Latest Contributions by DuncanHornby

Ideally ESRI should provide an option to not create thumbnails so the bloating scenario you describe does not occur. I think one should also be able to remove existing ones as in your situation. Currently the only thing you can do is either remove the bookmark entirely or "update it", one cannot simply ask to not have an image. I suggest you start an Idea, see if it gets any traction. There is a fudge that you can use to get rid of the thumbnails. I strongly suggest you attempt this from a backed up copy! The aprx file is actually a zip file. So if you open the aprx file in say winRAR or 7Zip you will see a folder called Thumbnails which have a bunch of .dat files, these are the images. Unzip the aprx into an empty folder called XYZ. Navigate into the Thumbnails sub-folder. For each file go into it using a text editor and delete everything, then save the file overwriting it, creating a 0KB file size. Zip up the contents of XYZ and call the zip file the same name as your project file, make sure the file extension is aprx. Windows will ask if you are sure you want to change the file extension, say yes. Move the new aprx file into the original project folder overwriting the original bloated aprx file. For step 3 you could use macros in notepad++ to automate the clearing of the file or come up with your own script to clear the files ensuring they retain the name. That's for you to choose. The end result is a smaller aprx and ArcPro creating default icons for the bookmarks:   ... View more

What you suggest only makes sense if the field does not exist and is being created. Then there should be an option to set the alias.  You could of cause create a simple model and chain the calculate tool to an Alter Field tool and create yourself a model tool, this would avoid having to enter the Field View panel. ... View more

What version of ArcPro are you using? When I run the Table to Excel tool it defaults to an xlsx format. I'm using 3.5.3 There is this interesting blog that talks about overriding tool parameters, this may be of interest to you for other tools? ... View more

I find arcpro just glitches, especially when using python, or tools called through python or just because its Friday 😉. Generally when arcpro starts to misbehave, a restart  generally fixes it. ... View more

I can set excessively large font sizes through this route: Click on video to enlarge. ... View more

I would raise this with your esri support, they may have some spurious solution or if not recognise it as a bug and deal with it. ... View more

For the record showing an image to help explain a problem is a very good idea (and to be encouraged) but showing a redacted image is utterly pointless as the problem may very well be in the redacted part. If you are going to approach the user community for their help and not prepared to share a screen shot/sample of the data then you need to be providing a minimum reproducible example, otherwise its not going to get the attention you wish for. ... View more

Try replacing the test !IsEmpty("%SPECIES 1 TPA%") with a test on the length of the inline substitution text. An example of finding out the length of text is shown below, you can include similar logic into your code?   var x = "qwerty"; return Count(x);   ... View more

Hi, I just wanted to add my use case scenario to this useful thread which may help others? Its now 2025, I've just had a new laptop, installed ArcPro 3.5, cloned my environment to how I like it and installed VS code. Much of my development is as embedded code in a python toolbox (atbx). When I right click on the tool and choose edit, it fires up VS Code and opens my toolbox script  as file temporary located in some sub-folder in C:\Users\hornbydd\AppData\Local\Temp.  I note that the arcpy module has that wavey yellow line under it and intellisense does now work for arcpy or networkx. I solved my predicament firstly making sure VS Code is pointing to the right environment as discussed in the solution above. Then I went into File>Preferences>Settings. Typed into the search box quick suggestions and the text in italic after Quick Suggestions turns out to be something you can click on. I forget what the original text was but I ended up choosing Applies to all profiles. This seems to have solved the issue.     ... View more

Sounds like you asking to do serpentine numbering? A Q&A for such an approach can be found on GIS SE. The logic is captured as SQL and goes from left to right, but you might be able to re-jig the logic into a python script so is start lower left and goes from bottom to top.   p.s. Such a question is often best accompanied with a sketch of what you want, suggest you edit your question and add that. ... View more

Is the selection simple? You don't actually say if the features intersect, if not that would require some sort of proximity operation. Why 10, 10 is good for you but not enough for another. Then you have to deal with multipart features, what about features that touch but not even the same geometry. So what the brain thinks is easy could be a computational nightmare, especially if the next person who comes along and asks for the next million... That's why a lot of geoprocessing tools are atomic, just do one thing, and you could the more complex selection logic with a model.  Scripting is often slicker and faster. ... View more