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form a new industry community

geonet@esri.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:59:19 GMT

Hello! We are leading a project to build Esri solutions within a large banking/financial system. I don't see an industry group associated with our sector.

Could I form a new Industry group for Banking and Finance? I know our peers are already Esri users.

Is this something Esri needs to do? Can it be done?

Thanks!

John

Video: ArcGIS Maps and Microsoft Integration: Office, Power BI, and SharePoint

geonet@esri.com — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:56:42 GMT

Enhance the Microsoft business applications you already use with The Science of Where. Learn how ArcGIS integrates directly with Microsoft SharePoint, Power BI, and Office. This means that ArcGIS data and capabilities are now available to a new set of users and allow self-service mapping and analytics within any organization.

Watch the video (approx 1 hour)

To learn more,

Enjoy,

Business & Commercial Dashboards

geonet@esri.com — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:01:00 GMT

FYI,

Just wanted to share some nice example business and commercial themed Dashboards, built on Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. These are real, live customer apps!

Allianz Life Insurance Policies Dashboard

Zürcher Kantonalbank - Family Home Prices in Canton of Aurich Dashboard

ReNew Canada - Top 100 Infrastructure Projects Dashboard

You can learn more about Operations Dashboard here,

Esri Live Training Seminar: Real-Time Decision Making with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Enjoy,

FYI: Real Estate Development Dashboards

geonet@esri.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:14:08 GMT

FYI,

Just wanted to share a couple of really nice example StoryMaps created by Tallahasse-Leon County GIS. Each StoryMap contains several dashboard apps built on Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. They show various different development projects within the county. Some awesome work!

1. Major Ongoing and Proposed Residential Development Dashboards for Tallahassee & Leon

https://bit.ly/2IaEwic

2. Major Ongoing and Proposed Commercial Developments

https://bit.ly/2I8qoGd

You can learn more about Operations Dashboard here,

Esri Live Training Seminar: Real-Time Decision Making with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

Enjoy,

Business Analyst Extension

geonet@esri.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:11:31 GMT

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is staying safe.

I'm working in Retail industry as a GIS Analyst. I have never used or worked with ESRI's Business Analyst extension.

But with nature of work, and certain tasks, I perform it seems very useful.

But recently I got a recommendation regarding Online version as the desktop version is missing some of the data that you get with the online version and therefore is not purchased very often outside of the US.

Is this True? For example, I would need demographics data or traffic data for accurate drive times etc. So, the desktop version of BA extension will not be useful in Ireland?

Please let me know your valuable thoughts and feedback. Greatly appreciated.

Stay safe, stay home and take care.

Regards,

Anudeep.

ArcGIS COVID-19 Resources for Retail Webinar

geonet@esri.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:18:42 GMT

There will be a webinar this Friday March 20th at 2:00 CST to cover all of the current resources available around the COVID-19 pandemic. I will review what is available and how these resources could be used in your own organizations.

Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regist…/1833267819664196619

At the end of the call we would also like to hear from the community about content you are creating that has been helpful and resources you would like to have.

This is a very intense time and we here at Esri are all here to help anyway we can with your GIS needs. Do not be afraid to reach out to your account team for assistance on finding data or help standing up necessary applications to stay informed about the current situation.

Allow users to see what users are using arc licenses

geonet@esri.com — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:03:49 GMT

Hi all,

Recently I took over IT administration from our former administrator. Before he left we had a script that would allow any user to run it and see how many licenses are in use and the name of who is using them. We need this script as we have limited licenses and sometimes a user will forget to log out and we need to force them out.

I am not proficient in coding and am looking for a way to recreate this script as it has disappeared from our shared drive.

It just needs to be a simple "Who is using a license" based off of their usernames or pc user names. Does anyone have any idea how this would be done? The original script was a batch files called license.bat. I can still see the shortcuts to the original file, but the file is gone.

An alternative would be to give certain users access to the license manager without giving them access to the server that the license manager is hosted on.

I have spent hours looking for the script and it was not moved.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

What is All This Buzz About ArcGIS Hub?

geonet@esri.com — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:13:10 GMT

ArcGIS Hub is gaining a lot of attention, especially with the COVID-19 GIS Hub site trending in popularity. Hub helps to assist communication and collaboration across many different use cases and audiences. Using the COVID-19 GIS Hub as an example, it looks similar to any modern web page we interact with on a daily basis. Information is clear and organized, there are even datasets that can be downloaded from the site directly. Applications, such as Dashboards for ArcGIS, can be embedded into the site pages as well. The COVID-19 GIS Hub includes many different application examples that are ready for users to interact with, along with Tweets updated in real-time about current health and risk topics. There is a lot of information on this Hub site! The Hub software gives you the ability to properly organize this data though, so it is not overwhelming for the end user. Anyone from a seasoned GIS professional to someone who knows absolutely nothing about GIS (like maybe your internet savvy Grandma) can obtain actionable information from this site.

