Programatically open georeferencing tab, read georeferencing tool data on completion

Question

I am developing a tool to assist GIS Techs in the process of georeferencing thousands of scanned maps.

I need to:

1)  add the .tiff to the map with a button click (done)

2)  open the georeferencing toolbar automatically

The code below doesnt seem to do anything.   I cannot get any tab /ribbon to activate with this code.   Is there a different way of achieving this?

FrameworkApplication.ActivateTab("esri_mapping_georeference_GeoreferenceTab");

3)  execute the command  "esri_mapping_georeferenceing_StartSessionButton"

The code below does not seem to run.   CanExecute is returning False.   But, when I try different commands such as esri_mapping_georeference_MoveButton, Command.Execute doesn't do anything.

var commandId = @esri_mapping_georeferenceing_StartSessionButton;
 // get the ICommand interface from the ArcGIS Pro Button
 // using command's plug-in wrapper
 var iCommand = FrameworkApplication.GetPlugInWrapper(commandId) as ICommand;
 if (iCommand != null)
 {
 // Let ArcGIS Pro do the work for us
 if (iCommand.CanExecute(null)) iCommand.Execute(null);
 }

How do I programatically execute built in commands in the georeferencing area?    I read a different post that says sometimes you may have to activate a parent item before the child is accessible.  If that is true, how do I determine what the parents are?

4)   After the  user does the georeferencing, I want to read the data from the georeferencing tool window (such as rotation, origin coordinates, scale).  Is this possible to hook into the built in tools to control them / read their data?

Thank you very much for any assistance.   I am trying lots of things and reading all I can find but I am missing something as I can't get anything to run.   New to Pro, familiar with ArcObjects and WPF.

Relevant daml ids:

Name: Selected map has an active georeferencing edit session.
ID: esri_mapping_SceneGeoreferenceCondition

Name: Close Georeference
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_CloseSessionButton
Name: Elevate To Ground
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_ElevateToGroundButton
 Name: Import
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_LoadControlPointsButton
Name: Move To Display
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_MoveToDisplayButton
 Name: Reset
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_ResetButton
 Name: Save As New
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_SaveAsButton
 Name: Save
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_SaveButton
 Name: Save To Workspace
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_SaveToWorkspaceButton
 Name: Georeference
ID: esri_mapping_georeferenceing_StartSessionButton

Name: Move
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_MoveButton
 Name: Rotate
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_RotateButton
 Name: Scale
ID: esri_mapping_georeference_ScaleButton

UmaHarano · Answer

Hi Roy,The existing Pro tools cannot be modified - But using the Pro SDK and the public API, you can make your own tools though.

Thanks

Uma

RoyJackson2 · Answer

Thank you Uma for the reply.   It turn out that the georeferencing tab was getting activated, but there was a setting that we had to change to make it appear:

FrameworkApplication.IsRibbonMinimized = false;The code didn't look like anything was happening until this changed.  The main outstanding question on this topic is - When running tools that are built into pro, such as georeferencing tools - is it possibly to use the SDK to read what the tool is doing, and alter its behaviour during execution?       I see the samples showing how to call a custom tool, and even calling some commands right after the command is executed, but I don't see examples for digging into InformationOverlayViewModel Class as an example to read the data / trigger additional logic.  Thank you again for the reply.

UmaHarano · Answer

Hi Roy

Have you tried selecting your tiff layer on the TOC (contents pane) before trying to activate the Georeference tab?

You can activate a layer in the TOC programmatically using the SelectLayer method on the MapView.

Here is the API Reference topic on this method. There is a code snippet in this topic: SelectLayers

Pro is contextual, so the Georeference tab will only be displayed if the selected layer in the TOC is a raster layer.

Regarding DAML Ids for buttons and tools, I find that using the "Show command IDs on Screen Tips" option is the most convenient way.

Thanks

Uma