Portal for ArcGIS 10.4.1 is a maintenance and quality improvement release. For a list of issues fixed in 10.4.1, see the 10.4.1 Issues Addressed List.
Review the deprecation notice to determine if your hardware and software components are still compatible with version 10.4.1. To review which earlier ArcGIS product versions are compatible with Portal for ArcGIS 10.4.1, see Portal compatibility with earlier versions of ArcGIS.
What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.4
For a summary of changes in the software at 10.4, see the following sections.
Perform analysis
Whenever you look at a map, you inherently start turning that map into information by finding patterns, assessing trends, or making decisions. This process is called spatial analysis, and it's what our eyes and minds do naturally whenever we look at a map. But many patterns and relationships aren't always obvious from looking at a map. In some cases, there may be too much data to present coherently. The way you display the data on the map can change the patterns you see. Spatial analysis tools allow you to quantify patterns and relationships in the data and display the results as maps, tables, and charts. At 10.4, these tools are available in Portal for ArcGIS.
Use the new tools available in the map viewer to detect and display patterns and relationships in your data.
Print custom layouts from the map viewer
You can now print from the map viewer using custom layouts that your portal administrator has configured. If more than one layout has been provided, a drop-down arrow will appear next to the Print button.
Share vector tile packages
Vector tile packages you create in ArcGIS Pro 1.2 can be uploaded to your portal and published as hosted tile layers. Vector tile packages deliver cartographic content in a compact binary format that includes both geometry and metadata. Tile layers created from vector tile packages take less time to create, require less disk space compared to raster tiles, and can be rendered in multiple styles.
See Share a package in the ArcGIS Pro help for information on creating a vector tile package.
Publish layers to your portal's federated servers using ArcGIS Pro
At 10.4, you can use ArcGIS Pro 1.2 to publish layers to your portal's federated servers. You can publish map image, feature, imagery, and WMS layers to federated servers. See Layers published to your portal's federated servers for details. These layers can reference datasets that are registered with the server, meaning your data is not copied to the server when the layer is published. Layers published in this manner reference the data directly from your registered workspaces.
As with earlier releases, you can also publish hosted feature and tile layers using ArcGIS Pro. When you publish a hosted layer, your data is copied to your portal's hosting server.
See Understanding sharing web layers in the ArcGIS Pro help for more information.
Store standards-based metadata
You can now store standards-based metadata for your portal items.Standards-based metadata allows you to provide more information about an item than what is available on the details page. It also applies a style to support a metadata standard such as FGDC CSDGM Metadata or North American Profile of ISO019115 2003.
Language changes in the portal website
- The website can now be viewed in Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) and Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) languages.
- The name for simplified Chinese in the language drop-down list has changed from Chinese (Simplified Han) to Simplified Chinese.
Changes for the scene viewer
3D content can be displayed within two different scene environments—global or local. In global scenes, you can display 2D and 3D content on a sphere. Global scenes are well suited for data that extends across large distances and where curvature of the earth must be accounted for, such as global airline traffic paths or shipping lanes. Also, global scenes can display data at a city level or even down to a building site level.
In addition, now you can create local scenes that have a fixed extent in which to work. Local scenes allow you to display layers in projected coordinate systems and are better suited for small-extent data, such as a college campus or a mine site. Local scenes can also be effective for scientific data display, where the relative size of features is a more important display requirement than the physical location of the content on a sphere.
Additional scene viewer changes include the following:
- Collaborate on scenes within your organization with group capabilities for updating items.
- The scene viewer lets you experience the starry sky at night and watch the sun rise and set on your scenes.
- You can add outlines to point symbols and set outline color, width, and transparency.
Review address placement
If your portal's hosting server uses ArcGIS Data Store, you can review and place addresses that Portal for ArcGIS couldn't locate on the map when you publish a hosted feature layer from a CSV file containing addresses. You can also review the accuracy of the addresses that Portal for ArcGIS did place on the map. This helps you improve the accuracy of your hosted feature layers.
New options for hosted feature layers
You can now export hosted feature layers to feature collections. This is useful if you want to create a copy of the features saved as part of the map. Changes made to the feature collection are only reflected in the map and do not affect the hosted feature layer from which you exported it.
You can also export hosted feature layers to a GeoJSON file, which you can download and share with others. They can add the GeoJSON file to their own portal and publish it as a hosted feature layer.
When you add a CSV file to your portal, you now have the option to publish the CSV as a table. This allows you to create layers containing nonspatial attribute information, and also allows you to publish CSV files that do not contain spatial information such as addresses or x, y coordinates.
Owners and administrators of hosted feature layers can open the layer in the map viewer and edit even if the layer does not have editing enabled.
If your portal's hosting server uses ArcGIS Data Store, owners and administrators of hosted feature layers can now use a table in the map viewer to calculate values.
