I'm not signed into another Esri account on Firefox when attempting this, just my Community account. I have one tab with the the Community page, then open another tab to view the SDK page.
In Firefox (v 87) I am getting signed out of my Esri login when I open one of the developer pages. For example, I am logged onto the Community and open the ArcGIS Pro SDK page. The page opens for a second, then I get the message that I am signed out. If I go back to the Community site, I am logged out of that also.
I have tried this in Chrome (v 89.0.4389.114) and when I open the SDK page, it logs me in with my Community credentials.
Sorry to hear you're experiencing that. In Firefox you are only signed in with one Esri account in the same browser session as typically multiple account sign ins during the same session can lead to the sign out experience you described.
I'm not signed into another Esri account on Firefox when attempting this, just my Community account. I have one tab with the the Community page, then open another tab to view the SDK page.
OK thanks for confirming. I'll do some further investigation on our side to replicate so we can share with our support team for investigation.
weirdly... I am getting signed out of the help documention and then it goes into an endless loop. It may be because I am on Pro 2.8 beta 1, but I am using web help, not local help
Thanks Dan, can you confirm if this is in Firefox or Chrome or any browser you try?
Edge .... Louise
Thanks @KenBuja and @DanPatterson I was able to replicate the issue in Firefox earlier and have been working with internal Esri teams on this issue. I've just performed a retest and am now not able to replicate it in either Edge or Firefox. Their recommendation was to clear cookies and local storage on the Pro site and try again. Can you let me know if you still see the issue your side please?
clearing cookies works once... then I can get to the Help documents.
I log out and start Help from a bookmark ...
https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/main/welcome-to-the-arcgis-pro-app-help.htm
and it redirects me somewhere trying to log me in or out depending on its mood and I have to shut it down.
As for .... and local storage on the Pro site .... I don't store anything other than on my local machine. Are you referring to something in my c:\Users folder??
I also have a real active Licence.log file in my C:\Users\... me ... \AppData\Local\ESRI_Licensing\Logs
folder.
No clue why it is checking for my license multiple times, especially since I only opened Pro up twice today.
Thanks for retesting. Further information from our teams:
Can you clear local storage as seen in the screenshot below? This is in Firefox.
Also, could you sign out of esri.com/arcgis.com and then retry signing back in after clearing cookies and local storage (just once), you should be set up for using the arcgis.com sites without having to do this again.
Let us know if this works.
What was the issue?
It seems to work... but it isn't Friday yet
Thanks for this information I've shared that internally and some additional investigation is taking place. Will report back.
Success was short lived.
The wonkiness is back.
Was something "done" to bring this on?
I shared that screenshot back with our teams earlier and there is a fix planned for deployment. I am awaiting confirmation on planned timescale to go live and then will let you know when to go back and retest.
Thanks Louise ... guess I will have to rely on my memory of URL links in the help files in the interim
At least they all start with 'http' or something
With the flashes on the screen, it also seems to be checking as to whether I am logged in or not and seems to be hitting US/Canadian border issue.
Why would Pro's help be checking for credentials in the first place?
Does this mean help is going to be limited to people with esri accounts?
Reporting my latest tests. Yesterday, I cleared out the cookies and checked local storage. I didn't have any entries for pro.arcgis.com. I logged onto Community, then opened the ArcGIS Pro SDK page, which logged me onto the same username.
Today, I logged onto Community, then opened ArcGIS Pro. Then I opened the SDK page and was automatically signed out. I still don't see pro.arcgis.com in my local storage.
Thanks for the updates on the errors still being seen. I am still awaiting confirmation on deployment date from our internal teams for the fix and once that's in place I'll ask for you both to retest and report back experience.
The fix for this problem was implemented today. If you continue to see the problem, clearing the cache once should fix it permanently at this point. Sorry for the trouble. We want the documentation to be available to everyone on the web without the need to log in. Thank you for reporting the issue and for troubleshooting.
@KenBuja Can you try this again, there was a fix deployed that should help. Let me know if you are still seeing issues. Thanks!