Latest Contributions by JasonVerachtert

While a pure reordering of fields in an existing layer may not be possible, it can be done if you look at it another way.  Let the user select the order they wish the fields to be laid out.  Create a new empty copy of the layer with that structure and then transfer the existing data to this new layer.  Create any permissions, indexes, etc on this new layer as it exists on the original layer.  Delete the original layer and rename the new one.  This is basically what SQL Server does in the background when a user reorders fields on a table.  As far as the user is concerned, they are just reordering fields.  They do not need to know the detail of how much work is actually being performed in the background, it just happens. ... View more

The loss of the Test connection button is a pain.  But the loss of the ability to set the version makes this new function almost useless for us.  Our editors only access their own version in each database and having to jump around to different dialogs just to set this for each of them is going to be a pain in the... ... View more

I do not recall seeing any kind of documentation that can be used for justification for disk usage, but the way we manage it in our county is we simply include funds in our budget to help our IT department purchase extra hard drive space.  We have over 20 years of orthophotos, about 19 years of historic parcel maps as PDFs, 10 years of ArcSDE archived cadastral data sets and countless other large collections of files we have created or purchased over the years including LiDAR.  We are using almost 9 TB of disk space and as long as we continue to help pay for our share of new disk space IT does not care how much we fill up.  This way we just need to be able to continue to show our county board how useful the all of the data is to the rest of the county so they do not cut that line item in our budget. ... View more

I have been looking for this to happen for years.  If it is in SDE (on SQL Server) or a Personal GDB then it can be done in MS SQL or MS Access respectivly, but for Shapefiles or the File GDB you are out of luck.  I refuse to use the new File GDB for this reason (and the field reordering, but that is a different issue). ... View more