Latest Contributions by ERIASGroup

Sorry, but can you clarify LODs? It's an acronym for what exactly? I am trying to find what you are referring to...! ... View more

Agree with the above: 1. Scrolling should be clear so we can see passing values - it is easy to find 'out of place' or inconsistent values by eye. Please do not grey out the tables values - when scanning by eye the field name is less important to us than to see the field values. There is little need to use a find or search function when we do not know what the 'odd' value is. In fact it's faster to find unusual values, etc. by eye than it is to find or search for 'unknown' field values. 2. Agree, the scrolling of the attribute tables is clunky. When clicking it, it just pauses, then skips across a bit, then stops, then skips. We cannot smoothly scroll, especially horizontally. This is with small tables too - 10 to hundreds of rows only. 3. Agree, we find ourselves always having ArcCatalog open to do this basic things - just too many hiccups and disconnected steps with Pro to get the simple stuff done.  ... View more

Just started the painful process of using ArcGIS 'Pro' (Ahem...). Naturally, we thought it would just be there. Why is it not functional directly in Pro (v2.4.2) by now? Reiterating the above, we use these all day long with °, ³, ² etc. Cannot type them directly into fields, aliases or in layer names via the property. And to have to cut and paste every time is ridiculous. So much basic functionality still not transferred from ArcMAP...  ... View more

Answering my own question: Oh, put the cursor on the last line with three dots and again hit enter to execute. It then printed the results below the script. Great! Now to get it to Excel...  ... View more

Hi. This appears to be exactly what I need right now. I do not know Python properly but when I open the Python window in ArcCatalog, under the 'Geoprocessing' menu, I add this code to the blank window (after the >>>) then changed the line at env.workspace to point to my gdb but then what? I hit enter (to execute) but nothing happens? How do I find if it did anything or see the results as a list (as shown above)? I think I just don't know how to run Python. Any tips please would be great! Thanks. ... View more

Hi Kory, Thank you for your detailed responses. I have responded in agreement with your comments. I think there is a need for the best of both worlds where users can choose the viewing scheme they deem most suitable. I find it difficult if I cannot see everything at once – I prefer to see all items exploded, always, but also because to continually re-select folders/databases each time you want to view its contents is too laborious. “For example, if they have a folder connection to a folder that contains a file geodatabase and they have everything expanded, are they in the project's Databases container or the project's Folder container?” I would have thought the blue/grey highlight upon selection is enough to tell the user where they are? “In thinking through this, I started wondering if we could get the best of both worlds. What if there were a mode of the Catalog View's Contents pane that made it clear which project container you're in and still allowed you to browse a tree view. Something like the Toggle Contents Panel functionality of the Catalog window in ArcMap” I think the fact that active folders or geodatabases – one that is currently selected – are already highlighted blue/grey (below) is enough for most users to indicate where you are in the tree and where the contents being displayed reside. And the way the screen is split (see below) as shown in ArcCatalog in an ArcMap session is smart/helpful. That same view (via the Toggle Contents Panel) would be good to have in ArcCatalog itself - I haven’t seen that myself. I’m sure there will be no further development with ArcCatalog now though (?). Many thanks again. Regards, Grant Grant Dickins Senior Spatial Consultant Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 13-25 Church Street Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia T +61 3 9208 6700 M +61 410 183 304 www.eriasgroup.com ... View more

Hi Kory, Thank you for your responses and clarifications. I have been trying to think of other  items I got hung up on when using Catalog in Pro, as compared to how we’d normally do things in ArcCatalog. One workflow thing that I can’t seem to get around is when we have Catalog open in Pro I can see in the left Contents pane, under Project, which lists items including ‘Folders’. By double clicking ‘Folders’ I can  then go down and successively open each folder until I see the actual GDBs I want to work with. But how to see all GDBs in the tree, as is shown in ArcCatalog? It appears we can only view one GDB at a time? The point being, in ArcCatalog we can view all GDBs cascaded open showing all their feature datasets and classes in one view. In Catalog in Pro we can only view the contents of one GDB at a time? That sounds terribly inefficient but I’m not sure how to replicate the navigation in Pro. I provide these two screen shots as a guide to what I am explaining (please do not share these images externally): The ‘traditional’ ArcCatalog view – multiple GDB contents in view at once – ideal and compact. The Catalog view in Pro with the same contents as above – only a single GDB contents viewable at once? The only way to open all views is in separate windows – too many windows to do the same thing – the desktop is full of unneeded windows. Regards, Grant Grant Dickins Senior Spatial Consultant Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 13-25 Church Street Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia T +61 3 9208 6700 M +61 410 183 304 www.eriasgroup.com ... View more

