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What's new in ArcGIS 10.3

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Services
What's new in ArcGIS 10.3 for Server

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What's new in ArcGIS 10.3

ArcGIS 10.3 is a full release of the ArcGIS platform. It includes new products, enhanced functionality, and stability improvements.
The following sections summarize changes in different functional areas of ArcGIS. Most sections include links to topics with more
information for that specific area of the software.

ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Pro is a new application released as part of the ArcGIS for Desktop product. This new app combines data visualization, editing,
and analysis using local content, content from ArcGIS Online, or content from Portal for ArcGIS for both 2D and 3D data. Content can
be authored in both 2D and 3D and published as feature, map, and analysis layers.
ArcGIS Pro is a 64-bit, multithreaded application with a modern user experience that runs on the Windows platform.

Documentation
ArcGIS web help has moved to the ArcGIS for Professionals site and has been redesigned to match the new site. Many sections of the
help also incorporate more end-to-end workflow topics rather than separate topics for individual tasks.

Geoprocessing
There are a number of new tools, improvements to existing tools, and new ArcPy functions in ArcGIS 10.3.

New and improved tools

The following geoprocessing tools have been added or improved for ArcGIS 10.3:
Data Management toolbox
Nine tools have been added to the Geodatabase Administration toolset to help you manage your enterprise geodatabases. They
replace functionality previously performed using ArcSDE administration command line utilities.
Configure Geodatabase Logfile Tables

Create Raster Type

Delete Schema Geodatabase

Diagnose Version Metadata

Diagnose Version Tables

Export Geodatabase Configuration Keyword

Import Geodatabase Configuration Keyword

Repair Version Metadata

Repair Version Tables

The Generate Licensed File Geodatabase and Generate File Geodatabase License tools have been added to the File
Geodatabase toolset. Use these tools together to apply export and time restrictions to the file geodatabase data you send to clients
or other agencies.
Geostatistical Analyst
Empirical Bayesian kriging has been enhanced to better support worldwide interpolation and interpolation at the poles by using
chordal distance (an approximation of geodesic distance).
Network Analyst
Two tools have been added to the Server toolset to help you publish Network Analyst services. Each allows you to set up and solve
a network analysis all-in-one tool and provides options to help you configure your service.
Find Routes

Solve Location-Allocation

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Spatial Analyst
A new tool Viewshed 2 has been added to the Surface toolset.
A new toolset containing six tools for Segmentation and Classification of rasters has been added.
For more information on these updates, see the Extensions section below.

ArcPy functions
For advanced web map printing workflows, the updateLayerFromJSON function on the arcpy.mapping.Layer class will apply
the renderer (or other layer properties) as specified in the webmap_json to the corresponding vector layers staged in a template map
document.

Mapping
Labeling
The Maplex Label Engine has had improvements made for stability, scalability and performance.
Placement improvements include:
Improved integration between street labeling and key numbering

Better placement along curved roads and rivers

Labels using the Never Remove parameter have improved faster placement

Improvements in aligning contour labels to the page and elevation

Labels with callouts and leaders now take halos into account when placing and have improved performance

Internationalization improvements include:

Support for kashidas to stretch straight Arabic text in both display and export

Geodata
Geodatabases and databases
File geodatabases
You can create a license file to distribute with file geodatabases you share with other people and organizations. This helps ensure
that your data will only be used by the people you intended to use it, and you can set time limits on the data's use. See License a
file geodatabase for more information.
Desktop and workgroup geodatabases
ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Server Workgroup include an installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express, which you can
install and enable as a database server to store desktop and workgroup geodatabases. If you have an existing database server on
a previous SQL Server Express release, you can upgrade it to 2012.
Note that the installation names have changed. At ArcGIS 10.3, the installations are called Database Servers to match the ArcGIS
for Desktop user interface.

