Latest Contributions by EricMahaffey1

This is an old post and I'm not sure if you ever found a solution, but I've noticed this issue as well.  Having all of the map frames and layouts in one area is nice, but it makes things more complex with regards to synching the map frame extent within the layout.  I believe there's a solution though (at version 3.1.3).  If you select the map frame within the layout, then right click, there's an option to "Zoom to Last Active Map".  This seems to synch the layout with the map frame that is set within the layout properties.  In my opinion, this menu option should be renamed to something that's not so confusing.  Maybe there's more to it that I'm not aware of.  However, if it were named something like "Synch with Map Frame", it might make more sense.  *Correction, the "Zoom to Last Active Map" does exactly that.  It takes you to the extent of the last map frame that was active.  Even f it was a completely different map frame that the one that is defined in the layout properties.  Which I cannot figure out why anyone would ever want to do that.*    ... View more

Tacking on to @Laura 's request.  I'd also like to have the ability to edit the text so we can rename the widget ... View more

Thanks for the recommendations.  I'll give that a try.  I'm curious as to why you save the layout templates without a map frame?  I would think having to add the frame, and adjust it to size would be just another step to slowing down the whole process of getting staged for map production. ... View more

I'm at v3.1.3 and Project Templates are still useless.  From my research it looks like this has been a problem for more than 7 years.  This is absolutely unacceptable.  We support a high tempo operational map production office, and not being able to standardize our starting templates really hinders our ability to provide efficient support.  I put off migrating from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro for years, and when I finally do, we come across major issues such as this.  If ArcGIS Pro didn't force us to create a new project directory every time we want to make a map it wouldn't be such a big deal.  So either keep things simple like they were in ArcMap, or make sure that all the tools function like they're supposed to in ArcGIS Pro.  That way we can at least come up with a workflow that is somewhat close to what a standard enterprise mapping environment should be.  GIS data duplication will consume all of an organization's storage in no time.  ... View more

Still a problem at version 3.1.3!  What's the point of having an Enterprise GIS when it's full of data duplication?  I can't believe this hasn't been fixed in the 7 years that people have been posting to this thread.  ... View more

Hi Jennifer, I ran into the same situation, but when I select the dimension feature and then the Edit Vertices tool, I don't get a box around the label.  I'm at ArcGIS Pro v3.2.2.  Any advice? ... View more

@FredericPoliart_EsriAU Thanks for the feedback.  In my case I think it might be a little of all that you mentioned.  I'm working on a disconnected network so our systems do not get updated as quickly as most.  The system that has the most recent version of ArcGIS Enterprise is at v11.1.  I'm mostly interested in leveraging an external Feature Layer service within Experience Builder.  When I add a connection to the service via URL connection in the "Add Data" component of Experience Builder it sees the service and exposes the layers within it.  The map widget doesn't recognize these layers as a supported data type.  So, what widgets within Experience Builder will allow me to add these feature layers as an overlay within the Map view, and toggle the layer visibility (similar to those that are added via web map)?  It seems counterintuitive to have to mask the feature service within a Web Map service. ... View more

Thanks for the feedback Scott and Bernie. @Scott Correct, that's why I posted the idea/question.  I've been publishing enterprise services since the days of ArcIMS, and have never been forced to include a basemap.  Basemaps have always been configured separately from the services that we want to overlay. @berniejconnors I could be wrong, but from what I can tell the Basemap Widget is only available on ArcGIS Online and Enterprise v11.2 (or later as they come out).  I'm working on isolated networks that don't receive updates as often as most systems.  In the older version that I'm working on, the basemap widget seems to be embedded within the map view and doesn't allow any configuration on it.  It's either on or off.  However it does allow the user to change the basemap, which is a good feature.  I'll see if I can come up with a solution like you suggested using the Map Layers widget and the embedded Basemap Widget. ... View more

Thanks Tanu.  Correct, the flash features doesn't work when the service is loaded in ArcMap (v10.8.1).  I'm open to hear about the workaround you mentioned.  The API we're planning to use the service in is the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET.  We have a thick client application that has a map interface.  Ultimately we'd like to be able to display the relational data, identify on it, flash related features, query forward and backwards, etc. ... View more

Hi Tanu, I can see the relationships to the layer in the service when I load the service in ArcMap (just for testing).  The main difference is that when I click on the features in the relationship, all I get is the attribution from the feature.  I do not see the feature flash on the map.  I'm trying to predict what sort of functionality will be available when the service/layer is accessed from an API.  I haven't found a any good example applications that have tools built into them that allows the user to query, identify, etc. on features that are part of a relationship class.  My hope is to be able to query for a feature and highlight (i.e. select) the features that are "related" to it in the rel class. ... View more

Thanks for the response.  The only reason I'm trying to publish to a feature service is to make all the information (source f-class & relationship data) available to a front end API for querying, identifying, etc.  From what I can tell the relationship class has to be published to a feature service to do this.  Although I could be wrong.  I'm not running an enterprise GDB so I'd like to stick with a FGDB if possible.  Any advice would be much appreciated.  ... View more