Latest Contributions by JDSF_PeterRowland

You can do it that way. A lot of the times I pull in the layer file to do something but don't need a pdf export necessarily, so that works best for me. The template kind of sneakily adds whatever map it was referencing to your project, so I just drop a new map frame with whatever map I was working on into the layout. but you could mix it up and do:  new project-->import layout--> open map--> make edits. same end result. One thing I've forgotten about since I originally made this post: The one way I have gotten project templates to work somewhat usefully is having nothing but preconfigured layouts saved in the project and no data, then add the layerfile and then you're good to go. But even in that case, I've found end users like being able to start a project the old fashioned way and add what they need as they go rather than load everything at the start. ... View more

My workaround is make a layer file that has all our core datasets in a group symbolized how we like, and then use layout templates that are standardized at different orientations/sizes.  So open a new project--> Add layerfile--> import layout and we're off.  Not ideal but relatively pain free. I actually kind of like the new directory with each project. make a good repository for products and scratch/intermediate data sets that fits great in our file structure. I save the templates with no dataframe in them. ... View more

This has been giving me grief. as far as I can tell its trying to reference an undeclared variable? ... View more

Yeah I don't get it... There are already project packages. And "Save As" creates a bunch of projects pointed to the same default .gdb and stuff like that. Maybe layout files are a better option than project templates? it just seems odd to me that when you create a new project from the template its pointing to the correct data, while a project package is pointing to copy of data. Seems like something inadvertent is happening behind the scenes, why create copies that aren't referenced? ... View more

That box was unchecked. ... View more

Sharing it to the server so our editors can make standardized maps. Schema only sounds like what I want but when I was sniffing around I didn't see that option but I'm a bit of a stooge so I may have missed it. I did not save history items or any of that. ... View more

We set up OSA logins associated with users, that works nicely for templates ... View more

Hello James/Yukun! Ive been running into that same error, and it seems like Yukun and I are working a similar projects. At first I didn't realize but I was linking two globalid fields as the origin/foreign keys, because while creating the relationship I'm unable to select anything BUT the globalID for the foreign key. I have a GUID field that I made, but it wont let me select it. Any ideas as to why that is? ... View more