I am trying to find the "Build by Feature Class" component of the caching tools for 10.2, however can't seem to find it. Has this been replaced by something else?
Are you asking about the ability to create map cache tiles only within the extent of an input feature class or only within areas that intersect features from an input feature class? If so, the area_of_interest parameter within the Manage Map Server Cache Tiles tool may suit your needs.
That's great, thank-you. I have used that functionality which is a great way to control the area cached. However it's not exactly what I am referring to.
There are 2 components to my issue.
Component 1:
In the "Update Map Server Cache (Server)" tool, some functionality has changed in new releases of the software.
Historically, if I was caching a large geographical area and wanted to break the process down into small areas, there was the option to use a feature class (like a grid for example) with multiple features, that contained a status complete field and the caching would be performed independently for the geographical area of each feature in the feature class. At an advanced level, this caching process for these areas could be farmed out to separate server instances, or VMs, thus ensuring a much faster caching process. Here is the link to the depreciated tool: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00540000000r000000
The second issue is that I would rather actually use the "Manage Tile Cache (Data Management)" tool to build my cache from an MXD, rather than a service. A common workflow of caching locally from an MXD and then copying the cached files into the server "\arcgisserver\directories\arcgiscache" folder is better for me at the moment. So the question is, if we can utilise the functionality I have detailed above using the Server caching tool, can we do the same using the "Manage Tile Cache (Data Management)" tool in "Data Management"?
Perhaps this functionality still exists in Arcpy somewhere?
