Latest Contributions by TedCronin

Performance still lags with this release with large datasets.  Defaults to one color for layers added, seems like there could be some randomization for the symbols when they get added, like in ArcMap. Love the Tables capability though. ... View more

Other non GIS courses that can be taken to understand the basics beyond just doing arcpy, are through edX and coursera.org. edX is a class at MIT that is free. It started last week, but I imagine it will be offered again.  Uses 2.7. https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2012_Fall/about coursera is another online free offering, that has an online course starting up on the 14th of October through Rice University. Uses 3.2.x. https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.coursera.org/#course/programming1 (University of Toronto) https://www.coursera.org/#course/interactivepython (Rice) These are computer science classes that use python, and should help you to learn the basics of python and thus arcpy as a python package.  The classes are not about arcpy, though, just the basics of python.  arcpy is currently supported with 2.7, so perhaps the MIT course would be best, but the 3x courses will help for what is coming from Esri. ... View more

Ah, yes. http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5f799e6d23d94e25b5aaaf2a58e63fb1 ... View more

We upgraded our clients to 10.1, so the relationship class lag does not exisit anymore.  We still do see issues with Annotation inside of the GDB though, so perhaps that can be logged.  Our current approach is to use Feature cache, but we are seeing feature cache with anno at 10.1 is equal in speed to anno with no cache at 10.0 before we enabled editor tracking.  After enabling editor tracking the performance on 10 clients was really slow, too slow.  Basically the two operations are what pushed us forward to 10.1 clients sooner than expected. 😞 ... View more

Hi, I've got an initial ArcServer web application up and running. It needs to be updated daily and I'm trying to figure out how to streamline or automate the process. Some of the data lives in file geodatabases (we do not have ArcSDE) and some in our SQL Server database. Each time I update, I join the results of a SQL server view to a feature class in the file gdb. The result is imported into the gdb and used by the service. I'm wondering about the best approach to automate this (if possible). 1) Is there a way to "connect" the SQL server database to the ArcServer service directly? 2) Is there a way to automatically update the GDB with the SQL data when it changes? (without rebuilding the entire project)? 3) Is there a way to create a service that serves up the SQL data to the web application? Keep in mind that I'm trying to avoid writing lots of code; I want to use capabilities that are "configurable" rather than "Programmable". 4) Would upgrading to ArcSDE solve this problem elegantly? Thanks for your responses, LK What about the new Spatial Data Server?  I think you get this with an Advanced/Basic Server license.  This would allow you to serve out your data from SQL Server without using SDE using the Geometry type.  I would think you could use python for the database automation using pyODBC, or just go the SQlAlchemy route, and tie that back to a GDB.  1, and 3, could be solved with Spatial Data Server, so I would talk to Esri about licensing.  2 above could be handled with python.  If these all play out correctly then 4 would be unneded, but it would make your life easier. You mentioned ArcServer, so is that the Advanced/Standard variety, because I am pretty sure Basic Server is included.  Basic Server is SDE.  if that is the case then you aleady have a license for ArcSDE. ... View more

I updated the database schema and installed 10.1 SDE, so there is no issue.  In process of upgrading all desktops to 10.1 as well.  2 left. ... View more

Another more serious issue, is after enabling editor tracking on a 10 sde database (then disabling it), the 10 access speeds have slowed to a crawl.  We started on 10.1 updates because of the issue.  10 minutes to select a record and have it show up in the Attributes window.  When relationship classes are in place, the table fields have a serious lag time.  Editing Anno has slowed to a crawl. ... View more

This is what I figured out, thanks Craig.  Makes total sense now...:) What doesn't make sense is where 10.0 and 10 SP1, support editor tracking , and SP2, SP3, SP4, and SP5 don't support editor tracking. ... View more

So, what you are saying is if you replica from one geodatabase sde to another sde, and happen to have representations, those same database objects are not being transferred.  We have been using reps for a few years, and until 10, had no issue.  Issue at 10, was when a SDE was replicated to a file GDB, Reps were being dropped, this is a bug.  Reps between SDE to SDE has always worked. Or are you referring to changing the properties on 1 sde instance and hoping that throught the replica they will change, much like domains, where if a domian is changed, it is not replicated across. ... View more

This is what I figured out, thanks Craig.  Makes total sense now...:) ... View more

SDE is at 10 SP3. ... View more

You need to give access to you data to an arcgis user, then when publishing the data, use the database connection with arcgis rights to the data.  So, add an arcgis user in the database.  Add a connection in Catalog with this same user.  Add the data to an MXD from this same database connection.  Publish. Change Privileges is just an extra comment...;) ... View more

Yes, this looks pretty cool as well, so +1 as well. ... View more