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Is your GIS starting to look like your office junk drawer? Stray databases and shapefiles everywhere but not quite sure how to get things organized? Centralized databases might be just the thing to get you back on track. Single User Looking at data that only you use, a centralized database allows you to decrease clutter and keep things in one location. Multiple databases, or even shapefiles, can be difficult to navigate when trying to accomplish tasks efficiently. If someone else has to use your system, they may have trouble orienting themselves. Try using one database (or a handful) to centralize your data. Put all your data or similar data in one place. Utilize datasets to help keep things organized within the database instead of multiple databases. Multiple Users For multiple users, you can use an enterprise geodatabase to utilize the capabilities of a centralized database. Enterprise geodatabases allow for multiple users to concurrently connect and work with the stored data in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) such as: SQL Server, Oracle, or Postgres You can also set up replication and deploy services to allow for editing in multiple places. Have replicas syncing to the central database or connect to a service from ArcGIS Online or Enterprise. This allows you to get your data into the hands of those that need to work with it without needing to constantly reconcile changes. Keep reading as Michelle Brake from GEO Jobe shares her tips & benefits of a centralized database.  ... View more

We are pleased to share that, once again, our team of GIS innovators will be exhibiting at the annual Esri User Conference. The crew will be showcasing ArcGIS Online solutions, UAV services, and GEOPowered Cloud Managed Services for ArcGIS at the 2018 International ESRIUC. Our team is looking forward to spending the week in San Diego and sharing how our solutions exemplify “The Power of GIS, Simplified”. The GEO Jobe team will be available to answer questions, provide product demos, and discuss custom solutions built on the ArcGIS platform. Additionally, they will be sharing what’s planned for the company’s popular solutions including the award-winning Admin Tools 1.2 for ArcGIS Online (free, Pro, and for Portal), Mapfolio, GEO Powered Cloud Managed Services, and other new solutions. David Hansen, GEO Jobe COO, will be on hand to discuss GEO Jobe software development, partner opportunities, and enterprise solutions, as well as experiences with the ArcGIS Marketplace and working with Esri small business start-ups. Note, Hansen is also very passionate about the YPN and is always eager to discuss the ArcGIS ecosystem with young professionals!  GEO Jobe swag – Stop by the GEO Jobe Booth 2031 to meet the team. We’ll have some cool #MapThis swag & giveaways! If you’d like to book a time to see us or arrange a meeting, feel free to reach out to us via Twitter @geojobegis or email connect@geo-jobe.com – See you in San Diego! More info here ... View more

DevSummit is just around the corner – always a big week for us! So why do we look forward to DevSummit each year? In addition to this being our chance to hear directly from Esri Developers and software engineers, the week is also a great team building time for us, an educational opportunity, and provides some important networking. A little sunshine is always a nice bonus too! We reached out to our team and are glad to share what we are all looking forward to this year at DevSummit. Ken Doman, GEO Jobe Solution Engineer @raykendo I”m excited about attending the ESRI Developer Summit in a couple weeks. This will be my third time attending, and my second time presenting. The Developer Summit is a great opportunity to chat with the people behind the products that ESRI offers. I look forward to discussing tech and presenting my laundry list of issues with the helpful developers and staff at ESRI. Putting a human face and voice to the names I see in the forums makes me understand them more. I also look forward to seeing what other people are doing with the technology, and what challenges ESRI will attempt next. As a presenter, I’m delighted to talk about my Chrome plugin for ArcGIS REST Services. It’s scheduled for Wednesday, March 7 in Mesquite C from 4:00 pm – 4:25 pm. I hope to see you there! David Hansen, GEO Jobe COO @dhansen601 From David… Shortly I’ll be in Palm Springs, CA for the Esri Business Partner Conference and I will be staying the whole week so I can also attend the Esri Developer Summit. This will be my 5th consecutive year engaging in this spring ritual, but it will be my first conference as GEO Jobe’s COO. This annual trip is something I have come to look forward to for many reason. On this trip, I get to see my friends in the industry ( along with making new friends ), learn about new tech, and I get to bring my ideas, concerns, and questions directly to Esri staff. I’m looking forward to seeing you all out there. If you see me walking around, then please come up to me and say hi. I love talking with everyone. Last year I sat down after the conference and filmed a post-event interview which was fun – perhaps we’ll do it again! See you in Palm Springs!  Neill Jobe, CEO @NeillJobe This will be my 11th EPC and visit to Palm Springs. Find me Monday in the Solutions Expo at booth #113, near the Startup Zone and right beside the bar!  What I’m looking forward to: Meeting up with friends that I’ve come to know over the last 18yrs. Checking out the new Esri tech, where they’re headed, what’s new, etc. Visiting the Startups Zone. Love to hear about new ways the technology is being used other than how to map a water meter. The weather in Palm Springs Nick Lawalin, Solution Engineer @nicklawalin Nick is a long-time GEO Jobe-er, having advanced to a senior developer position after several years of experience and dedication to the company. Note, Nick focuses on education and learning while at DevSummit, polishing his skills in various programming languages and getting up to speed on ArcGIS enterprise scale solutions that he will implement with our clients. Note, Nick is also a defending Dodgeball Champ and hopes to join a team to repeat again in 2018!  From Nick… “I always keep a list of “issues” I run into throughout the year.  I look forward to walking the floor and picking the brains of the people that build the software to get their insights.” Glenn Letham, CMO @gletham DevSummit is simply awesome! After 19 years attending ESRIUC I find DevSummit to be a really nice, more compact, and more focused event – it really is a great place to get down to business! I think this will be either #3 or #4 for me. As far as presentations, I enjoy the “Road Ahead” talks and hearing about what’s coming next.  Other presenters that I enjoy include Dave Bouwman (I’ll check on his talk time), Andy Gup catches me up on JavaScript, Jeff Shaner and crew inform me about mobile app developments (Collector, Survey123), Mansour Raad is always AMAZING to listen to, and I love any presentations with the title “Lightning Talk”. After hours  the startup social is a MUST for me and I hope to meet the CEOs of all the new startup companies. We look forward to meeting up with some of you there! Read more on our blog and see also our story map of planned activities at  http://www.geo-jobe.com/events/2018-esri-epc-devsummit-story-map/  ... View more

