Latest Contributions by AZendel

Thomas Colson wrote: To ESRI's credit, in the same document, "It isn’t an update to ArcMap, but a totally new application...", but most customers aren't looking at it that way. We really don't have the luxury of running two desktop GIS platforms side by side for more than a few months.  I agree that most customers don't look at it that way as well. We still need to get our work done .... and we need to do it safely. I myself am very receptive to changes in workflow and which buttons to push in which order. And there are numerous improvements that Pro brings - features that I love. But when we can't do our job without worrying about the safety of our data, then I really wish ESRI would listen to us and make Pro work like ArcMap in these respects. I don't understand their resistance. If this isn't the way that Pro is going to work out of the box, then please give us the option to enable out requested functionality.  Related content about Pro editing concerns: https://community.esri.com/ideas/14454-arcgis-pro-provide-an-option-that-requires-all-edit-sessions-to-be-manually-started https://community.esri.com/ideas/13988-improved-save-edits-by-allowing-to-deselect-an-fc?commentID=69616#comment-69616 https://community.esri.com/ideas/14075-arcgis-pro-edit-session https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/data-management/dont-fret-it-just-edit/ And I agree: this is a bug. Additionally, these workflows work in ArcMap, so they can be implemented in Pro. This is not a database issue. If only they would listen..... ... View more

Still doesn't look like SQLite is editable in Pro 2.3. Any news/speculation about future releases? ... View more

Or why It's occurring in Chrome as well.  Apparently, Chrome uses its own PDF rendering engine.  Or why in the Adobe Forum post, an Adobe staffer said, "Credit the problem to improper PDF file creation." However, it sounds like some discussion happened offline and maybe the Adobe staff later concluded that it's a problem with their software. Or if Adobe mentioned anything about fixing this problem?  And on what time frame? Or what they plan to do about the rendering problem in Chrome? Chrome is by far the most used browser these days.   Not being able to publish a map as a PDF file is a pretty big stumbling block. ... View more

Thanks for responding. I was talking about SQLite, not SQL Server. Had luck with an ODBC driver for SQLite? ... View more

Have you tried their vector base maps? I just tried one in a PDF export and the output looked really nice. And you can adjust the colors/styles/fonts, though I'm not sure how to bring a custom vector base map into Pro.  ... View more

I got some emails from ESRI staff that suggest SQLite support is coming to AGP. That was hopeful because I used PGDB's very frequently so I could have SQL access to my GIS data. I tried the one free SQLite ODBC driver to link tables to MS Access so I could build queries and reports. But anytime I tried to edit a row that had a date in it, Access would display an error and the row wouldn't update. What ODBC driver(s) were you using to work with SQLite data in MS Access? ... View more

Wait?!? What?!? The Data Interoperability Extension allows Pro to access (pun intended) the "inaccessible" 32-bit Personal Geodatabase??? That's angering to read. ... View more

Yeah, the ESRI approach of Add Join --> Select by Attributes --> Calculate Field can take forever, even on properly indexed fields. ... View more

I would like to export 1500 buildings to a single Collada file. Did you ever find a way to do this? Specifying a "group_field" with the same attribute value for each feature exports one building at a time....and then next building overwrites the previous building. Is there a way to export these buildings as a single layer? ... View more

I'm getting errors when I try to save a style in the VTSE using Edge (below). When using Chrome, it eventually goes unresponsive.  Are there any alternatives to the VTSE (ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor (beta)), excluding editing the json file by hand? Is the VTSE due to be out of beta anytime soon? ... View more

On Friday afternoon (Dec 14), ESRI notified me that they had applied a patch to ArcGIS Online to fix this issue. I am now able to overlay AGO hosted tile layers in our state plane projection on top of a tile layer served by our county's ArcGIS Server. We have to add the base tiles (AGS service) first and then specify them as the base layer. Otherwise, we cannot view both layers. ... View more

Kelly,  This is the Map Series app that displayed the first draft of our city's comprehensive zoning update: https://maps.knoxmpc.org/MapSeries/recode.html?appid=daa100e704b44ea7825e3202943f9fcd.  We started working on updating this page for Draft 3 this past Monday.....and that's when we ran into this bug. Draft 3 hasn't officially announced on our web page, so I'm not going to post it here. But we essentially made a copy of the Draft 1 Map Series app using the ArcGIS Online Assistant.  When we were developing draft 1, we also downloaded the Map Series and Compare apps to our local web server to make a number of style changes. But then we also created and configured those apps on AGO and then linked to those AGO apps via the appid in the URL above. All of the maps that are featured in the map series are web maps that we created in AGO - except for the first tab, it's a custom javascript web page that includes some functionality that our planners asked for (drive to an address or parcel id, return the clicked zone).  We haven't really had a problem with these "configurable apps". We ran into the bug when we tried to make new web maps in AGO using the tile packages that we created by using the same workflow we used for Draft 1 and Draft 2. That workflow is described above. As I mentioned, we ditched the tpk's and had our county host the updated zoning layers (the operational layer) on our ArcGIS server. Then we created web maps in AGO that reference the REST endpoints on our county's server.  Then we pointed the Draft 3 Map Series and Compare apps at those newly created web maps. Thankfully, we were on time, but it was close.  ... View more

We ran into a similar issue when we uploaded tile packages after the latest ArcGIS Online release (I believe it was released during the week of Dec 3). Our workflow: 1) generate a tile package in ArcMap or Pro. 2) Select the option for it to be uploaded to AGO immediately (as opposed to outputting the tpk file to a specified local directory). 3) Publish the tile package as a service. 4) Create a web map.  5) Add a base map from our county's ArcGIS server (wkid 2915, same as our tile package). 6) Add our tile package and receive the error "The layer, xxx, can't be added to the map because its coordinate system or tiling scheme can't be adjusted to align properly with the basemap" After trying to resolve this issue with ESRI tech support, they logged this issue as BUG-000118772 yesterday evening (Dec. 12). The status of this bug has already changed to 'implemented' which, to the best of my understanding, means they have fixed it, but it won't be rolled out until an upcoming release.  One work around that we almost had to live with: 1) add the tile package layer to the map first. 2) add the base map tiles from ArcGIS server without checking the option to make it the new base map layer. 3) make the base tiles, which is on TOP of the tile package, transparent. The transparency effect was almost the same as if the layer order was the opposite. But this created another problem: the map's legend showed the base map layers (which were on top). We really needed a legend for the tile package (which was being treated as the base map). So we ultimately had our county's central GIS staff create a tile cache on their ArcGIS Server. Then we could build AGO web maps by pasting our server's REST URL. As you've experienced, tpk's uploaded that we uploaded prior to the latest release did not cause any problems in AGO web maps. Shortly after we encountered the problem yesterday, we started looking into the JSON for the tile package REST service. The 'well know text' of the spatial reference was appearing repeatedly (see screen shot below).  The JSON for the tiles served by our ArcGIS Server and the JSON for the tpk files we uploaded to AGO before the latest release did not do include this. And I strongly suspect that's why we got the error message when we tried to add them both to a web map. I hope you're able to find a feasible work-around. We barely met our deadline because of this setback....... ... View more

It's definitely a show stopper for our production of parks and trail maps that use hillshade behind some transparent polygons. I'm glad I caught it early on since you can't convert Pro back to ArcMap! I'm hopefully for 2.3 as well. This is one of the last Pro 'gotchas' that prevent us from adopting Pro for nearly all of our workflows ... View more