Latest Contributions by JonathanBailey

When a hosted feature layer is created, its extent is set to the global extent ((-180, -90) to (180, 90)). This can be changed by changing the hosted feature layer's settings in ArcGIS Online. Obviously, , however, there are many hosted feature layers that aren't global in their scope. Is there a way to automatically set the extent of the hosted feature layer when it's created, such as to the extent of the features in the layer? ... View more

I've created a model that iterates through a folder to find file geodatabases, then exports data changes messages from each file geodatabase using the Export Data Change Message tool. For simplicity, the name each checkout is the same as the name of the geodatabase.  I've used an iterator to iterate through each of the file geodatabases in the folder, to get a Workspace variable representing the file geodatabase, and a string variable representing the name of the geodatabase. If I use the string variable representing the name of the geodatabase as the input to the Replica parameter in the Export Data Change Message tool, the tool will not validate and the model will fail. If I manually enter the name of the replica, then the model executes without error. ... View more

I've created a geoprocessing model that uses the Import Message tool in the Distributed Geodatabase toolset. Once the model is complete, I'd like to delete the data changes message XML file used by the tool. However, I get a file lock error when trying to delete the XML file. I've tried adding the Clear Workspace Cache tool to the model before deleting the XML file, but without success. ... View more

I've created a model tool that creates an SDE connection file in %scratchFolder%. Once The model is complete, I'd like to delete this connection file to avoid warnings the next time the model tool is run. In ModelBuilder, I don't have the ability to mark the SDE connection file as Intermediate (the item in the context menu is grayed out). I've also tried adding the Clear Workspace Cache tool to the model, without success. ... View more

I'm trying to set up a desktop machine with the Database Server for Desktop. After installing SQL Server express, I get to the wizard screen that prompts the user to choose the SQL Server instance name to enable geodatabase storage. The dropdown list of SQL Server instances doesn't show the SQL Server instance that I just created. It only shows another instance on another machine that another user on the machine had previously created / connected to. I can verify that the new service that I created exists and is running, by looking at the Services dialog, and in the SQL Server Configuration Manager. Caveat: The previous user had also previously installed SQL Server Express 2014 and created an instance named SQLEXPRESS, that I removed. Any ideas as to why I can't see the local SQL Server instance? Thanks, Jon. ... View more

Is there a need or interest in the developer community for geodatabase support for common ORM frameworks? Which ORM frameworks do you commonly use? Microsoft Entity Framework?​ NHibernate?​ Others?​ What geodatabase API do you most commonly use? ArcObjects? ArcGIS Runtime SDK? ArcGIS Pro SDK? ... View more

Are there any good examples available of using the AttributeInspector widget inside of a custom Operations Dashboard widget? Currently, I've got the AttributeInspector widget inside of the custom widget, but I can't figure out how to get a reference to the feature layer to set it on the LayerInfos property for the AttributeInspector. Here's a snippet of the code that I have so far in my custom widget's JavaScript file:    return declare("CustomWidget", [_WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin, _WidgetsInTemplateMixin, WidgetProxy], {         templateString: templateString,         debugName: "CustomWidget",         hostReady: function () {             // get a reference to the data source configuration             var dataSource = this.dataSourceProxies[0];             var dataSourceConfig = this.getDataSourceConfig(dataSource);             // create the layerInfos             var layerInfos = [                 {                     'featureLayer': ???,                     'showAttachments': true,                     'isEditable': true,                     'fieldInfos': [                         {                             'fieldName': 'OBJECTID',                             'isEditable': false,                             'label': 'OBJECTID'                         }                     ]                 }             ];             var attributeInspector = new AttributeInspector({                 layerInfos: layerInfos             }, document.getElementById("attributeInspector")); ... View more

I'm building a custom web mapping application for a client. The application will be hosted externally to ArcGIS Online, but the application is registered with AGOL. The application will access the client's secured AGOL web map services. I'd like for the user to be able to log in to AGOL, open the application, and not have to log in again. However, each request for a secured resource from AGOL results in a login challenge. I've set up the web proxy to avoid this problem, but it seems that the web proxy allows anyone access to the secured AGOL web map services. So, it seems that my options are: Allow all users access to the client's secured AGOL web map services (hint: not an option). Require users to provide their login information each time a request is made to a secured AGOL service (hint: again, not an option). Am I missing something? Is it not possible to do this? ... View more

Some of the out-of-the-box widgets for Operations Dashboard allow them to be popped out from the side and viewed in an "enlarged view". How can this be accomplished in a custom widget? Is is a property that needs to be set in the manifest? ... View more