topic Re: Template Quick Projects: Base Layers in ArcPad Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/template-quick-projects-base-layers/m-p/45564#M329 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Graham,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Great post it is good to see that templates are being effective for you.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I especially like your third point - test until your happy with the project.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Keep up the good work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Gareth</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:51:32 GMT GarethWalters 2011-02-10T18:51:32Z Template Quick Projects: Base Layers https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/template-quick-projects-base-layers/m-p/45563#M328 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Just a quick note about my play with template quick projects.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It is fairly easy to reference a series of read only base layers without them being copied over and over(taking ages when its 100Meg of shapefiles)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>efectivly the process is:</SPAN><BR /><OL><BR /><LI>set up your mxd in arcmap untill its all pretty</LI><BR /><LI>Ensure all base layers are shapefile readonly.</LI><BR /><LI>keep Checking out and testing in arcpad untill you are satisfied about how it looks in arcpad. be sure to use read only shapefiles for the base layers.</LI><BR /><LI>move the said shapefiles BaseLayers to the folder "\my documents\BaseLayers\" on your GPS</LI><BR /><LI>edit the project.apm file change the reference to each shapefile from "xxxx.shp" to "\my documents\BaseLayers\xxxx.shp"</LI><BR /><LI>rename the .apm file and accociated files to template.apm and template.log.</LI><BR /><LI>zip up the rermaining files and copy xxxx.zip to the "arcpad install folder\templates\" eg "\program files\arcpad\templates"</LI><BR /><LI>create a quick project and select the new template</LI><BR /></OL><SPAN>Sorry about being brief. But I thought I'd share.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:42:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/template-quick-projects-base-layers/m-p/45563#M328 GrahamW 2011-02-07T03:42:45Z Re: Template Quick Projects: Base Layers https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/template-quick-projects-base-layers/m-p/45564#M329 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Graham,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Great post it is good to see that templates are being effective for you.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I especially like your third point - test until your happy with the project.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Keep up the good work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Gareth</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:51:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/template-quick-projects-base-layers/m-p/45564#M329 GarethWalters 2011-02-10T18:51:32Z