Latest Contributions by SteveLowman

Our company just switched to Egnyte.  We did some pre testing on large projects and had issues and initially they were going to set up local server to cache data, but did not.  So it wants to cache on your local box (which is cleared on reboot).  Testing was slow and FGDB sync had issues. Now that we are live my conclusion is IT SUCKS!  I have a file that has a large image in it from local city.  First time opening project on Egnyte it took 1 1/2 hours to open.  Trying again this morning and after an hour the aerial is still not drawing. I have also found  that some layers did not draw.  When I went back and tried to add data and browse to the FGDB and select the layer to add again to the project it still did not draw.  Suspecting the data was corrupted when it was copied from old system to Egnyte I copied the FGDB local and all layers opened fine. Our CAD folks are also experiencing long opening times on files that have large background images. Because of cloud storage you need BIG Time band with.  Our office is 100mbps and that is not enough for large files. For GIS I am afraid to even think of trying a large Raster Project on Egnyte.  Google searched and found this on Egnyte : https://helpdesk.egnyte.com/hc/en-us/articles/201637074-Unsupported-Characters-and-File-Types On it's website they do not play well with database files.  ... View more

Looks like this is now in Pro 3.2.  See What's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.2  https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/announcements/whats-new-in-arcgis-pro-3-2/ Document and Navigate Your Geodatabase Data Model   ... View more

I suspect at this point, since it has been since ArcView 3.3 (2002) since promote was available that it is not something they consider adding to ArcGIS  ... View more

In this simplified example I would select say all the houses on Main street in a two block area The result would look something like this, showing highlighted records in a random order in the table. Say I sorted on address then selected Promote.  Promote would then move all the selected to the top of the table, and the unselected still showing but listed below the selected.  Each group would be sorted by HsNo in this case. I could then scroll through the table (entire table) and look for anomalies in my selection.  This was a very useful tool in AV3 Say for example you were looking for all the 6 inch and above water pipe that was NOT PVC and you set up your query like this: Size >= 6 AND Material NOT LIKE 'PVC' In your selection is something like this: If you sorted on Material and then promoted you could scroll through the records to find anomalies in the selected and unselected set like this! Admittedly showing only the selected and sorting then reverse select does the same thing but this was a way to see all the records at once with selected at the top of the list.        ... View more

Once you "Add Folder Connection" to folders allow the use of an alias name (or shortcut name).  For example our company uses similar pathing for projects  \ProjectXY\gis\data\GDB and \ProjectXY\gis\data\Shapefile.  If I want to path data from a similar project and path to DATA but want to know which project it is from I would like to alias the name to ProjectXY_Data without changing the name of the Data folder in the source project.  In some cases I might have data from several "Data" folders referenced.   Much like a shortcut in windows can be renamed but link to the same location without changing the source name.  So \Project1\gis\data\ & \Project2\gis\data\ folders might be connected in Project3.  I would wind up with two folders named "Data" and no good way at a glance to know where they came from.  Yes hovering over them displays the source but it would be nice to use an Alias or Shortcut name for them. ... View more

Desktop did this so I am missing it as I try to migrate some of my projects to PRO.   ... View more

I agree, if there is one feature from 3.3 that I miss it is the PROMOTE option.  I use to use it all the time and wish they would bring it back.   Michael Nicholas did a great job of explaining how it worked but you have know idea of the impact until you actually get to use it.  Now that it's gone so many years most users today have know idea what they are missing, are even understand it and how it would help.  ... View more

Charlie,  Thanks for the link I will check them out. Funny part is if the data gets uploaded to AGOL I can then download the entire thing to my PC but don't have the level of permissions to export the data to something else.  However if I back door this data off the tablet it appears the tool in 10.3 works and preservers the relationship between the photo name and data.  Not sure which is the better solution at this point but definitely does not work as advertised! ... View more

Russell, Has this issue been fixed?  I have an Android (Galaxy 10.1 2014) new and loaded Collector on it and tested fine for off line editing. Yesterday (4/20/15) we collected 89 points and 141 attached photos (approximately 3MB each) in offline editing mode.  Now it wont sync.  No error just sits there, hours now it has been sitting there with nothing happening. ... View more

Official Bug! BUG-000086355, Synopsys-Doing Repair on 10.3 changes folder paths in advanced settings to the text character "1" thus Windows cant find a folder named "1" so it is created in the directory with the current mxd. Workaround: Reset Advanced settings. ... View more

Andy, Thanks for the reply.  This seemed to be more of a sledgehammer approach to the solution.  Because of licensing issues in the past I was reluctant to try this.  I have in the past used this route but was hoping not to have to use it this time. The solution ESRI came up with was what worked for me. ... View more