Latest Contributions by DanEckberg

I'm attempting to create a crowd-source map application that allows users to comment on individual features. In doing so, I've been trying to follow the instructions for how to set up a related geodatabase table to collect comments, as described in this link: Create Crowdsource Polling Layers - Crowdsource Polling | ArcGIS for Local Government  I am using ArcGIS Desktop Basic, which doesn't allow me to create relationship classes. I created and populated a Global ID Field for the feature class layer. In the separate empty table I created a field with type "GUID" , along with a string field titled "comments". I 'related' the two in ArcMap by right-clicking on the feature-class layer and relating it to the table based on the Global ID and GUID fields. I then zipped the geodatabase (though I'm uncertain if this 'relate' was saved in the geodatabase or just in the instance of ArcMap), and published it to my ESRI Online Account. From there I added the geodatabase to a Map, tweaked the pop-up configurations of the feature class and table, saved the map, and published it to a CrowdSource Polling app. The app lets you click on the individual polygon features and pops up the configured fields that exist within the feature class itself, but no empty comment field appears in the right-hand popup box that allows users to submit comments. I'm also unclear if the geodatabase table should be totally empty except for the configured fields, or if it should have one matching empty row/record for each feature in the feature class layer (related by way of a matching Global ID field). ... View more

I'm trying to extract a portion of an existing field in an attribute table to a new field using Field Calculator and have been running into some difficulties. It seems like there must be a way to do this, although with my limited VBS and Python experience I can't be certain. I'm working with 10.0 (sp. 2) The exact problem is this: The layer I'm working with has a very long field, [PopUp] (which was created when converting a KMZ file to a feature class) whose contents for each feature look something like this: ...<td>LAND USE CODE</td> <td>954</td>... I want to extract just the Land Use Code from the [PopUp] field and populate a new field with it (either a numeric field or string, I don't care). The Land Use Code changes based on the feature in question and the length of the string varies for each feature both before and after this segment which I want to extract (so I can't use a function which just grabs X number of characters from the left or right side). Is this possible using the Field Calculator, with either Python or VBScript? If so, I assume it would require some way to indicate a wildcard on either side of the Land Use Code, but I know it doesn't work the same as a simple SQL query/search. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! ... View more