thank you, @MarceloMarques. So, it sounds like the short answer is, "ArcGIS Enterprise Portal 11.1.0 will not use a file geodatabase to support a hosted feature layer item." Is that correct? tim Edit - solution acceptance note: I feel fairly confident that I have evaluated Marcelo's and Michael's input and understood it correctly. The simple answer is in my reflection post here, so I marked it as the solution. Someone tell me if I'm wrong, and I'll adjust. Thanks all!
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02-07-2024
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In a December 2022 "Sharing Content to ArcGIS Enterprise" Esri course, the instructor noted that when I share an ArcGIS Pro layer to Portal as a hosted feature layer, if I ensure that editing capability is not enabled, then AGE-Portal persists the layer's data as a file geodatabase instead of as an enterprise geodatabase (PostgreSQL, probably). The instructor said that the file geodatabase is the highest READ performance data structure that AGE-Portal uses for its hosted feature layers. I want to use the highest READ performance data structure. I've only now come around to actually make use of this information, and everything changes all the time. When peeking under the AGE-Portal hood, I'm not seeing (yet, I hope not to dive into the dark box on this) that it's persisting hosted feature layers without editing enabled in anything other than its managed PostgreSQL enterprise geodatabase data store. So, my questions: If, in early 2024 I use ArcGIS Pro 3.2.1 to share a layer to AGE-Portal 11.1.0 as a hosted feature layer without editing enabled, in what data structure/format is the data persisted? What is the highest performance data structure/format I can convince AGE-Portal to manage for me? I have a time-enabled point feature class with ~53m rows that I need to persist in an AGE-Portal data store. Typically, only about 800 active records are queried and rendered for the full spatial envelope of the data set. Scale dependencies are set for ~1.5m active records, so they get queried and subsetted to reasonable quantities when zooming in and rendering. There are numerous other performance, gotcha, bug, and version discrepancy red flags in my questions and examples, and I'm pretty much aware of and controlling for all of them. I'm specifically interested in understanding what controls I have over AGE-Portal's decisions on what data structures/formats to persist my data that it manages. I'll be selecting for highest possible READ performance. Ok, well, I also want to know whether or not AGE-Portal respects and includes all of my performance configurations (field indexes, coordinate reference system, and the like) when it ingests my data into its data store. Maybe it does some of its own? I have noticed that it has not been entirely respectful of things like field order and field naming choices, so maybe it's happy to jack up or ignore my other configurations. Cheers & thanks, tim edit: the only way to see typos is to glance at the post after posting it.
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02-07-2024
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Indeed, this would be useful. Much like we can do with ADS (Azure Data Studio) or SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). cheers, tim
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02-05-2024
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I'd love to generate a schema report in the form of an Entity Relationship Diagram - ERD. If I recall right, Sparx Enterprise Architect can do it after importing a geodatabase XML Workspace Document. It would be proper to right-click the GDB and say, "make an ERD" as PDF or HTML format. Maybe there's already a tool for doing just that using the JSON or XLSX formats? Like time-back-way-back with, what was it - ArcCatalog and Visio? https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/geodatabases/documenting-your-geodatabase-design.htm
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01-18-2024
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@PaddyFurlong - Nice! Maybe we can string that up with a little ModelBuilder thing to generalize the geometry for detailed polygons, export to JSON, then use the resulting graphic art in Power BI. Ideally, the REST service would have a generalize capability built in, but it seems a bit more complex than that.
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10-31-2023
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@JesseCloutier - Hah! The heights to which a "hold my beer!" approach will take me 😃.
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10-16-2023
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Thanks @SSWoodward. I appreciate you checking ArcGIS Pro for us. I can never tell if what I'm dealing with when things don't work is an Esri bug or not. Often, I'll report a bug and get initial responses that it's by design; it's a problem with the documentation; we have massive test harnesses, quality programs, and strategies; etc. I'm very hesitant to open support cases because they can suck so much of my time right out of my employer's pockets. So, given all that, it just seems to me like a great idea that ArcGIS Pro would not append ":25" to mailto targets. Looking forward to that. tim
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07-27-2023
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Thanks @ChristianWells, transparency helps. Is this information available from the various bugs touchpoints in Esri's web presence? So, if I click "Bugs & Enhancements" in the screenshot above, there might be some link or hover thingy that contains the info you have shared?
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07-27-2023
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@AaronKoelker - After some support requests to get myself on the notification list for various bugs, I've developed the perception that Esri is purposefully removing the bug entries from public view and from paying customers' views. So, maybe my idea is misaligned with their strategy.
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07-24-2023
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@SSWoodward ArcGIS Pro > view metadata > metadata > Save As > Save As XML... > Without Sensitive Info > output.xml file Portal > item description > metadata > Overwrite > Open file > output.xml file If it's a bug, it would be great if ArcGIS Pro team could add it to the test harness(es?).
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07-24-2023
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Hi @SSWoodward - I see it happening in ArcGIS Pro 3.1.2, various fields. If I then "share as web layer" the ":25" shows up in the relevant item description field.
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07-24-2023
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It would be great if ArcGIS Pro would stop appending ":25" to email address mailto links. E.g., mailto:[email protected] in metadata link becomes [email protected]:25 as the email address in the To line of the email. As a bonus, it would be even greater if that didn't happen in Portal after importing the metadata, too. tim
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My kudoed posts
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Activity Feed
- Got a Kudo for Guardrails: Portal item sharing could respect classification. Tuesday
- Posted Re: All ArcGIS AI Assitants could be trained on all bugs on ArcGIS Online Ideas. 06-03-2026 10:37 AM
- Got a Kudo for Guardrails: Portal item sharing could respect classification. 06-03-2026 05:06 AM
- Got a Kudo for All ArcGIS AI Assitants could be trained on all bugs. 06-02-2026 06:04 AM
- Got a Kudo for All ArcGIS AI Assitants could be trained on all bugs. 06-02-2026 05:37 AM
- Got a Kudo for All ArcGIS AI Assitants could be trained on all bugs. 06-01-2026 10:42 AM
- Posted All ArcGIS AI Assitants could be trained on all bugs on ArcGIS Online Ideas. 06-01-2026 10:29 AM
- Got a Kudo for Guardrails: Portal item sharing could respect classification. 05-21-2026 07:47 PM
- Posted Guardrails: Portal item sharing could respect classification on ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas. 05-21-2026 01:36 PM
- Kudoed Re: Attribute Fields not showing for new layers published to AGO for MariaGiarrusso. 05-15-2026 09:36 AM
- Posted Re: Attribute Fields not showing for new layers published to AGO on ArcGIS Online Questions. 05-15-2026 09:35 AM
- Got a Kudo for ArcGIS Pro could ease formatting fields in tables. 03-04-2026 10:09 AM
- Got a Kudo for Re: Format decimal place in ArcGIS Pro. 03-04-2026 10:08 AM
- Got a Kudo for Get data > ArcGIS. 10-02-2025 12:55 PM
- Got a Kudo for ArcGIS Pro could set default time zone. 08-06-2025 08:47 AM
- Got a Kudo for Re: Generate Schema Report tool feedback. 07-12-2025 03:34 PM
- Got a Kudo for ArcGIS Pro could set default time zone. 06-19-2025 06:41 PM
- Got a Kudo for My Esri Support should include bug search capability. 06-02-2025 07:06 AM
- Got a Kudo for My Esri Support should include bug search capability. 05-08-2025 06:05 PM
- Got a Kudo for Get data > ArcGIS. 04-21-2025 03:09 PM
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