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I have a colleague who can't comment on or vote on this idea because he can't login to Geonet. He can't login because of the global namespace and multiple account collision. He's prolific in the online map space and in the last few years has worked for several organizations in several capacities as well as his own stuff, publishing all the time, from different accounts (a requirement by the respective orgs). His current most-used Arcgis.com credentials clash with his historic Geonet creds. Logging in with one disables the other, or some such. I've experienced the same, and currently have a support request in with Esri to get the old accounts cleared out and things straightened. I filed it a week ago, still not resolved. (This isn't a complaint about that particular situation. I'll do that in another venue. It's brought forward as an additional example of the global name space problem.)
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09-15-2016
12:07 PM
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Please separate the usernames within ArcGIS Online for Organizations accounts from the global Arcgis.com namespace. Jonah.Wail working for Humpbacks United is not the same Jonah.Wail at Pacific Tsunami Watch. Within the current global name space structure in order to distinguish these two people we need to resort to awkward conventions like jonah_wail_humpbacks_united and jwail_ptw and jwail23 The 1st has the benefit of being communicative. People quickly understand which organization that account is a part of. It's horrible for the user though, especially when trying to type on a mobile device. The 2nd is nicer for the user to enter on a regular basis but it sucks for people browsing the galleries or otherwise unfamiliar with the person and/or organization. Both are easily confused with the Jonah.Wail who's not part of any organization, just a random cetacean exploring arcgis.com and putting up bubble net maps. Nor do they accommodate the Jonah Wail who does work for Humpbacks United, but has his own hobby maps that he makes and shares just for fun. The 3rd is a problem because jwail32 and jwail23 have very distinct and diametrically opposing viewpoints: save the whales vs eat 'em, we're hungry. All of these problems are solved or at least greatly lessened by having separate name spaces. Think of email. No one is likely to confuse jwail@eat-whales.com with jwail@save-the-whales.com.
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09-15-2016
11:58 AM
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Idea has a new location now: https://community.esri.com/ideas/9279 If you haven't voted before because of the hassle of signing in to yet another site, that's fixed. Go vote!
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05-27-2016
09:56 AM
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In my case the error is "Field Notes has invalid html content." -- I had enabled Rich Text in a notes field and then user pasted content from Word (using Word for spell and grammar checking). No formatting had been applied to the text in Word. Thanks for getting me on the right track. Stupid that there is no error reporting to the user on something like this. It results in data loss.
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05-02-2016
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Anticipating a "you can't" answer, here's a request to add the feature, go vote it up: ArcGIS Idea - Filter options for dates in arcgis online features
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04-28-2016
02:25 PM
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For a hosted feature layer in an web map how can filter so that only the last n weeks are shown? Relying entirely on ArcGIS Online infrastructure? I know I can add a filter for [Date] [is after] [01/04/2016], but that requires having to edit the filter every day to stay on top of it. How can I use a relative phrase like [Today - 14 days]?
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04-28-2016
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Simple operation, probably has a simple answer, but I haven't been able to find it: In ArcGIS Online (for Orgs if it makes a difference) I have a hosted feature service for which I want to delete many records at once. How do I do that? Interactive method preferred. I don't want to dig into the REST api every time I need to do this. I use "open with full editing control" from the service details page to add to a new map, then when I show table and shift click bottom and top of records I have many selected records, but [delete] key has no effect and mousing around I haven't found any control or menu item that looks like delete, or any kind of edit operation.
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04-28-2016
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