Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

‎02-22-2013

Shaun: When I try to view your mapservice in ArcGIS Javascript from the above link through the REST endpoint, I never see any imagery. What version of ArcGIS Server are you using? Do you have the Image Server Extension available to you so you can host this dataset as an image service?

‎02-21-2013

Rhett Zufelt made the MapSwitcher resizeable from the xml file in the post http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/78093-Resize-More...-widget-in-flexviewer Would this work for you? Or does it take up too much of the screen?

‎02-21-2013

Vince: You wrote: Ideally, each user would connect to the database as themselves (no shared login), and common MXDs would have the connection properties set so that the password isn't retained. What happens if you need to update the SDE connection information in these common mxds (numbering in the thousands) and a manual process is impractical based on budgetary constraints (this scenario exists if you move the SDE database to a new server for upgrade)? I have created VBA and python scripts that loop through the mxds on my organization's network. Mxds where the password is not retained are problematic to the automatic processing of these files as the scripts hang at this point looking for an enduser to add the connection information. Don't you think this is a liability of not retaining the SDE connection information in the mxds?

‎02-15-2013

I ran a python script with both the 64 bit python.exe and 32 bit python.exe. I was expecting the 64 bit python.exe to be faster (not sure how much faster it should be), but it was actually slower. Does this make any sense? Are there any settings that need to be looked at to fix this, if this is not expected behavior? Thank you.

‎02-15-2013

Thank you Wayne. That was the answer with the full path to the .sde file instead of the shorthand convention of Database connections. I guess with the implementation of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and the use of a 64 bit operating system, the .sde connection files could be found in different locations so the shorthand convention was removed. I will now remember to use the full path to the .sde files for new and upgraded python scripts.

‎02-15-2013

The original post showed a link to download this widget, but it does work. Broken link - http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html...2bc9735c0657e0 Does anyone know where I would download the latest compiled login screen widget?

‎02-15-2013

The suggestion by Leo will work, but you will need to deal with the locks that are placed on a file geodatabase by ArcGIS Server. I would suggest instead using the DeleteFeatures_management tool followed by the Append_management tool to avoid the locks. You would have to stop the affected service of the file geodatabase if you want to delete the feature class and create it brand new each week. Then you would have to restart the service once the feature class creation has been completed.

‎02-15-2013

Thank you Wayne Based on the print statement it appears the python script is running as the 64 bit version (I added a PYTHONPATH environmental variable and placed the 64 bit version first in the list). Unfortunately, the connection I made to a v10.0 SDE database is no longer working in the python script that I am running on the machine with ArcGIS Desktop v10.1. Has the syntax for using a .SDE connection changed with the new version of python? In the past I used INPUT_SDE = "Database Connections\\" + connSDE + "\\" where connSDE was a string variable that contained an SDE connection such as Development_user.sde I then used INPUT_SDE as a portion of the first argument in the arcpy.Append_management call where data is pulled from SDE to update a file geodatabase. The exact SDE featureclass name was added as another variable that is concatenated with INPUT_SDE to create the entire first argument which looks like: Database Connections\Development_user.sde\EMER.AMBULANCE_STATIONS. Any help or hints are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

‎02-15-2013

To All Python Users: From what I have read on the forum, 64 bit geoprocessing is available with python with ArcGIS Desktop v10.1. I would like to make use of this capability on a 64 bit machine. I see 2 versions of python27 on this machine at: C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1 C:\Python27\ArcGISx6410.1 How can I determine if my python script run in IDLE is using the 64 bit python geoprocessing capability? Any help or hints is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

‎02-14-2013

I have a question about the Oracle Instant Client that is now supported at ArcGIS v10.1 and its interaction with a tnsnames.ora file. Pre ArcGIS v10.1 my organization has used a full Oracle Client where we make use of a tnsnames.ora file for ArcGIS to recognize which database to connect to (we have a dev, test, and production SDE database). In the Instance input box I entered oracle:10g and the password had @sde at the end of the string. I have an ArcGIS v10.1 computer setup with both the full Oracle 10g client as well as the Oracle Instant client. I used the same connection information to connect to SDE in ArcGIS v10.1, but I think it was using the full Oracle 10g client to make this connection. I also then removed the reference to the tnsnames file but I was not able to connect to the SDE database unless I changed the syntax in the Instance input box to SDE database server name/SDE database name. This is not desirable as I will need to include the SDE database server name in every SDE connection which will cause problems when I retire that server. So my question is "Does the Oracle Instant client work with the tnsnames.ora file?" Or does the tnsnames.ora become obsolete if you migrate to the Oracle Instant client?

‎02-13-2013

Robert: That was perfect. Thank you for investing in the time to upgrade this widget.

‎02-12-2013

Are these locks the same as connections to SDE still existing in the Process Information table of SDE? I ask because I have a python script run in ArcGIS Desktop v10.0 that searches through a polygon feature class for bad data items that might crash a downstream database script. Unless I close out of the python script, a SDE process still lingers in the Process Information table of SDE. Based on this post, I upgraded the python script to run in ArcGIS Desktop v10.1 using arcpy.da.SearchCursor. Unfortunately, after running this updated python script, the SDE process still lingers in the Process Information table of SDE. Is this the same issue as the original post?

‎02-11-2013

Are you using ArcGIS Server v10.1? I ask because this server is 64 bit. I'm not sure this would apply to SQL Server as I have Oracle. In order to register the database with ArcGIS Server I needed the 64 bit Oracle Client. I also had ArcMap on the machine so when I published the service, I needed the 32 bit Oracle Client installed so 32 bit ArcMap could connect to SDE. I'm not sure this applies to you, but maybe it might help in your research to find the problem.

‎02-08-2013

Thanks Vince. I am trying to get the Instance parameter configured so I just need to provide the sid for the database e.g. production instead of sde:oracle11g:production so my instance is not tied to a specific oracle client version in which case I would not need to modify my sde connections inside of mxds if I update the Oracle Client. An ESRI technical representative said that it was setup this way on his machine, but sde:oracle11g keeps getting automatically added to my instance when I create a direct connection in ArcCatalog without specifying sde:oracle11g in the Instance parameter. Do your Oracle direct connections work this way?

‎02-08-2013

Robert: Pop-ups in the jpg would be an awesome enhancement, but I can understand if you do not include it. I did notice, however, that the floating grid for the eSearch widget does not get exported, but the eSearch widget itself does. The information from the floating grid would be very useful if it could be included in the exported jpg image.

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