There are two versions of ArcGIS Hub, Hub Basic is included with your ArcGIS Online subscription. It is also worth mentioning that Hub Basic is similar to Enterprise Sites (in ArcGIS Enterprise). Hub Premium offers additional capabilities such as initiative management, event management, and Hub site performance tracking dashboards. You can view the complete breakdown here of the features included at each level.

Initiatives in Hub can be created around many different use cases, this can be like the example above, sharing information and data from a central page about the COVID-19 event. Initiatives can also be about outreach campaigns within communities, or a specific project a department is working on (like a project around data collection after a recent natural disaster, or important stuff like if the office should have donut Fridays). Survey 123 forms can be embedded into the Hub site to collect feedback. ArcGIS Hub also includes the ability to manage events (like an annual GIS Day event), this is a great tool to further increase collaboration among users of the site.

Still not totally clear on ArcGIS Hub? Still not sure how you could use it or why it matters? Well, luckily there are plenty of marvelous examples to hit this point home. The main ArcGIS Hub Gallery has a wealth of examples. A couple of my favorites include The Northern Tornadoes Project and the Earth Challenge 2020 Hub sites.

Some other examples that do a wonderful job showcasing Hub’s many capabilities are below:

Irelands’ Sustainable Development Goals Data Hub - Notice the great use of individual interactive cards for each sustainability goal.

Esri Australia’s Hub site built around content related to Bushfire activity - There are links to data and ready to use applications for users to be able to easily find and use.

The CUSEC Shaken Fury Hub – This is a unique example. The Shaken Fury Exercise simulates the response and recovery to a 7.7 magnitude earthquake scenario near Memphis, Tennessee. This hub site shows the coordination efforts shared from many different sources around this exercise.

The City of Los Angeles GeoHub – Is a great example of using a Hub site to share open data. The “Unlock the City’s Geodata” section is very well done.

I hope this helps to clarify how valuable a Hub site can be, and to get the creative ideas flowing around how you could start building one today! If you have built a Hub site that you are super proud of and can share, please share that with us! It is always fantastic to see the amazing content you all build, and it would be great to see examples from our Business community!

Arcade: Calculating Relative Time for Popups and Symbology

geonet@esri.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:15:26 GMT

Introduction

Date/Time fields add a whole new dimension to analysis and visualization of spatial data. They specify an exact point in time, similar to how coordinates specify an exact point in space. When working with spatial data, generating relative content is something we naturally do all the time. For example, we might calculate an area (such as a buffer) that is anchored on an input point. Or we might measure a distance from a point to another object. The outcomes of those analyses are relative, that is, they are relative representations based on an exact starting point. By themselves, the exact coordinates might not mean much, but we can derive something of meaning and value from it.

Time works the same way. When talking about your birthday party, you could say “my birthday party on February 15^th 2020, 6:00 PM”…but it’s easier for the person you’re talking to understand if you just say “my birthday party last night”. Or when your friend asks you “When will the burgers be done?”, you could say “February 26^th, 5:30 PM”, when “in about 30 minutes” is going to be far more effective in getting your point across. These expressions are relative to a precise point in time: right now. In ArcGIS, dates and times are specified precisely, but you can incorporate relative representations of those dates and times in your maps to make them easier to understand. In this post, we're going to look at manipulating symbols and popups to reflect relative time.

Incorporating Relative Time in Symbology

When viewing a live feed, we might want to want to symbolize the data in such a way that, as events age, they become less and less visually significant until they phase out all together. For example, take a look at the map below. We pulled in MODIS Hotspots from the Living Atlas, applied a filter to just show the last 24 hours, and then used Arcade to categorize each hotspot to a "recentness" category. As these hotspots age, they'll diminish and ultimately disappear from view.

With Arcade, you have the flexibility to work with your date fields in any number of ways, customize thresholds, and even calculate your own new, derived dates. Read on to learn how to build this exact map for yourself to get started.

First, lets setup the map. Open a new webmap, Click Add >> Browse Living Atlas Layers >> and search "MODIS". The first result should be a "Satellite (MODIS) Thermal Hotspots and Fire Activity" feature layer by Esri. Go ahead and add that layer to your map. In the Content pane, click on the filter button for the MODIS layer and set a filter for "Acquisition Date in the last 1 day(s)". Apply Filter. This will filter the hotspots to be in the last 24 hours. Now click Basemap at the top, and select the Dark Gray Canvas basemap. Now it's time to use Arcade to build our own relative time symbology for the hotspots.