New and improved map styles
Three new map styles are available in the map viewer. These styles perform calculations based on the attribute fields you specify to illuminate differences or trends in your data.
- Use the Color & Size style to illustrate the convergence of two numeric attributes using increasing symbol size (for count values) and different shades (for rates). For example, symbol size could vary depending on the number of homes built before 1970, and be shaded differently based on rates of childhood neurological disorders. You choose the color and size of the point symbols.
- Use the Unique symbols & Size style to map a count attribute (such as number of owner occupied households) but using a unique color for each value found in another field (such as a county name). With this style, you choose a text or numeric field with unique values, and a numeric field, and adjust each attribute's map symbol settings as needed.
- Use the Compare A to B style to map the ratio between two numbers, such as percentages, indexes, or simple ratios. For example, you may want to see the ratio of households with cable television subscriptions to households with satellite television subscriptions. Or, you may want to see the ratio of people with a college degree to those without one, on the map. With this style, you choose the attributes in your data, and adjust the sliders in the histogram as desired to make the comparison.
In addition to the new map styles described above, histogram sliders have improved precision and are easier to use. It's more evident that you can manually set values for any numbers you see near the histogram. For example, you can press the Control or Command key while moving the top or bottom slider to enable the opposite slider to move an equal distance away or toward the center handle. You can also hover over an individual bar in a histogram to see more details.
Changes in configurable app templates
The app gallery has been redesigned to make it easier to choose the configurable app you want to use. You can filter based on the purpose of the app and search to refine the set of apps you see.
The following configurable app templates are new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.4:
The following app templates have been retired. Use the suggested replacement app templates instead.
| Retired app template | Replacement app template |
|---|---|
Classic Viewer | |
Chrome Twitter | |
Legend | |
Time Aware | |
Tip:
Esri does not maintain the code on retired templates, and retired templates are not available from the map viewer. However, you can download the source code and API for retired templates and host them on your own web server. Instructions are included in readme files included with the download file.
New functionality in Web AppBuilder
The following functionality has been added to Web AppBuilder. For more information, see Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS Help.
New widgets
- The Analysis widget provides an easy way to use Portal for ArcGIS spatial analysis tools in your application. You can configure one tool per widget or multiple tools in a widget.
- The Batch Attribute Editor widget allows you to simultaneously edit multiple attributes.
- The Image Measurement widget allows you to perform measurements on image services with mensuration capability.
- The GeoLookup widget enriches a list of latitude and longitude points. You supply a CSV file of points to the widget and it intersects the points with polygon layers on the map to get values associated with the points.
- The Incident Analysis widget defines an area of interest and identifies what’s happening around the area, such as current weather, demographic info, and features close to the area.
- The Reviewer Dashboard widget displays data quality result statistics as infographics pie and bar charts to summarize data quality issues identified in your GIS data.
- The Report Feature widget enables you to collect and manage data quality feedback from users.
- The Situation Awareness widget allows you to locate an incident on the map and analyze information from different feature layers within a specified distance of the incident.
- The Search widget replaces the existing Geocoder widget. In addition to the functionality in the Geocoder widget, the new Search widget supports searching and suggestions on multiple sources, and it has options to add placeholder text for all search sources and search by current map extent.
- The Stream widget visualizes and controls real-time data feeds from streaming feature layers.
- The Summary widget dynamically summarizes numeric attributes for features based on the map extent.
- A new Zoom Slider widget provides interactive zoom controls in the map display.
New functionality in existing widgets
- The Attribute Table widget has a filter to limit features and can be expanded automatically when the app starts. It also updates layers when they are changed in the map.
- The Edit widget now carries over the editable attributes configured in the map.
- The Geoprocessing widget supports uploading data to use in geoprocessing services that have upload capability.
- The Layer List widget has configurable context menus.
- The Zoom Slider widget provides interactive zoom controls in the map display.
- The Query widget has configurable sorting rules for query results.
General
- Five new themes are available—Billboard, Box, Dart, Jewelry box, and Launchpad.
- The Foldable theme and Tab theme have better responsive designs.
- A new option is available to have widgets already opened when the web app starts.
- Six new URL parameters enable you to find a location or feature, supply login, query feature, add point, switch locale, and specify WKID to zoom or pan the map.
- The app state, including map extent and layer visibility, is now automatically saved when you close your browser.
- Support is added for imagery layers that include visualization with scientific data.
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS
Portal for ArcGIS 10.4 includes several updates, bug fixes, and improvements to both the Windows and Browser apps and introduces a new extensibility framework using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. To get started, refer to the Operations Dashboard help included within the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
Microsoft Edge browser supported
At 10.4, you can access the portal website using the Microsoft Edge browser.