Latest Contributions by BillSchroeder

Incomprehensible that they would be so brash as to NOT allow backwards compatibility. They totally threw out every bit of familiarity when they created (or perhaps took over?) pro. I don't see how the word pro even fits with this software. Thank God I'm close to retirement. I use special symbols on my map, and it's a royal pain in the royal pain area to try to get them to work in "pro". I did it once, but lost the data, and now have to figure it all out again. Yay fun. Going to just take all the progress I've made in pro and reenter it in arcgis map and remove pro. And it should be ARGH Gis Pro, thank you. #notahappycamper‌ ... View more

Begging your pardon, and not to sound like I do not like the new arc version in the least, but it appears as though whomever created this web page had a devious hand in hiding useful tools in the new arc version also. I see no place where one could mark anything here as CORRECT. That said, though, I agree that the issue I had was corrected by the advise Robert LeClair gave to me. ... View more

Spot on, thank you. ... View more

Using ArcMap for years, and it is very slow to open from scratch, so when I'm done with a file/map document,whatever, I will save it, then click create new map document, and that way the interface is sitting there ready to open a map when I am. I keep making the mistake of thinking this new software will be slow, so when I'm done with my work, I'll save the "whatever  you call them now', and close the map, leaving the program running, but no map sitting there. Now I'm just a regular guy, so I suppose there's no way this could possibly do any harm, but once I've done this, the map will never open again. Either from within this new software, or by clicking on the actual aprx file. I just see, "opening project", then nothing. I tried Robert Eclair's suggestion regarding the files in ~/AppData, but it did no good. Seems odd that one can ruin a map this easily. Thank God we still keep ArcMap where we can use it. And yes, this new software will open the other maps just fine, it's just the one that I need to present to the Commissioners at lunch today that I can't open. Which is why I recreated it yesterday in ArcMap. I'm trying to use the new software, and am learning all the time, and I really like the speed, but I'm glad we, "kept the old mule for when the Tesla acts up". ... View more

I've performed everything here that a non admin can do and nothing has helped. I have opened task manager and clicked arc connect and ended that task, and it didn't make any difference. The reason I have this machine is so Arcmap would run faster. Oh well. ... View more

I'm running 10.5, new install on windows 10, i7 processor, 32 gigs ram and it just took me 3 minutes and 38.72 seconds to get Arcmap to where I could choose a map to open. We're running Kaspersky, so we're going to ask our IT department for assistance on that. But look at the attached image. This is my network usage going crazy while Arcmap is loading. Perhaps it's not only Kasperky, but also Arc Connection (which I do not use, and wish would not automatically come on when Arcmap comes on, rather give me a button to click if I need the connection, ESRI, thank you?) which causes the problem? Over three minutes. QGis is on in seconds at my house on my rinky dinky little old Lenovo... ... View more

As you know, there are basically three types of shapefiles, point, line, and polygon. If there's a line shape file with something on it you want to copy to a polygon, just set your polygon layer on top of the line layer, and using the snap tool, draw (trace?) a new polygon onto the polygon layer following the lines on the line layer. Hope this helps. ... View more

Mark, one more question, I hope you can answer, if not I hope you can direct me to whomever I need to go. We want our physical maps on the tablets running ArcExplorer to have the exact same icons  showing for hydrants, etc as our wall maps show. Continuity and all that. As you know, when you take any shapefiles from arcgis and put them in explorer, the icons and custom lines and everything are gone. when you use kmz files, it's slow and mercilessly lethargic. when you use layer packages, you lose the icons, but if you have esri's fonts in the windows\fonts directory, the icons show up fine. Because as you know, the icons are actually fonts. the question is, is it legal to use the esri fonts from arcgis map in arc explorer? Both are arc software, should this not be okay? If not, is there a way other than kmz files to get the icon/fonts to show up on explorer? Which brings to mind, of course, another question: is there any way to do view scaling (?) in arc explorer? I have layers one doesn't need to see when one is looking at the map from a scale of 12000:1, is there a way to get scaling to function in arc explorer? I wonder if the powers that be will work that in on a future software upgrade? Thanks for putting up with my incessant questions and ramblings! ... View more

Great advice, if I ever run into any Tolstoy-esque-ishly lengthy notes, I'll know how to handle them! But hopefully the only information these will have will be support data and measurements. I really appreciate your time and effort in helping me with the icons, and especially the note problem. Sure the solution was typically simple (often times the answer's hiding in plain site, eh?), but the wealth of knowledge you have shared is greatly appreciated and welcome. Getting the notes to appear in arcmap was the last item on my list of things that perhaps didn't have to work for us to go full tilt using the tablets in the field offline, but it was something I wasn't going to let go of before I said, "Yes, this is ready." You are a wealth of knowledge, and a credit to the community. Thank you! ... View more

Unbelievable. Does the phrase "HTML POP UP TOOL" sound familiar? Works fine. Unreal it's that easy. No idea why the attributes show that the pop up stuff is truncated, but it works now. Thanks for all your help! ... View more