For the MODIS layer, click the Change Style button. Expand "Choose an attribute to show", scroll to the bottom of the field list and click "New Expression". This will launch the Arcade Expression builder. Paste the following code into the Expression body.

function determineCategory(value){
    if (value <= 4 ){
        return "1"
    }
    else if (value > 4 && value <= 8){
        return "2"
    }
    else if (value > 8 && value <= 12){
        return "3"
    }
    else if (value > 12 && value <= 16){
        return "4"
    }
    else if (value > 16 && value <= 20){
        return "5"
    }
    else {
        return "6"
    }
}

var hours = DateDiff(now(),$feature["ACQ_DATE"], "hours")
determineCategory(hours)

You can modify the thresholds for each category here if desired. Just keep in mind that the filter we applied to the layer only displays those hotspots that were recorded in the last 24 hours. If you happen to be working with a different layer, you'll need to replace the $feature["ACQ_DATE"] so it's pointing to a date field in your layer. Click "Test" to make sure it's working. If it's successful, you should see a Result value of 1-6 (1 being most recent, 6 being oldest). Click OK to apply the script.

The "Unique symbols" types will automatically be selected. Click Options to modify how these display. Modify the symbol order to 1-6 by dragging the entries to the appropriate position. Now that everything is in the right order, go ahead and change the Labels for each category so that they are reflective of the time range.. I used "In the last 4 hours" for the first one and a schema of "X to Y hours ago" for the last five. Alright, now we're ready to create the symbols. Click on the first symbol to open up the Symbol Changer. Click Shape, open the dropdown, and select "Firefly". The ramp I used was the light green to red ramp.

Select the most intense one on the ramp (the farthest to the right), and set the size to 36. Repeat this process for the other categories, working your way left on the ramp, and decreasing the size each time by 6 (e.g. 36, 30, 24, 18, 12, and 6). Once all your symbols are configured how you like, go ahead and play around with the Transparency slider in the Style pane to dial in the look you're going for. When it's all said and done, your Style pane should look something like this:

Click OK to lock it all in. And, voila! You should now have a map of MODIS hotspots that age over time based on current time. Great work! Also, don't forget to save your map!

Incorporating Relative Time in Popups

You can also setup relative time expressions in your popups and transform a precise date and time into something a little more human-friendly. For example, go back to the example map provided toward the top of this post. If you click a hotspot, in the popup you'll see the exact date and time as well as a relative expression like "2 hours and 5 minutes ago". That second part is being calculated by Arcade on-the-fly as well.

To set this up in your own map, open the "Configure Popup" pane for the MODIS Hotspot layer. Click "ADD" under the Attribute Expressions section. This will launch another Arcade Expression builder. Paste the following code into the Expression block:

var myDateField = $feature["ACQ_DATE"];

function getTimeDelta(alertDate){
    var minutes = DateDiff(now(),alertDate, "minutes")
    var hours = DateDiff(now(),alertDate, "hours")
    var days = DateDiff(now(),alertDate, "days")
    if (minutes <= 120){
        return round(minutes) + " minutes ago"
    }
    if (minutes > 120){
        if (hours <= 48){
            var tFloor = floor(hours)
            var deltaMin = datediff(now(),dateadd(alertDate,tFloor,'hours'),'minutes')
            return round(tFloor) + " hours and " + round(deltaMin) +  " minutes ago"
        }
        if (hours > 48){
            var dFloor = floor(days)
            var deltaHour = datediff(now(),dateadd(alertDate,dFloor,'days'),'hours')
            return round(dFloor) + " days and " + round(deltaHour) + " hours ago"
        }
    }
}
return getTimeDelta(myDateField)

This expression will look at the time delta between the current time and the date in the field and use some conditional logic to build a human friendly expression of that delta. This expression is built to also work with Days, but since we've setup our hotspots to only see the last 24 hours, we won't see that. But you can use this expression as a template to for other layers you want to work with. In that case, the only thing you'll have to do is change the $feature["ACQ_DATE"] bit to point to a date field in your layer.

Click Test to verify it works, followed by an exuberant click of the "OK" button. From here, configure the popups however you like, making sure that the expression you created is visible. The expression acts like a field, so you can see it as part of a default popup style or configure it as part of a custom attribute display.

Arcade gives you the flexibility to customize how things are conveyed to your audience without requiring you to modify the schema of your data or run constant field calculations. Temporal representations is just one use case of that. Hopefully this gives you a start to exploring whats possible. Thanks for reading!

ArcGis for PowerBI Pro Signin Issue. Please help

geonet@esri.com — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:17:50 GMT

Hi:

If anyone can answer this question for me. I have arcgis online and PBI pro. But it seems I cannot sigin. I looked at various documentations and it seems all you need are licences for AGOL and PBI Pro. I dont think you need to pay for "ArcGis Maps for Power BI." Is this some admin issue? or do I have to buy licences for "AGOL for PBI Pro. I am using PBI Pro desktop.

Below error message: “Your ArcGis account requires an add-on licence and associate privileges to use ArcGis Maps for Power BI”

Thanks,

Sam