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Enterprise geodatabases
ArcSDE administration command line utilities are no longer available with ArcGIS for Server. Instead, use the tools in the
Geodatabase Administration toolset of the Data Management geoprocessing toolbox and the geodatabase administration items
available from the database connection in ArcMap. See Migrate from ArcSDE administration commands for a list of common tasks
and tools.
The ArcSDE application server is no longer available with ArcGIS for Server. New connections to 10.3 and later release enterprise
geodatabases are made through database management system clients installed on the ArcGIS client machines. If you upgrade
your geodatabase to 10.3, you will need to update the existing connections used by your maps and web services to connect
through the database management system clients. You can still use an ArcSDE service to connect from ArcGIS 10.3 clients to
10.2.2, 10.2.1, 10.2, and 10.1 enterprise geodatabases.
In previous releases of the enterprise geodatabase, the default number of connections allowed was 64. This limit helped prevent
overloading the server when all or most connections to the geodatabase were made through an application server running on the
same server as the geodatabase. Beginning with 10.3, there is no limitation imposed on the number of connections to new 10.3
geodatabases or geodatabases upgraded to the 10.3 release.
ArcGIS Data Store is a new component available with ArcGIS 10.3 for Server, which allows you to easily set up a highly available
enterprise geodatabase to store data for the hosted feature layers you publish to Portal for ArcGIS. See What's new in Portal for
ArcGIS 10.3 for more information.
Enterprise geodatabases in DB2 now use a DB2 functionMON_GET_CONNECTIONto clean up connections. Grant execute
privileges on this function to your geodatabase users rather than grant SYSMON authority them. Additionally, the sde user no
longer requires SYSMON authority to create or upgrade a geodatabase in DB2. See Privileges for geodatabases in DB2 for more
information.
Databases
ArcGIS now supports the 1.0 OGC GeoPackage format. When you create SQLite databases using the CreateSQLiteDatabase
ArcPy function, you now have the option to use the GeoPackage format. You can also add GeoPackage tables to an existing
SQLite database and connect to GeoPackages you create outside of ArcGIS.
You can connect from ArcGIS for Desktop to view subsets of data from ALTIBASE and SAP HANA databases. You can use the
data in your maps and perform analysis on the data.
You can view features with z-coordinates stored in Teradata 15.0 from ArcGIS 10.3.

Raster
There is a lot of new development within the core raster functionality. There are 12 new raster functions in the latest release. There
are new rendering capabilities to help render multidimensional data using the vector field renderer. Block adjustment tools have been
added to help you more accurately geolocate items within a mosaic dataset. The Frames Camera raster type is a new raster type that
you can use to add data from a supported frame camera. The Processing Templates tab for the mosaic dataset allows you to
manage the processing templates associated with your mosaic dataset. The latest Full Motion Video Add-In will be compatible with
this version of ArcGIS.
The 12 new raster functions that have been added are ArgStatistics Function, Curvature Function, Elevation Void Fill Function,
Python Raster Function, Recast Function, Resample Function, Segment Mean Shift Function, Statistics and Histogram Function,
Transpose Bits Function, Unit Conversion Function, Vector Field Function, and Vector Field Renderer Function.
The Python Adapter function allows you to convert your Python syntax into a raster function. This allows you to perform a Python
script on the fly, just like the other raster functions. This allows you to create custom functions, which you to chain them within a raster
function chain.
Multidimensional and scientific data can now be rendered using a vector field renderer, and can also be stored as a mosaic dataset.
The vector field renderer allows you to render either one variable as a scalar, or two variables with the vector field options. These
multidimensional datasets can be stored in a mosaic dataset , using one of the three new supported raster types: GRIB, HDF, and
netCDF. The mosaic dataset provides a great data structure to store multidimensional data, since it allows you to manage the time
and vertical dimensions.
The Vector Field renderer allows you to render multidimensional or scientific data. These data types have two variables to render and
requires a special renderer. You will have the ability to render magnitude and direction or a U and V variable set.
The Block Adjustment tools allow you to properly place your mosaic dataset items in the correct geographic location, taking both
ground control points and overlapped features into account. This will not only place your data in the correct location but will also deal

