Latest Contributions by AllenGuan1

I have a layer in ArcMap. I am trying to reset its data source using arcpy. Here is its old data source, which is a feature class GEOMATICS.Photo_pt within a feature dataset GEOMATICS.Multimedia. lyr.dataSource = “C:\Users\aguiaa\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\Desktop10.2\ArcCatalog\sdeh1p_GGDM_aguiaa_DC.sde\GEOMATICS.Multimedia\GEOMATICS.Photo_pt”   I want to change to lyr.dataSource  to be “W:\shared_resources\Applications\Esri\Desktop10.3_Pet_Houston\ArcCatalog\phousde_SSO.sde\GGDM.Multimedia\GGDM.Photo_pt”.   To achieve this, I make this function call:   lyr.replaceDataSource(“W:\shared_resources\Applications\Esri\Desktop10.3_Pet_Houston\ArcCatalog\phousde_SSO.sde”, 'SDE_WORKSPACE', “GGDM.Photo_pt”, False), but it gives:   lyr.dataSource = “W:\shared_resources\Applications\Esri\Desktop10.3_Pet_Houston\ArcCatalog\phousde_SSO.sde\GEOMATICS.Multimedia\GEOMATICS.Photo_pt”   As someone told me  the feature dataset is part of the workspace, so I tried this:   lyr.replaceDataSource(“W:\shared_resources\Applications\Esri\Desktop10.3_Pet_Houston\ArcCatalog\phousde_SSO.sde\GGDM.Multimedia”, 'SDE_WORKSPACE', “GGDM.Photo_pt”, False), but it gives:   lyr.dataSource = “W:\shared_resources\Applications\Esri\Desktop10.3_Pet_Houston\ArcCatalog\phousde_SSO.sde\GGDM.Multimedia\GEOMATICS.Multimedia\GGDM.Photo_pt”   How can I get rid of “GEOMATICS.Multimedia” in the last line?  My intention is to replace GEOMATICS with GGDM in the data source. I am using Advanced ArcSDE 10.3.1 and ArcDesktop 10.3.1.   Allen ... View more

The arcpy layer function layer.replaceDataSource(targetworkspace, "SDE_WORKSPACE",newDataset, False) works perfect when the newDataset is a SDE feature class. But it does not work with feature dataset\featureclass. For example, if I want to reset a layer's data source from sde1.sde\OWNER1.featuredataset\OWNER1.featureclass to sde2.sde\OWNER2.featuredataset\OWNER2.featureclass, the following function call does not work: layer.replaceDataSource(sde2.sde, "SDE_WORKSPACE","OWNER2.featuredataset\OWNER2.featureclass, False) . It changes the layer's target sde workspace to sde2.sde, but does not change the dataset owner to be OWNER2.  The layer.dataSource is "sde2.sde\OWNER1.featuredataset\OWNER1.featureclass", rather than "sde2.sde\OWNER2.featuredataset\OWNER2.featureclass" which is what I expect to be. Any idea how to do this correctly? ... View more

My company is new to ArcGIS Online (AGOL). We tested using JavaScript API to access or embed an AGOL map shared only within our organization, and found it did not work unless we change the map to share to Public. This does not work for us as we won't want people outside our organization to discover/access the map. Is there a workaround this? ... View more

I upgraded an existing ArcGIS 10.1 test server to 10.3.1. The installation (upgrade) went through without any issues. I can login the local server manager. But all services (including the system and utility services) appeared to be “stopping …”. I could stop a service (e.g., system or utility services), but was unable to start it. It gave this error: "Failed to start the server machine 'xxxx'. Could not start application server within stipulated time". I had rebooted my machine, checked the file/folder permissions and found no issues. The server meets the system requirements as described in http://server.arcgis.com/en/server/10.3/install/windows/arcgis-for-server-system-requirements.htm. I can not publish a new map service as the System/PublishingTools can not be started. Any advice? Allen Guan ... View more

We are moving ArcGIS desktop from PCs to blades. An user will login to different blades to run ArcGIS desktop at different times, and the user need to preserve the same user settings (i.e., Catalog settings, such as connection folders, database connections, toolboxes, and GIS web services) across the different blades. We can activate roaming profile for ArcGIS, but I was told there is an easy way - save the user settings in a central network location for each user, and point an environment variable to this location. Can anybody share how to do this? I found a couple of articles and they are all related to changing a machine registry to achieve this -  set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, set AppData to a central network user profile location.  Not sure if this is correct way or there is a better way. Allen ... View more

Successfully upgraded a SDE database from ArcSDE 10.0/Oracle 11.2 (64 bit) to ArcSDE 10.2.2/Oracle 11.2 (64 bit). But unable to start the sde instance which resides on a RHEL 6.2 server. The sdemon gives this error: sdemon -o start -H /na1/software/esri/arcsde/sdeinstances/sdet_102 -p lk5js873j DB_open_instance()::db_connect (OCI8) error: -1 init_DB DB_instance_open_as_dba: -51 DBMS error code: -1 Could not start ArcSDE -- Check Network, $SDEHOME disk, DBMS settings and dbinit.sde. I don't have such a problem with ArcSDE 10.0/Oracle 11.2 on the same server. The upgraded 10.2.2 database works fine with direct connect and has been used with ArcGIS 10.3 server and Portal for 6 months with no issues. However, we need to start the sde instance to support an application which only works with 3-tier (sde service) connection. ... View more