Latest Contributions by mattwilkie

Our Esri account manager has confirmed there is something in the works for Desktop-like licensing for ArcGIS Pro, with an expected availability of Q1 2016 with the 1.2 release. "we plan to offer “role-based” term licensing for on-premises deployments in the future. ...We want to assure our user community that this [subscription licensing] is an alternative, not a replacement, to how we provide our software. ... we are working on a license enablement process that will allow customers to continue to use their ArcGIS Pro licenses. [in event of lapsed maintenance] * Please note, however, that your Named User login credentials for ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS accounts will remain expired until you renew your ArcGIS for Desktop maintenance. * If you want to use ArcGIS Pro with either ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS, you will need to renew your ArcGIS for Desktop maintenance. " So with this revised model it's only the online portions of ArcGIS Pro which will get turned off or become unavailable when the subscription lapses. That sounds fair. I look forward to seeing the particulars before I rest easy though (the devils in the details and all that). ... View more

Thank you Tom!  What made this particular issue hard to solve for us was that some machines in the network had no trouble connecting to the ArcGIS License server, while others couldn't. There was no apparent rhyme or reason to it. Eventually I learned it was because the workstations which defaulted to IPv6 routing found the ArcGIS license when knocking on door 2700, while the IPv4 default machines would get Integraph. TCPview was instrumental in sorting that out. Note to searchers: also see related ArcGIS License Manager: FlexNet Licensing Error -97, 121 ... View more

Thanks Jayanta! For what it's worth, I found it easier to change the Integraph license manager and let ArcGIS have first dibs at port 2700. All you need to do is run the Integraph License Administrator and change the port# from the menu. No need to start/stop services and muck around with text files and so on, the app handles it all. ... View more

Please temper previous comment (wish there was an edit feature for comments!) that older NIM is about raster catalogs not mosaic datasets, which are very different animals. However in my defence, the scenarios that lead to these related requests is identical. On that note, please also see and vote for Relative paths in unmanaged raster catalogs ... View more

I discovered there's a request for this dating back to 2009 and ArcGIS v9.3, NIM043448 - Allow relative pathnames to be stored when using an Unmanaged Raster Catalog in a File Geodatabase. (Esri global login required). Use that number when talking to your Esri technical support people about this so the two ideas/requests can be tied together. Apparently in personal geodatabases it is possible to use relative paths, see comment from Esri staffer Timothy Hale to Relative Paths in Unmanaged Raster Catalog?   ... View more

If relative paths for mosaic datasets were implemented then you could distribute the master mosaic to each of the users/machines and then just those images relevant for their project. Outside the area of interest would be missing/broken but inside would be fine. ... View more

If relative paths for mosaic datasets were implemented then you could distribute the master mosaic to each of the users/machines and then just those images relevant for their project. Outside the area of interest would be missing/broken but inside would be fine. ... View more

Please consider voting for feature request to allow Relative path names for mosaic datasets ... View more

Please consider voting for feature request to allow Relative path names for mosaic datasets ... View more

Also see related request for Relative path names for mosaic datasets. If the paths are relative to the location of the mosaic then all one would need to do is ensure the rasters were in a sub-folder from the folder of the GDB holding the mosaic (or at least on the same volume). To my mind this would be simpler and just as effective because then one doesn't need to add and maintain variables on every machine. ... View more

Yes please! Relative paths would also resolve "Enable Mosaic Datasets to Use Environment Variables in Path"   ... View more

Hi Jade,  Sorry I don't remember what happened here. I think we just gave up and moved on to other things. We haven't needed to use or work with tile caches for a long time. Good luck! Matt ... View more

I fought with this for hours. In the end the only thing that worked for me was to comment out both ipv4 and v6 and just open the gate completely:      host all         all         all         md5 I note there is a discrepancy in syntax between Postgres and Esri docs for ipv6 that may come in to play. Compare the suffixes, "%10/n" vs "/n": [Esri] To allow any machines with an address beginning with fe60 to connect, you would add this line to the pg_hba.conf file:      host all all fe60::0000:0000:0000:0000%10/8 md5 [Postgres] An IPv6 address range might look like ::1/128 for a single host (in this case the IPv6 loopback address) or fe80::7a31:c1ff:0000:0000/96 for a small network. ... View more

I would like to see this same ability in ArcGIS Server itself and not just in Portal, and for exactly the same business reasons. We're only responsible for serving users in our own department, which represent perhaps only 15-20% of the total organization by staff numbers. On the admin side it's a lot of overhead to wade through so much user and group noise, >80% for us,  to get to those you accounts or roles you need to do something with. I think there's also a perfomance penalty being paid traversing the whole Active Directory tree/forest when only specific OUs are actually important. ... View more

Related: it would nice to simply drag and drop the results of interest into a folder or gdb other container. As @nbw notes, this is possible already if the target is Model Builder, but then one loses the time stamps (which helps detemine which order to run the tools in) and doesn't connect them.   ... View more