Latest Contributions by BrettRosso

Hi all! I work for a local government in which we're looking to achieve some goals around our reconcile and post process. Specifically timing and how to ensure we don't have conflicts (and if we do the best way to manage them). I am curious how other organizations' schedules are with reconcile and post and how you currently managing it.   Background info: We have a fairly simple version tree as shown below. We currently have an automated python script that does our reconcile and post at 5:30am on Wednesday mornings. It does everything we need it to do but in the last year with more editors we've had a lot more conflicts between child versions and default to child versions for various reasons. We all know conflicts happen but unfortunately for us we have an asset management system that cannot have our python script re-run after conflicts occur because it disconnects our users and causes and issue with services rebooting *different topic for another time*. Therefore when we have conflicts it causes us headaches because if we allow users to continue editing, its can continue to cause problems that (I can expand further if need be) Therefore our goal is to be conflict-free ahead of the automated script on late Tuesday afternoons in which we plan on doing a manual reconcile and post to default and not allow anyone to edit after it is complete so that the automated reconcile and post can do the other tasks such as deleting versions, compressing, rebuild indexes, etc. Does anyone have a better idea than what I proposed above? We initially were thinking of doing a manual reconcile and post on Friday afternoons but we worried about editors editing the same features which can happen and cause a conflict. Any thoughts would be awesome. Thanks for reading!   ... View more

Hi, We're reaching out to see if anyone has received the following error message in the geoprocessing log from an auto reconcile script where you receive an error message saying The item does not have a definition. after the reconcile version fails. ----------------------------------- [11/17/2021 5:33:10 AM] Starting reconcile. [11/17/2021 5:33:13 AM] Reconciling version SDE.CHILD with SDE.PARENT [11/17/2021 5:33:16 AM] Warning: Error reconciling version SDE.CHILD.[ The item does not have a definition. The item does not have a definition.] [11/17/2021 5:33:16 AM] 1 of 1 versions finished. [11/17/2021 5:33:16 AM] Finished reconcile. --------------------------------------   If anyone has an idea of what this error is meaning or encountered it before, I'd appreciate it! Working with ESRI tech support now but not coming up with anything definite.   Brett Rosso, GISP City of Longmont  ... View more

We installed ArcGIS Maps for Office last summer and had an issue with just normally copy and pasting from one cell to another. When copy and pasting it will give you a ')' in the cell. I uninstalled ArcGIS Maps for Office and it's still doing the same thing. I believe it's corrupted my Microsoft Office. ... View more

@scott ball After installing ArcGIS maps for office i've encountered quite a few issues: 1) I can no longer copy and paste from one cell to another all I get in the destination cell is: I cannot figure out what it is going on. I put a helpdesk ticket in but haven't gotten a reply back yet. 2) When I am doing things like switching to different sheets in a workbook, or simply trying to exit out of excel I get this really great error: There is really no rhyme or reason for when this error shows up.  I am about to the point where I am just going to uninstall ArcGIS Maps for Office so I can do simple things like cut and paste again. This did not happen before I installed AMFO. Here is what I am running: ... View more

Hello, I am trying to see if this new ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud is in some sense competing with Avenza's MAPublisher tools. I couldn't get ESRI to give me an answer but I believe the functionality is somewhat the same from what I have seen thus far. Can anyone give me any further consultation whether MAPublisher has tools or functionality that ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud would not have? Thank you! Brett Rosso ... View more

During a recent discovery, ESRI tech support and I found that there is no ability using ArcGIS collector app to create multi part features. This would be very helpful for us in our weed spraying efforts as sometimes the polygons need to represent one record, not each individually. The workaround has been to create a merge_ID field that we know that these particular polygons need merged into one record. It would be nice for them to be able to do this while out in the field. Thanks, Brett Rosso, GISP Sr. GIS Mapping Technician City of Longmont, Colorado ... View more

I was wondering if it would be possible to add some logic into the table to domain tool to do the following: Recognize unique values (i.e within a feature class) to create a domain from. Currently will 99999 error stating that there is already a value for that table. Also, by stating that it is a text field so that a text to text domain can be established.  Thanks, Brett   ... View more

Hello, We are trying to create a tool that iterates through a list of commonly edited feature classes in our SDE and based on the field LAST_EDITOR and LAST_UPDATE, it should export the records that have been edited within a version in the last 7 days. We have got the process down to do single feature exports but we would like to have an end product in python that we can have windows scheduler run weekly prior to our reconcile and post process. The problem I am having is in model builder, I am not sure if my 'Iterate Multivalue' iterator is actually running through each time. We are also going to have a problem with the output name of the file geodatabase we're running the feature class backups to after one time running through will have the same name and thus will most likely error out. We thought of adding a timestamp to the export name everytime it's ran. After a session with an ESRI analyst on the phone we figured out that the modelbuilder tool must be ran through ArcGIS as when the expression is applied it can only be exported to a feature layer first, then to a feature class. The python script is attached to this post. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you, Brett Rosso GIS Mapping Technician City of Longmont, Colorado [ATTACH=CONFIG]26307[/ATTACH] ... View more

I was wondering if anyone could help me on a labeling VB expression that took duplicate values, say from an address field, and assigned a number of how many duplicate values there are to that point. The point in my case would be a water meter attached to a parcel that has many water meters with the same address, but needs a label saying how many there are in that parcel. I would appreciate any help. Thanks so much, Brett Rosso *Here is the code that I have wrote so far, that i cannot get to work because im not a professional code writer. Function FindLabel ( [ADDRESS] ) FindLabel = Counter ( [ADDRESS] ) End Function Function Counter (address) Dim PATTERN, Reg_exp Set reg_exp = New RegExp reg_exp.Execute = True PATTERN = "\s{23,}" '23 max characters in the Address field reg_exp.pattern = PATTERN result = PATTERN.items.count Counter = result End Function *I am trying it through a spatial join at the moment, but will still accept help on creating an expression. ... View more