ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4 includes updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Review the deprecation notice to determine whether your hardware and software components are still compatible with version 11.4 and to see a list of functionality that has been deprecated. To review which earlier ArcGIS product versions are compatible with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, see Portal compatibility with earlier versions of ArcGIS.
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New features and requirements in 11.4 are described in the following sections. For a list of beta features in this release, see What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise.
Installation requirement
Upgrading directly to Portal for ArcGIS 11.4 from version 10.7 or 10.7.1 is not supported. To upgrade Portal for ArcGIS 10.7 or 10.7.1, first upgrade it to an interim version (10.8.x - 11.3) and then upgrade that version to 11.4. Read the upgrade documentation for the interim version to confirm direct upgrades are supported for the Portal for ArcGIS version you start with.
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World content
As of ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4, the organization does not come preconfigured with ArcGIS Living Atlas content. In previous versions, a fixed set of ArcGIS Living Atlas items was installed with ArcGIS Enterprise and was available to your organization until your deployment was upgraded. To access ArcGIS Living Atlas content after installing or upgrading to 11.4, you must complete a package update to deploy the initial content package. This ensures you have deployed the most current ArcGIS Living Atlas items available. You can then update ArcGIS Living Atlas content as new items become available in the future.
Organization administration
The following are updates for administering an organization:
- Update the organization URL using the ArcGIS Portal Directory.
- Assign a classification schema to your organization to allow members to classify their items.
- Use audit logs to monitor user activity and changes to the system.
- When querying log messages from the Portal Administrator Directory, include server logs by selecting one or all federated servers. This allows you access all of your organization's logs from one location.
- Configure routing services supports a new service called Snap to Roads (Beta) using a network dataset in mobile geodatabase.
Data management
The following are updates for managing data:
- If your organization administrator has configured a classification schema, classify items based on their level of sensitivity. You can classify items as you add them to the portal or classify existing items.
- New settings to control editing true curve features are available for feature layers that reference registered data.
- Migrate and back up group content by exporting items to an export package (.epk) and using the package to import the items into groups in the same or different organizations.
- Date only and time only field types are now recognized when you publish, add to, or update hosted feature layers from Microsoft Excel and comma-separated values (.csv) files. See Date and time fields to learn what formats are supported for each. Big integer field types are also recognized when using these file types to publish, add to, or update hosted feature layers if the field values fall outside the range of -2147483648 to 2147483647.
- Set the INCLUDE_OBJECT_STORE_CACHES property to true in the WebGISDR tool properties file to include scene and 3D cache data in your backups.
- Start and stop the service and enable SOEs and SOIs from the item page of imagery layers.
- Start and stop the geocode service and configure properties from the item page of locator items.
- For map image layers and feature layers that reference a snapshot of data copied from a cloud data warehouse, you can schedule a task to automatically refresh the snapshot of the data. The existing option to immediately refresh the snapshot has moved from the Overview tab to the Settings tab of the map image layer's item page. See Refresh data for snapshot layers for more information.
- If filters or queries of nonspatial fields in your hosted feature layer are slow, you can define attribute indexes on them. To improve queries that search for words or phrases in string fields, you can add a full-text index.
- If a custom data provider has been registered with your organization, you can publish a feature layer that references your data provider.
Mapping and visualization
The following are updates for mapping and visualization:
- Add and delete fields from the Fields pane in Map Viewer.
- Calculate field values in Map Viewer from the table of a hosted feature layer or hosted table layer.
- When styling layers in Map Viewer, the Reference size theme allows you to visualize values in relation to one another using a bounding outline for reference.
- Work with catalog layers in Map Viewer. Catalog layers point to different items and services, providing a centralized reference point for all of your data that can be distributed and accessed efficiently.
- Create and apply filters to additional temporal fields, including date (date and time), date only, and time only fields.
- Configure and view related records for map image layers through pop-ups in Map Viewer.
- Access branch versions in Map Viewer
- View related records associated with a layer in the attribute table.
- Access the Editor pane from the table to add, update, or delete features and records.
- Add layers from files to Map Viewer.
- When customizing labels, adjust the position for labels along lines. You can also set the label background transparency and the background outline color and size.
- Author custom ArcGIS Arcade expressions when adding new cluster and bin fields.
- Box plots in a series now support mean lines when the series uses a Split by field.
- Review the input images in an imagery layer with the Image Collection Explorer, where you can view metadata, and create new imagery layers based on selections.
3D GIS
The following are updates for 3D GIS:
- Place a 3D tiles dataset in a folder or cloud storage data store and publish a 3D tiles layer that references the dataset. When you publish a layer that references a precreated dataset, you avoid copying data and save storage space on the ArcGIS Data Store object store machines.
- Publish a hosted 3D tiles layer from a 3D tiles package you add to your organization.
- Explore and visualize time-enabled 2D and 3D layers with the time slider.
- Set a visible time period for a layer to combine different datasets into one continuous time story.
- Uploading 3D models is out of beta and now also allows coordinate inputs while editing.
- Give your data the correct elevation using feature attributes and Arcade expressions.
- Create a 3D dashboard directly from Scene Viewer.
- Browse large layer collections with the new catalog layer.
- Add an existing media layer to your scene.
- Use improved lighting and overall appearance of integrated mesh layers (scene and 3D tiles) through shading.
Analysis
The following are updates for analysis:
- Raster functions are now available in Map Viewer, providing additional analysis and visualization options. You can use any of the available functions directly or build custom raster function templates from the content page. The Raster Function Editor can be opened directly from Map Viewer, and raster functions can be combined to create the desired visualization or analysis.
- Two new environment settings are now available for raster functions: Number of retries on failures and Recycle interval of processing workers.
- Join Features now has the Calculate count only option for the Multiple matching records parameter. The Multiple matching records parameter determines which records or statistics are returned in a one-to-one join.
- Enrich Layer now has a Draw input features button that can be used to interactively create an input layer. Drawing input features creates a sketch layer that can be saved in the web map. The Draw input features button was introduced for several other analysis tools in the previous release.
- Zonal Statistics has four new options for the Statistics type parameter: Majority count, Majority percentage, Minority count, and Minority percentage.
- Zonal Statistics as Table has six new options for the Statistics type parameter: Majority count; Majority percentage; Majority value, count, and percentage; Minority count; Minority percentage; and Minority value, count, and percentage.
- Distance Accumulation and Distance Allocation have two new options for the Vertical factor parameter: Hiking time and Bidirectional hiking time. The performance of these tools has also been improved if the Distance method parameter value is Geodesic, or if the Vertical factor or Horizontal factor parameters are set.
- Distance analysis for Distance Accumulation, Distance Allocation, Optimal Path as Line, and Optimal Path as Raster can now properly handle the edge of a projection at global extent when using either a cylindrical projection or a geographic output coordinate system and the Geodesic method.
- Distance Accumulation, Distance Allocation, and Optimal Region Connections now treat invalid cost raster values (negative or zero value) as small positive values, rather than NoData.
- Custom web tools now support GPComposite and GPArealUnit parameter types. These parameter types are not applicable for custom web tools published from ArcGIS Notebooks.
Apps
There are new features and enhancements for apps in the portal.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Dashboards.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Enterprise Sites.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Excalibur.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Experience Builder.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Field Maps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Instant Apps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Knowledge Studio.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Mission.
- See What's new in ArcGIS QuickCapture.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Solutions.
- See What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Urban.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Web AppBuilder.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Web Editor.
- See What's new in ArcGIS Workforce.
- See What's new in Indoor Floor Plan Editor
- See What's new in Indoor Space Planner.
- See What's new in Indoor Viewer.