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ArcToolbox is still missing many crucial tools,

JamalNUMAN — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:51:23 GMT

ArcToolbox is still missing many crucial tools,

I wanted to include a number of tools in my web application but failed to do so due to the lack of the very basic tools in the ArcToolbox. For example, I couldn’t find tools that enables having,

Drop-down list
Auto-complete search
Zooming to the selected feature
Go to xy

Do I need to be a developer in order to create such tools?

Thank you

Best

Jamal

Re: ArcToolbox is still missing many crucial tools,

ChrisMathers — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:02:44 GMT

Some of these functions (drop downs and auto-complete) will be available to you if you add functions to the Validation tab in a tools properties. This will require you to know some Python however. If you are going to be publishing tools to a web application regularly if would be to your benefit to learn Python because there is expanded functionality in the arcpy module not accessable to Modle Builder. ESRI has a book out now on getting started with Python and arcpy.