Latest Contributions by DanielHall_Ballester

Hi all, I have created a group (call it "Basemaps") in my organisation account in ArcGIS Online and published a number of maps with a single layer defined as a basemap.  All of these maps are shared both with the organisation and the Basemaps group. I have then added a number of users to the Basemap group. I have also edited the Organisation settings in ArcGIS online to use the basemap gallery from the "Basemaps" group rather than the standard ESRI basemaps. When I go to create a new map and click on the basemaps gallery, I see a drop-down with all the basemaps I have created.  If I click on these I am able to use them. When any other user who has been added to the "Basemaps" group does the same, they see the basemaps I have created, but when they click on it they get an error telling them that the basemap is unavailable. Any ideas what I might have missed? ... View more

I have a number of Raster Catalogs I want to publish. It is my understanding that in order for them to be published to ArcGIS Server I need to create Referenced Mosaic Datasets for them. I have done this. I have also successfully registered the data folders with ArcGIS Server and enabled the Image extension (this is needed to publish mosaics). When I come to publish the referenced mosaic dataset, in the Service Editor I select to only use the “Image” capability and for it to only allow the “image” operation, as I only want the user to be able to view the data. I am not caching the service. When I analyse the service, I only get one Medium error. This is just warning me that no statistics have been calculated for the Mosaic dataset. As this service is a “view-only” service, I do not need statistics. When I click on “Publish”, it runs through the whole publishing service and then I get an error Failed to Publish Service. If I look at the server log, I see the following error: Error executing tool.: ERROR 001369: Failed to create the service. Failed to execute (Publish Service Definition) This seems to be a generic error. Digging a bit more into the server log I can see that there is an error about an invalid path: Invalid input data source path: \\servername\data\Production\Backdrop_Mapping\Mosaics\Data_50K\Data_50K.gdb\Data_50K This is referring to the Mosaic dataset which I am trying to publish. This folder is successfully registered as a data store on the server: \\servername\data\Production\Backdrop_Mapping As I understand it, this should include all subfolders. In order to test this, I have created a simple mxd with 1 vector dataset and published it from the same source folder without any problems. The vector dataset was in the same fgdb as the mosaic dataset. So I know the server is able to connect to and read from this location. Any suggestions of what I could try next would be great. Many thanks. Tech spec: ArcGIS Sever 10.2.1, Standard Licence, Image extension. ... View more

I have 2 mxd's. mxdA and mxdB They both show different data, but are both in the same coordinate system. I want to be able to sync mxdB with mxdA, so that if I pan / zoom in mxdA, I can then, with a single button press, view the same extent in mxdB. I know that this is possible using a Viewer window (where a 2nd data frame is used rather than a 2nd mxd), however there is a memory leak present where a Viewer window is used alongside an editing session with snapping turned on (NIM103256) which causes our session to crash after <1 hour of editing. I know that another option could be to use production mapping views, but these seem to be limited to both mxd's having the same datasets, and once you have opened mxdB and linked it to a view, you are then unable to update the view file using mxdA because it is locked by mxdB. This is not practical for us as it would mean closing and re-opening mxdB many times every day (50+) I'm hoping that there is a way using python where I can calculate the center point of the active dataframe in mxdA and then pan/zoom mxdB (which is already open) to the same location. I can then create a button as an ESRI Add-in to do this automatically. Calculating the center point is simple enough mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0] # Calculate the centre X coordinate x = (df.extent.XMax + df.extent.XMin)/2 #Calculate the centre Y coordinate y = (df.extent.YMax + df.extent.YMin)/2 But I'm struggling with passing this center point information to mxdB to get it to pan. Is this even possible without using ArcObjects? EDIT: I have written some code that can be run in mxdB which will update mxdB based on the extent of mxdA. However, I need to be able to run the code in mxdA and for it to update the extent of mxdB (as mxdB is a fixed mxd, whereas the name and file path of mxdA could change). import arcpy #define mxdA mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Testing\Scratch\mxdA.mxd") #define the dataframe from mxdA df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0] #define mxdB mxd2 = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("Current") #define the dataframe from mxdB df2 = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd2,"Layers")[0] #set 'newextent' to be the extent of the dataframe in mxdA newextent = df.extent #set the extent of the dataframe in mxdB to be the same as that of mxdA df2.extent = newextent #refresh the view in mxdB arcpy.RefreshActiveView() I am using ArcGIS (Advanced) 10.2.2 Many thanks Dan ... View more

I'm relatively new to ArcGIS for Server, so I hope that someone is able to point me in the right direction in case what I've been doing isn't good practice. I have 2 boxes with ArcGIS for server 10.2.1, both on the same site. Both boxes have 4 processors and 16gb RAM. Both boxes run on Windows Server 2008. [ATTACH=CONFIG]32374[/ATTACH] The site is used to both provide a couple of base map services to a small amount of users (<5) and to generate cache tiles for future services. I am currently generating cache tiles for a mapping service (~50GB). I would have expected to see the CPU usage on the 2 boxes running quite high. But it tends to be sitting between 15% and 30% on each box. The maximum instances for the caching tools is set to 6 [ATTACH=CONFIG]32375[/ATTACH] The maximum number of instances per machine is set to 3. [ATTACH=CONFIG]32376[/ATTACH] Am I wrong in assuming that I should be seeing a higher usage of the CPU? Have I not put in the correct figures? Or is my set-up not best practice? i.e. should I be using one site just for serving maps and another site just for caching? I think I've followed the guidelines mentioned here and here. But I'm pretty sure that the caching is running slower than it should. After 19 hours it has only cached 1.17% of all my tiles. [ATTACH=CONFIG]32377[/ATTACH] Any best practice suggestions/ recommendations much welcome. ... View more

Hi all, I have a model which iterates through feature classes in a geodatabase (image attached) For each feature class, it runs the check Geometry tool. I then use the "Get Count" tool to count the number of rows in the output table. I then want to add an expression where if the number of rows is greater than 0 it should keep running the rest of the model, otherwise it should go on to the next feature class. I thought this could be achieved by using the Calculate Value tool using the following code. Expression CountMe(%Row Count%) Code Block def CountMe(n): import arcpy if n > 0:   return "true" else:   return "false" Where %Row Count% is the output from the "Get Count" tool. This returns True and False values, and I have the output from this set as a precondition to the next steps in the model. However, I assumed that only "true" data would go through, but all the data seems to go through i.e. the model will push through an empty table from the Check Geometry tool all the way to the end. I've had a read online and I think that using the Calculate Value tool is the wrong way to go about this.  Am I right in assuming that what I need is a python script that will give me 2 outputs (True and False) and then I can connect the "True" as a precondition to the rest of the model, and leave the "False" disconnected, so the model stops and the iterator goes on to the next feature class? If so, would anybody be able to give me some help with this? Many thanks Dan ... View more