ArcToolbox is still missing many crucial tools,

[JamalNUMAN]

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,
 

1. Drop-down list
2. Auto-complete search
3. Zooming to the selected feature
4. Go to xy

 


Do I need to be a developer in order to create such tools?
 
Thank you
 
Best
 
Jamal

[ChrisMathers]

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.