let’s take a look at just a few things that Admin Tools for Portal can do to help you out! View Item Dependencies Do you ever have a layer that you aren’t sure if you can delete it or not without breaking a bunch of web maps? Well, using Admin Tools for Portal’s “View Item Dependencies” tool, you can quickly visualize every single web map that uses a certain layer before you take any action. I’ll say that again, you can really see the relationships between feature layers / base maps / map services before you change or delete them. This is HUGE and its only available in Admin Tools Pro and Portal. See video - Viewing Item Dependencies in Admin Tools for ArcGIS℠ Online - YouTube  That right there alone is worth the price of the tools. To put that up front, so you aren’t thinking these tools are going to be some crazy price, these 60+ tools ( of which view item dependencies is only a single example) are only $500 per year for your ArcGIS Online organization or $1,000 per year for your ArcGIS Enterprise instances. We don’t charge you more for more users or usage, it is a flat annual charge to scales with your number of organizations / Portals. I personally guarantee that this product is worth every penny. Add Delete Protection to Items in Bulk Ever lay in bed at night and suddenly realize that any admin in your portal could accidentally delete an item that would cause a massive pain / headache / you to lose your job / send you into a never ending spiral of trust issues and self-doubt? Well, now that I have planted that terrible thought in your head, let’s go ahead and talk about how to make sure that never happens!  The out of the box ArcGIS Online / ArcGIS Enterprise product allows you to enable delete protection ( which is awesome ), what we have done on top of that is created an easy to use interface to filter for the correct content and quickly add delete protection to it. Maybe you want to add delete protection to every item owned by a certain users, every item in a certain group, or even every item with a certain tag. Take a look at how to filter for content below and just imagine writing that filter and then apply delete protection to everything that matched it in one fell swoop! See Filtering in Admin Tools for ArcGIS℠ Online - YouTube  Promoting / Cloning Items Between Development and Production Environments Are you still reading this article and haven’t bought the tools yet? Dang, you are a tough customer. Well, time to pull out the big guns. Do you ever need to move content between two Portals (or from one ArcGIS Enteprise to an ArcGIS Online account)? Well, we can do that too! Admin Tools can create an exact clone of an item and all of it dependencies by moving the item, all its dependencies, and then rewiring them against the new item id’s in the target portal. That’s right, we solve that problem and we solve it well. I’m not going to tell you what we have built is an absolute silver bullet that goes off correct 100% every single time, but I am going to tell you that if you have this need, then you need to talk to us about how we solve it. Take a look at some of the videos below and reach out to us for any questions and we will get a solid workflow sorted out for you! See: Clone Your Organization to Another with Admin Tools for ArcGIS℠ Online! - YouTube  These items and more are covered in this article: 3 Ways Admin Tools for Portal Will Make Your Life Easier - GEO Jobe  ... View more

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The ‘S’ at the end of HTTPS stands for ‘Secure’. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. Admin Tools Pro enables users to change Web Map Service URLs and this KBase tip explains more. The following is a workflow that requires the Admin Tools Pro version to change Web Map Service URLs: In the Items category, under the Update section, select the “Find and Replace Web Maps Services URLs” tool. In the “Find” text box, enter “http:” (make sure to include the colon, to avoid false-flagging the “http” in https). In the “Replace With” text box, enter “https:” (again, making sure to include the colon). Click the Next button and select any items you wish to update. Again, click the Next  button, confirm that your selections are correct and press the Done button. Your Web Map Service URLs should now be updated to be https. Tip: use the same work flow to change https to http. This Tip is archived in our Knowledge Base. The GEO Jobe Knowledge Base is a public, community resource where users and those interested in GEO Jobe’s enterprise solutions, particularly Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online and the geo powered cloud solution, can access help resources, answers to frequently asked questions, articles, support documents, and more via a friendly, easy to use, helpful web site. See also this blog post from the MapThis blog ... View more

We’re pleased to announce a recent update of our popular Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online – enter Admin Tools V 1.0.13! The latest version of Admin Tools (consistently a TOP app in the Esri ArcGIS Marketplace) gives the ArcGIS Administrator even more functionality and resources to perform their job even better. Simply jump to the ArcGIS Marketplace and get Admin Tools (Free) or Admin Tools Pro for even more power in your toolbox! New Features in Admin Tools V 1.0.13 Update Items Credits (Attribution) Update that Credits (Attribution) field of items Update Items Description Append or replace text of item descriptions Update Groups Description Append or replace text of group descriptions An option to store settings on the Admin Tools server is now available on the Settings page under Settings Storage Pro Update Web Maps Services URLs Can now update by item id (PRO) Other Improvements & Enhancements Export CSV Tools Now has a Select All/Deselect All checkbox on the field selection page Update Web Maps Services URLs Now filters WebMaps first (PRO) Import Items from JSON Now updates after creating item – importing JSON with owner other than yourself will update to new owner (PRO) More details are provided in this official PR announcement Admin Tools is available to planners, GIS administrators and other GIS professionals in local government,K-12 and Higher education, utilities, and facilities management and can be found in the ArcGIS marketplace (free, pro, and Portal versions). See http://www.geo-jobe.com/admin-tools/ Add yourself to the Admin Tools crowdsourced user map ... View more