Latest Contributions by BernardMcDermott

I am creating an easement shape file.  I downloaded it from NCED, so it has specific fields already populated.  Some I will keep and some I will delete. The reason for this is because I administer the CAUV program for the county.  So I need to reset land values so they comply with lands that enter into a Conservation Easement.  My ultimate goal is to make the shape information searchable in the recorders site so if anyone needs to find easement information they can just look into the fields and pull up the recorded information. I was going to add the county, township/village that each parcel is located in.  My thought was I would have a drop down for each field with the 25 township/villages and our county it is located in with the easements outside or abutting our county listed also.  So the surrounding county's would have a drop down also with 6 of them listed. I am running into errors occurring.  I attempted this via creating a domain name for the field, setting properties (text and coded values) and entering the coded values manually one at a time.  Then I received a message that my values were not compatible with the domain.  I am stuck.  Getting ready to start over.  But this is frustrating, I feel like I don't know the steps to take.  Not using GIS often anymore I don't remember them either. Thanks very much. Bud empty attribute tables‌ drop down list‌ ... View more

I have a coworker whom is experiencing an issue with her application.   At some point and it's not relative to anything she does or adds to her mxd, but her snapping takes longer to snap.  When she hovers over a point to snap to it sits there and spins for a few seconds.  When attempting to draw in a polygon based on a surveyors bearings and dimensions that can be more than frustrating.   ANY HELP WOULD SO GREATLY APPRECIATED if anyone has ever had such an issue.   She has attempted creating new mxd's, disconnecting and reconnecting to the db/server we are connected to and this has happened to her prior to her updating to 10.2.   Thanks.   Bud ... View more

Good morning.  Have any posters had issues with a post/reconcile taking abnormally LONG on Monday's or after a weekend of no activity?  We edit all week long and post/reconcile every morning but for some strange reason Monday's take much longer and have many more edits. Thanks for the reply. Bud ... View more

I need to select and delete large amounts of annotation OUTSIDE of specific polygons.  Will need to do cities and townships.  What I have done in the past is add my polygon shapefile and then add my FC annotation copy and little by little delete the annotation I DO NOT need for that specific city or township.  However,  my problem occurs after some deletions where I CANNOT delete anymore.  I receive a message "Invalid argument.  Unable to delete."  and then I can't do anything more.  I need a better understanding of this.  We need to update our cadastral data every year for customer download from our FTP site.  Any help would help me greatly.  Thanks so much fellow ESRI users. Bud ... View more

I need to create a field within a FC that is basically a NOTES field for a taskforce to enter notes on phonecalls and the basic outcome of the call and incident.  Which is the best field type to chose?  It is mostly text data being input, is 50 characters the max? Thanks for your response. ... View more