Latest Contributions by ChadKopplin

Sure, in the in mean time, for a shapefile to work it needs the shp file, the shx, and the dbf, the shp file stores all of the geometry information and uses the object ID to connect the geometry to the attribute file (the dbf file) one of the attributes that is pushed to attribute table is the shape to let you know what kind of shape your attributes are associated with. If I choose the attribute file at any point to create features from, this file is static by itself, at this point the shapefile is meaningless unless I have the other 2 files that the attributes are associated with. If I see coordinate fields in this dbf file they are associated with the point location, the centroid of a polygon, or the centroid of a line feature. So, when I create a layer from this table the only thing the table will give me is a point shapefile, because the program only sees one cooridinate associated with the record. If I use the actual shapefile associated with the attibute file then I will get the polygon or line that is associated with the attribute field, because the program looks at the attribute table and sees the shape attribute, it sees that it needs polygons, it hits to shapefile and sees yes I have polygon's associated with this table, and returns the polygons. This gives a very rough overview of what is happening. This is the same if you are looking at an Oracle feature class or a SQL feature class, there are separate tables for the attributes and the geometry for each feature class that you have in the database. ... View more

What I suspect is happening is that table B maybe converted to a point file as well, because the geometry attribute is static in any table it is populated from the actual layer that the table is associated with.  If you add the table into the model, there is only one point associated with each record in the table it select and that is the centroid of the polygon in stored in the geometry table.  This is the location that displays when you use the convert polygon feature to point feature tool.  Do you receive any errors when you run the model? ... View more

David, If just the tables are loaded into the model, it is just a table of data, with no geometry, if you load the feature class or the shapefile then the table is connected to the geometry table for the layer loaded.  The geometry is stored in a totally different table.  ... View more

Thank you Melissa, I wait to see if anyone else had a response before closing, thank you for your response. ... View more

Asrujit, Sorry this has been so long in coming, but I am finally able to start looking into this issue again.  By installing the SQL Management Studio from the SQL Express install on the computers in Cheyenne that have previously not been able to connect, I am able to connect to the new SDE server.  My question is, "Is there a connection between SQL Management Studio and SDE that would require Management Studio to be installed on all client machines?'  I have always known the SQL Native Client, but not the Management Studio.  I have tried this on 4 machines that were previously unable to connect and it has worked on all 4 machines. ... View more

Thank you Melissa, I saw that it puts a copy of the mxd into the map service files once you publish, but it sounds like I need to republish each time, correct?  I will try it and respond. ... View more

Yeah just post 20 records that do not show, it has the feel of a wrong coordinate system, but just wanted to check.  Where should the points be located?  Thank you. ... View more

Laura, Would you mind sending the file in order to take a look at the points?  Thank you in advance. Chad ... View more

What is the coordinate system of the original layer that you made your bmp from?  This is the coordinate system that needs to be defined on the bmp raster.  Then it should match up, then you can set the dataframe projection to whatever you need it to be and then go to data export data to save your bmp into that projection.  It looks like the wrong projection has been defined on the bmp. ... View more

If you click on the folder list to the left of the data source tab, see if this lets you see the data frame properties again.  Then you need at least 2 layers selected in order to use the group tab.  Thank you. ... View more

The unprojected shapefile needs to have the original projection set, you cannot define it to something else, you would need to use the actual projection tools to change to projection or use the on the fly projection from the data frame.  The data will not display because the shapefile and the projection of the data frame do not truly match up.  Once each layer is defined to their native projections this should work.  I hope this helps. ... View more

Steve, once you added the feature classes to the database did you validate the data store, I believe this may update your registered database. ... View more

Thank you Jake. ... View more