What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 12.0

ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0 includes updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Caution:

Before upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 12.0, review the considerations for upgrades.

Several features have been retired or deprecated at this release. See Retirement and deprecation notices for details. For a list of beta features in this release, see Beta features.

Organization administration

The following are updates for administering an organization:

• Create custom sign-in experiences for the organization and custom categories for registered apps to better organize and control sign-in options for app users and organization members.
• Enforce multifactor authentication across your organization. This ensures that members with ArcGIS logins are in compliance with security policies when signing in to ArcGIS Enterprise.
• View information about your organization's recent backups and installed patches from the portal.
• Manage the availability of localized and external Esri content in your organization from the portal.
• Configure email settings for your organization to send automatic email notifications to your administrative contacts when the SSL certificate used on port 7443 in your organization is about to expire.
• At this release, the portal's proxy capability is restricted to a list of approved host names by default, which can be updated to fit your organization's security requirements.

Data management

The following are updates for creating and managing data:

• The item pages are improved at this release to match the style used in most other parts of the portal website. Long menus or sections on the Overview tab that required scrolling are now grouped in collapsible sections. Click the down arrow to expand them.
• The Data tab of the item pages for hosted feature layers and hosted tables includes the following improvements:
  • The Update data button allows you to access the interface to add or update data from the Data tab.
  • Options to define a calculation expression are available from the Tables view and Fields view in multiple locations.
  • When defining a calculation expression from the Data tab, you can preview the changes before you calculate. You can also apply filters so that the expression applies to only certain features.
  • Value lists and ranges have been renamed to list and range domains to align with the terminology in ArcGIS Pro.
  • The workflow for defining and editing domains is improved and expanded. You can define list or range domains for date, date only, and time only fields in a hosted feature layer. When defining a list domain for a field in a hosted feature layer, you can import a comma-separated values file (.csv) that includes the label and code to use.
• Finer-grained control of editing settings is available for layers in a hosted feature layer. When you configure a hosted feature layer to allow updates to attributes and geometry, you can restrict editing on individual sublayers to allow attribute updates only.
• Add dynamic workspaces for map image layers from the item page.
• Publish service definitions as items that reference data registered to federated server sites.
• Manage network analysis services from the item page.
• Manage web tools from the item page.
• Manage WCS and WMS properties for imagery layers published with those capabilities enabled.
• Create an empty hosted 3D object scene layer that you can add to Scene Viewer to create content in the layer.
• A new metadata style, Dublin Core+, is supported. Administrators can configure the organization to use this metadata style.
• A new option in the metadata editor allows you to synchronize attribute field properties for each layer in a hosted feature layer to the layer's metadata.
• The maximum username length for relational databases and cloud data warehouses has been increased to the limit supported by the underlying database. Similarly, the character limit for relational database names has also been increased.
• Share map image layers and feature layers by reference from Elasticsearch and OpenSearch databases using ArcGIS Pro.
• Publish data from Apache Parquet files as a copy to ArcGIS Enterprise using ArcGIS Pro. Supported web layer types for sharing as a copy include hosted feature layers, hosted vector tile layers, hosted scene layers, and hosted tables.

Mapping and visualization

The following are updates for mapping and visualization:

• Save map image layers in Map Viewer to save edits at the layer level.
• Drag files directly onto maps in Map Viewer.
• When styling layers based on a numeric field, the spike smart mapping theme shows values proportionally represented by the height of a spike symbol.
• When applying a variety of smart mapping styles, generate the style range based on the whole layer or based on the current map extent. This determines the data that will be used to generate the visual range for a given style.
• Select multiple features using the rectangle and lasso selection tools when editing features. Bulk feature selection allows you to delete features, update feature attributes, and move several features at once instead of individually.
• Add video layers to maps in Map Viewer to view time-enabled videos in a spatial context.
• Create curved line sketch features to add curved arrows or paths to a map.
• When working with an indoor positioning data service in Map Viewer, enable smoothing, GNSS, Apple IPS, and path snapping with a distance tolerance threshold.
• Charts now support the following data types: timestamp offset, date only, and big integer.
• Reorder charts in the Charts pane.
• If a feature layer includes attachments, choose how attachments are sorted and displayed in pop-ups by selecting the attribute by which they are sorted and the sort order.
• Use the Export button on a chart's toolbar to export the chart as an image or a table.
• Enable time series animation in Map Viewer for feature layers configured to support time series animation.
• When creating or editing a map that you own, share a link to the map at its current extent that will open in Map Viewer.
• Preserve the map scale when embedding a public map using ready-to-use HTML code. This ensures that the map opens at the preview scale, preserving the relative size of features across devices. Otherwise, the scale varies to show the features in the preview extent. Both options allow you to embed different views based on what you see in the preview, rather than the web map.
• When styling an imagery layer, processing template, or variable, register your changes as a preset style, which allows you to switch between different layer visualizations without reverting.
• The oriented imagery viewer now allows you do the following:
  • Move between images using direction-based or sequence-based navigation.
  • Measure distance, area, and location by intersecting vectors from measurement points captured from two different viewpoints.
  • Access imagery stored securely in private cloud environments.
  • Play browser-compatible videos in the viewer with interactive controls like play, pause, slider navigation, and audio toggle.

3D GIS

The following are updates for 3D GIS:

• The option to create a 3D tiles layer or a scene layer from the portal Content page has been combined into one: 3D layer. When you create the web layer in the portal, choose the 3D layer type.

  Note:

  At this release, the layer item names still include the words scene and 3D tiles, and will still appear in places in the help. This is to help gradually move you from the old item names to the new consolidated name.

• Use focus areas to highlight a project area and fade everything else to the background.
• Include 3D slices and pop-ups in a scene presentation by capturing them in slides.
• Directly share a specific slide or share in presentation mode.
• 3D Tiles Integrated Mesh Layers support modifications and can be added to Scene Viewer using a URL.

Analysis

The following are updates for analysis:

• The data browser used by the Enrich Layer tool now supports adding variables to a Favorites list and has improved search functionality. Many number variables now support choosing a statistic (count, percentage, or index) to calculate within the enrichment areas.

• The Zonal Statistics tool and raster function and the Zonal Statistics as Table tool now use the cell size of the value raster as the analysis cell size for both raster and feature zone input by default. This behavior for feature zone input was supported in an earlier release. The update makes the analysis more accurate because the value raster is the primary raster that influences the output results. To modify the default behavior, use the Cell size environment to specify a number or a raster dataset.

  The overall performance of these zonal statistics tools and raster function have been improved by leveraging up to all available processors. By default, the tools will take advantage of up to 80 percent of available processors. Memory usage issues when a large number of zones are specified along with a large number of processors have also been addressed.
• Tools and raster functions that honor the Cell size environment now support an empty option. You can accept the default cell size setting or specify different numerical values, a raster dataset, or a keyword setting. Tools that use Maximum of inputs or another setting as the default continue to do so.
• Parameters in a raster function template are now only visible as variables if IsPublic is enabled. Previously, if IsPublic was not enabled for any parameters, all parameters were exposed as variables to run the function template.
• The Time unit data type is now available for geoprocessing services published from ArcGIS Pro 3.6 and later.
• The validate operation is available for geoprocessing services published form ArcGIS Pro 3.6 and later with the validate capability. This operation allows geoprocessing service users to validate their input and receive updated parameters and a validation message.

Apps

There are new features and enhancements for the following apps in ArcGIS Enterprise:

• 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 Editor.
• See What's new in ArcGIS Workforce.
• See What's new in Indoors Floor Plan Editor
• See What's new in Indoors Space Planner.
• See What's new in Indoors Viewer.