{"id":81601,"date":"2018-01-10T11:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/whats-new-in-arcgis-enterprise-documentation\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:16:20","slug":"whats-new-in-arcgis-enterprise-documentation","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/announcements\/announcements\/whats-new-in-arcgis-enterprise-documentation","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s new in ArcGIS Enterprise documentation?"},"author":6181,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101],"tags":[29901,29911],"industry":[],"product":[36571],"class_list":["post-81601","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-documentation","tag-help","product-arcgis-enterprise"],"acf":{"short_description":"The ArcGIS Enterprise documentation team is really excited to announce we\u2019ve redesigned our web help experience for 10.6. 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