Latest Contributions by DanPatterson_Retired

Examples would be great...the syntax and the outputs would be useful ... View more

shorten your title please ... View more

The extents do differ...I don't work with SDE files, so would that be an issue trying to get them together? ... View more

could you provide both please so people can have a look...could be something small ... View more

did you try to join the two files together based upon the common field? ... View more

There is no way to do this.  A hyperlinks is your best option if you have a matching key field to provide the association ... View more

By chance, did the project contain data that may reside on a server and the mxd is having difficulty making a connection to it? ... View more

you should be able to go to Conversion Tools, To Raster, Feature to Raster if you have a spare shapefile...according to the help file, it does not require SA.  Once you have a raster, try one of the tools in arctoolbox, for example, Spatial Analyst Tools, Map Algebra, Raster Calculator Also, in 10.2.2 as an example, go to the Start button (bottom left), select All programs, navigate to the ArcGIS folder and select the ArcGIS Administrator and ensure that the extension has been licensed (I know...I know...you have checked ) ... View more

not much to go on...but in desperation...see ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tools Scripting Error | GISNuts.com‌   and the sublink GIS Geek: ArcGIS 10: Script Error After Clicking on Description Tab and  A fix for ‘script errors’ when running tools in ArcToolbox | Geographic Information Science information and support‌ and In ArcGIS for Desktop, how do I correct a fatal error resultingin automatic shutdown?‌ for now ‌ ... View more

To follow up on Ian's comments...I always take the extra step to Project (aka the Project tool) to get my data into a projected coordinate system when I am going to deal with any data set that uses any part of geometry (ie. length, area, volume, position and function that rely on them).  I have never liked, nor do I trust, projections on the fly, since, they make people complacent about what they are doing...MTCW ... View more

As suggested, use sys.argv  that way there there is no script editing when you need to ascribe scripts to a tool.  The only thing to remember that sys.argv[1] is = GetParameterAsText(0) since Arcmap starts parameters at 0 and sys.argv[0] is reserved for the running script name...which can be useful ... View more

Not without details on the toolbox and the tools.  Did it every work?  Do they work on another computer?  Is it a convention toolbox (*.tbx) or a python toolbox (*.pty)  anything you think might help ... View more

surely you aren't going to enter this yourself, so what is the format now?  text file of an appropriate format and a variety of others will work ... View more

I don't understand....the ability of working with selections is a major advantage to any GIS system...if not, you would be creating numerous unnecessary files. ... View more

see my suggestion above...desktops are the last place I would save anything ... View more