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with areas of overlap as well. The Block Adjustment Window provides a user interface for editing your control points for your block
adjustment.
The raster function template will be enhanced to support: three operation modes, a definition expression, and a new thumbnail. A
raster template can work in the following three modes: a regular function template that applies to a mosaic dataset or image service,
an item template that applies to a raster item, or an item group template that applies to a group of items, where the group is defined
by a group field name and tag field name. A raster function template can have a definition query, which further selects raster items
that are applicable to the template. A raster function template can have a picture to further describe what the template does.
The Frame Camera raster type allows you to add data to a mosaic dataset with the images from a supported frame camera. You
need to create a Frame Table and a Camera Table with the correct metadata in order to properly create the mosaic dataset. Once the
two tables are correctly populated, the raster type can be used to create a mosaic dataset that stores the meta information.
The Processing Template tab within the Mosaic Dataset Properties allows you to manage the processing templates associated with
your mosaic dataset. In the past, you were able to use a processing template with image services, but now you can use them on your
mosaic datasets as well.
The latest version of Full Motion Video is version 1.2 and it will be a compatible with this version of ArcMap. The Full Motion Video
allows you to play live streams of video or video files in your map.

Parcel editing
Regenerate fabric
The Regenerate Fabric command has been moved to the Parcel Editor menu on the Parcel Editing toolbar.

Load a Topology to a Parcel Fabric geoprocessing tool

The Load a Topology to a Parcel Fabric geoprocessing tool can be accessed from the parcel fabric context menu in the Catalog
window. Right-click a parcel fabric, point to Import, and click Parcels to run the tool.

Parcel construction
At ArcGIS 10.3, you can choose to merge collinear parcel line segments into a single straight line when building parcels from
construction lines. Parcel lines must be collinear; that is, there must be no bend angle at the points where the lines connect. Choose
Merge connected lines at points where there is no bend on the Advanced tab on the Parcel Editor Options dialog box.
The following improvements have been made to prevent building parcels with dangling lines, building sliver parcels, and building
parcels with inconsistent dimensions:
Construction points that lie very close to neighboring lines are detected and highlighted in the construction grid. These points
can be easily snapped to their closest neighboring line.

Inconsistent bearing and distance dimensions are highlighted in the construction grid.

Very short lines are highlighted in the construction grid.

Construction points are highlighted in the construction grid when the construction line does not connect to any other
construction line in the network.

Learn more about parcel construction improvements

Services
For a summary of new and improved functionality available in ArcGIS 10.3 for Server and ArcGIS 10.3 Web Adaptor, see What's new in
ArcGIS 10.3 for Server. For Portal for ArcGIS, see What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.3.

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Extensions
ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension

The LAS dataset now supports ZLAS & LAS 1.4 files.

Parallel decompression for Optimized LAS (zLAS) in ArcMap, ArcScene, and geoprocessing.

New default color ramps are used by the LAS dataset layer for elevation, return, and scan angle.

Esri Optimized LAS (zLAS) supports LAS 1.4.

ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server

ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor for Server is now called ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server.

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension

There are seven new Geoprocessing tools available for Spatial Analyst in ArcGIS 10.3.
Viewshed 2
The new Viewshed 2 tool determines raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features. This tool offers enhanced
functionality over the existing surface visibility tools (Observer Points, Visibility, and Viewshed) in the following areas:

This tool performs its calculations using geodesic methods.

Greatly improved performance for visibility analysis is possible with this tool on systems that have a GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit) available, provided that your machine has an appropriate NVIDIA graphics card with CUDA compute
capability 2.0 or opencl 1.2, and a current driver.

It optionally accommodates vertical uncertainty in the input surface and produces an observer-visible region relationship
table for up to 32 observers (points, multipoints or polylines) which can be related back to the input observer feature class.

