Latest Contributions by JohnJones

https://community.esri.com/ideas/14417  ... View more

A couple suggestions... You should call Dispose() on your cursor after using it the canonical way of doing this is with the using block. You should verify some rows were found (oidSet isn't empty) before attempting to make an edit. You should verify at least one of these rows doesn't already have this value for "SUBDNAME" set before attempting to make an edit (non-edits may still be reported as 'failed' (well they certainly didn't 'succeed'). ApplyAsync on the inspector creates its own edit operation, which is setup to report a failed edit through a modal dialog.  If you want more control over the operation you can create your own... var op = new EditOperation(); // op.ShowModalMessageAfterFailure = false; // This shouldn't be necessary as its the default (but not through inspector.ApplyAsync() op.Modify(insp); bool succeeded = op.Execute(); You shouldn't call MessageBox.Show from the background thread, UI should be reported on the UI thread. This is overly convoluted and non-idiomatic.     return 0; is preferred. return await Task.FromResult(0); ... View more

This has been fixed in Pro 2.2, sorry for the inconvenience.  Thanks ... View more

Just to clarify, there is not a Jerry Garcia Easter Egg in Pro. ... View more

Use Shims... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh549175(v=vs.120).aspx They can mock static / non-virtual methods.   ... View more

Use Shims... https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh549175(v=vs.120).aspx They can mock static / non-virtual methods.   ... View more

Ben, Three ways of doing this (that I can think of)... One is to listen for the template you want to override being activated. You can listen for its 'IsActive' property becoming true (PropertyChanged) and then update the 'Inspector' property to set the value of the field to what you want it to be.  This override will be automatically cleared as soon as this template is deactivated.  We should probably add an aggregate event such as ArcGIS.Desktop.Editing.Events.ActiveTemplateChanged to simplify this pattern (so you don't have to listen to Property Changed on all the templates).  I'll bring this up for inclusion in 1.2 Another way, is to actually update the layer definition to modify the template when the 'job id' changes, which would make the project dirty (and the job ID would show up in the saved aprx if the user saves).  This approach would require reading the existing layer definition, updating the 'CIMFeatureTemplate''s 'DefaultValues' property and then updating the layer definition (through SetDefinition()) with the updated definition. A third way would be to listen to ArcGIS.Desktop.Editing.Events.RowCreatedEvent, and in your handler you can modify the attribute of the newly created row, as it is being created.  In this approach you get the event regardless of how the feature was created (not just templates, so copy paste would also come through here).  It is analogous to IObjectClassEvents.OnCreate in ArcMap.  As you can see each of these three approaches has a different lifetime or scope. -John Jones ... View more

We are planning on adding an option to customize the presentation of templates within the map (creating and organizing a folder type structure).  It is currently lower on our list of items to do and doesn't look like it will make 1.2.  In the meantime I suggest tagging frequently used templates with a simple search tag.   We were never happy with the Frequency sorting in ArcMap implementation, so decided not to port it as is.     ... View more

In version 9 the trace tool would only trace selected features.  In version 10 the trace tool will by default attempt to trace on all of the visible features (in the current display extent), thus when the display extent changes the trace needs to 'restart' with the newly visible features.  You can alternately use the selection oriented trace behavior (of 9.x) by pressing the Ctrl key when starting the trace (you will need to select the feature(s) you wish to trace).  In this case rather than 'restarting' the trace when the display extent changes the trace is 'restarted' when the map selection changes. ... View more

You can allways create a temporary feature to cut with and then use the cut polygons tool and replace sketch to load that feature's geometry into the cutting line (you can then delete the unneded feature).  If you are opposed to creating a temporary feature we have shared a tool to cut with a circle at the following address... http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=cb52b82cc1734386a6d881a0847920f8 We don't have such a tool for rectangles currently, but constructing the cut rectangle with the right angle constructor and square & finish works okay. ... View more

The similar workflow in 10 would be to start editing via the context menu and then clicking the template you want to edit and then you can start drawing which isn't any longer (same clicks) than what you describe (I'm not familiar with that sample), except that the selected layers doesn't change which I find questionable. ... View more

The Editor works on the concept of an edit session on a workspace.  A workspace is essentially a location of a number of datasets that are edited together.  When editing shapefiles the workspace corresponds to a single directory and the editable datasets are the shapefiles in that directory.  So when you start editing on a map with data from multiple workspaces you need to specify which workspace.  Then the edit session is started not on the single dataset but the entire workspace, so here you see that you have several datasets in that workspace and they are all available for editing.  In ArcMap 10's edit environment selecting an edit template loosely corresponds to selecting a target layer (from earlier versions) but additional information is attached to the template such as default attributes (on top of the geodatabase defaults) and a tool to use which loosely corresponds to selecting an edit task (from earlier versions).  While edit templates are persisted with the map document to allow editors to setup a customized editing environment the editor will create initial templates for editable datasets when the edit session starts and it gets information from the layer's renderer so that the symbology of the newly constructed features matches the legend in the Tabe of contents. So once you are in an edit session you select a template from the dataset you want to edit (not one of the others), you could additionally delete unneded templates using the organize templates dialog as described above, then the map will remember what you are editing (provided you save the MXD and don't just add shapefiles to a blank doc every time you edit).  Additionally you can add your own templates with different default attributes so that you can focus on drawing geometries and a small subset of attributes that need to vary between every feature, rather than entering all the attributes for every feature you create. If you are not seeing any templates corresponding to the layer you want to edit it may be that some property of that layer is preventing the template from showing, such as a complex renderer type or a definition query on the layer.  The dialog filters out any non-visible templates to prevent you from selecting templates that would create features that would then not be visible on the map (which is a confusing experience that caused problems in earlier versions).  You can use the organize templates dialog to view all the templates for any layer (including non-editable layers such as layers from a different workspace) in order to update the automatically generated templates to ensure they meet the renderer and definition query requirements to be drawn, then you can use these updated templates to draw new features. If you want to limit what shapefiles are editable you can move them to different workspaces (directories) and start editing on the correct workspace, this can be done by right clicking on the layer and selecting start editing from the context menu. ... View more

Yes, you can only edit a single 'workspace' at a time, in the case of shapefiles the containing folder stands in for the database.  If you have shapefiles from multiple folders (or FCs from multiple databases) in your map Start Editing will ask which workspace you want to edit. ... View more