Latest Contributions by Nathan_Fazer

Going on 3 years and this tool still won't let you do something simple and no response from Esri.......

This was asked in 2017 and nobody responded, so 3 years later I'm asking the same thing. We are trying to build an app for 911 dispatch to select multiple road segments for road closures using a copy of our road centerline layer. We need the functionality of the batch attribute editor - to change the Closed field from No to Yes all at once for more than 1 segment - but the selection methods for this tool are lacking. The select by area, using a line or polygon, is hard to use because it not only selects the main segment but other segments that are snapped to it. This results in roads being selected we don't want. The point selection tool would work great except you can't hold shift or anything and select multiple segments first, then batch edit the attributes. If you use the point, you can only do 1 feature at a time - which to me defeats the purpose of this tool. The Select widget lets you hold shift and click a feature at a time to select multiple features, but then you can't batch update a field. Is there an existing way I can do this? I basically want to replicate the functionality of Desktop. If a road is closed and is made up of 5 segments, I want to be able to manually select those five segments individually, then batch update a field. From my hour messing with this, it doesn't appear possible? This seems like something simple that Esri should have built into these tools years ago.

The Esri terminology is a bit confusing. There is the Esri "data store" that is part of enterprise and is a database managed by Enterprise for hosted data in your Portal. And then there are "registered data stores" which can be outside database connections (like to SQL), folders, file geodatabases, etc. These are locations you are registering with Enterprise so you can use the data. In your situation, you are just registering your folder as a new "data store" so that Server can access it. As mentioned, you want to stay away from drive letters (such as Y:). You'll want to use UNC paths to that folder, as is the folder Paver in your screenshot - that's pointing to the ip of a server and then the folder. Your Server has to access whatever data you are registering.

We did this with damage assessment points and parcels this past summer. It is alot of work, but doable. You basically have to do some joins and utilize the GLOBALID that is stored in the attachments table. We followed/used this - https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000017450 - as well as some trial and error. If your points have the attachments, you'd join that to your polygon layer to get the points attributes into your polygon layer, then join that layer to the attachment table to basically assign the globalid from the attachments to your new layer. Then bulk export the attachments and re-attach using that global id. Unfortunately we don't have the exact workflow because it took us 4 tries and by the time we got it working we weren't exactly sure how we did it. But this is the general workflow anyway.

Yep same thing here. Just spent 2 hours rebuilding a dashboard and then find out dark mode doesn't stick. Any QA/QC done on this stuff?

‎12-21-2020

I've asked about this in the past but can Esri look at creating block group level ACS data in living atlas? ACS tracts are not very useful in rural Counties, when a tract is essentially most of one of our Township governments. Trying to do any useful analysis with tracts is not worthwhile. Esri is probably more equipped to provide this level of data in the living atlas. Otherwise I have to spend a ton of time joining tables and shapefiles from Census and deciphering field names to create a couple layers.

‎12-17-2020

Except using hosted views creates a host of other workflow issues - like not being able to overwrite the layer, etc. So it's not a viable solution in many situations where simply making a copy of the layer in the map works best. I get there might be some technology issues on the backend but this "bug" is basically Esri forcing a workflow on us when I'm sure there is a solution or viable middle ground. When I copy a layer in a database in Pro and the name already exists, it adds a "_1" to the layer. Can't the app do the same in the offline database on the device? can't the app go "oh this layer is already in the database so I'll make a copy and rename it layer_1"? Making us go through the effort to create a hosted view for something simply done in a web map creates more problems than needed on our end.

‎12-17-2020

My certs don't have passwords. I can't even import root or intermediate certs with no passwords. And it can't be an alias thing because if I start with a new, fresh install of Server there aren't any "already used" alias's existing in the keystore.

‎12-17-2020

We run into something similar with Pro projects on our shared network drive. If people have various databases and DB connections as their favorites or default, Pro likes to add all those to the project folder. So if 5 people are using the same project and I go open it, I've got a mess of all these empty databases and connections because people have different favorites and Pro seems to add everyone's personal settings into a folder. I have to delete and remove things from the folder and project and a week later, everything is back. It's very annoying.

‎12-15-2020

Hi, we're on 10.8.1 and have all the latest patches. We have our certs broken up into root, 1st intermediate, 2nd intermediate, and a wildcard. One of the first things tech support said is that when joining a machine to the existing server site, the certs and configurations should be copied over to the new server. In our case, they aren't. The machine joins the site but none of the certs come over with the join. I've tried domain accounts, local accounts, different browsers. I've installed and reinstalled 10 different times. We've deleted and created the server machine 3 times now. I was able to install Server 10.8.1 on an old windows 10 laptop I have, created a new site with the default local account, and our certs imported just fine on that laptop. So this tells me our SSL certs are fine, it's something with our server setup. I'm just trying to get ideas from people because up until now all I've gotten from Esri is "well it should work". And its not.

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Latest Contributions by Nathan_Fazer

Re: Batch Attribute Editor - Is it possible to Select Multiple features with the select by point option?

Batch Attribute Editor - Multiple Select with Point

Re: Register data source with server

Re: Transfer photo attachments to overlapping points in another feature class

Re: Dark mode won't save

ACS Block Groups

Re: Legacy Bug in Field Maps?

Re: Importing CA certificate failed

Re: Stop recreating missing geodatabases

Re: Importing CA certificate failed