Latest Contributions by C_EHoward

Hi KGerrow-esristaff‌ While not totally related, the order of features drawn on the web map affects how they are displaying when using a time slider- and this is misleading when trying to show changes by attributes. For example, my web map has a feature layer w/ 4 features per location since that is how many records were in my related table-- my published feature class essentially quadruples in size as my map service since each related record creates a separate feature in the service. I put this layer into a web map and enable the time slider-- and the display of features is different than what is shown in the time slider in ArcMap. For example, a red point for a graduated symbol = 100% (example) may not show correctly for a given time period because that same feature has a different graduated symbol (blue, 50%) for a different temporal period. So I think the slider is working but correctly but the correct features are not displaying in the web map because there is no respect of draw order....my working theory anyway. To test my theory, I filtered the records per attribute (time period) to see if my suspicion is right....and yes, it seems to matter. if I filter by a certain time period (AM for example), my time slider looks correct as in ArcMap and shows only those features with the but only for that temporal period. And if I also look at popup order.....its all over the place so presumably ArcGIS Online does not use any sort of draw/popup order.  So is display order to blame? How can you ensure that the correct features for your temporal data display at the correct time? Its too farfetched to think that showing traffic patterns by time of day (example- more cars in AM, more trucks in PM, in the same count locations) should be a problem or super hard to visualize. What am I missing? Or, is this another inconsistency between Desktop and Online? I am struggling to find a solution and this is as far as I have come, even with support  cases. What choices do I have besides butchering my data merely to visualize? thanks- ... View more

I am hosting my story map tour on my server so I am configuring the Index.html to make some changes to the look and feel of the app. For sharing customization, I am using the following article as a guide  https://developerscorner.storymaps.arcgis.com/grow-your-story-maps-audience-with-open-graph-tags-b7639cb65d5c  I have been able to alter the meta tags under the 'Facebook Sharing' section-- but when I add code for Twitter cards, my code seems to be ignored. when I look at my code in the Twitter card validator, my changes are applied but not when I click the Twitter share icon in my app. This is what I added to the index.html <!-- Facebook sharing --> <meta property="og:type" content="article"/> <meta property="og:title" content="TITLE"/> <meta property="og:description" content="description"/> <meta property="og:image" content="custom_logo.png"/> <meta property="og:image:width" content="100" /> <meta property="og:image:height" content="50" /> <!-- Twitter Sharing --> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta property="og:url" content="https://myurl.org" /> <meta property="og:title" content="TITLE" /> <meta property="og:description" content="description here" /> <meta property="og:image" content="custom_logo.png" /> Is there any other place I have to modify code to get the Twitter changes to apply? My custom Facebook is also in the index.html so I am unsure why one works and the other does not.  ... View more

Is there any plan to change how date/time fields are handled in Open Data? I know they are converted to string and I know that I have been told to create an equivalent text field so I can preserve the 'nice' looking date and time fields. But adding up to 3 extra fields to my data just to make it a user-friendly download is going to add some file size to tables that have millions of records. It adds a burden to users who download the data easily from your site to them have to manipulate fields back to a usable state if they want to do temporal analysis.  I am looking for some guidance and best practices/instructions I can pass along to users who download our data so its not as misleading. The date field shows up great on the table preview but anything with time only gets changed to 12/30/1899 and anything with date and time gets changed to show only date. I know this is an issue throughout ArcGIS Online but all these 'big data' are often temporal in nature so it would be nice to have a more straightforward way to share than to create false fields just to make it look nice. Hopefully I am just missing something. thanks ... View more