Latest Contributions by DuncanHornby

Jeff, I develop a toolbox called RivEX. I fully support your idea for making that help button be able to point to an online manual. The best I could come up with to overcome this limitation is if you hover over the help button you get the pop-up. In the summary section you can add hyperlinks, so in my case I have a bit of text that states Online help is "here" which if they click on takes them to my website manual. An interim solution?   ... View more

That's useful to know, I hope esri include the ability to read/write metadata to a gpkg as that would greatly accelerate my use of them! ... View more

This idea is obsolete as this can be very easily done in ArcPro 3.7 Symbolise your layer with a graduated colour then in the symbology panel  go to the advance option. Choose your field in feature drawing order that will sort features and then choose up or down.   ... View more

Interesting question as I too wish to hide the select toggle. Whilst all the suggestions would solve the problem it would be nice not to have to defensively code for that situation and simply hide the toggle. Will be interesting if esri expose such  property in the future? ... View more

GeoPackages also do not support metadata for the datasets inside it. This is my primary reason why I do not use them. I can't document what I have been doing to the data through the metadata editor interface in Arcpro. ... View more

Are you aware of the new extract lines tool that was released in Pro 3.7? There is an equivalent for polygons.  ... View more

Understanding the issue I think there are several solutions buts worth understanding why things are what they are. When you create a Feature Class you typically need to set a coordinate system as that's how the GIS knows where your data is. Don't set a coordinate system then your data could just a easily be on the moon. That's a "sphere" just like Earth... If you read the help file for the tool I link to above the coordinate system parameter tells you that you can set xy domain via the environment settings of the tool. But all that glitters is not gold... Go to the help page for xy domain environment and it states "...geodatabases automatically calculate a valid x,y domain based on the coordinate system". SO.. tools force a xy domain based upon the coordinate system of the data. That makes sense, as you create your features they need to exist somewhere and that is your coordinate system. Possible solution #1 But! You can create a Feature Class without a coordinate system (you simply don't provide one for that parameter) and ONLY THEN can you set the xy domain. So now you have a dataset that has an unknown coordinate system but an xy domain extent you set. But you can't edit into it! Note if you have a dataset with no coordinate system then ArcPro refuses to allow you to edit it. All a bit chicken 'n' egg. But there is a sort of a legacy tool from the past which is define projection , this allows you to set the coordinate system of a dataset which was unknown. Finally you have a featureclass that has a coordinate system, a user define xy domain extent and is editable. But... I can't say with certain, go run one of the many other tools on your data and they simply reset the extent to the domain of the coordinate system. So a complete waste of time... Possible (untested) solution #2 Modern versions of ArcPro have massively expanded the capability of a geodatabase through attribute rules. Arcade code that gets executed when you insert/edit a feature. It would take very little code to query the geometry and ask does it fall within the extent of a predefined area, if not reject the edit.  Rules are associated with layers in your project. I would suggest solution #2. ... View more

This is a tool that will have far reaching impacts for many organisations. Where I work we have many legacy projects that were built using personal geodatabases. I support staff who have a long history of using ArcMap and personal geodatabases. With Universities forced by esri to drop support for ArcMap there are many projects with datasets that are sitting in project folders in these older formats. In true academic style these projects often have a habit of bubbling back to the surface years later, so having a way to transfer them into file geodatabases is critical. Now esri might have said in the past you need to migrate, the rest of the WORLD would responded saying who has time for that! Especially projects that have come to the end of their funding.  I feel this new tool is that "get out of jail" card! Use it when we need to. I can already think of several projects I could save from obsolescence! Nice. ... View more

Robert, Unfortunately that idea of clicking onto a different view/pane and even closing down the chart properties pane does not work, the purple border still persists.  I have discovered that if I export to a PNG it does lose the purple border, so it is possible to get an image of the chart without the purple border. I'm going to suggest an idea that the copy to clipboard does not retain the annoying purple selection border! ... View more

Agree but I don't seem to be able to unselect a histogram? Seems like an obvious thing to do but not possible. Unless there is some secret set of key strokes...? ... View more

@HongXu  thank you for the answer that is the solution to get to the raw pixels values!  I must say "A No-Op Function" statement is not very helpful whilst the Analytical and Cartographic renderers provide informative advice. Please could you feed that back to the ArcPro development team. A simple explanation of what that means would be very useful in that Processing Template dropdown. If I search esri help for "A No-Op Function" it returns nothing, so I have know way of finding out what it is...     ... View more

Hi Jeff, Thanks for pointing me to the sentinel 2 imagery layer. This is indeed giving me that much needed acquisition date. It's a shame that the wayback data does not seem to keep that, as the quality of those images are very good. May be moving forward, future versions of the wayback metadata could provide such information? I can only but hope! Duncan ... View more