Latest Contributions by ThomasColson

Does anyone else see this? In WAB, add some GP widgets to the Header Controller. Make at least two "groups" of Widgets. Set one group to Open All in Panel, the other to Show Drop Down: With this setting, one can activate both groups, and one overlays the other, which is confusing to end-users. Set both to Open in Panel. Correct Behavior, only one panel can be opened at once (click on, the other minimizes). Set both to drop down. Click one, it expands. Click the other, the first one minimizes but the second one...nothing. Have to click it again. Is this default behavior? ... View more

In On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 3 we published the model developed in On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2 . Now for some WAB hacking! In WAB  on your hard drive, find ...\server\apps\2\widgets\Geoprocessing. Edit resultRendererManager.js line 55 to be as so: text = '<a target="_blank" href="' + value.value.url + '">Get My Data</a>'; Back in WAB, add a GP Widget to the Header Controller. Note that I am able to get this to work with https and IWA, despite Esri warning otherwise. Check Allow to Export Results and Output May have... Now run the tool! Here's why I emphasize the metadata. I want this to be completely self-service so a field worker can figure out, on their own, how to get the latest data. When someone click on the Help link: And now the user can click on the download link and follow their GPS manual instructions for uploading the waypoints to their GPS! Please forgive my crude text redactions in the screenshots. The data used for the demo is really secret-squirrel stuff... On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 3 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 4 ... View more

In On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2  we created a model to execute the python created in On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1 . Now we need to publish it as a Geoprocessing Service. In the Results tab, right-click on the model results and select Share as Geoprocessing Service. This blog post won't cover how to publish a service, but for this particular GPX tool, there are some settings to pay attention to. Set the Execution Mode to Asynchronous and Message Level to Info. In my own environment, haven't gotten this to work with any other setting. Again, to make this easier for folks to use in "Self Service Mode", spend some time on the instructions! Here's where things go wonky. The publisher will complain that it can't find an output file referenced in the python. Export the Feature Class to a shapefile using the SAME NAME as you specified in the python, and in the SAME DIRECTORY in the registered data store folder where the SDE connection file is. Once you've published the tool successfully, you can delete this shapefile out of the  registered data store folder. On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 3 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 4 ... View more

From On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1  we set up a python script do handle all of the data whatchamacallit and exporting thingamajigger. Now we need to execute the script in a model and publish the results as a GP Service. This works best if you're working in a new, fresh, empty folder on your hard drive. Copy the python script you made from On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1  into this folder. In Arc Catalog, create a new toolbox in this folder (call it GPX), and add the python script to the new toolbox. A few important notes: Set Output Name as a parameter, of type file, Direction -> Output, with a 'gpx' filter. Create a new model, and drag the script object to the model. Set the default output name to be %scratchFolder\SASQUATCH.gpx. Right-click on the output object and check Model Parameter and Add to Display Add some metadata to the model. This is real important for tool-execution when it's published! Save and run the model. Note the output in the GP Results window. On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 3 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 4 ... View more

