Latest Contributions by SteveCole

Sigh. I liked the pocket agendas as well but the app has worked well enough the last 2 years. I'm just frustrated at the lead up to the conference. My training request was bounced back to me for "additional information" about the conference, and I had to scratch & claw for the 1 page fact sheet I included. I ended up having to print screen the conference's Agenda At A Glance for each conference day to get my submittal back on track. It's ironic that thousands will be going to the conference and attending Technical Workshops by ESRI staff about making great websites when they are, in fact, the LAST people who should be dispensing such advice. The more things change, the more they stay the same. ... View more

So, we're supposed to use the ESRI Events app which hasn't been updated since February and doesn't even have the User Conference listed as an event?  Awesome. ... View more

One Map Gallery drink, eh? I guess not everyone is buying AGOL credits.. ... View more

I'm not talking about the justification letter. I have to write one of those. I need an ATTACHMENT for my letter. Since this thread went nowhere, I sent an email to the EUC and someone responded back with EXACTLY what I wanted. I've attached it here. ESRI should REALLY post this on their EUC website.. I'm not sure how I can described my original request any clearer. If you were making a recommendation for purchasing a plotter or computer, you wouldn't just craft an email/memo stating "I recommend we purchase x...". You would also include a copy of product literature that shows the product and list its specs. That is what is missing from the (unprintable) EUC website. ... View more

Bump. Seriously- you can't even PRINT what's on the EUC website.. ... View more

The future is a 5 mile tall obelisk rave party over London? This isn't my future, and arguably that's not A LOT of other people's futures as well. What IS my future is migrating my 3.x apps which require selecting features within a featureLayer, a refresh interval on featureLayers, modifying graphics, changing the renderer, a color picker, feature table, measurement widget, editing, and the draw toolbar (all things STILL listed as "coming soon" as of version 4.3). ... View more

It's symbolic. I'm down voting the JIVE forum system that ESRI adopted. It's a mess compared to the old forums. ... View more

I have a few 3.x based apps and I'm not even going to bother attempting to re-write them until a lot more functionality is ported to 4.x. I'm not woo'd by ESRI's siren's song of flashy 3-D visualizations. In some ways, I feel this is a endemic of a larger problem with ESRI- playing catch up. ArcGIS Pro will replace Arcmap but is so crippled with missing functionality. Same goes for the Javascript API. I've never been LESS excited for an ESRI UC as this year. The only question is, compared to previous software versions, what precentage of complete functionality are we at this year? ... View more

The only one I'm aware of is by Rene Rubalcava‌ : Intro to ArcGIS API 4 for Javascript ... View more

I have no code to share but, thinking aloud, how about using a renderer based on OBJECTID values? When you start an edit session, determine what the maximum OBJECTID is at the time you start editing and assign it to a variable (call it curMaxOID). Once the edit sesssion is over, create a renderer where OBJECTIDs <= curMaxOID is symbolized using one color and OBJECTID > curMaxOID uses another color. This might not be a great solution for a layer with a lot of features, though. Steve ... View more

The poor man's way of doing this would be to make a polygon dataset of the entire world and "burn" in the boundary of your country of choice. Publish a service where the country has been removed via queryDefinition and then symbolize the remaining polygon (the rest of the world) using a white fill. When adding that service to your map, make sure that it is at the bottom layer of your JS map and now you have a basemap clipped to a county's boundary. Steve ... View more

If there was an "unlike" option, I'd click that. I see a market that AGS Explorer for Desktop served that (to me) is no longer covered under ESRI's current offerings. Thanks to the availability of the .NET SDK, there was an option for developing a GIS application that had no cost for licensing. Now, I know the dutiful ESRI employee will quickly point to AGOL/Javascript API and/or a EDN account options but for some situations, that's not a good option. Speaking for myself, and as an individual not covered by an enterprise license agreement, I wanted to develop an application that the average public could use to be better informed about proposed projects on federal lands.I could kind of do this using the Javascript API (and I've started that to a degree) but I run into two issues- I must pay to serve up any associated datasets using AGOL since I don't have the resources for an AGS Server license *OR* I must roll the dice an assume that any data currently made available in AGOL will continue to exist. I've already been burned by option #2. Somewhat related, coding for browsers has limitations due to JS (and browser in general) security. If I can bundle the data with my application for desktop use, it's always there. I don't have to worry about outages, slow internet, lack of internet, etc. Great! Develop a desktop app using an EDN account (which still costs money) and use the runtime SDKs! Well.......I'm doing this for philanthropic reasons. I can't afford to pay licensing fees, let along know how many licenses would be needed. It's not that I'm developing some uber robust GIS application. To the contrary, it's a fairly basic application but I feel that the desktop Explorer + SDK might have been the best path for me to proceed with what I want to accomplish. I'm not the majority, I know, and ESRI has to maintain it's "positive growth". It's just......sad.  ... View more

Extent has a method called expand which will take the extent and enlarge it by the factor you specify. ... View more

This is....disappointing but ESRI's herding us to where its mountain of money is located. ... View more