Latest Contributions by alex_friant

One UX idea is to use color coding to create a visual relationship between a table and the map it is associated with. You could have 16 basic colors (nothing crazy). Once you assign a map a color (i.e. purple), the tab which contains the map's name would turn purple, and all tables associated with that map get purple tabs.   ... View more

What do you mean by that? What exactly is your technique to fill in the in between "NaN" values? When I put a beginning value and end value and finish sketch, the "NaN" values for the middle vertices stays "NaN". Do you have a trick to "fill in" those values with the correct geometrically derived lengths? I can use calibration points, but those don't work on complex lines ("Y" shaped lines for example). Any help would be appreciated. ... View more

Thanks for teaching me about that feature, I never knew that was a thing. Cheers! ... View more

It's May 2019 and I'm using Pro 2.3.2, but this bug persists. Any updates? Can we expect this to be fixed in 2.4? Also, just a note, the masking layer has the same bug with Group Layers; you can apply a mask to a Layer Group, but the mask doesn't work on any of the layers inside that Group. So perhaps this is related to basemap masking issue? ... View more

The only bridge symbol I have found out-of-the-box is a font symbol for point locations: ESRI ERS Infrastructures S1 - #102    ... View more

And just for anybody who still isn't clear on how to do this, here are the explicit instructions: Make sure you have ArcGIS Pro 2.3 or higher installed In your web browser, download your Project Package from either ArcGIS Online or your Portal as a file with extension ".pitemx" Locate the file you downloaded (i.e. 'c:\downloads\some_package.pitemx') Double-click on the file you downloaded The package will open up Pro, and extract a bunch of contents into the Pro project ... View more

Any updates on BUG-000112514?  The latest Pro 2.3.2 still has the bug. ... View more

I've been doing this in File Geodatabases, so I just tried this out in SDE with all 3 scenarios of index, and they all worked: index, Unique = Yes no index index, Unique = No I can't replicate the issue with index scenarios. It would be interesting to see if you can create a new FC in SDE, add GlobalIDs, and then append the data again for each of those indexing scenarios I just outlined above.  If yours works with the "index, Unique = Yes", and not the other two below it, that would be an interesting result. I would then repeat the experiment with a File Geodatabase target instead of SDE. But if you can successfully preserve GlobalIDs across all 3 index scenarios in SDE, then my guess would be that something was corrupted with the original feature class index you witnessed the non-preservation of GlobalIDs with, and that by deleting the original index and recreating it, the corruption disappeared along with the bad index, and it has nothing to do with "Unique = Yes/No". If you're happy with the result you have now, by no means feel you need to satisfy my curiosity about the scenario. My motivation is find where the flaw is. It's how I roll. 😉 ... View more

I don't think so. I'm in 2.3.2 and the issue still occurs. I had to close Pro and reopen for snapping to work again while creating new features. I hope 2.4 solves this bug. ... View more

I just tried this in Pro, and it worked with no index at all for GlobalID. Indexing is only used for speeding up queries so it makes sense that an index shouldn't actually be required in order to append data to a field. I tried adding a GlobalID field in ArcCatalog, and it also generates an index for the field with Unique marked as 'No'. I really don't think the index has anything to do with it. Are you using File Geodatabases, SDE geodatabases, or Personal Geodatabases? ... View more

My GlobalID index is marked as "No" for Unique, but it still worked. Does that same FC has an ObjectID field with an index set to Unique = 'Yes'?  Mine does. I downloaded the FC from AGOL at one point, so perhaps that's ... View more

Interesting. The "Add Global IDs" tool adds the index automatically, so perhaps it was added manually or the index was removed by accident? Either way, glad you got it figured out! ... View more

Great class Jack! I'm super excited to jump into our County's Parcel Fabric now and make some improvements. ... View more

If you want to add a new field, you need to add it to the source feature layer, where it will be visible and then update the view definition to make it visible in dependent hosted feature layer views. Hi Kelly, I'm currently attempting to this exact workflow, but despite the new field existing in the HFL, the new field is not a checkable option when trying to update the VL view definition. I'm forced to create an entirely new VL in order to see the new field. Is there currently any documentation that covers this particular workflow (i.e. Create new field in HFL, then make it available in pre-existing VL's based on that HFL)? Thanks! ... View more

ArcGIS Pro has a nice tool called "Table to Excel" which allows you to export to an .XLS (if your table has less than 65535 records) or .XLSX, and it allows you to click a checkbox that states "Use field alias as column header". However, that checkbox is referring to the field alias registered with the feature class, not the table inside the map, as you see it. So, if you can use the field aliases as they are set in the feature class, that's a great tool to use. But if you've modified the field aliases in the table in your map, and then want those new ones, this tool won't work. However, if you're dataset isn't too large, you can still select all records, copy them, and then paste them directly into Excel. That preserves the alias column names you customized, as you see them in the map table. TL;DR: You can use Pro's "Table to Excel" tool, -OR- you can just select all records, and copy/paste directly into Excel from Pro. ... View more