Because this use of GPU processors is new to the ArcGIS system, please be sure to read carefully the How Viewshed 2 works help
topic along with the tool help. There is also is a technical article, FAQ: Release notes for the Viewshed 2 tool , which provides
more specific requirements and configuration details to help you get the maximum benefit from using this tool.
Segmentation and Classification toolset
With the Segmentation and Classification toolset, you can prepare segmented rasters to use in creating classified raster datasets.
The available tools are:

Classify Raster

Compute Segment Attributes

Segment Mean Shift

Train Iso Cluster Classifier

Train Maximum Likelihood Classifier

Train Vector Machine Classifier

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What's new in ArcGIS 10.3 for Server

ArcGIS 10.3 for Server includes stability enhancements and improved functionality throughout the product. For a list of issues that are
fixed in 10.3, see the 10.3 Issues Addressed List. For a summary of changes in the software, see the following sections.
It's recommended that you review the deprecation notice to determine if your hardware and software components are still compatible with
version 10.3. To review which earlier ArcGIS product versions are compatible with ArcGIS 10.3 for Server, see Compatibility of ArcGIS for
Server with earlier versions.

Monitor server statistics using ArcGIS Server Manager

ArcGIS Server records various service statistics, such as total requests, average response time, and timeouts, and reports this
information in ArcGIS Server Manager as one or a series of graphs. Administrators and publishers can use this information to monitor
service activity and better understand how clients are using services. To learn more, see About server statistics.

ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension stream services

The ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server exposes a new type of service, called the stream service, which emphasizes low latency,
real-time data dissemination, for client/server data flows. Clients connecting to a stream service begin receiving data immediately upon
subscribing to the service. Clients can specify and reconfigure both spatial and attribute constraints without first unsubscribing and then
reconnecting to the service.
To learn more, see Stream services.

Share 3D content using scene services

A scene service is a new type of ArcGIS Server web service originating from a 3D scene in ArcGIS Pro. It is one of the ways you can
share 3D content (via web scenes) to the web and your organization using ArcGIS. Web scenes are similar in concept to web maps.
However, instead of being powered by 2D map or feature services, they are powered by 3D scene services and give you access to 3D
content originally created in ArcGIS Pro. Client applications that consume web scenes include Portal for ArcGIS and Web Scene
Viewer.
For more information, see Scene services.

OGC WFS 2.0 support

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Services (WFS) you create and host on ArcGIS Server now support the WFS 2.0
specification. The ArcGIS Server implementation of the WFS 2.0 specification addresses the required features of the simple WFS
profile, transactions, response paging, and stored queries.
To learn more, see WFS services.

Check for available software updates

Esri periodically releases software updates and patches for all components of ArcGIS. Email notifications are sent out for each update
and announced on the Patches and Service Packs page on the Esri Support website. You can also check if updates are available using
a utility installed with the software. To get started, see Check for software updates.

Configure ArcGIS Server with your organization's highly available LDAP server
When you configure ArcGIS Server with your organization's LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) identity store, you can only
specify one LDAP server in ArcGIS Server Manager. If your organization includes multiple LDAP servers, you can specify the additional
servers using the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory. This allows you to configure your organization's highly-available LDAP with
ArcGIS Server. For full instructions, see Configuring a highly available LDAP with ArcGIS Server.

Preserve the layer and table IDs of map and feature services
In ArcGIS 10.2.2 for Server and earlier, the layer and table IDs of a map and feature services were not preserved after altering the
source map document. This required you to update any client applications consuming the service to use the updated layer and table
IDs.
In ArcGIS 10.3 for Server, you can now preserve the IDs of layers and tables in map and feature services. When you create or alter a
map document, an option is now available that automatically generates immutable IDs for each layer and table in the map document. If

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you select this option, the layer and table IDs are preserved after publishing or republishing; you are no longer required to alter client
applications that consume the map service. If desired, you can replace the auto-generated IDs with your own custom IDs.
For full instructions, see Map authoring considerations.

