Latest Contributions by TimOrmsby

Hi Bruno, are you using a layer as input? If your input is a feature class, first make it into a layer with Make Feature Layer. Not sure that's your problem, but it's a possibility. ... View more

Hi David, a one-to-many join is for most purposes not a recommended workflow in Pro, but it is possible and can be used for temporal visualization. It may be that the data in your tables needs to be reorganized using the Transpose Fields tool or some field calculations. Documentation is not extensive but there is a tutorial that works in detail through a similar scenario: Visualize temporal data. It's a bit of a time investment but it should give you insight into how your table data needs to be structured. ... View more

Kind of echoing what Robert said, nothing went away at version 2.6. At 2.5, "All portal" referred generically to either ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. Now, depending on your active portal, you see "ArcGIS Online" or "ArcGIS Enterprise" instead. (You don't see the exact name of an enterprise portal, just "ArcGIS Enterprise".) There is no change to the available content as a result of the name change. I'm not sure which Learn ArcGIS lesson you are working on. If you are downloading a style from ArcGIS Online at https://esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html, the web page has been redesigned fairly recently. You may need to scroll down and access one of the styles under the heading Solution styles. (I'm just guessing this might be the problem.) If there's an error in the tutorial, you can send a comment by scrolling all the way to the bottom of the web page and clicking the Tell us what you think link. That will open a message box that allows you to describe the problem and references the page URL. It will get forwarded to the Learn ArcGIS team. At a minimum, it sounds like the text of the lesson should be updated to say "ArcGIS Online" instead of "All Portal." ... View more

Hi Josh, I thought there might be an easy answer but evidently not. I checked with a couple of product engineers to confirm there's not a known issue with the auto-save option for edits--which there isn't. Unless someone else has insight to offer here, your best course of action is to contact tech support and see if they can help you troubleshoot it. ... View more

Hi Josh, In addition to the Editing option to Automatically save edits, there's a General option for Project Recovery added at version 2.6 that backs up your project every 5 minutes by default. This setting is independent of the Editing options setting. Could that be relevant to your experience? ... View more

Mikel, I wonder if the ArcGIS Pro license still needs to be explicitly assigned to your STMBaxter2 account. It may be available but not yet assigned. Check the Manage licenses topic in ArcGIS Online help, specifically the section on configuring add-on licenses and see if that helps. ... View more

Hi Neil, To help narrow down the options a little, you might start with these quick-start tutorials: Create a project Symbolize map layers Make a layout The Learn ArcGIS site has a whole bunch of good tutorials and other learning resources. Cartographic creations in ArcGIS Pro is a more advanced exercise in cartography. The entry point to the ArcGIS Pro help system documentation on symbology is Symbolization. There are many AMAZINGLY good blog posts on mapmaking and cartography. Go to the ArcGIS blog site for Pro and search on cartography. Maybe start with Map-making, step by step by Heather Smith. As Stephanie said, there are good resources on the training site, too... I'm just not as well acquainted with them. ... View more

For the .ags file, check your favorites (Favorites tab on the Catalog pane.) Maybe this server connection was added as a favorite at some point and set to be added to all new projects? If so, right-click it and see if Add To New Projects is checked. That's the only explanation I can think of. Normally, an .ags file is not created by default in new projects. For the question of starting without a template and then saving without creating a folder, I"m not sure there is a solution. I'll ask some people who know more about it than I do. ... View more

Hi Jamal,  it appears that there is no way to avoid creating Index, ImportLog, ags, etc. To avoid creating the index folder, go to the Settings page. Click Options > Indexing. Click Don't create index. I'm not sure about the ImportLog folder. When I set options for creating projects to Same default geodatabase for all projects and Same default toolbox for all projects, it seems the ImportLog folder is no longer created. (??) Your .ags files are connection files to ArcGIS servers. They are created if you add a server connection--they are not present by default when you create a project. When I create a project from the Map template (or another template) with my options set as below and indexing turned off, I see only an aprx file created and no other files. Result: if the “without a project template” option is chose, then the aprx file will be compulsory stored in a folder Yes, I think you're right. If you start without a template, and then choose to save the project, a project folder is created automatically. But... I agree with Dan that folders are good for keeping projects organized. In addition to the reasons he gave, it's also the best way to delete a project and be sure you have deleted all the components. Same for moving a project. Pro doesn't have its own functions for these operations--you have to use the operating system. Also, most of these files that get created by default--like index and backup--are helpful. ... View more

It's really not so different. In ArcMap, you save your geoprocessing outputs to a geodatabase. You save your models and scripts to a toolbox. You save other things like styles, calculations, placemarks, and so on, to various external files. Not all your work is stored in the mxd. Same with Pro. It's just that Pro makes you more conscious of these external objects and (by default) creates a new geodatabase and toolbox for each project.  In ArcMap, all your geoprocessing outputs from all your mxds go to the gdb in your user profile (C:\Users\<username>\Documents\ArcGIS\Default.gdb) unless you designate a different geodatabase. Pro tries to be smart and save outputs to a geodatabase specifically created for the work you're doing now--so it doesn't get mixed up with work you did for some other reason six months ago. But if you don't like that, you can set your application options so that by default your gp outputs are stored in the same geodatabase and your custom tools are stored in the same toolbox. Within a project, you can make any geodatabase the default for that project. You can override the default by sending any tool output to a different geodatabase (or by changing the default). It's flexible, just like ArcMap. ... View more

You have some control over auxiliary files but I don't think complete control. Take a look at the General options topic. You can designate one geodatabase and one toolbox as the default for all projects--then you don't have new gdb and tbx files created for each project. You can turn off project recovery--I assume the .backups folder is not created in that case, but haven't tested. You can also turn off indexing--again, I'm not really sure if that means no Index folder is created. (And I'm not sure you want to turn off indexing if you need to search for files.) But that's as much as I know. ... View more

Hi Andrew, The one-to-many join can be accomplished as described in the help topic you referenced (Temporal data in separate tables). This workflow is used in the tutorial Visualize temporal data. However, I think all the input data must be in geodatabase file format. I don't think it will work with shapefiles and Excel tables. If converting the data to geodatabase is an option for you, give that a try. Alycia Rajendran‌ may be able to offer more insight. ... View more

Hi Jamal, you can find some discussion of the index folder and import log folder in the documentation. See the topic Projects in ArcGIS Pro, specifically the section Project files and their associated files. ... View more

Hi Kevin, In ArcGIS Pro, if you're signed in to an ArcGIS Enterprise org, you can't search ArcGIS Online content. But if you're signed in to an ArcGIS Online org, you can. On the Catalog pane, click the Menu button   and uncheck Search My Organization. This experience will be better when ArcGIS Pro 2.6 is released... tomorrow. In the 2.6 user interface, all the search locations (My Content, My Org, ArcGIS Online, etc.) will be visible from the Catalog pane. The 2.6 web help is online now. If you want to see what the new UI looks like, have a look at the Search portal items topic. ... View more

Hi Chad, On the QAT, there's a little drop-down arrow. Click that and click More Commands. That opens the QAT options dialog box. At the top of that dialog box, click Choose commands from All Commands. In the search box, type make this the only selectable layer. The command appears. Select it and add it to the box on the right. That should do the trick. See this help topic for future reference: Quick Access Toolbar. ... View more