The current user types available to ArcGIS Portal have a significant limitation if users want to use ArcGIS Pro. That is the user types must be a foundational user type to use ArcGIS Pro.
"What does 'requires foundational user type' mean?
It is the user types that allow people to license the ArcGIS Pro capabilities and apps they need to do their work in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise"
The above definition as a concept is ok for full time GIS professionals, but it does not acknowledge that some occasional GIS users only want to use ArcGIS Pro and reference ArcGIS Portal as a view only data resource. These users do not want to edit or interact with the ArcGIS Portal to publish or exchange content. Currently the "viewer" named user types can see the all the data in ArcGIS Portal, but they cannot use ArcGIS Pro software. Only a foundational user type can.
I am suggesting that a new type of named user is needed to allow a "viewer like experience" with the ability to check out ArcGIS Pro. This is like a "viewer" and a "creator" coming together and becoming the:
View-a-tor (Thanks @HarryMoore ).
I am however suggesting you call it a "ViewerPro".
The overall idea speaks to the idea that really any and all named users (that are not free) - need to be able to check out ArcGIS Pro software from Portal if their job requires ArcGIS Pro. This would allow users to use ArcGIS Pro - who are also not wanting or needing named user Portal publishing or editing functions. This allows non GIS professionals to use ArcGIS Pro from their desktop - but not Portal functions.
This license model would allow concurrent license users to move away from FlexNet and allow their GIS admins to manage their GIS user base in Portal as named users types. One place in ArcGIS Portal or ArcGIS Online to manage all your users sounds great.
The principal use case for this would be a public works engineer or an environmental analysts who occasionally needs to use ArcGIS Basic to look at GIS data and perhaps polygon overlays or imagery. These users have no intention or need to share out further their work or need to publish or edit in the ArcGIS Portal. I currently have dozens of users like this using concurrent licenses. I want to but cannot convert them to Portal because for licenses because I cannot justify the yearly maintenance or purchase of a Creator named users license in Portal and a desktop ArcGIS Pro Basic license.
Please let me manage all my ArcGIS Pro users from a single platform and user base. Make View-a-Tor a reality!
