Idea for all Help documentation, accross product lines: give us examples!

Julia van Ravenswaaij

June 30, 2023 13:15

Examples in the help documentation, such as screenshots of the actual workflow functions, or code snippets are severly lacking and sorely needed. These are essential to many of us in order to understand exactly what the tools / commands are expecting. Especially since the errors tend to be incredibly vague, if they're even shown.

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  Stefan Schweigert

  June 30, 2023 15:31

  Hi Julia,

  Thanks for your feedback. Could you provide more details about what would be helpful; Web or Mobile, which activities have been problematic, and possibly some specifics on the errors that we could improve on?

  Stefan

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  Julia van Ravenswaaij

  July 03, 2023 07:37

  Hi Stefan,

  In my case, Web would be most helpful. Run command is the first activity that pops to mind, but in general all activities could benefit from examples - take a look at the Esri toolset documentation for a few ideas. 
  Here's an example of an error:
  I know now that I was missing "value.numeric" at the end, but it took me longer than I would've liked to figure that one out. It would've been really helpful to know what value was expected, in addition to what was not. 

  Cheers,
  Julia

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