Latest Contributions by JosephRigley

Still a problem at 10.8 over a decade later. In my case, I couldn't get Extract Values to Points to work either, it would also only produce null values. Luckily I was able to successfully run the tools in Pro. ... View more

Thanks, in this case I have feature class anno that was created in Pro and would like to convert it to a graphics layer. This can be done in ArcMap. ... View more

Thanks for following up. I hope we can get to the bottom of what caused it. ... View more

Did you ever figure this out? I have orphaned data that refuses to sync that I have to try to offload from a colleague's iPhone. Not excited in the least. Found this post, then came across this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/o1iqxz/arcgis_collectorfield_maps_nightmare/ ... View more

Still a limitation for both Desktop and Pro in 2021.  ... View more

"...the printed image is not correct. I would say it's more related to the rendering capability of Pro/ArcMap when trying to handle projections and maybe scale...this rendering issue does not seem to be platform specific."  Agree, and this remains an issue in 2021 for both apps. Setting the map projection to the basemap's native scale and maximizing output resolution do help sometimes, at the cost of a bloated output file that requires post-processing in 3rd party apps to reduce the bloat without dunking the quality. Almost every time I attempt to use ESRI World Topo, end user: 'can we make the background less blurry?' ... View more

This does not allow change of the reference scale for <Default> group, which is what is needed. ... View more

Ray, you did provide work-arounds and I should have at least acknowledged that. I see what you are getting at with attempting to explain the complexity as well. Nevertheless, if ESRI's desktop apps can handle all the steps involved in an intersect process in a single tool, they can handle all the steps required to provide an abstracted, apparently 'in-place' field re-ordering and all the steps needed to make it happen properly, especially give the demand, marketing claims, and cost of software. This is the whole point of a button-pusher desktop front-end. It's largely irrelevant that behind the scenes a new table might have to be created and the data moved there and any dependencies handled cleanly. EDIT: ie, that it's hard is irrelevant. Is this enterprise software or not? The cost is definitely there. ... View more

Users (>30,000 upvotes, presumably most of these paying license/support maintenance) have been requesting the ability to re-order fields in place for a decade now. There is no excuse nor HTFU commentary that does more than whitewash this embarrassment. ... View more

The year is 2020 and this is still a problem in version 10.7.1. I couldn't get the georeferencing toolbar to display. I moved the whole project to QGIS. At least what's broken in there get's fixed in months instead of years and I don't even have to pay to use it. ... View more

Brian, your perspective largely matches mine. For me, these types of limitations have been great at getting me into either alternative solutions like PostGIS/QGIS, to the overall greater detriment of my opinion and usage of the ESRI stack, or forced me to do more re-useable scripting of UI-laborious processes.  Disability to re-order fields isn't the end of the world, but the lack of any solution from ESRI in the face of this level of demand for a feature, even in a limited implementation, is the problem. If this type of change request went into the QGIS stream, we would probably see something in the following months, not a decade (or ever in this case). Given the cost differential between platforms, that's utterly embarrassing. With the change from ArcView 3 to 8, there were significant benefits to migrating once the bugs were ironed out of 8 (a long process as I recall, not until 8.2 or 8.3 was it fairly universally adopted in my world), as well as a new data format (GDB) with lots of new capabilities and less limitations than shapefiles/coverages. With Pro, there's just not much good reasons for users that haven't been forced into ArcGIS Online to even open it unless they are naturally early-adopters. Until there is a forcing through licensing (a thing ESRI tried), compatibility, or a wider need to use ESRI's online services in a significant way Desktop cannot, I don't see Pro really coming on like the ESRI hype seems to want. ... View more

Over 6-year old, top voted (twice as many as the second most) idea and still ArcGIS doesn't have this ability. I don't know why I even bother anymore to look up if this functionality has been added. Oh yeah, it's because I keep needing to do this but end up having to basically build a completely new schema into which to import the same data. At least support this on the non-SDE feature classes. Who or what is standing in the way of this? Stop the sandbagging already. ... View more