Mark, so that we're on the same page, would you mind posting a step by step, not images, just something like: In Explorer, click on point, and place your point on the map, in the note dialog, enter a name, then in the pop up box beneath it, place information unique to the point, click OK. Now go to your point icon in the contents window on the right and right click it and choose "share", in the Sharing window that appears, select ... etc etc. At this point I can select either layer package or kml, and neither one, when migrated to arcmap will give me pop up info. The kmz file, though, will at least show the name of the pin I placed. See images: This is in Explorer, the original pin. This is the lpk file in ArcMap. Nothing I check in labels will display anything. This is the kmz file imported into ArcMap. The only thing that appears is Name. If I add ANYTHING else it's blank. And here is the popup / popup info extracted to dbf from the attribute table, it is the same in the lpk as wel las the kmz files. <style>body { font-family:Arial; font-size:x-small; } h1 { font-family:Arial; font-size:x-large; } h2 { font-family:Arial; font-size:large; } h3 { font-family:Arial; font-size:medium; } h4 { font-family:Arial; font-size:small; } h5 { font-family:Arial; f [\code] Wish this forum had code tags... But wait, there's more! I've attached them both if you want to give them a look see. I'm thinking this is something I'll need to get my GIS IT guy to look at, and see if there's something in the settings keeping this from working. We all answer to the IT department, and heaven forbid if our computers were functional and actually worked as tools, you know. Maybe he can get it going without begging IT to allow him to do anything. (I can't edit the xml file in explorer here on my desktop. I've been working on that in the tablet) *Edit: I took the kmz file and tested it in google earth, and the pop up dialog is intact, so it's something to do with arcmap, I'm sure. I'll have our GIS guy see if he can figure it out, thanks, Mark! ... View more

Esri ArcMap 10.2.1.3497 and explorer is 2500. ... View more

The problem is, I'm taking these and putting them on ArcMap and that is what is truncating the notes, etc. they're fine on other devices running explorer. ... View more

(allow me to preface all of this with "I'm taking the lpk file and opening it in ArcMap", the information is intact when migrating from one place to another opening it up in explorer) I click Point, click where I want it to be, change word note to whatever reference I want, Hydrant R3-999, etc, then type in some description in the pop up field of whatever needs to be in there, maybe gpm static pressure, etc or anything else, then click okay. This leaves the dialogue up on screen.At this point, I can now (thank you) click on the pin and edit it to show one of my new icons. Now I go to contents, right click on my new layer, and click share. I'm presented with map content, which only opens in arc explorer from all I can tell, Layer Package or KML (which is actually a KMZ file, but we won't quibble). I have saved as each, and not gotten the map content to work in arc map, so that's a no go, but the other two - well you see above what happens. As far as uploading maps, we'll stick with migrating them to tablets locally. Using shp files or even gdb files causes the maps to be stuck using only Explorer's symbols and styles, and this is not acceptable for the vast amount of information we're dealing with. but I got custom icons!!!! woo hoo!!! ... View more

Aw heck yeah, it's even better than that. I added a folder called Water and Sewer to SymbolImages, and put a green hydrant image in it and edited the .xml file like this: <Symbol SymbolType="Marker" Name="Green Hydrant" Category="Water and Sewer" Id="GreenHydrantMarker" Size="25">       <SymbolSource Type="Image" Location="Install" Path="SymbolImages\Water and Sewer\Green Hydrant.png" />     </Symbol> and put it all in my tablet, and voila, the new directory is in the program with the green hydrant right there where it's supposed to be. Now I can get all my custom icons in there! We've been using this tablet as a test and it is passing everything I can throw at it, now we've ordered another one and I'm going to set it up for one of our guys to take out in the field and use it. This is great, now I can set up separate tablets for out pumps and tank guys, sewer guys, water guys, etc and they will all have exactly what icons they need for each situation. As far as notation of new placemarks, it's sad that the information doesn't just carry over from explorer to arcmap without any extra work. Nothing that was entered in the pop up field at all makes it to arcmap. All I see in popup when I extract .dbf from attributes is this: <style>body { font-family:Arial; font-size:x-small; } h1 { font-family:Arial; font-size:x-large; } h2 { font-family:Arial; font-size:large; } h3 { font-family:Arial; font-size:medium; } h4 { font-family:Arial; font-size:small; } h5 { font-family:Arial; f and yes, it just stops at ~; f after h5 on both. huh. I'll play around with it, though, but that's a lot of stuff to deal with. I wonder if there's any chance in version 2500 x there'll be a straight forward notation field that will remain intact when shared via lpk or kmz? sure would be nice. anyway, you rock, thanks a ton! *edit, Of course when people bring the tablets in, I'll be collecting the layers they've placed on thumb drives, so it won't be a problem to have explorer open in one monitor and arcmap in another and look at the information in the pop up while I'm editing, if I ever have to, but I do hope someone with ESRI sees the need to have that field go into an attribute field named notes, perhaps with text format at perhaps 150 characters or something... or maybe have it customizable itself... for like text notes of x amount of characters, or numerical data, floating integers, etc, just like attributes for shapefiles are in arcmap. Sure would be useful if it worked that way in some future iteration... ... View more