Latest Contributions by DanielMakridakis

(continuing from previous comment) And to do this without the need for converting to annotation and creating a masking layer which can be time consuming for road labels in large data drive datasets and more difficult to modify afterwards. ... View more

This would be awesome. Halo/ Mask should allow you to select what overlaying features you want to become transparent and what background/baselayer will be used. When labeling roads in a dense area it can be hard to distinguish the label from the roads without making the label a color that stands out too much or the halo a solid color. It would be nice to set up your labeling with a 1pt halo that all selected layers would become transparent within the 1pt halo so that the changing baselayer colors are always matched making the halo subtle but effective. ... View more

A definition query is adaptive to the data so if any new data is added or removed that stratify the query the displayed features would adjust accordingly. To create a selection into a query would mean your definition query would be a list of the selected Object IDs.   If you want to create a layer from your current selection just right click on the layer in the TOC and choose Selection> Create layer from selected features.   This brings up a different idea that I will now post, which is, I wish you could add, merge, and remove records from layers that were created from “Create layer from selected features”. Often I create a layer from selection, do a few things, realize its missing some data, and either have to re-do the whole selection including these missing features or make a new layer and then do some kind of select by location to select all from the parent layer that’s in the 2 subsets. Or I created a layer from selection and realize there are a few features i wish werent in there and have to re-do the whole thing to remove them. If it was a complicated selection this can be time consuming and produce further user errors during the replication. ... View more

Was just about to post this same Idea/request. It was be extremely useful to be able to perform a simple field calculation using a temporary spatial join. I often need to populated town names or census blocks in a point feature class. Currently it’s a multiple step process of producing an unnecessary new feature class that then needs to be inner-joined to the original desired feature class to carry out the field calculation, and lastly needing to delete the unnecessary feature class because all I wanted was that one field of attributes. ESRI Please....Thank You ... View more

An additional thought to build on that: My orignal above idea was for the ability to export JPEG pages as "Multiple JPEG Files (page names)" as you can with PDFs. I realize that exporting pages as a "Single JPEG File" would obviously not work. However, I wonder if there is a way to export JPEG or PNG as a "Single PowerPoint File" where each map is a different slide. This would be usefull considering many times I export to JPEG or PNG it is to insert a map into a powerpoint. ... View more

Please make it possibly to export a data driven map book as a JPEG, PNG, and every other format option in addition to PDFs. I know how to do it using python, took me a bit being a novice, but everything in this field comes down to improving efficiency and the need to tweak my code every time I have to export JPEG data driven pages does not help being efficient. I have to update 500 page map books on a bi-weekly basis in both JPEG and PDF format. At this point I have automated processes to handle those; however, I wasted hours if not days creating those programs for something I feel like should have already been an option.   Thank You ... View more