Not sure if this rises to the lofty level of qualifying as a "Custom Widget", but I did change one line of js in the GP Widget thanks to Roberts help, so I'll pat myself on the back for my first Widget customization. In the Natural Resource field, GIS'ers spend most of the year dealing with data collected during the "Summer Field Season", then spend the summer helping folks figure out how to make maps and use their GPS. There's never really a good workflow (or time) to synchronize last winters QA'ed GIS data with what field folks need to do their jobs today(now please!). To mitigate demands on time (I spend all my time in the virtual server closet these days) and the need for a large workforce to have the latest and greatest data to put on their GPS so they can get to last years sample sites, AND, not require a large workforce to take extensive training to use finicky mobile GIS software (not a big fan of Collector-yet)....I've been struggling with an "Easy Button" way for, say, a college-junior intern to come into the office in the morning, push a button, and get all of the latest Sasquatch Observation Points, including yesterdays, onto their Garmin (the cheapest we can buy) GPS. Here's how I did it. I had originally developed a runs-every-night Python doo-hicky using Kevin Hibmas Features to GPS Toolbox​ by hard-coding paths, field name mappings, and dumping a GPX file onto a file server so staff could get the latest GPS data and dump it on their GPS. Problem is, I can only do this for a few projects, and IT not be thrilled with me doing this for the dozens of projects that GIS supports. Why not allow people to go to a web map with a button in it that allowed them to download the GPX file "on demand"? Step 1 First we need to pull a feature class out of an SDE database and pre-convert some attribute field names so they "fit nicely" with the convert-to-GPX tool, so we can see some expected text when looking at these points on the Garmin. So using the ArcPy Field Mappings object​ we can pull that off, at the same time flipping the result into a shapefile​. Finally, we use Kevin Hibmas Features to GPS Toolbox​ FeaturesToGPX Python code to handle the conversion to GPX format. A couple of things to note in the following script. In order for the server-version of this tool to fire the output to the virtual scratch directory, you'll need OutName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) somewhere at the top and then outGPX = os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder, OutName) as your last definition. Finally, note how we're handling the "middle-put" shapefile. We want it deleted after the GPX conversion, so the next person that runs this tool will always get the latest data. Also note that I'm using a Data Store-registered folder for the location of the SDE connection file-just my personal preference. try:     from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET except:     from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET import arcpy, sys, traceback from arcpy import env import time, os from subprocess import call unicode = str OutName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)     ''' We want to have some fields from the database appear on the Garmin Wypt screen     ''' fms = arcpy.FieldMappings() fms.addTable("\\\\gisserver\DATASTORE\GP\\BIGFOOT SASQUATCH.sde\\SASQUATCH.DBO.SASQUATCH_POINTS") FLD_LOC_NAME = arcpy.FieldMap() FLD_TRAIL = arcpy.FieldMap()     ''' Convert location name to "name" for Garmin     ''' FLD_LOC_NAME.addInputField("\\\\gisserver\DATASTORE\GP\\BIGFOOT SASQUATCH.sde\\SASQUATCH.DBO.SASQUATCH_POINTS", "LOC_NAME")  LOC_NAME_MAP = FLD_LOC_NAME.outputField  LOC_NAME_MAP.name = "Name"  FLD_LOC_NAME.outputField = LOC_NAME_MAP  fms.addFieldMap(FLD_LOC_NAME)     ''' Convert trail name to "desc" for Garmin     ''' FLD_TRAIL.addInputField("\\\\gisserver\DATASTORE\GP\\BIGFOOT SASQUATCH.sde\\SASQUATCH.DBO.SASQUATCH_POINTS", "TRAIL")  TRAIL_MAP = FLD_TRAIL.outputField  TRAIL_MAP.name = "Descript"  FLD_TRAIL.outputField = TRAIL_MAP  fms.addFieldMap(FLD_TRAIL)     ''' Export to a shp with the field mappings     ''' arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion("\\\\gisserver\DATASTORE\GP\\BIGFOOT SASQUATCH.sde\\SASQUATCH.DBO.SASQUATCH_POINTS",\                                             arcpy.env.scratchFolder, "SASQUATCH_POINTS.shp", "", fms)     ''' convert lidar elevaton to meters     ''' arcpy.CalculateField_management(os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder,u'SASQUATCH_POINTS.shp'), "ELEVATION", '!ELEVATION!*0.3048', "PYTHON_9.3") gpx = ET.Element("gpx", xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1",                  xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan",                  xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance",                  creator="Esri",                  version="1.1") def prettify(elem):     """Return a pretty-printed XML string for the Element.     """     from xml.dom import minidom     rough_string = ET.tostring(elem, 'utf-8')     reparsed = minidom.parseString(rough_string)     return reparsed.toprettyxml(indent="  ") def featuresToGPX(inputFC, outGPX, zerodate, pretty):     ''' This is called by the __main__ if run from a tool or at the command line     '''     descInput = arcpy.Describe(inputFC)     if descInput.spatialReference.factoryCode != 4326:         arcpy.AddWarning("Input data is not projected in WGS84,"                          " features were reprojected on the fly to create the GPX.")     generatePointsFromFeatures(inputFC , descInput, zerodate)     # Write the output GPX file     try:         if pretty:             gpxFile = open(outGPX, "w")             gpxFile.write(prettify(gpx))         else:             gpxFile = open(outGPX, "wb")             ET.ElementTree(gpx).write(gpxFile, encoding="UTF-8", xml_declaration=True)     