Latest Contributions by RhettZufelt

Suspect you have already checked this, but just in case.  Once the project eventually opens, have you opened a Catalog View, selected data sources and then looked at both the Item and workspace toggles? You may see a path/URL on the list that stands out as an offender. R_ ... View more

When you say Not Editable?  Does that mean that the new values don't show up in a template or something else? If just not showing in the template, you will need to add new templates for the new values. R_ ... View more

Not sure about the lifecycle, but you will find that Explorer has little to no documentation (at least the windows version), and even less tech support.  Most of the tech support questions you may have will likely be that it 'out of our scope of support' .  Listed as Included "Usage and concepts of documented software functionalities and workflows".  However, since there is pretty much NO Usage documented anywhere, they can pretty much blanket say it isn't covered in support. I have successfully been using it as I have same issue where Windows is required, and, touch screen support is required.  Unfortunately, touch screen basically renders ArcReader useless or I'd still be using that as the GPS location not so much required in my case. Can be difficult to maintain versions, as even though they aren't developing it, the installable version in windows seems to expire, so when I have to install on new computers, it will be a different version with different expire data.  This becomes an issue as I have scripted the install/config so that I can run specific batch files to install/update.  Well, need to completely re-build the batch file every time the app 'expires'. Another huge issue for me is that multiple people may be using these particular windows computers at different times (shifts, for example). We have large basemaps and data downloaded locally so that the Explorer app will work when not connected to the internet.  The way Explorer is designed, it is on a per user basis.  So, if other user logs on/installs Explorer, it will make separate copies of each of the basemaps and data in each users folder. So, when you have a 20Gb background imagery loaded on the computer, it will copy that to each users folder that installs/opens the configured maps.  So, 5 users are eating up 100Gb of hard drive storage to support one 20Gb basemap. Although, not supported, you can do some mojo using mliknks in windows to keep from duplicating the large datasets (though, windows will still 'think' the mlinks are using up the storage, even though they are not). In any case, like I said, I have been using it for a few years now on a select group of computers and is 'working' for the most part, but, if there were any other option at this time, I would most likely recommend it over Explorer. R_ ... View more

Pretty basic, no error testing, but should get you started. I do check to make sure the file hasn't already been downloaded:     import arcpy, os, urllib.request fc = r'\\servername\sharename\folder\Pro_Test_map.gdb\TestFC' # input feature class with URL attribute outfold = r'C:\Users\myusername\Desktop\tmp' #location to save laz files with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, ['Download_L']) as cursor: # establish search cursor with "Download_L" as url field for row in cursor: # iterate trough list of files infile = os.path.basename(row[0]) # get existing filename outfile = outfold + os.sep + infile # set new filename/location if not os.path.exists(outfile): # check to make sure file doesn't already exist print("downloading - " + outfile) urllib.request.urlretrieve(row[0], outfile) # download the file else: print(outfile + ' already exists')     R_   ... View more

Thanks, This does honor the settings and is a much nicer format. R_ ... View more

If you update the list so new features are to be added, you will also need to update the template as well. As you found, making changes in Pro and overwriting is one way, but you could also add the new templates directly using Map Viewer Classic. You will need to Save Changes to the template, but DO NOT save the map as it can break functionality of the new map viewer. R_ ... View more

I just set this up in  Pro because it was easier at the time. The custom symbology arcade code is in the HFS and can be set up in map viewer directly.  You just have to also create the appropriate symbol classes as well. R_ ... View more

line 18 you are trying to replaceDataSource on variable "Lyr", but your layer variable is set to lower case "lyr". Is it just this capitalization typo that is causing it? R_ ... View more

would it be possible to supply the complete Download_L URL for testing? R_ ... View more

My testing had no issue with the raw string path if I set it directly in the arcpy.da.Editor(sde) instead of using workspace variable, but after the os.path.dirname(sde) it was having issues. Not sure, I think it was returning the path as a string, not raw string so wasn't valid as input.   R_ ... View more

Thanks TonghuiMing, good to know. So, still no way to hide layer visibility in the Layers 'Tool' then?  Do you know if there are any plans for it? R_ ... View more

@lzk222 Is this still working for you? I am having issues trying to hide a layer in the layers tool rather than the layer widget.   However, before struggling to figure out how to 'hide' the layer list widget, It looks like the settings are not transferring over to the tool. Curious if this is still working for you, or if you have found a new way to hide a layer in the built in layer tool Really like the layer tool as it doesn't need a wiget, doesn't take up space until opened, and, has a legend in it as well. I do see that the legend part honors the don't show in legend in the web map. Thanks for any input, R_ ... View more

I use this one quite often:     strval = ' '.join(filter(None, [val1, val2, val3,val4]))   The space in the single quotes is the delimiter (single space).  If any of the val variables have a value, it will be concatenated, but, if Null, will just be ignored without error. R_ ... View more