Latest Contributions by MikeDolbow

Would love to know if anyone got this working in the 3 years since the OP. It seems like PBF is an accepted format for TileInfo, so ...there must be a way? ... View more

I'd love to see this as well. PBF-style vector tiles are also what are created by pg_tileserv. ... View more

If, like me, you're just running Server, that server.xml file can be found in C:\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\tomcat\conf My testing so far looks successful too. ... View more

I upgraded to 11.3 this summer, and this is still happening to me, although only when I bulk deploy via a script. My script leverages MapServiceDraft and as it says near the top of that page: If metadata properties (credits, description, summary, tags, and useLimitations) are not set or consist of empty strings, the map service will source metadata from the map.  Which, seems strange to me, because the default option when overwriting from Pro is "Use the item description from the service". I'm lucky I only have about 25 services, so it didn't take me long to go into Manager and manually remove the HTML tags from any section within the "Item Description" tab. And now if I keep the default when overwriting from Pro, I'll be fine. But it's kind of annoying to think that in a DR, bulk deployment scenario, I'm going to re-introduce those HTML tags. It'd be great to see this bug addressed either via future Server and/or Pro releases. ... View more

Thanks @rhys-kdrm - I've heard about similar workarounds and I might pursue them. For now, I'm pretty comfortable either doing all my editing in QGIS or "offline" in Pro (then loading the data into the database with ArcPy). Nevertheless, I'd still like to see this implemented. ... View more

Agreed! Comments in SQL code should function no matter how they are set up. Those two methods have been available in SQL for years, and Query Layers ought to be able to handle both. ... View more

Came here to find this answer, and Jonathan's is very good, and more pertinent to Python than what I'm about to add. But since some folks might come to this thread from a wider concern than just Python, I thought I'd add: if you log in to your REST admin pages (typically at https://{servername-URL}/arcgis/admin), then browse to the specific service lifecycle page, you get this information translated into human-readable time (ie not Epoch time). So, for me, this was easily readable at https://{server-url}/arcgis/admin/services/{foldername}/{servicename}.MapServer/lifecycleinfos ... View more

I just created this idea over in the Pro section if folks want to upvote it over there. A "newer" idea might get some traction...who knows? ... View more

Agreed. It seems things are improving - you can now use the native PostGIS geometry. But if you want to both read AND edit in Esri tools (like Pro), you need to do the "Create Enterprise Geodoatabase" routine, which requires an enterprise/server license. Anything less than that, and you can *read* from Pro (via query layer) - but you can't edit. I've found that you can use pro (or ArcPy) to *load* data in, table-by-table, which in some cases is useful. But obviously once you've got your main data loaded in, you just want to edit it there. And the current capabilities prohibit that. ... View more

Agreed. Time to give it some social media love! ... View more

Thanks Rene! I thought of that on my run yesterday, forehead slap. Another way of saying this: my code is just creating a plain old object that happens to have a type of "point" and lat/long values, not an actual full-blown point geometry object that the geodesic buffer requires. I'll update the code pen to demonstrate this. ... View more

Just tested on a Windows 10 laptop with a touch screen, using Firefox, and can't reproduce the behavior. Touches on the graphics reveal a popup and can pan as normal. Thanks for the idea to test on an actual device, I'm a lot less worried about this now! ... View more