Event LYR files supported in AGX?

Question

The Question:

Are event theme layers supported in AGX?

The Background:

So I am coming into AGX from an analyst???s point of view. I am in the process of getting our IT department to roll out AGX to 50+ computers so some GIS analysis can be done without requiring  the users go to our GIS labs.

We have a table that currently lives in Access. I have created numerous event themes (with definition queries to filter the results) with symbology and saved them out as LYR files that are easily accessible in ArcView and higher licenses of ArcGIS.

These layers files do not seem to pull up in AGX. I???ve tried porting the table to a file gdb, recreating the layers and it still didn???t work I???ve also stripped the symbology and the definition queries to no avail.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

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EricFinnen · Answer

Mike

Thanks for the heads up. I already have some python scripts set up to run nightly which do some slicing and dicing of other datasets. I guess I'll just throw a couple of extra lines in there to export the event themes to feature classes parked in a fGDB and tell my users everything will be current as of 0300 that morning (and gets remade every night).

Event theme layers certianly would be a nice function though! I'll login and suggest it.

No biggie. Thanks for the heads up though.

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MichaelBranscomb · Answer

Hi,

Unfortunately Event Layers are not supported directly in ArcGIS Explorer. The alternative is to create a Layer Package of your Event Layer within ArcMap then use that within ArcGIS Explorer. However this will make a physical spatial dataset (e.g. a File GDB Feature Class) within the Layer Package which is then read by ArcGIS Explorer - it will not be reading the original table.

If you feel direct support for XY Event layers should be available in ArcGIS Explorer you can suggest the idea at ArcGIS Ideas: https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaList?category=ArcGIS+Explorer

Regards

Mike

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EricFinnen · Answer

Hi,
Problem are in 2D view or 3D ?
Did you load lyr file in local or with GIS Server?

Apologize for the late reply (I had not gotten an email indicating my thread had been replied to)

Issues exists in 2D and 3D

LYR file loaded locally (from network drive), we do not have ArcGIS Server stood up here (insert *sigh*)

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