Limited Error Raster Compression method available for image services

Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC) is an efficient lossy compression method now available for image service caches. The format
is recommended for single-band or elevation data with a large pixel depth, such as float, 32-bit, 16-bit, or 12-bit data. LERC compresses
5 to 10 times faster than LZ77 for float data.
To learn more, see Available map and image cache properties.
Note: Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC) is only available for image services; map services are
not supported.

Performance improvements when consuming cached services

A new version of the compact cache storage format (v.2) has been developed to increase performance when consuming cached map
and image services. The new version has also reduced number of files created in the cache directory. This is achieved by including the
tile index information (.bundlx files) inside the .bundle files.
New compact caches created with ArcGIS 10.3 for Server will automatically use the new format. After you upgrade to 10.3, services
with compact caches generated in earlier versions will continue to work. You can continue to maintain these caches using the server
cache tools.
If you want your existing cache to leverage the new format, you'll need to upgrade the cache using the Upgrade Map Server Cache
Storage Format tool. Upgrading the cache does not create new tiles; instead, the files are reorganized to be compliant with the new
version. To learn how to use the tool, access the tool's help from the Server Toolbox in ArcGIS for Desktop.
Beta: As part of this release, the Upgrade Map Server Cache Storage Format tool is not available for testing in
ArcGIS Pro. Instead, use ArcGIS for Desktop. The Upgrade Map Server Cache Storage Format tool
performance will continue to be improved for the final release of 10.3.
Version 2 of the compact cache storage format is not backwards compatible with earlier versions of ArcGIS. For example, a compact
cache created or upgraded using version 10.3 cannot be transferred and consumed in an earlier version of the software. Version 2 of
the compact cache storage format is always expected to be associated with a service.
Note: Exporting a cache using the Export Map Server Cache tool will continue to use the old compact cache
storage format.

Disable browser caching of the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory

You can disable web browsers from caching any information that displays when navigating the pages of the ArcGIS Server
Administrator Directory. This behavior is controlled using the DisableAdminDirectoryCache property in the Administrator Directory. The
default value is true, meaning that browser caching is enabled. To disable browser caching, do the following:
1.

Open the Administrator Directory and log in as a user with administrator privileges. The URL is typically
http://gisserver.domain.com:6080/arcgis/admin.

2.

Click system > properties > update.

3.

In the Update Server Properties dialog box, enter the following:

{"DisableAdminDirectoryCache": true}

4.

Click Update.

To re-enable browser caching, set this property back to false.

Enhancements to ArcGIS Server for Amazon Web Services

The ArcGIS 10.3 Server for Amazon Web Services machine images (AMIs) include ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server. ArcGIS
GeoEvent Extension for Server enables real-time GIS for streaming data. It allows you to connect with virtually any type of streaming
data and automatically alert personnel when specified conditions occur. If your ArcGIS for Server license includes the GeoEvent

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Extension, you can use ArcGIS Server Cloud Builder on Amazon Web Services or the Amazon Web Services console to create a site
using the ArcGIS for Server AMIs.
Amazon introduced a multi-availability zone (multi-AZ) deployment for their Relational Database Services. Beginning with the ArcGIS
10.3 Server for Amazon Web Services machine images, this deployment is used by default when you include an Amazon Relational
Database Service for SQL Server instance with your site.
ArcGIS Server creates temporary files for certain types of services in a location referred to as the output directory. Temporary files are
also created by geoprocessing services to write information about jobs in process and their results. These are stored in the jobs
directory. Since these files are temporary, instances you create from ArcGIS Server Cloud Builder on Amazon Web Services are
created in directories on an ephemeral drive.

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What's new in Portal for ArcGIS 10.3

Portal for ArcGIS 10.3 includes stability enhancements and improved functionality throughout the product. For a list of issues fixed in 10.3,
see the 10.3 Issues Addressed List. For a summary of changes in the software, see the following sections.
Review the deprecation notice to determine if your hardware and software components are still compatible with version 10.3. To review
which earlier ArcGIS product versions are compatible with Portal for ArcGIS 10.3, see Portal compatibility with earlier versions of ArcGIS.

