Latest Contributions by RyanEckdale-Dudley

How do I disable geometry edits in ArcGIS Online using a AGOL hosted feature service?  I would still like to be able to add, edit new related records and feature attributes,  (Using Collector) but make sure field staff are not accidentally  moving points after selecting a feature. It seems like this is a common issue, just not sure this is possible unless the feature service is hosted on ArcGIS Server, which allows geometry edits to be disabled. Is an update in the works? ... View more

I recently upgraded our viewer to version 3.2. We are accessing secure map services.. Everything works fine in IE, however it does not work in either Chrome or Firefox now  (Both in Builder and Viewer). Previoulsy in version 3.1, it worked fine. Thoughts? ... View more

We have embraced the Silverlight Viewer over the past several years, and have created 24 custom tools that users can add to thier 'out of the box" Silverlight Viewer. Provided ESRI is clearly communicating move towards javascript/html5, how many other's are faced with this business decision, of abandoning Silverlight? I would like to think our tools built for the Silverlight Viewer have a decent lifespan, provided the benefits of an easily configurable and robust set of tools  available for non-programers to generate advanced web apps ... View more

I'm working with several thousand raster files in MrSID format for an entire county that are seperated by township . My end goal is to create a cached basemap in ArcGIS Server of the imagery. Can you reccomend best methods? Mosaic tool is crashing. Raster Catalog works but I've read source files should be converted to Tiff or Jpeg first. Is there a way to batch export? Also there is a big difference in image resolution when i convert a few? Mosaic Dataset works but only viewable at a scale up to 1:10,000? Otherwise I only see the outlines? Best, Ryan ... View more

Using the search widget. I want to display on of the returned fields as hyperlink, but not display the actual link. How does the new Pop-Up effect the search widget. Original xml. <?xml version="1.0" ?> <configuration>     <layers>         <layer>             <name>Target Parcels</name>             <url>http://10.12.1.32/ArcGIS/rest/services/GWP/MapServer/0</url>             <expression>COMPANY_NA = '[value]'</expression>             <textsearchlabel>Search by Name:</textsearchlabel>             <graphicalsearchlabel>Use one of the graphical search tools to Search for a Faclity</graphicalsearchlabel> <titlefield>COMPANY_NA</titlefield>            <fields all="false">   <field name ="COMPANY_NA"/>   <field name ="FULL_ADDRE"alias="Address"/>   <field name ="FAC_STATUS" alias="Status"/>   <field name ="doc_url" alias="Documents"/>   </fields> <linkfield>doc_url</linkfield> </layer>        </layers>     <zoomscale>20000</zoomscale> </configuration> ... View more