Latest Contributions by AmyRoust

Has anyone tested Arcade's performance with tight vs more verbose expressions? For example, here is an expression I wrote to count the number of accidents that occurred within 150 feet of a road centerline:     Count(Intersects((FeatureSetByName($map, "Accident"), Buffer($feature, 150, "feet")))     A more verbose way to get the same result might be:     var accidents = FeatureSetByName($map, "Accident") var roadBuffer = Buffer($feature, 150, 'feet') var roadAccidentIntersects = Intersects(accidents, roadBuffer) var countAccidents = Count(roadAccidentIntersects) return countAccidents       Does anyone know if one expression would perform better than the other in an AGOL pop-up? I've definitely noticed that the more you click on features in a map with spatial analysis, the faster the browser gets at calculating the results. I'm just wondering if there is an advantage to writing tight code as opposed to more readable code. ... View more

I saw the announcement about Collector being "retired" in December 2021. Does that mean that after December 2021, we will not be able to download the Collector app onto any device that does not currently have it installed? Or does it just mean that we can continue to download/use it but there will be no tech support offered after that date? Here's why I ask: the software requirements for Field Maps are fairly high -- iOS 13.5 or Android 8.0. Now I realize that in an ideal world, everyone would be buying new tablets and Smart phones every few years, but that's not the reality. I can easily imagine local governments and non-profits having an investment in older hardware that cannot be upgraded to the latest and greatest OS. In our current economy, they are unlikely to have the funds to purchase new hardware. So, I'm wondering if Collector will still be available past December 2021 for operations that are resource poor but still want to do data collection? ... View more

I am getting new servers for our Enterprise deployment, so I need to migrate all of our existing content. At the same time, we are due for a version upgrade and want to install Enterprise 10.8.1. My question: is it possible to install 10.8.1 on our new servers and migrate content from a previous version of Enterprise (specifically 10.5.1)? The prevailing wisdom on server migrations seems to be to either use the WebGIS DR Utility to backup and restore (which requires the versions to match) or to use a Join Site operation to move content (not clear on whether the versions have to match). For what it's worth, the Enterprise deployment is spread out over multiple servers, so software installation is not as simple as running the Enterprise Builder tool on one server. ... View more

Totally stumped. I have a few records in a table that I imported into a file geodatabase from Excel that have three blank spaces in a text field called Specialty_Code instead of the required three character code. I want my script to skip those records in the analysis, so I'm creating a table view that excludes those records. Using Python 3.x, why does this work (line 3).... allRecords = defaultGDB + '\\CleanTable_' + fileName outLayer = 'CleanTable_' + fileName + '_View' defQuery = "Specialty_Code IS NOT NULL" print(defQuery) readyToAppend = arcpy.MakeTableView_management(allRecords, outLayer, defQuery)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍   ... but this doesn't (line 3)? allRecords = defaultGDB + '\\CleanTable_' + fileName outLayer = 'CleanTable_' + fileName + '_View' defQuery = "Specialty_Code IS NOT NULL and Specialty_Code <> \' \'" print(defQuery) readyToAppend = arcpy.MakeTableView_management(allRecords, outLayer, defQuery)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Error message is arcgisscripting.ExecuteError: ERROR 000358: Invalid expression ... View more