Latest Contributions by MicahBabinski

I agree with Adrian. It's a good idea to think of what services or functionality you want to bring to your organization. That can help you target your learning on the most relevant topics (and get the most out of GeoNet.). Some possibilities might include field data collection, editing data through a web interface, creating custom applications for users to interact with your data, or combining your data with another organization's data in a web map. Esri is adding more ArcGIS Online classes all the time, some of them free. Companies like geospatial training may offer some good ones as well. For your organization, it sounds like ArcGIS Server could play an important enterprise role, so I echo Adrian's suggestion of looking into that as well. Good luck! I love Web GIS and I am guessing you will too. Micah ... View more

It seems that the Add Coded Value to Domain GP tool would get you there. The tricky part is that if the end user is to run the process they will need to execute it on the administrator database connection. If you are ok with the end user adding these values with you validating them first, you could have the process run on a database connection in a hidden folder, or create a database connection with the necessary privileges, update the domain, and then delete the connection. If you wanted to validate the values first or don't want the end users to make the change directly in the workspace, Rebecca's idea may help streamline that as well. You could set up a tool to allow the user to populate a table with the new code/code description values, then have a nightly (or on-demand) process that would add all the values to the domain run in your administrative environment and then truncate the table. Micah ... View more

Hi Gabriel, I am at a similar spot in my organization. My approach would be to explain the Esri product lifecycle concept, and share the ArcPad Product Lifecycle document with your colleagues. The phases of this lifecycle to watch out for are: Extended: Limited patching, no new environment (operating system, database, etc) certifications Mature: No patches or hot fixes, no new environment certifications - This is where Esri recommends upgrading to "General Availability" products Retired: No patches, hot fixes, new environment certifications, phone or web technical support. Online support resources will be very limited and will not receive updates. The latest version of ArcPad will enter the Extended Support Phase in July of this year. I'd also read up on some of the success stories which you can watch videos and read about at Collector for ArcGIS. It  will help to have a solid understanding of Collector, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Online before going in. That way you can explain some of these other benefits: Data can be updated from Collector with no need to plug a device into a computer Users and permissions can be managed using groups in ArcGIS Online Updates can be viewed from a browser or desktop client in real-time Offline editing is still fully supported Field data collectors can use a range of Android, Windows, and iOS devices (no purpose-built hardware) Good luck! Micah ... View more

Could you post a screenshot of the error? Your line 49 appears to be blank, so it's probably not causing the syntax error. ... View more

Hello, Does your organization use ArcGIS Server? That would be the way to go if you are editing data stored in an SDE workspace. If so, you'd want to register your SDE workspace using ArcGIS Server Manager and publish the layers as an editable feature service. If you will need to enable offline editing, you'll want to enable Sync on the feature service. Once you get the URL to your editable feature service, add the service to a web map in ArcGIS Online. Save the web map and ensure that the service and the web map are shared to a group which is accessible to your field data collectors. If you need finer-grained control of who can edit the data (such as specific active directory credentials), there are ways to do that although I don't have direct experience with setting that up. Users will need to enter their active directory credentials to edit the data. When the field data collectors log in to Collector, they should see the web map appear in their list of available web maps. They can then open the map and begin editing, or (if Sync and offline use are enabled) download the data and basemap for their editing area to their device to initiate the offline editing workflow. Hope this helps! Micah ... View more

There should be. Use the left/right and up/down arrows to move through the presentation. That whole presentation was created with R, by the way! ... View more

Hi Glenn, Give these results a try: ArcGIS Collector - YouTube. If I was getting started with Collector I would start with some of the Esri Australia videos. I am huge fan of their technical guides. Micah ... View more

Hi Robert, Good question. I am in the midst of trying to learn some R right now. I am going with DataCamp to get the basics of R. My intent is to get the fundamentals and then see how I can apply it to spatial data. *As I understand it*, R can store data (such as a shapefile) as a "data frame", which is a flexible structure for storing spatial and tabular information. From there, the data can be parsed, manipulated, and visualized in ways not easily accomplished with standard ArcGIS tools. Rasters can be stored in another R data structure called a matrix, which can also be processed and visualized in interesting ways. My friend Jackson Voelkel has a nice presentation on benefits of and techniques for using R to analyze spatial data. He also has one specifically about web mapping with Leaflet in R: www.jacksonvoelkel.com/presentations/Rleaflet/ Hope that helps! Micah ... View more

Anyone else having this issues with the New Mexico RGIS site: I really like the organization and content of the site overall. Micah ... View more

Hi Lloyd, What is the database type of the date field in your RDBMS (the one from which you make the query layer)? A couple thoughts: Since you are working with tabular data, try using the Make Query Table tool instead of Make Query Layer Try writing your output interim_table to a geodatabase table or directly to .dbf table (just add the .dbf extension) You should be good to copy your Query Table directly to a proper table using CopyRows (no need to make an arcpy mapping table view object first). If there's a bug related to this, please send me some info on it! I'd like to know about that as I teach people about making query layers and query tables from time to time. Good luck, let me know how it turns out. Micah ... View more

Do you have access to ArcGIS Server? I am guessing you could publish this as a Geoprocessing Service and then add that to an application you could make with Web App Builder. ... View more

Thanks Rebecca. To clarify - I am not trying to fix broken links. What I am trying to do is consistently repoint existing links from a mapped drive to a UNC path. From what I can tell the addin will only fix broken links. Is that correct? ... View more

Hello Saskia, Try this: in the MXD that you will publish as your editable feature service, set the fields you don't want edited to "Read-Only" (Layer Properties - Fields Tab - Read-Only). I haven't actually tried it but generally feature services honor the settings made in the published MXD. So, I suspect this will get you there. Good luck. Micah ... View more