Latest Contributions by TerryMergl

Good morning. For transparency I am still pretty green with ArcMap (10.6.1).  What I am after may be doable, or not.  As a small telecom/ISP/video provider for a small serviceable area - we have a few tools for polling and minimal outage reports, but primarily for employee use.  As of now our HFC plant has more service affecting tools available to us than our FTTx plant.   A friend who works for an area utility mentioned a way he joins/pulls in data to a feature class in Arc Catalog to get onto a map based on just a couple fields to flag. So I guess my question is:  could I use our current snmp polling data/traps and somehow get that to Arc to put on a map for viewing?   I won't worry about polygons or anything complicated, I am curious if this at all could be done.    Our inhouse software/engineering/crm is a robust platform - just never really tackled service affecting issues on a whole. Thanks in advance Terry ... View more

Good morning all. I had to append this original question since I was able to finagle a way to save my polys as SHP files.  What I'm really in a pinch for, since we only have a Standard license is this. I have to create a poly of our county.  No big deal there. but I have approximately eight small polygons (small service areas) that I need to draw, or better yet ... these service areas need to be deleted to leave that cookie cutter type feel. I read to use ERASE but I do not have access to that tool. Any workarounds, thoughts???? Thank You in advance Terry ... View more

Good morning. I am not real savvy with field calculator.  We have a couple fields that contain service address information.  Someone opted to add additional information enclosed by parentheses in this field.  I need to remove the parentheses and data within.  Any advice or suggestions appreciated. Thanks Terry ... View more

Good morning. Our application runs off of the Arc Engine, but there are times I am asked to do something minor in ArcMap.  I am not sure if I am looking or using the right terminology to track down a solution, but I would have to assume my request is common. I have a copy of our mxd file.  I need to cut or fence a portion of it (I have removed any layers not needed).  I'd like to save this portion of our map as a shapefile.  The part I do not know how to do, are the steps to fence the specific area in Arcmap. Thank you for any guidance. Terry ... View more

Good day to all.  I am still new to ArcGis and the ArcCatalog applications and learning quite a bit just playing around in ArcGis.  Our engineers use a 3rd party application that runs ArcEngine.  I use ArcMap to assist with entry level requests such as symbology; field editing and the odd intersect request.  I am not a drawer - the path that I am on is more of a data support guy So with that abbreviated opening - I am more interested in finding out what others would recommend as in continued education with ESRI classes.  I have ArcGis 1 and 2 under my belt.  Editing Data with ArcGis for Desktop is next on the list, then building / managing geodatabase. Since our engineers use a 3rd party app w/ArGEngine they do not have access to all the tools yet that ArcMap provides.  So the requests are getting a bit more complicated for a beginner.  We are a small Telecom that must provide data for the broadband portal initiative which I believe is almost over and other federal requests for service boundaries, etc. Any advice for classes/education would be greatly appreciated. Second question is (and Im pretty sure I know the answer after reading in the forums).  We use SQL as our database.  Our .mxd file contains a lot of layers as displayed in my TOC.  I'm curious what is the best method to share / provide our mapping to another engineering firm?  I am not sure they want a ton of shapefiles, however they will accept the shapefiles graciously.  What would be considered a more efficient way to share - and I suppose it would depend on the capabilities of the receiving parties? Thank you as always Terry ... View more