Latest Contributions by JakeKrall

@Ted.  Thank you for the code, but I got away from Access long ago. So many people I work with in the office and outside the office, either hate Access or so used to the ease of data entry in Excel (probably as bad as I hate "Pro"(longed) -verb meaning: extend the duration of.".  I'll just post it on the "ideas" page and see where it goes from there. ... View more

Dan, tried your suggestion again just to verify.  Setting column widths in Excel has no effect on output width; remains at 255 after setting several to 50 or less.   Also, if I convert to .csv 1st, then use Table To Table the text field width increases to 8000.  Any other suggestions or comments are appreciated. ... View more

I get Excel from many different sources and clean up as much as possible before import.  I usually set numeric fields to Number and leave the others alone.  I have not found a way to set text field widths in Excel. ... View more

Great to see this finally "Under Consideration" (6 years & 5 months later) !  However, the way I hear it, we'll never see it in the ArcDesktop/Map era.  I think those days are almost gone  (~2020 maybe?)!!  Then "Pro", will be the new meanest dog on the block and hopefully in that time will be able to match up with today's ArcDesktop.   But, to address the models and scripts, these are good, but sometimes it just makes it really easy to view the data that's at or near that particular feature(s); not always to calculate values to another field.  Thank you all for posting and votin' up! ... View more

Esri, please respond to Thomas Colson (been over 3 months since his post).  Why the functionality is lacking and why we have to "submit an 'idea'..." every time we want to get a function added back? ... View more

Robert, Please just add the tool back in!  Why should we have to vote on it to see if we need it or not?  Thank you for your concern. ... View more

Kory, I’ll definitely give it shot, but fyi, what I did was create a modelbuilder tool like that posted to iterate through the selected points and copy the attribute from the parcels to the point. But, this may be better. Thank you Jake ... View more

   Resurrecting the dead, again!  Thank you Jon Greene for posting your work-around over 3 years ago (If you can post your toolbox with that tool would be a big help). I'm now lobbying again to resurrect this ever so "COOL" feature back into ArcGIS. (originally available at Arcview 3.x). Please vote up to get it implemented back into the next release.  For those who never got to see/use this tool, having the ability to join two feature classes based on their shape fields w/out creating new feature classes makes it ever so easy to update values in a table from features in proximity of the target features. I would like to see Esri chime in here to get their input, why it was removed from Desktop in the 1st place and why it can't simply be added back?  It seems we continue to lose functionality at each new re-write of ArcGIS.  Why is that? Two more that needs mentioning and brought back:  1. Find & Replace removed from Pro, go here to vote up, please; work-around is write some py code in the Calculate Field tool.  2. Select Path: from the coverage era (arc/node topology feature) - you could select 2 line segments and it would find and select all line segments in between. Thank you and vote, Jake ... View more

@@esri My 2 red cents worth:  So is this the new norm for re-writing the core software?  We, as user, have to tell you every little feature we're missing in Pro that is in Arcmap now and we use daily, just so we can get it added back?  What a way to do business.  Why don't you make it work like the current version we're used to using then build on that?  And you wonder why we get so frustrated at change.  Way to go esri...  Not happy with this way of thinking at all. This was also the case where we lost "Spatial Join" functionality being changed from Arcview 3.x, where a spatial join could be placed using the "shape" fields of 2 feature classes without creating new output, we can no longer do!  Another, is the "Select Path" in the coverage days where you could select 2 line segments and it would find the shortest path between them, where did that go?  So, why do we keep losing legacy good useful tools in each new release?  Please explain... Or just add 'em back. Thank you very much! ... View more