Latest Contributions by AmyRoust

Currently, we can create and store metadata for published feature layers in a map's properties. When we share the layer with Portal, all of that metadata gets copied into the metadata for the service and the item page gets that information automatically, However, there is no way to upload or reference a custom thumbnail in the map's metadata, so every time we have to overwrite a layer in Portal, we also have to go to the item page and re-upload the custom thumbnail. I would like to have a way to either store or reference the thumbnail within the Pro project and have it auto-upload when a service publishes. ... View more

I have a step in a task that uses Calculate Field to change the value of one field in one record of a table in a file geodatabase. After it calculates, I want to copy that value from the table and assign it to a variable to use in a future step. However, when I set up an action under "When exiting the step" to Copy attributes from Feature or record modified in this step, I get the error message: "Error: Cannot retrieve attribute. Unable to retrieve selection modifiedInStep." Can anyone help me fix this? ... View more

Per Esri's documentation, Attribute Rules and Contingent Values are not supported in geodatabase replicas. I reached out to Esri Technical Support to ask what would happen if we implemented Attribute Rules on a child geodatabase participating in a two-way replica (Esri case 03438244). They tested that workflow and did not turn up any issues, but reiterated that it is not a supported workflow and recommended against implementing it without taking regular backups for disaster recovery purposes. I would like to see Esri create a supported workflow for using Attribute Rules on replica databases. While I do not need to replicate the rules between the parent and the child, I can imagine that it would be useful functionality. Here is our current workflow: - County GIS has the master NG911 geodatabase. This includes, but is not limited to, address points and road centerlines. - City GIS (my organization) has a child two-way replica database of the master NG911 geodatabase. We are responsible for maintaining geodata within our city limits, as we are the authoritative source for addressing in this area. - Each address point and road centerline has attributes related to the zones that intersect. For example, an address point must be assigned a fire response zone and a law response zone. The city uses Attribute Rules to auto-populate these fields based on their intersection with the polygon layers that track that information. We have several other rules (auto-incrementing IDs, for example), but one example of the utility of Attribute Rules should be sufficient.   ... View more

I'm in the process of upgrading all of our automated data maintenance Python scripts from 2.7 to 3.x. In our current setup, we have two cases where the parent SDE GDB has a geometric network in one more more dataset, but the child replicas do not. Syncing works fine in 2.7, but in 3.x, I get the following error message: ERROR 003131: Replicas containing geometric networks, parcel fabrics, or cadastral fabrics are not supported Has anyone else had an issue using arcpy.management.SynchronizeChanges on an existing replica when running the tool in Python 3? ... View more

I would like to see improvement in the load times for resources on network drives. My organization has excellent hardware and resources for connecting to different drives and databases on the network, but the response times are noticeably slower in ArcGIS Pro. I don't believe that it's a latency issue, but I could be wrong. As a simple example, if I have an Excel spreadsheet saved on a network drive, I can open it almost instantly from Windows Explorer. If I want to add a sheet from that same Excel document to a Pro project, I open the Catalog pane and then expand the spreadsheet. In my test case, it takes 18 seconds for the list of two sheets to appear. That test was with a very small Excel document (21 records in each sheet). ... View more