Latest Contributions by JanBliki

When using your own templates group in arcgis online you miss the newly published templates from Esri. To avoid this it would be beneficiary to have the option to keep both groups shown to the end user. ... View more

We need the hard and costly effort of writing metadata to move arround more easier towards the entire system. And preferable without the need to learn XSL or Python for the most basic tasks. Some examples... - Import ISO19139 metadata should not first validate before import but first import and then validate. Better get most of the information then none at all. Today the import tools are so strict that most of the time you can't import your own exported meta data. - Make the metadata move more transparently to ArcGis server. Why do we need to refill everything for every single type of web service? A WFS,WMS,REST service all need to be refilled with 99% of the same meta data. Give the option for change but prefill to the maximum what has already been filled. - Allow a prefilled metadata template so you havel these parameters that reoccur frequently. An option to right click and allow "Set as metadata template for new items" could be a big improvement.. - Make ArcGIs online take over all the metadata parameters from the desktop, make it possible to import parts or all metadata from related web services to a web map or web application... - Make a library in ArcPy to easy read/write ESRI metadata xml. - Make a tool that can scan trough folders and do find/replace actions on the ESRI metadata xml. - A tool that can grab metadata from a catalog service. - Prefill metadata based on actions you perform. For example If you publish a web service, why is the URL of that service not stored inside the metadata...   ... View more

We try to use ArcGis online as a working environment for producing webmaps. Before we publish content publicly we would like to share this inside the organisation. But this creates a lot of frustration because we get constantly the question to login. The current setup doesn't allow a real working environment to make this possible. I list some of the daily problems we have. 1) We use ArcGis server to serve map services that then are consumed inside arcgis online. If we need to make these secure we need to ask people to use two accounts. One arcgis online and one for Arcgis server. A web map will ask both passwords all the time making it very confusing. Solution: Maybe ArcGis server should be able to use the ArcGis online login mechanism and should do this transparently when used from ArcGis online... 2) Templates can't be loaded inside arcgis online making yet another website. These templates can be public but because we jump to another domain it requests once more for the login of arcgis online. Solution: Maybe allow web templates to be uploaded inside ArcGis online. Does anybody face the same issues and how did you solve these? Jan ... View more

I use a python script to add fields inside a mosaic dataset that I then fill using a UpdateCursor. All this looks fine and can see the fields inside ArcCatalogue and ArcMap (using the table view on the footprint) But when using the properties of the mosaic dataset and want sort my scenes on the new fields I discover they are not visible. Making a manual insert of these fields makes them show up... Has anyone seen that same behavior? Am I doing something wrong? Jan ... View more