Latest Contributions by AmyRoust

Not surprisingly, I get a lot of requests for ArcGIS products to provide similar functionality to Tableau dashboards. One request in particular that I get is to customize the tool tips that display when you hover over a data point in a chart. Right now, there doesn't appear to be much control over what is included in the tooltip beyond the column name and a second row with "Sum of {columnname}" or "Count of {ColumnName}" depending on what summary statistic being used. I would like to be able to add custom text to the tooltips, much like what you can do with pop-ups. At the minimum, it would be nice to be able to change the data labels for the statistics. Even better, it would be great if I could write a sentence like we can already do in map pop-ups. So, instead of ColumnA: Value Sum of ColumnB: Value It could say, "In Nowhere County, 17 samples were collected." ... View more

Quick question since I can't find this clearly stated anywhere: if you use a locator, are the results always a point layer? Or if you use a polygon feature class as your data source, is it possible to have it return a polygon? ... View more

In version 3.x, Esri introduced the Color Vision Simulator tool, which gives mapmakers without color blindness the ability to see what their maps look like to people who experience color blindness. It would be helpful if the legend was included in that simulation so that you could confirm that the end user can match the altered colors with what they would see in the legend. That way, you can confirm that the user is able to translate which category each item in the map corresponds to.       ... View more

I'm interested in hearing about other people's experiences with using Microsoft's Power Automate to send emails from Survey123 submissions. I've been using Power Automate for a couple of years and I don't have a lot of confidence in the product's reliability. Here are some issues that I have had in the past: - A flow stopped working. We went months without receiving an email from a survey that was created with the web designer and didn't realize it until someone contacted me to add a recipient to the distribution list. It is realistic for this survey to go for months without having any submissions, so we never would have thought that there was an issue otherwise. The only resolution I could find was to delete the old flow and create a new one. - A flow stopped sending emails to dynamic addresses. We have a Survey123 Connect survey with a question that takes the submitter's email address with the promise to use it to send a copy of their submission via email. I honestly don't know if it ever worked, but it wasn't working when I tested it today. The only resolution I could find was to delete the old flow and create a new one. I've had 2-3 users who had issues along these lines, and the only resolution I had for them was "recreate the flow." That does not inspire confidence! Plus, some emails are really long and complicated, so it's no small task to rebuild them from scratch. One thing I did notice is that this Esri workflow uses a different email operation than what I use. When I do an email action, I use this: But on that website, they use this: I’m wondering if the Office 365 Outlook operation that is in the Esri documentation is somehow “better” than what I’m using? All that to say: I'm interested in hearing other user experiences as well as any hacks you've found to ensure that the flows work. ... View more

There is no way currently to tell assistive technology what order it should read through items in a PDF layout. For example, I have a PDF that reads the text from a text box at the bottom of my layout before reading the title of the map or the alt text for the map. It would be lovely to have the option to set the reading order without having to modify the document in Acrobat Pro. ... View more

In ArcGIS Pro, you have the option to add metadata and accessibility tags to a PDF export. It would be lovely if the information that you enter the first time you export a PDF is somehow cached so that it will automatically be populated when you need to export it again in the future. Using screenshots to explain, here is what I filled out for my PDF export the first time: If I need to make a minor change to the layout and then export it again, this is what the Accessibility tab shows:   I'm not sure what would be involved with caching the metadata, but at the very least, it would be nice to have the option to check "Include accessibility tags" by default.     ... View more