Latest Contributions by MichaelVolz

Robert: Thank you for the additional information, but the related records portion of the datagrid is still not getting populated. When I first accessed the REST services the relationship did not show up even though a relationship existed on the layer.  The layer was created from a lyr file and when the lyr file is brought into an mxd, the related tables do not automatically appear.  I needed to open the table view and then use the Related Tables button on the toolbar to bring in the related tables.  I then had to stop and start the mapservice and refresh the REST cache. Do I need to add table information for the related table in the config file below the layers definition area?  I did not add table information below the layers area as I thought the fields all="true" would populate the related record portion of the datagrid. ... View more

How would I be able to tell from the REST page that the relate is accessible from ArcGIS Server? Can you pinpoint where in the documentation I would find more information about accessing related records? ... View more

Robert: I first tried to make configuration changes that would allow me to with related record information in the datagrid for a Query Layer, but that did not return any records. I then made configuration changes just to use a standard ArcMap relate and that also did not return any records. Does the related records mean you can access records from a relate created in ArcMap?  Or does it mean something else? Can you explain how the configuration file should be modified so the related records get populated? ... View more

Robert: Can you use a mapservice with a datasource that uses a Query Layer to a SQL Server database table with your eSearch widget? I would like to be able to access related records that have been enabled from the Query Layer? If this is possible, what version of your widget and/or the FlexViewer software would be needed? ... View more

Carmen: Can you provide the sample and details of the sample that you received from ESRI on the GeoRSSSite? ... View more

Personal experience with VPN connections. In my organization most of the GIS users are connected via a high-speed network, but one office has a VPN connection.  Before ArcGIS v9.3.1 all connections to SDE were service connections.  In the upgrade to ArcGIS v9.3.1, my organization planned to go with direct connections as they were supposed to always be faster than service connections.  After a thorough amount of metric testing, in this scenario with a VPN connection, the service connections were actually twice as fast as the direct connections which had a large impact with large complex datasets when panning and zooming.  As such, we left the service connections only for this office with the VPN connection after the upgrade. Thus I would definitely suggest going with the alernative of an RDP connection as suggested above. ... View more

Trevor: My organization recently upgraded from ArcGIS v9.3.1 to v10.0, where the servers went from Windows Server 2003 R2 to Windows Server 2008 R2.  The cache creation times for the county wide datasets that I work on went from about 16 hours to 1.5 hours.  At ArcGIS v9.3.1 I had the best cache creation performance with only 1 instance (Extensive testing that disagreed with ESRI's suggestion of n+1 instances where n = number of server processors). At ArcGIS v10.0 I went with the n+1 instances and have this great performance, but I'm using file geodatabases as the source of the data.  How much more time do you think it would take to create the cache if I went with SDE as the data source (I currently update the file geodatabase weekly from SDE where the data is edited in a multi-user environment)? I ask this because it would be good if I could possibly eliminate the step of having to update the file geodatabase and go straight from SDE.  The only drawback would be that I would be hitting the SDE database from the AGS mapservices if I perform queries that need to go back to the original data source instead of just viewing the cache tiles. ... View more

Does the performance gain from a file geodatabase as the source for a ags mapservice, over an SDE source, that you have experienced occur for both dynamic and cached services? ... View more

Thank you for the info Derek. The Tax Parcel Viewer template on ArcGIS Online link has references to Required software.  This section requires ArcSDE for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express.  My organization uses ArcSDE for Oracle.  Would this application work for me if I pointed it to the appropriate mapservice/feature class in my ArcSDE for Oracle database?  Or would this require a good deal of code modification? Your feedback is greatly appreciated.  Thanks. ... View more

Does anyone from ESRI know where I would find such a template for HTML5? ... View more

Can you provide a copy of your script? Maybe it is referencing a directory on the Windows XP machine that is no longer available in Windows 7.  If you are using direct connections to SDE in your python script, the path to these connections has a different location on a Windows 7 machine than on a Windows XP machine. I hope this helps. ... View more

If you have ArcGIS 10.1 you might think about using ArcGIS Online (AGOL) to share web content within your office and out to your satellite offices.  ESRI could host the mapservices where you would just need to provide them the data. I also think they could host simple template type applications where they would use the services with your specific content which could be combined with their base maps. You would be limited by their out-of-the-box tools, which might be good enough anyhow.  If the out-of-the-box tools do not meet your business needs, they you would need to perform custom coding which could be done in various languages (VB.NET, C#, Javascript, etc. to name a few). I would suggest viewing their documentation on AGOL as a start. ... View more