Latest Contributions by DougBrowning

I am fine with all those entries.  Because what is my alternative - Never have spaces in a pick list ever?  That would be weird. Is the no spaces thing a XLS rule?  Seems strange to have to worry about spaces in 2016.  This may seem small but it makes the form look terrible and may kill our project. ... View more

Just tested 10.5 Prerelease. Looks like they did fix the attribute table domain flip for single values but not for when it has a multivalue or multivalue option.  Is that a Survey123 issue though?? Also it looks like when using Data Driven pages no fields values will show up at all. It just always says empty. Seems simple but does not work.  Sigh. thanks ... View more

I get a better error now.  I can send you all the inputs but I do not want to post it.  Can i send it privately? ... View more

Got the official back from support.  It is a bug.  Bummer. Thank you for the table and the time to preform testing and research. I have a conclusion for you. both behaviors are related to defects. here is the breakdown. 1) HFS in attribute table displaying domains,  -Logged Defect - BUG-000092872 - Domain descriptions are replaced with coded values when opening a feature service in ArcGIS for Desktop. -Status - This was addressed and Implemented in 10.5 (next release) -Workaround in 10.4 - Create local copy for editing > Enable coded descriptions > Refresh the attribute table. 2) HFS in Data driven pages insert attribute in the layout view. -Logged Defect - NIM097640 - In the layout view, the dynamic text shows only the code instead of the code description when the data source is a feature service on ArcGIS online. -Status - New -Workaround: none ... View more

Getting an error.  It makes nothing in the sde DB. Thanks ... View more

Yep that was it I was in 10.2.2. What does Destination Workspace and Destination Prefix want?  There is no help on the field and Workspace will not take a FC inside a .sde connection.  Does it mean Workspace is the root .sde and Prefix is the FC?  Thanks ... View more

Yea that is the classic way to do it but it causes the two fields issue which then becomes a constant pain when doing symbology or any type of reporting or when I use my technique to kick out a pdf.  I was hoping that using the built in function would get around this. I still think having all those fields named Specify other. should be changed. ... View more

Number 1 is not an option.  I have a mxd with the HFS connected to Data Driven pages.  A downloaded copy would require adding the download copy to the map then relinking DDP.  All of this would throw scripting out the window. Number 2 maybe.  Will have to see how DDP reacts to that and what changes i need to my script.  I will test and report back.  We were kinda waiting on Portal replication for this option.  I know syncing to a HFS is big on a lot of peoples list. I just downloaded your script and the toolbox is empty... mistake? Thanks ... View more

Another related issue is that the word "other" gets put into the first field.  My plan was to add both fields to the layout view on top of each other.  That way whichever one is not blank shows.  But with the word other in there... no bueno.   How are people handling this?  Thanks for any ideas. ... View more

I guess I will try to carve out some time.  But even if they decide to fix it that will take several months.  Anyone have any ideas in the meantime?  I still swear this was not an issue before but maybe it was not with a HFS. thanks ... View more

Ok I thought it did work but does not seem to now.   In ArcMap I checked this box But I still get this in the attribute table Here is my Survey Excel sheet Do you know what I need to check in ArcMap?  I am using the HFS directly. Also i just noticed that it DOES pick up the domains and translate to spaces when I use the Data tab in AGO.  So maybe just a ArcMap to HFS bug?  I tried 10.2.2. and 10.4.1. In the text box for the attribute in layout view it also says domainlookup = true but it is not working. <dyn type="page" property="attribute" field="DutyStatus" domainlookup="true"/> thanks ... View more

Any chance on using this feature as the input to a GeoProcessing tool?  I would be so happy.. ... View more

I swear I posted this already not sure where it went.  You could also try the ArcRest tools to do it.  You can specify the layers you want (0,1,2,3 etc).  Note i did have an issue when i put in too many layers it died.  I have an open ticket for this. Here is the code I use.  Note you must install ArcRest.  Also note this just changed due to ArcRest changes. from arcrest.security import AGOLTokenSecurityHandler from arcrest.agol import FeatureService from arcrest.common.filters import LayerDefinitionFilter username = "put here" password = "put here" url = "put here" outDir = r"put here" #Get a local replica of the HFS # Set layers list to what you want proxy_port = None proxy_url = None agolSH = AGOLTokenSecurityHandler(username=username,password=password) fs = FeatureService(url=url, securityHandler=agolSH, proxy_port=proxy_port, proxy_url=proxy_url, initialize=True) result = fs.createReplica(replicaName='Backup', layers=[0,1,2,3,4], dataFormat='filegdb', out_path=outDir, wait=False) # can look at this result and see if it worked ... View more