Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online is consistently a TOP app in the ArcGIS marketplace. We like to think the success of the tools has largely been the result of the community input and user contributed suggestions received from GIS professionals around the world.
To support our users, we are constantly improving, enhancing, and updating the tools, adding functionality that YOU are asking for. Part of our commitment to our user community is to provide regular updates to the Tools. These will come relatively quietly, often without users even noticing. These updates are seamless and will be available to users when they provision Admin Tools to do their work. Most recently, Admin Tools was updated in June (R. 1.2) and in January (R 1.1) – you can expect 1.3 to come very soon! At release 1.2 the updates addressed several fixes and added some features and even more functionality. This made the Tools even more useful and valuable to our growing user base (now more than 4,500+ organizations strong).
So, let us have a quick look at 5 more useful Tools that you can take advantage of with Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online:
Bulk Update Content Status as Authoritative or Deprecated
Set content status for items as Authoritative or Deprecated is very simple and will help to maintain the integrity of your data warehouse. Best of all, you can apply this status change in bulk to all your data!
Filter / Search content by Content Status (Authoritative/
Filtering now filters content by Content Status (Authoritative/
Update Thumbnail Images (New in 1.2)
Having custom thumbnail images is important for keeping your data organized, is a great idea for branding, and helps users of AGOL who are searching for maps, data and apps. By branding your data with a custom thumbnail, you’ll find data easier to locate and it will also be more appealing to users searching ArcGIS Online for public data sources. See HERE for more on creating thumbnails.
Clone Items to Organization
In a recent update, we fixed an issue where cloning web maps with multiple feature layers contained feature layers with incorrect layer indexes (See more about cloning). Most noteworthy, Cloning continues to be the most powerful Tool we have and is a great reason for many to license Admin Tools Pro!
Resize Map Extents
Imagine this, you’ve created a number of maps and apps; however, the extent of the project area or area of interest has changed. Finally, you can easily and quickly alter the extents of your maps and apps using this Tool – Woot!
Want more? The 10 Most Frequently Used Tools Supporting ArcGIS Online Administrators
Interested in Trying Admin Tools?
Admin tools is designed to result in considerable time savings for users, easily enabling customers of the Professional version to quickly justify the small expense. The suite provide some 60+ tools (90% of these tools are bundled in the Free version) that greatly simplify routine tasks. Best of all, Admin Tools is available to GIS administrators and other GIS professionals in Free, Pro, and for Portal (enterprise, on-premise) and can be found in the ArcGIS marketplace (marketplace.arcgis.com)
To Get admin Tools:
- Admin Tools (Free) – marketplace.arcgis.com/
listing.html? id=c34019b0623041608df4d06970a7a96a - Admin Tools (Pro) – marketplace.arcgis.com/
listing.html? id=4b9205d08a42413085a17ca91b97e3c7 - Admin tools (Portal) on premise – Contact us directly for details
Which Version of Admin Tools is right for you?
