Latest Contributions by BrandonKeinath1

Hi Paul, In order for you to display your customer calls in dashboard you will need to connect them to your gis.  You may already be doing this part.  Once you have the customers you would publish a service and consume the service in a web map.  From there operations dashboard consumes the map and data service to display widgets.  I'm not sure how familiar you are with this process but can you tell me a little about your GIS experience and what you organization has for software/hardware?  I have some experience in setting up and trouble-shooting dashboards and would be happy to help if I can. Best, Brandon ... View more

Hey Ryan, We don't have to do this on geonet if you'd prefer to chat in person but I've done a fair amount of work with dashboards and configuring them to automatically update.  Do you have a specific type of incident you're looking to show the status of?  We could also work through how you need to share your operation views so that all users are able to log in and see the view. Best, Brandon ... View more

Hi Philip, I'm a little confused when you say ESRI has dropped support.  We're using dynamic text at 10.2.2 in our data driven page maps.  Is this something specific to your defense solution?  I didn't think that dynamic text was a different kind of element but a change to the content of the text element.  I think I have an idea about how to accomplish your workflow but want to make sure I'm understanding the problem before I give you an erroneous solution. Thanks, Brandon ... View more

Hi Philip, Are you looking to convert the dynamic text to graphic for any other reason besides the mxd being unable to open?  From my experience the dynamic text shouldn't be causing the map not to open.  We use dynamic text elements as part of our map production process and it works fine.  I'll echo Greg Keith‌ that you should try removing the "text_element" from the ListLayoutElements.  That would help you see if it is finding anything. Brandon ... View more

Hmmm...two questions.  Have you tried replacing the single quote around your field names to double quotes?  And does it work, if not the way you eventually want, if you remove the substring portion?  As in row.setValue(field2, field + '.pdf') ... View more

Hi Bryce, It looks like you have an extra ) on line 6.  I don't think that's the issue but I'm not sure why it's there.  Can you print the values of field and field 2 as it loops through the cursor and make sure the values make sense? Thanks, Brandon ... View more

You're welcome.  Glad you were able to make it work. ... View more

Understood.  Try this import datetime currentdate = datetime.date.today() nohyphendate = currentdate.strftime(%Y%m%d) print "output_" + nohyphendate I had an error in my previous reply.  If you use a %b you get the month abbreviation.  %m gets you the integer of the month.  Does that fix your error? Thanks, Brandon ... View more

Happy to, I'm not sure how you ended up coding it but you can modify your date object with .strftime which lets you tell the date objects how to orient themselves.  There is a really good reply on stack overflow datetime - How to print date in a regular format in Python? - Stack Overflow But in your case I would say code like currentdate.strftime(%Y%b%d) should format it the way you want.  You can reference the formatting letters in either the link or the help for strftime. Good luck, Brandon ... View more

Funny.  I'll focus on other more pressing fears then.  Thanks for your help. Brandon ... View more

Hi Vince, Thanks for the reply.  Some of the feature classes we would be interested in archiving have in excess of 150,000 records currently.  Is the archive feature class something that our DBA's or J L would be able to view in the database and monitor the size while we test?  Do you have a place suggestion for the discussion? Brandon ... View more

You're welcome and good luck.  If it gives you trouble let me know and I can try to help. Brandon ... View more

And you would like the date stamp to be on the feature class?  So you could check today's "River" export against yesterday's "River" feature class?  If I'm understanding you right then I would suggest importing datetime.  Depending on how you want to format the date you have some options shown here 8.1. datetime — Basic date and time types — Python 2.7.8 documentation import datetime #Set a variable to hold today's date currentdate = datetime.date.today() #Execute the feature to feature function.  Casting as a string just to be safe arcpy.FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion(in_features, out_path, out_name + str(currentdate)) ... View more