New supported languages

You can now display the portal website in Turkish or Thai. Administrators can set one of these languages for the entire organization.
Individual members can change their profiles to display the website in one of these languages just for them.

Create applications using Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS

The Portal for ArcGIS website now includes an embedded interactive application for designing and building web applications from your
web maps. Applications you create with Web AppBuilder require no programming knowledge and are HTML based, meaning they work
on desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones without needing a plugin. Web AppBuilder comes with a variety of themes you can
customize and widgets that allow you to deliver advanced functionality, such as high-quality printing, geoprocessing, editing, and
search.

Work with maps offline

You can take maps and data offline to view, collect, and update features when you are disconnected from the Internet. Use Collector for
ArcGIS to download maps and view, collect, and edit data. Manage map content on your device and synchronize changes when you
reconnect.

Stream live data to your portal

With ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server, you can create services from ArcGIS GeoEvent Manager that connect to data sensors to
stream real-time data through a stream service. You can add stream services to your portal content, and use these real-time data feeds
as layers in maps and applications.

Create presentations
Publish hosted tiles from a hosted feature layer
You can publish a tile layer from an existing hosted feature layer. This is useful if you do not have ArcGIS products installed locally. For
example, you can publish a CSV file as a feature layer, and then publish that feature layer as a tile layer.

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Create and share three-dimensional content

At ArcGIS 10.3, you can create web scenes that contain global basemaps and your own three- and two-dimensional layers.

Create and publish web scenes

You can author and publish 3D maps, known as web scenes, either using ArcGIS Pro or in Portal for ArcGIS. Your web scenes can
contain both 2D and 3D data. Web scenes are hosted on your portal and are therefore available for consumption across the ArcGIS
platform. New web layers (scene layers) are also created on your portal. This allows you to author additional web scenes using
existing web layers.

Consume web scenes

You can view web scenes in the scene viewer in the portal website, in browsers, in applications on mobile devices, and in desktop
applications such as ArcGIS Pro. You can also embed the scene viewer inside your own custom app or web page, allowing you to
build a web page with your own content and styling.

Share multipatch 3D objects

A new service and portal layer typea scene service, which is stored in your portal as a scene layeris available at 10.3. Scene
services support publishing and consuming large volumes of multipatch features, such as buildings for entire cityscapes. Multipatch
layers are automatically published as this service type when publishing from a scene in ArcGIS Pro.
To publish scene layers, your portal must use ArcGIS Data Store.

Share 3D symbolized points, lines, and polygons

At 10.3, 3D points, lines, and polygons can be published as feature layers with associated symbology.
Feature layers are currently limited in their scalability for 3D features; therefore, you should only publish smaller datasets (fewer than
2,500 features) at this time. Esri plans to release an updated service type for 3D features in a subsequent release that will improve
both performance and scalability.

Share elevation surface data

At ArcGIS 10.3, a specialized imagery service type was added for publishing elevation surface data. This new image service type
leverages a specialized storage mechanism designed specifically to handle tiles of elevation content that need to connect together
through multiple levels of detail.
Publish high-resolution elevation data as a specialized image service from ArcMap 10.3. The image service must use a Web Mercator
spatial reference, and it must be cached. The tile format of the cache must be set to LERC, which is an optimized elevation data
compression format. You can then consume the elevation layer inside ArcGIS Pro as an elevation source, and publish your web
scene from there. You can also add the elevation layer directly to the scene viewer in Portal for ArcGIS.

Register custom applications

You can now register OAuth 2.0-based custom apps with Portal for ArcGIS. This allows developers to create custom applications that
work with maps and layers from the registered portal.
You can continue to log in to Portal for ArcGIS from apps that do not use OAuth 2.0, but you cannot register them.

Create a list of favorites

You can create a list of favorites from items you find through search and the gallery, and that you've added through My Content. Mark
an item as a favorite by clicking the star icon that appears in the upper left corner of the item's thumbnail. You can also search for
favorites when you add layers to a map. View your list in a new My Favorites section of the gallery.

