Latest Contributions by DrewDowling

Replication uses versions to control changes but these versions are hidden and the names change continually behind the scenes when replicas are synced. Writing code to compare these can get tricky because you need your code to test for the current hidden replica parent version name. What way are you replicating? If changes are pushed from child to parent you could make a child version off of SDE.Default in the parent geodatabase (e.g. call it ReplicaSource) . Then make the replica using this version, ReplicaSource, as the parent. Now when replicas are synced changes will go to the ReplicaSource version in the parent SDE database and not SDE.Default. So you can use the well documented ArcObjects classes to compare versions, ReplicaSource to SDE.Default, instead of having to compare replicas. Archiving might also work but it will not tell you what version created what feature, it will only tell you when a feature was created or changed. ... View more

I have had this problem in the past. I fixed it by uninstalling ArcObjects SDK and then reinstalling it. Not very elegant but it worked. ... View more

Sorry if I'm not being clear and thanks for your help. I have a feature class. It is published as a feature service. I want to edit this feature service with a web app (3rd party, little ability to customize). The feature class is also consumed by desktop apps, arcgis and 3rd party. I do not wish to apply a class extension to the feature class as I do not wish to install the necessary .dlls to the desktops of users who are using the feature class directly. Also not sure how it would react with 3rd party apps. I wish to use an SOE on the feature service to automate certain business logic for the add features operation of the feature service. Do you, or anybody, know if this is possible? For clarity: I know I can add another operation to the feature service to do this but my web app would then have to make an extra call to this operation. Instead I want it to be executed automatically when a new feature is created. ... View more

The source feature class is in an SDE database and several applications consume it in different ways. Some edit it some don't. I'm trying to avoid having to install class extensions on all these users machines. Adding an SOE to replicate the onCreate event of a class extension would be a perfect solution for me. Do you know if this functionality is possible in some way with an SOE? From the help: All clients require the customization's library, even to view the data ... View more

Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to avoid class extensions as every user of the feature class is required to have them installed on their machines. In ArcMap an editor extension works great. I'm hoping an SOE could be the same as this for ArcServer. ... View more

I ran into this error when I tried to run a script without first having set the license server using the ArcGIS Administrator tool. ... View more

You can get FlashBuilder to "Create as a copy of" by setting the source attachment path on the API swc. Under the "Flex Build Path" expand the API swc and double-click "Source attachment" and then browse to ".../ArcGIS_Flex/skins/src" after unziping the API download. Thank you this is exactly what I needed ... View more

I would like to second Karen's request for .NET source code for the elevation profile SOE if it exists. ... View more

Ooops didn't realize I was posting in the Javascript form, I'm actually having this problem in flex:o. But good to know it is not api specific. Just for the record Flex has a data formater object that I think is the same as the dojo.date.locale.format function, but just adding one will probably be less overhead so I continue to use that option. The zero based array method of storing date and month makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing that up Tim. ... View more

Daniel I have been stuck on this all afternoon. My day and month was always one below what it should have been. Adding plus one as you did solves the problem, thanks. My question is: Why do we have to do this? Is there a bug in the data conversion or am I doing it wrong? _covDate = new Date(myAttributes.RecordDate); <s:Label text=" {_covDate.getMonth() + '/' + _covDate.getDate() + '/' + _covDate.getFullYear() }"/> ... View more

The find task accepts an array of layerids so you can control what layers are searched. You can get a list of the layerids in a map service using either ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer.layerinfos or ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer.getalldetails ... View more

I had a problem in the past that sounds similar. The problem was with map services going to "sleep" after long periods of inactivity. The first query to a mapservice in the morning would fail, after that it would work fine. To get around this I implemented a monitoring service (downloaded from the samples section) that makes a call to each map service once an hour to keep at least one instance active. It also emails me if services are not working. there were a couple of posts about this issue over the last 2 years or so. try searching for "sleeping services" or something like that. Another possible solution is to try increasing the request timeout setting on the mapservice and see if  that makes a difference. Hope this helps ... View more

Figured it out. I have to add the skin class to the s:VSlider component in my custom navigator skinClass="com.esri.ags.skins.NavigationVSliderSkin" ... View more