TelUC Bits & Bytes Newsletter - October 2023
News & Updates
Not only is it spooky season but its that time of year for an update to ArcGIS Online. The October 2023 update includes new functionality in Map Viewer, such as additional analysis tools and raster functions, time zone settings, plus other enhancements and new capabilities throughout the ArcGIS Online website. A complete list of updates are available in the blog link below, but here are a few of our favorites.
Save Group Layers as New Items from Map Viewer
Use group layers to organize related layers in your map. Once grouped, you can set exclusive visibility, showing only one specific layer without having to hide each of the other layers. You can now save group layers as items, enabling you to reuse group layers across your organization’s web maps. The group layer’s exclusive visibility and styling settings will also be saved in the item. Learn more about saving group layers as items.
Map Viewer Timezone
By default, the map displays the date and time based on the time zone of the device used to view the map. Map authors can now choose a specific time zone for their maps, ensuring all pop-ups and attribute data are consistently presented in the desired time zone rather than being influenced by the end user’s browser or mobile device.
Atlas Instant App
Atlas is now out of beta and in general availability. Atlas enables organizations to highlight a collection of curated maps and layers based on a point of interest, a geographic location, a theme, or a specific event. Atlas is an effective way to enable non-GIS users to make their own maps and explore your organization’s content. Users can easily discover and explore content, as well as share the maps they create via PDF or screenshots, or after signing in can save the map to their Content. Built-in tools help users explore the map by searching locations, switching between 2D and 3D, measuring distance and area, and using the enhanced sketch tools to add text and arrows to the map.
Oriented Imagery Now Supported in Map Viewer
An oriented imagery layer is a type of feature layer for visualizing oriented imagery in the context of a map. Map Viewer now supports viewing and managing oriented imagery layers using the oriented imagery viewer. When added to the map, each point in an oriented imagery layer indicates the camera location where an image was acquired. For more information, see Introducing oriented imagery or re-watch this TGI5 on how to set up QuickCapture for photo inspections.
ArcGIS Data Pipelines
Data Pipelines (beta) is a new data engineering and integration application that was released in ArcGIS Online in June 2023. The Data Pipelines development team has been listening closely to your feedback and have implemented new features based on your requests. New features include scheduled data pipeline workflows, and an easier way to configure the schema for delimited datasets. If you follow TGI5, in episode 81 we highlighted the capabilities of Data Pipelines and have been looking forward to the scheduling option, which is now available.
**Important Information for ArcGIS Online Admins**
When ArcGIS Online Organization administrators are no longer active and are unreachable, privileges must be delegated to a new or existing user. For example, the user named as the current default administrator has separated from their organization but did not delegate administrator permissions to another user before their final day. As a result, current active users are left without the permissions needed to perform the tasks reserved for an administrator. To ensure the organization does not lose admin capabilities please refer to this article for best practices and guidance.
Product Updates:
ArcGIS Dashboards (October 2023)
ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online (October 2023)
ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App (October 2023)
Esri Demographics (October 2023)
ArcGIS Field Maps (October 2023)
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