Open operation views

You can open operation views in the web dashboard in Portal for ArcGIS. Load the operation view as an item to your portal, open the
view's item details, and click Open > Open in Operations Dashboard (Browser) to open the view in your portal.

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Gallery enhancements
The gallery has been redesigned to help you find your organization's featured content and items you have designated as favorites. The
gallery also includes better tools for sorting and filtering items.

Content enhancements
The following new file types can be added to My Content:
Layer (.lyrx)

File geodatabase (.zip)

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Drawing (.zip)

Layout (.pagx)

Pro Map (.mapx)

iWork Keynote (.zip)

iWork Numbers (.zip)

iWork Pages (.zip)

When you add a file geodatabase to My Content, you have the option to publish the supported contents of the file geodatabase as a
feature layer. Supported layer types are two-dimensional feature classes, nonspatial tables, relationship classes, and attachments.
Several enhancements have been made to item details.

When you add a CSV file or image file to your portal and share it with everyone (public), the details page displays the URL. Use
the URL to reference the file as a layer in web apps and pop-ups.

Members with privileges to add content to the portal can enable delete protection on the items they do not want accidentally
removed from the site, for example, layers within featured maps and maps within featured apps.

You can edit the URL of an ArcGIS Server service layer you've moved to a different server.

Authors choose whether or not to allow others to save a copy of their map. Set save as option from within the edit mode of the
map item details page.

Hosted feature layer owners and portal administrators can export data from hosted feature layers to CSV or shapefiles (.zip). As
the owner of a hosted feature layer, you can choose whether nonadministrators can download data.

Map viewer enhancements

The following new functionality is available in the portal map viewer.

Search

When adding layers to your map, you can search for layers from your favorites.

You can now configure feature search on layers in your map. This allows people to locate features on your map using the
search box at the top of the map viewer. For example, you could enable search on your parcel layer so users could find
specific parcels. Map users select the parcel layer in the search box and enter the parcel ID they want to find, and the map
zooms to the parcel and shows a pop-up with attribute information.

If your portal uses the World Geocoding Service or if the portal administrator has configured the portal to use a geocode
service that is enabled for suggestions, the geocoder in the map viewer suggests matches as you type an address or place. If
you do not use one of the geocoder's suggested locations when you search and find that the location on the map isn't what
you wanted, click the Not what you wanted? link in the window and choose a different location from the list.

Layers

Authors can make a copy of a layer in their map; configure different properties on the copied layer, such as pop-ups and
symbols; and save the layer as a new item. You can also save layers you import to your map, such as CSV and map notes.
Saved layers become referenced in the map, and changes made from the map are saved in the item if you are the item
owner.

There is no longer a 1,000-record limit when adding GeoRSS layers or GPX, CSV, or text files containing latitude and
longitude values to the map viewer.

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You can set a refresh interval on CSV layers from the web that contain latitude and longitude fields. Enabling a refresh
interval keeps your maps in sync with the latest data while the map is open. For example, you could set a refresh interval of
five minutes on a live earthquake layer and the earthquake data would update every five minutes while the map was open.

The Esri basemap system has been further optimized for even higher performance and scalability. The upgrade also includes
support for WMTS access to the maps as well as support for tile resampling, in which most Map data not yet
available tiles have been replaced with resampled map tiles from the most detailed level available.

You can drag layers in the Contents pane to change their order.

Map layout

Members can set the map units they see for the scale bar, measure tool, and directions by editing their profile page.

Time-enabled layers include an option to disable the time animation so the time slider does not appear on the map.

More options are available to change symbols. You can now set rotation angle on point symbols by an angle in a field
allowing the symbol to reflect a direction, for example, the direction the wind is blowing or a vehicle is traveling. New symbols
have been added that are appropriate for indicating a direction or heading. To help show the relative size of your data,
normalize your data based on percent of total or by a field such as area. You can vary the width of lines to show, for example,
the volume of traffic along highways, and use size to display a graduated point symbol over a polygon to show, for example,
population values. You can also now change single symbols in single-layer GeoRSS layers.

