Latest Contributions by JakeSkinner

1) What is the difference between what I did Even though you set the data type to Layer, this will not create the Layer object.  In order to call any methods for a layer, you will first need to create the object.  Also, when you use arcpy.GetParameterAsText, the first parameter is always 0 instead of 1. 2)  for df = mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0], what does the [0] indicate? The arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames function returns a list.  The [0] indicates to use the first value in the list.  Even if you only have one data frame in your MXD, you will still need to indicate the index value for the list object. 3) why del mxd? This will release any locks on the MXD. ... View more

Hi Marc, The Upgrade Geodatabase too will be the best approach.  This tool allows you to maintain all of your geodatabase objects such as domains, subtypes, relationship classes, etc.  Also, if you are using an SDE geodatabse, the Upgrade Geodatabase tool will maintain all of your database users, groups, privileges, etc. ... View more

Hi Ghassan, An ArcSDE service, also known as an ArcSDE application server or a  three-tiered architecture, conveys spatial data between GIS applications  and a geodatabase.  With an ArcSDE service, a gsrvr process is created on the SDE server for each client connection.  A direct connection is recommended.  The direct-connect architecture moves ArcSDE functionality to the  desktop. This removes the ArcSDE load from the server and allows  additional resources to be freed up for the DBMS, which means you get  better scalability on the database server.  Direct  connections can be faster if the server is heavily used, because  processing takes place on the client machine. Rather than having to  process the information on the server, which may be responding to  requests from numerous other users at the same time, and send the  information back to the client across the network, the client computer  is typically only processing a few tasks at a time. One scenario where you may want to use an ArcSDE application server connection is if your desktop machine does not have  enough resources to handle the ArcSDE processes. ... View more

Hi Jose, I noticed you have the DynamicUrl specified twice.  Is your service drawing and the legend not displaying, or is your service not drawing as well as the legend? ... View more

Hi Ganesh, I haven't been able to get the intellisense to work for HTML files, but I have for Javascript files by copying the attached 'dojo.1.6.0.sdocml' to the project. ... View more

You will first need to create a Layer object so you can call the 'getSelectedExtent()' method.  Ex: import arcpy from arcpy import mapping mxd = mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") df = mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] lyr = mapping.Layer(arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)) df.extent = lyr.getSelectedExtent() del mxd ... View more

Hi Gareth, What version of ArcGIS (including Service Packs) are you running?  I was unable to reproduce this using ArcGIS 10.1 SP1. ... View more

What version of ArcGIS Desktop (including Service Packs) are you using? ... View more

Right-click on your mosaic dataset > Modify > Repair.  Can you send a screen shot of this? ... View more

Hi Vikram, The Copy_management will work.  When you initially loaded the rasters into the mosaic dataset, did you use UNC paths?  If not, and you copy the mosaic dataset to another server, the mosaic dataset will not be able to find the rasters.  You can repair the mosaic dataset paths using the Repair Mosaic Dataset Paths tool and specify a UNC path. ... View more

Hi Xiankun, You will want to create a global variable and then pass that to the Button class.  Here is an example: import arcpy import pythonaddins class ComboBoxClass(object):     """Implementation for ComboBox_addin.combobox (ComboBox)"""     def __init__(self):             self.editable = True             self.enabled = True             self.width = 'WWWWWWWW'             self.dropdownWidth = 'WWWWWWW'     def onFocus(self, focused):         if focused:             self.mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument('current')             layers = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(self.mxd)             self.items = []             for layer in layers:                 self.items.append(layer.name)     def onSelChange(self, selection):         global fc         fc = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(self.mxd, selection)[0]         class ButtonClass(object):     """Implementation for ComboBox_addin.button (Button)"""     def __init__(self):         self.enabled = True         self.checked = False     def onClick(self):         print fc On the 'onSelChange' function within the ComboBoxClass I declared 'fc' as a global variable, so now I can use this in the ButtonClass.  The above code simply prints the selected layer in the combo box to the python window in ArcMap when the button is clicked. ... View more

Try creating a new feature class in another File Geodatabase and then use the Simple Data Loader to load data from the corrupt feature class to this one. ... View more

Is there a way to update the attributes, not geometry, without user clicking on map? My service request system needs a lot of editing(follow up), I need an interface for users to just query that service request id, then updates data. At this time we do not need map. Currently, we can only edit by clicking on the feature layer, bring up infowindow, and applyedits. It is time-consuming and slow. I am thinking about to query the SQLExpress database, but when I open the tables in SQLExpress, the data is not synchronized with the ArcMap data.  I am stuck here. Who can help? Many Thanks. If you want to go the route of querying the SQL Express database, take a look at creating a versioned view.   They allow you to read or edit versioned data in a geodatabase table or feature class using SQL.  Here is more some more information: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//006z000000vp000000 ... View more