Hi Kory, I am replying by email because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reply on the forum – I see the conversation but the ‘Action’ button does nothing? To your question, I have added databases to the ArcGIS Pro Catalog pane/view (?) and can see a tree of content like in ArcCatalog. Our normal usage is to have ArcCatalog open to view the Catalog Tree at left the window and the Contents/Preview/Description tabs at right – where we view the data itself, including attributes. How can we view the data similarly in ArcGIS Pro Catalog view/pane – so we can see the attributes and preview the geometry? I see that in ArcGIS Pro’s Catalog view/pane by right clicking a GDB or feature class or feature dataset provides a View Metadata option, which brings up a new pane – that is good and functional. But how do I see, for example, a feature class’s attribute table? A typical scenario for us is to be working in ArcMap while having ArcCatalog open separately so we can view and inspect other feature classes that might be of use/interest before adding them to a project or simply to be managing other data for other projects. A separate ArcCatalog allows viewing of data but not having to bring it in to the project directly. It also allows us to work with new datasets, update feature classes, generally ‘move things around’ without affecting (locking up) the actual project or feature classes or filling it with unnecessary data. FYI, we work across local and multiple regional and global jurisdictions and are always using new/related data that might support our needs and be of use in an area. So we can’t bring in every single feature class to a project just to inspect it – that’s why we use a separate ArcCatalog. And by inspect, I mean to zoom in to view the data and attribution and not just to see a thumbnail view. The freedom of having a separate ArcCatalog to view attributes, features, metadata while not impacting a project is great. Can we do that yet in ArcGIS Pro? I’d like to be wrong or shown that it is possible and that it’s just that we can’t yet see how to. Thanks. Regards, Grant Grant Dickins Senior Spatial Consultant Office days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 13-25 Church Street Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia T +61 3 9208 6700 M +61 410 183 304 www.eriasgroup.com ... View more

Hi. I began using Pro late last year and again earlier this year -two separate tries . After becoming acquainted and liking many aspects of it I had to stay with ArcMap full time because our needs are simply tied so much to data management, meaning always opened and using ArcCatalog. I am wondering if there are others that upon using ArcPro to found that they just can't effectively manage projects and project data being generated for mapping and always having to dip in and out of Catalog all day? Is there an equivalent to catalog coming that is integrated with Pro? Because we find that our workflows are so dependent on Catalog that we just can't move over to Pro at this time. I'm happy to be guided to how this can be or is achieved in Pro. Thanks. ... View more

Hi Dan, Ok. good thinking. Yes, it's a newly created FC with an assigned CRS before creating geometry. It is part of an ongoing project completely controlled by us and no conversions between projected and geographic coords has occurred. I will investigate the FC and see if I can duplicate it anew to see if that works.  Cheers, Grant  ... View more

Hi Dan, Once again, thanks for the tips. I have done each method and the results are the same (below). I'll look for another idea as presently I'm at a loss (and out of time). First time I've seen this actually. Hmmm I'll let you know when I find a solution. Many thanks, Grant ... View more

Hi Dan, Sorry, I did NOT use the Field Calculator. Apologies for any confusion. Grant ... View more

Hi Dan, Thanks for your questions. How did you calculate those values?      By right-clicking on the filed name and selecting Calculate Geometry...     Selecting X/Y Coordinate of Point for each separate field and confirming the units in Meters (m) and coordinates are correct. From the Shape field?    No. using the field calculator?    Yes  In ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro?    ArcMap (10.5.1) Thank you. ... View more