Three new collections of symbols and map notes templates are available for showing the location of natural disasters,
infrastructure, and infrastructure damage.

Authors can add text symbols to their map when using map notes layers with the Map Notes, Park Planning, or Recreation
template.

You can now create labels for features in a layer. To display labels for a layer, select one or more attributes you want to show,
for example, the name or type of feature. The map viewer automatically places labels on the map on or near the features they
describe. You can control the text size, color, and style to help differentiate labels from different layers.

You can now configure pop-ups to show related data in your map layers. Related data is shown in a table at the bottom of the
map. Create data relationships in ArcGIS for Desktop and publish the data to your portal or ArcGIS for Server (version 10.1 or
later is required).

Directions

Walking directions are now available.

You can have up to 20 destinations in the directions you create in the map viewer.

A new Route All Features option on the layer menu is available for point layers. This option allows you to add the points as
the origin and destinations for directions. If the layer includes a sequence field, the points are ordered based on this field.

General map viewer

The map viewer includes guided tours to help you learn how to make and style a map. The tours appear in the About panel
when signed in to the portal with an account that has privileges to create items. For the best experience, follow each step of
the tour.

A simplified map viewer opens if you are not signed in to the portal. This makes it easier to explore maps for casual,
anonymous users. The simplified viewer includes such functionality as the ability to show tables, edit features, change
symbols, share, and view data through time.

You can add layers or configure pop-ups in the map viewer even when you are not signed in to the portal by clicking Modify
Map. However, you cannot save the map if you are not signed in to the portal. The Modify Map option is not present if the
author of the map you opened has enabled save as protection on the map.

World Geocoding Service has been enhanced for ten countries, including new mile markers for Puerto Rico and address
points in Singapore, India, and Thailand.

New and improved app templates

Web app templates have been optimized to improve loading and speed. In addition, the following app templates are new or changed in
Portal for ArcGIS 10.3:

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Find, Edit, and Filter is a new configurable app template that allows you to search for features, edit, set attribute values, and
filter content.

Summary Viewer is a new configurable app template that summarizes the numeric attributes of features in a specified
operational layer within the visible map area. The summaries can be configured to show the sum, average, minimum, and
maximum of specified field values.

Panels is a new configurable application template that allows you to display an ArcGIS web map with a legend, description, and
basic map tools.

Public Information is a new, fully configurable mapping app that allows you to incorporate content from social media sites.

Parcel Viewer has been renamed to Finder to reflect that it is useful for more than just parcel searches.

Elevation Profile is a configurable application template used to display the elevation profile for a selected feature or a measured
line along a web map.

Legend is a new version of the retired Legend template (see the next bullet list for retired templates). The new Legend template
has more configuration options than the retired template, such as multiple color schemes, a configurable header and footer,
control over the legend and description location, and the ability to enable location searches.

Map Journal is a configurable story map app template that allows you to present a map-based narrative organized into a set of
journal entries. It is designed for creating compelling multimedia stories that combine text, graphics, and maps, especially where
you have a lot of text and detail you want to convey. You can specify what the maps will show and how they will behave as
people read through your journal. Two different layout options are provided. The app includes an interactive builder for helping
you configure your own story.

Local Perspective is a new configurable app template for highlighting features from a map based on a user-selected location or
address. In addition to your data, you can include demographics, lifestyle, and live weather information, and enable driving
directions.

The Basic Viewer, Simple Map Viewer, and Filter templates now support feature search.

Due to the popularity of the original Basic Viewer, the original version has been renamed to Classic Viewer and is still available
in the default map viewer template gallery.

The following templates have been retired:

ElevationsProfile

Legend

GPX

Header & Footer

One Pane

Two Panel

You can still use a retired template to create and publish apps by sharing them (and any other Esri template) to your custom template
gallery.

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