except TypeError as e:         arcpy.AddError("Error serializing GPX into the file.")     finally:         gpxFile.close() def generatePointsFromFeatures(inputFC, descInput, zerodate=False):     def attHelper(row):         # helper function to get/set field attributes for output gpx file         pnt = row[1].getPart()         valuesDict["PNTX"] = str(pnt.X)         valuesDict["PNTY"] = str(pnt.Y)         Z = pnt.Z if descInput.hasZ else None         if Z or ("ELEVATION" in cursorFields):             valuesDict["ELEVATION"] = str(Z) if Z else str(row[fieldNameDict["ELEVATION"]])         else:             valuesDict["ELEVATION"] = str(0)         valuesDict["NAME"] = row[fieldNameDict["NAME"]] if "NAME" in fields else " "         valuesDict["DESCRIPT"] = row[fieldNameDict["DESCRIPT"]] if "DESCRIPT" in fields else " "         if "DATETIMES" in fields:             row_time = row[fieldNameDict["DATETIMES"]]             formatted_time = row_time if row_time else " "         elif zerodate and "DATETIMES" not in fields:             formatted_time = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ", time.gmtime(0))         else:             formatted_time = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ", time.gmtime(0)) if zerodate else " "         valuesDict["DATETIMES"] = formatted_time         return     #-------------end helper function-----------------     def getValuesFromFC(inputFC, cursorFields ):         previousPartNum = 0         startTrack = True         # Loop through all features and parts         with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(inputFC, cursorFields, spatial_reference="4326", explode_to_points=True) as searchCur:             for row in searchCur:                 if descInput.shapeType == "Polyline":                     for part in row:                         newPart = False                         if not row[0] == previousPartNum or startTrack is True:                             startTrack = False                             newPart = True                         previousPartNum = row[0]                         attHelper(row)                         yield "trk", newPart                 elif descInput.shapeType == "Multipoint" or descInput.shapeType == "Point":                     # check to see if data was original GPX with "Type" of "TRKPT" or "WPT"                     trkType = row[fieldNameDict["TYPE"]].upper() if "TYPE" in fields else None                     attHelper(row)                     if trkType == "TRKPT":                         newPart = False                         if previousPartNum == 0:                             newPart = True                             previousPartNum = 1                         yield "trk", newPart                     else:                         yield "wpt", None     # ---------end get values function-------------     # Get list of available fields     fields = [f.name.upper() for f in arcpy.ListFields(inputFC)]     valuesDict = {"ELEVATION": 0, "NAME": "", "DESCRIPT": "", "DATETIMES": "", "TYPE": "", "PNTX": 0, "PNTY": 0}     fieldNameDict = {"ELEVATION": 0, "NAME": 1, "DESCRIPT": 2, "DATETIMES": 3, "TYPE": 4, "PNTX": 5, "PNTY": 6}     cursorFields = ["OID@", "SHAPE@"]     for key, item in valuesDict.items():         if key in fields:             fieldNameDict[key] = len(cursorFields)  # assign current index             cursorFields.append(key)   # build up list of fields for cursor         else:             fieldNameDict[key] = None     for index, gpxValues in enumerate(getValuesFromFC(inputFC, cursorFields)):         if gpxValues[0] == "wpt":             wpt = ET.SubElement(gpx, 'wpt', {'lon':valuesDict["PNTX"], 'lat':valuesDict["PNTY"]})             wptEle = ET.SubElement(wpt, "ele")             wptEle.text = valuesDict["ELEVATION"]             wptTime = ET.SubElement(wpt, "time")             wptTime.text = valuesDict["DATETIMES"]             wptName = ET.SubElement(wpt, "name")             wptName.text = valuesDict["NAME"]             wptDesc = ET.SubElement(wpt, "desc")             wptDesc.text = valuesDict["DESCRIPT"]     ''' force a wypt symbol     '''                        wptSym = ET.SubElement(wpt, "sym")             wptSym.text = "Animal Tracks"                     else:  #TRKS             if gpxValues[1]:                 # Elements for the start of a new track                 trk = ET.SubElement(gpx, "trk")                 trkName = ET.SubElement(trk, "name")                 trkName.text = valuesDict["NAME"]                 trkDesc = ET.SubElement(trk, "desc")                 trkDesc.text = valuesDict["DESCRIPT"]                 trkSeg = ET.SubElement(trk, "trkseg")             trkPt = ET.SubElement(trkSeg, "trkpt", {'lon':valuesDict["PNTX"], 'lat':valuesDict["PNTY"]})             trkPtEle = ET.SubElement(trkPt, "ele")             trkPtEle.text = valuesDict["ELEVATION"]             trkPtTime = ET.SubElement(trkPt, "time")             trkPtTime.text = valuesDict["DATETIMES"] if __name__ == "__main__":     ''' Gather tool inputs and pass them to featuresToGPX     '''     inputFC = os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder,u'SASQUATCH_POINTS.shp')     outGPX = os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder, OutName)     ''' Need for this to open in Base Camp     '''        zerodate = "0"     pretty = "#"     featuresToGPX(inputFC, outGPX, zerodate, pretty)     ''' Delete the shp when it's all over     '''        arcpy.Delete_management(os.path.join(arcpy.env.scratchFolder,u'SASQUATCH_POINTS.shp')) Finally, since my data natively has an elevation field, there is no need to do a field mapping for it. On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 1 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 2 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 3 On-Demand GPS Provisioning Widget Thingy: Step 4 ... View more