topic Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK in ArcGIS Pro SDK Questions

How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Anonymous User — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 20:46:31 GMT

I have a Feature Service in my Map, no local sde files or file geodatabase (aside from default.gdb which I do not use).

I published this service with Version Management set to "true", from a Map with layers that reference a Branch - Versioned dataset.

Is the only way to retrieve the data source is by iteration through layer(s) using the ArcGIS Pro SDK? I am trying to create a custom versioning tool and I wanted to place it in the same Tab as the other Versioning commands, and when that tab is active, no layers are selected in the TOC. How do the existing commands (Post, Reconcile, Manage Versions etc) know the current selected data source? I even tried subscribing to TOCSelectionChangedEvent, however the only arguments returned are MapViewEventArgs, which do not contain any context about selected Datasource in the TOC.

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

GKmieliauskas — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:00:53 GMT

Hi Kevin,

Try this to get selected layers, then from layer you can get datasource and etc.:

                BasicFeatureLayer layer = null;
                await ArcGIS.Desktop.Framework.Threading.Tasks.QueuedTask.Run(() =>
                {
                    //find selected layer
                    if (MapView.Active.GetSelectedLayers().Count == 0)
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show("Select a feature class from the Content 'Table of Content' first.");
                        return;
                    }
                    layer = MapView.Active.GetSelectedLayers()[0] as BasicFeatureLayer;

});

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Anonymous User — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:15:00 GMT

Gintautas,

The tool that I am writing using the condition: esri_mapping_itemSelectedIsVersionableCondition to control the enabled status of my Add-in button. This does not allow me to have a selected layer and selected datasource at the same time.

What I am asking for, is any way to get the list of data sources in the project. If I want to get all the Layers in the Map, I would use MapView.Active.Layers. Is there any sort of .GetDatasources() or GetSelectedDatasources() for the project that you have seen in the SDK? I could not find anything and I do not want to have to rely on the layers being selected, or pulled from the Map.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Wolf — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:37:52 GMT

Hi Kevin,

You can look at the sample here: https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples/blob/f5f9dda18efa173a56d128f3ea64ca34ac3f68a9/Editing/AddFeatureTest/Module1.cs specifically the GetDatasource method. This method will retrieve the data source for your BasicFeatureLayers. In order to get a list of all layers you have to use the active MapView's Map member and get the list of layers from there:
MapView.Active.Map.Layers

Make sure to check if the layer is really a BasicFeatureLayer type.

Hope this answers your question.

- Wolf

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Anonymous User — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:53:24 GMT

Wolf,

I should have written my initial question better, it is a little misleading so I have corrected it. In a nutshell, what I am asking is:

Is the only way to retrieve the datasource is by iteration through layer(s) using the ArcGIS Pro SDK? I am trying to create a custom post/reconcile tool and I wanted to place it in the same Tab as the other Versioning commands, and when that tab is active, no layers are selected in the TOC. How do the existing commands (Post, Reconcile, Manage Versions etc) know the current selected data source? I even tried subscribing to TOCSelectionChangedEvent, however the only arguments returned are MapViewEventArgs, which do not contain any context about selected Datasource in the TOC.

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Wolf — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:03:32 GMT

Hi Kevin,

I haven't tried this yet, but if you listen to the TOCSelectionChangedEvent you get the MapViewEventArgs parameter which contains the MapView property. If you use the MapView.GetSelectedLayers() method you should be able to get the DataSource(s) from the returned list of layers.

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Anonymous User — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:23:19 GMT

Wolf,

Is the only way to get a DataSource in my map project from a Layer?

Thanks,
Kevin

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Wolf — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:51:40 GMT

I think that's the only way. You can get the list of edited datasources using a project property: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/sdk/api-reference/#topic20358.html

If you want to re-use some of the states and conditions of ArcGIS Pro for your button(s) you can take a look at the editing.daml file at this default location: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Extensions\Editing

For example search for: esri_mapping_TOCSelectionValidForReconcile_condition

You could use this condition to enable your button's functionality without having to listen to any changes in the TOC.

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

Anonymous User — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:46:46 GMT

Wolf,

After trying out Project.Current.EditedDatastores(), it only returns ones with active edits for that client session.

Scenario 1: Draw a point, my datasource shows up in Project.Current.EditedDatastores

Scenario 2: Draw a point, save edits, Project.Current.EditedDatastores is empty.

esri_mapping_TOCSelectionValidForReconcile_condition is viable for button enabling/disabling.

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

pspada_WT — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:10:49 GMT

Hi,

I've the exact same problem. Did you solved it?

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

KirkKuykendall1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 15:56:51 GMT

Getting back to the original question:

Is the only way to retrieve the data source is by iteration through layer(s) using the ArcGIS Pro SDK?

You don't need to iterate through all layers - you can just loop through layers that belong to the currently selected datasource on the datasource tab.

This can be done with a command that retrieves the currently selected DataSourceMember from the tab (via MapView's GetSelectedDataSource member) , then loops through DataSourceMember.GetMapMembers , which should be all the layers that use that datasource.

You can arbitrarily pick the first member of the GetMapMembers to determine what datasource is selected in the UI.

To add the command to this context menu:

Use DAML like this:

Re: How do I access currently selected Datasource from Pro SDK

pspada_WT — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:48:28 GMT

thz a lot