Latest Contributions by AmyRoust

‎03-27-2023

This is good to know! I just tried it and it worked, so I will send a revised copy to our webmaster to upload. Here is the use case that triggered my idea. The PDF in question is at https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2295/Disease-Intervention-Specialist-Assignment-Areas-Map-PDF?bidId=. (You can see the source page that links to it here: https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/394/Disease-Intervention) When I open that PDF in Edge and use "Read Aloud" the screen reader starts by reading the names of all 105 counties. Then it goes to the list of areas and phone numbers, then the title, then the revised date. When I realized that Edge was ignoring the alt text on my map, I put in a help desk ticket with Esri (Esri Case #03293363). The support tech asked me to test the same PDF by using Adobe Acrobat Reader's screen reader (View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud, then Read this Page Only.) Using that tool, it read in this order: KDHE logo's alt text Revised date text The title Areas and contact names/phone numbers list The map's alt text My thought was that if I could tell it to read the title first, then the revision date, then the map's alt text, and finally the contact information, that would be the best experience for someone trying to get information from that PDF using a screen reader. Reordering the drawing order works in this case. It seems possible to me that this could cause an issue for someone who needed to stack items in their layout, so perhaps it would still be a nice enhancement to have a parameter exposed in the element pane for you to set the reading order? I suppose that could get irritating if there is a lot of text, so maybe a little menu that you could drag and drop the order independently of the drawing order. Thanks for the tip!

‎03-24-2023

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.

‎03-24-2023

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.

‎03-14-2023

I did make an enhancement request, but I made the mistake of putting two requests in one Idea: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-ideas/tablet-widget-add-quot-update-quot-button-and/idi-p/1159092. I really ought to split them into two different ideas, per Esri's instructions.

‎03-01-2023

It's scheduled for release in Q2 2023: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-experience-builder-blog/arcgis-experience-builder-2023-roadmap/ba-p/1248809

‎01-17-2023

Yes, I have had other issues that forced me back to Classic. Specifically: 1. In Pro, you can add a "carousel" of images to a pop-up. That functionality works in Classic, but not in new Map Viewer. Here's a screen shot of a carousel that we have in development: 2. The customization to show/hide rows in a table described in this blog post does not appear to work in Viewer. I can set up the Arcade queries but referencing them in HTML view does not work.

‎01-17-2023

Since the Near Me widget is not yet available in Experience Builder, I am using Web AppBuilder to create custom apps to allow our users to find social services closest to their location. Unfortunately, the Near Me Widget does not use the pop-up configuration from the current web Map Viewer. The only way for it to respect the order is for me to use Map Viewer Classic. I'm trying not to use Classic because Esri is trying to move away from its use. Long story short: my idea is to reconfigure the Near Me widget in Web AppBuilder so that it recognizes the pop-up configuration in Map Viewer, thus removing the need to use Map Viewer Classic. Just for illustration, here is my pop-up in Map Viewer: And here is how it appears in Web AppBuilder's Near Me widget (the agency's address is all the way at the bottom because it is an Arcade expression):

‎01-09-2023

When you click the Export Data button and select your format, the current process generates a downloadable file and saves it in your ArcGIS Online account as a new item. You then have to go to that new item page and download it to actually get the data you want in the requested format. It would be a much better end user experience if the data downloaded directly to your machine instead of adding in the extra step of creating an item page. In my experience, the extra item page does nothing more than create clutter in the user's account.

‎11-30-2022

Issue resolved! Our in-house IT support did two things: 1. upgraded the users' version of Microsoft Office products, and 2. changed the default web browser from Internet Explorer to Chrome. I suspect that the latter step is what resolved the issue because we're not allowed to use IE anymore. My guess is that there was an IT setting that blocks IE, which is what the Excel add-in was trying to use to connect to ArcGIS Online.

‎11-21-2022

Well, I'm sorry to say that the debugger and refresh didn't fix the issue. Clicking on debugger did not open the dev tools window, and a refresh had no impact either. I just put in a help desk ticket, so we'll see what comes of it. Appreciate the suggestion!

‎11-18-2022

When you create a chart on a feature class in Pro, there are many customizations that can be set up. You can label the axes, format the numbers, add guides, change the colors, and so forth to ensure that your chart is easy to read. No such options are available in the pop-up charts, but if they were, it would make the pop-up charts far more useful. As-is, there is so little customization available that most charts are largely useless.

‎11-18-2022

It's great to have the ability to add a chart into a pop-up, but the current format is too hard to read. No matter how large your screen is or how large you make the pop-up, the charts stay very small. I'd like to see the option to make them bigger by default. Ideally, they would resize responsively. Here is what the charts look like right now when I display the count of virus cases in males and females: With the bar chart, the label for Females is cut off by two letters and I can't change them to M and F (or really anything other than what the field name is). With the pie chart, there is no way to tell which slice is males and which slice is females because the label only shows the percentages. I can't even change the color coding, which would allow me to add a caption that says "red is females, purple is males" to work around the labeling issue.

‎11-18-2022

Thank you! We will give this a try when the users who are still having the issue return from a conference. I hope I can mark Accept as Solution!

‎11-18-2022

Currently, when you use a Date (not Date and Time) question in your survey, the default time of 6 pm is included in Excel and CSV downloads. In the survey: In the exported CSV and Excel: When we use the Date only field, we do so because a time is not relevant to the data collection. We would prefer to have a consistent experience in the download so that we don't need to take the extra step of removing the time.

‎11-15-2022

Several people in my organization installed the ArcGIS for Excel add-on today. Two of us had no issues; the other two see a blank screen instead of the Choose an ArcGIS connection screen. In other words, they should see this: But instead, they only see this: Troubleshooting so far: I don't think it's a firewall thing since we're all on the same network and two of us were able to connect. Everyone has the Microsoft Access driver that is required for using Excel in ArcGIS Pro. The only other difference that we can think of is that the two who are successful have local admin rights on their machine and the other two don't. It seems odd that admin rights would block a simple sign-in screen, though. Anyone have any ideas on what else we can try?

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Latest Contributions by AmyRoust

Re: Provide the ability to set the reading order for screen readers

Provide the ability to set the reading order for screen readers

Cache PDF Metadata from previous export

Re: Hide time in Table widget

Re: Nearme in ExperienceBuilder

Re: Update Near Me Widget to respect Map Viewer pop-up configuration

Update Near Me Widget to respect Map Viewer pop-up configuration

Allow Export Data without creating another item in AGOL

Re: No option to choose an ArcGIS Online connection

Re: No option to choose an ArcGIS Online connection

Provide the same functionality for charts in pop-up

Make charts in pop-ups larger

Re: No option to choose an ArcGIS Online connection

Suppress time in date-only fields when downloading to CSV/Excel

No option to choose an ArcGIS Online connection

Re: Map pop-ups run off the edge of the map; Featu...

Provide an option to turn off "Use In Field Maps" ...

Re: Hide time in Table widget

Allow "Update Data" on hosted feature layers for u...

Make Delete Attachments tool compatible with branc...