Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

Are you using Task Scheduler to set up these scheduled tasks? If so, under Action what do you have set for Program/script? Under Action what do you have set for Add arguments? Under Action what do you have set for Start in? ... View more

Are you running these scheduled tasks in a Windows OS environment? If so, are you running on a workstation with an OS such as XP, 7, or 8?  Or are you running on a server with as OS such as Windows Server 2003 or 2008? ... View more

ArcMap v10.0 sp5 does solve this problem.  Although you can not determine the version of an mxd in python, python will throw an exception instead of completely crashing if it encounters an ArcMap v10.1 mxd file.  So if you are processing a large batch of mxds, you can use try except to catch ArcMap v10.1 files and then move on to the next mxd without processing the file. ... View more

This would be a very helpful enhancement to the python library of functions.  I too am faced with resourcing layers and tableviews in 1000s of mxds.  I can access the existing properties of layers, but I can only guess at the existing properties of a tableview. For now, I will just flag the instances of tableviews sources from SDE, which I will then need to manually update.  It would be far better, if this task could be done manually with python. ... View more

Nathan: This might not be why your script is stalling out.  My original script was running on an older Windows XP machine where I would run out of memory after processing a large collection of files (200 or more).  I now run the script on a Windows 7 or better a Windows Server 2008 machine and I do not have memory issues anymore (Memory is handled better my the OS I am told). Take a look at your Task Manager and watch the memory usage of your pythonw.exe process.  If it keeps going up for some time and then plateaus out at a high value with no CPU usage then you have probably stalled out. Could you also share your code and explain what business need you are trying to accomplish? Thank you. ... View more

Wayne: I will try that, but it just seems like the extent should not change if the operations you are performing on the mxd have no connection to the extent. I added the following code for checking the extent before and after looping through the layer: df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] oldExtent = df.extent print("The old extent = " + str(oldExtent)) - Prints the dataframe extents before looping through layers Now I loop through layers and save mxd df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] newExtent = df.extent print("The new extent = " + str(newExtent)) - Prints the dataframe extents before looping through layers The extents that are printed out are identical, but the map has been zoomed out to almost double its intial extent. ... View more

In the line SchemaOwner_sdeFC = "Database Connections\\SchemaOwner.sde\\SchemaOwner.sdeFC" In my scripts, this line would be referencing a .sde file.  I am not sure what a .sdeFC file is? Also, can you provide the full path to the .sde file?  I found that the Database Connections syntax worked for ArcGIS v10.0, but for ArcGIS v10.1 I had to provide the full path for the script to accept the SDE connection file. I hope this helps. ... View more

What version of ArcGIS are you working with? Can you post your code (with code block please)? ... View more

Thanks Robert.  That is what I was planning to do, I just wanted to make sure I was not requesting an enhancement for a widget (tool) that was already available. ... View more

Bjorn: Just to clarify, since the ArcGIS Server REST API does not support BLOBs, that would mean that any of the APIs would also not support BLOBs (e.g. Javascript API, Silverlight API and Flex API)? Is there any chance that ESRI is looking to enhance these APIs with the ability to directly read/write to BLOB fields?  There are many 3rd party GIS software vendors that store data in BLOB fields and it would be very useful to be able to get directly to the data (plus it would reduce duplicated file storage). ... View more

Rhett: Does your script convert BLOB field data for individual records or does it convert BLOB field data for an entire feature class (or however the entire data set is stored)? This seems like a duplication of file storage as the data is basically being stored in 2 different formats.  Is there no tool in FlexViewer that can currently read directly from a BLOB field and display an item such as a jpeg image that is stored in the BLOB format.  That seems like a more efficient system. ... View more

I think it might have to do with the version of python you are using.  I think it might be trying to use the 64 bit python version which can only if you have it enabled for background processing. Are you by any chance using ArcGIS for Desktop v10.1 on this server? Disregard above as I do not think this is the issue. I have all my scheduled tasks set to: �?�"Run only when user is logged on" is selected. �?�The user has administrator privileges. on a Windows Server 2008 server machine.  This is the only way I was able to get the scheduled tasks to run properly.  I would just check have "Run only when user is logged on" and check "Run with highest privileges".  This is how my server's Scheduled Tasks have been configured and successfully running for 6 months. ... View more