Latest Contributions by DrewFlater

Briana Mercuri‌ there isn't a way to restore one attribute that the geotagged photos to points tool produces. Since you've made changes to the points layer that you want to keep, an acceptable workaround that comes to mine is: 1. rerun the geotagged photos to points tool, which will generate the output including the direction field 2. run Join Field to move the DIrection field from the new output back to your original output point layer, based on the common "Name" or "Path" attribute in the geotagged output feature class. I hope the workaround might work for you! Good luck ... View more

David Wheelock‌ you are correct. In Pro 2.5 you need to run your model inside ModelBuilder to see all the verbose messages. We consider the messages from the tools inside the model to be debugging messages. Those standard processing and command line messages do not bubble up when running the model as a dedicated geoprocessing tool. We received feedback that large models delivered too much content with verbose messages due to every tool returning its command line execution syntax plus messages about when each tool started and completed, when the user was really only interested to see that the entire model tool completed, or warnings and errors. Those detailed verbose messages are important for some situations like debugging the model or profiling the performance, in which case you can run inside the model debugging environment - ModelBuilder - to see those messages. ... View more

Chandler Callison‌ sorry you are experiencing this performance problem. Would you be willing to share your project package? We would like to troubleshoot the issue. Send to [email protected], or contact tech support.  ... View more

If you need to have multiple parameters be different in the batch operation, I suggest to simply use the normal version of the tool, and use the geoprocessing queuing system to accomplish running this sequence of operations. Since you are modifying multiple sets it does not seem like there is much to be gained by interacting with a grid of parameters vs the tool dialog. Grant Smith‌ brought up a case of picking multiple pairs of base feature and compare feature. In the normal Feature Compare tool, select a base, select a comparison layer, name the output, click Run, and immediately repeat to add the next tool to run when the first one finishes. The parameters from the first one are maintained so if only one or a few things need to be changed that can be done efficiently (similarly to "filling" a batch column in the ArcMap batch grid).  ... View more

Hi Amanda Kochanek‌, since Richard cannot share his data due to confidentiality, I'm hoping you might be able to share the data where you experienced the failure with XY Table To Points, or perhaps follow the steps I gave Richard: If you copy the header row PLUS the first data row into a new XLSX then use that as input, does the tool still fail? If so, can you replace the values with non-personally identifiable data and send that copy to us? If this error is widespread we want to understand and fix the problem in a patch so users can take advantage of the new 2.5 version of the tool. ... View more

Hi Richard Marountas, I understand the confidentiality of your data. We do have automated tests for XY Table To Point using both XLXS and XLS data, and those test cases are passing in 2.5 so we're obviously missing some different column format or data contents. If you copy the header row PLUS the first data row into a new XLSX then use that as input, does the tool still fail? If so, can you replace the values with non-personally identifiable data and send that copy to us? If this error is widespread we want to understand and fix the problem in a patch so users can take advantage of the new 2.5 version of the tool. ... View more

Hi Thomas Colson, I'm a little puzzled at this case, as our in-house test suite has cases just as you described that are passing and I just tried it myself in the application and the calc worked as expected. If you look under the hood of Calculate Geometry Attributes, it uses arcpy.da.UpdateCursor to perform the updates. Some data sources and enterprise gdb configurations require an updatecursor in an edit session, some don't support edit sessions, it's really a grab bag. So the tool attempts to start and use an edit session when required or check that the cursor can retrieve data without the edit session. If it's not able to, it raises the error you described. Attached is a screenshot of the test I ran using a SQL Server Enterprise GDB polygon feature class that has the Geography Configuration Keyword, GCS coordinate system, not registered as versioned, with archiving enabled. The Double field gets updated with the Area in sq miles as specified on the tool. I can only say this is a case to report and work withing tech support, please.   All the best, Drew ... View more

Hello, I am a lead from the geoprocessing development team and have some information to share. We are developing a new open-format for toolboxes, based on a folder structure and json files to contain the properties of the toolbox and it's tools and their parameters. This open format will support better source code management, will produce less corruption/invalid binary file problems, and better support backward compatibility across a variety of releases. The story will start to come together in the near-mid term (likely around 2.7). However, at this time, we can accomplish a lot of what you described specifically for source control by writing your code and toolbox as Python toolboxes. Creating a new Python toolbox—Geoprocessing and Python | ArcGIS Desktop  This is a single Python file (text file) that contains toolbox and tool definitions as classes. Those classes can come from other modules as well. Python toolboxes are a great capability for developers who want programmatic control of the toolbox and organization of the code using basic Python structures. I hope you can consider this approach. We even have an old utility for auto-generating the PYT based on your TBX: GitHub - Esri/tbx-pyt-translator: Utility for converting a Geoprocessing TBX file to a pure-Python PYT file in ArcGIS 10… . Lastly, you can explore how some Esri system-tool developers are using Python toolboxes by exploring the PYTs in your ArcGIS Pro installation. C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcToolBox\Toolboxes Drew ... View more

H. Alex Huskey‌, pretty much exactly what you described happens once per release, most recently in October 2019 for the Pro 2.5 release that will be publicly available early 2020. We call the process Holistic Testing, as you look at not just one area of the software but usage across all the functional areas necessary to get your job done. Roughly 25 individuals from primarily the U.S., across every industry, join us at Esri development headquarters in Redlands, CA for a week of testing your workflows with your data in a new software release, and reporting problems you find directly with the development teams. It is hands-on full days of testing and talking between you and the dev teams, and extremely useful for us to see the work you are doing and any struggles you are having. It's the closest you can get to the zoo animals, outside of the User Conference showcase floor If you want more information about participation send me an email at [email protected]. ... View more

The Attributes pane already allows for bulk editing as you showed -- 1. Select some features in the Attributes pane 2. Click the field cell for the field containing the domain value you want applied to all the selected records 3. Pick the domain value from the choicelist 4. Click apply 5. Save edits when you're ready ... View more

Dianne Gray‌ Kory Kramer‌ The Spatial Join - Largest Overlap download has been updated to remove that ridiculous print at the end.  ... View more

This issue has been fixed in Pro 2.5 beta 2. Thank you for reporting the problem. ... View more

To update all, this issue has been fixed in ArcGIS Pro 2.5 beta 2. If you are interested to test please email [email protected] and I can get you added to the beta community, otherwise Pro 2.5 will likely be available early 2020. ... View more

Hello, I'd like to suggest moving your discussion from the Learn ArcGIS area to Python and ArcGIS Pro, where this will have better visibility with people who work with Python toolboxes. As for the question itself, what workflow are you using to share the Python toolbox, and what error are you experiencing regarding encryption? If you can also let us know the version and application you are using while attempting to share the Python toolbox. ... View more

Hi Thomas, I could not repro a blank <name> in the kml file using some very simple repro data in Pro (two points with a Name field marked as the display field in the properties as you showed). I do have that display name also as the label field, so perhaps you could try the same. This definitely seems like a bug to work with tech support to enter if you continue getting a blank name in the exported kml. Drew ... View more