Latest Contributions by JenniferMinnick

Mike - Thanks for the succinct answer.  I suppose I should have specified Organizational version rather than Public/Free version. So the obvious is: 1) Everyone is everyone is public whether free version or "organizational" paid version 2) If you have the paid Organizational version you can share with groups but restrict everyone/public.  However this still require a client to log in which frankly they are not going to do.  They can't be bothered and shouldn't be really.  I'm testing out ArcGIS Online (Organizational) for my company but if there is no way to limit viewing (even if that just means you have know the link) then there is no point in our organization buying this. I am a staunch ESRI user - is there some other not out-of-this-world expensive and complicated that I should be looking at? ArcGIS Online seems like an ideal solution for sharing info with clients if only there were a better way to mete out permissions.  Similar to what PinnGIS commented. ... View more

After a brief moment of euphoria I crashed back down to earth... I created a parameter from Make Variable>From Environment>Processing Extent>Extent and deleted the precondition link and added a direct link which seemingly linked to the Create Fishnet>Template Extent.  While it seemingly should work - it didn't. I also right clicked on the "Create Fishnet" tool in my model and messed around (without have much clue) with the properties hoping to make Same as Display Processing Extent dynamic.  I selected Environments>Processing Extent>Values and set the processing extent as "same as display" it always reverts to "as specified below" which is whatever you last set it as.  Plus, I set extent as a precondition not that I know what that means.  Either way, none of it worked. I also called ESRI and showed an analyst what i was trying to do - I didn't get much of an explanation as to why it wouldn't work as it seemed that it should and he kept trying to get me to use some tool for data driven maps and tools in ArcInfo which I certainly don't have. So we head back to Calculate Values but I need some help. Key problems are: 1) When you manually use the Create Fishnet tool and enter Top, Bottom, Left, Right - the Origin and Y-Axis and Opposite corner of Fishnet coordinates are automatically calculated from your Template Extent.  When you use processing extent as a variable they don't fill in automatically.  You get some crazy extents that don't have anything to do with anything. 2) The only part of the model that is "colored" as in has values is the Extent which is a "bad thing" because while it will work, sometimes, on the first go around - the values never seem to reset.  So So - if I have to use Calculate Values - what am I trying to calculate - I'm really just trying to pull coordinates (points) from the Display Extent and sent them to Create Fishnet - no real calculations. Any ideas with this? Curtis - I checked out that link and I think what I'm trying to do is much simpler - anyway to get display extent coordinates using python? ... View more

Hi Curtis - I have tried that.   When I do what you have suggested, I can see the options in my tool, select "Same as Display" but the values of Top Bottom Left Right don't get sent to their respective counterparts in the Extent part of the  Fishnet tool.  Were you able to actually tie these together? Thanks. ... View more

I'd like this especially for formatted tables in the layout view.  It's a pain to format tables in Excel only to bring them in to have the cell coloring disappear.  It's extra work all around. ... View more

And I've just relocated Label Manager but don't seem to be able to find any tools to do batch changes, you still have to copy the paramaers and paste to each label class.  I don't know if this can be done in python or not or in a batch manner or not. ... View more

I couldn't find a way to edit or delete my previous comment - it wasn't clear. What I would like woudl be a way to copy layer label propeties.  There are a few ways to copy layer symbol properties: 1) Apply symbology from layer which you can batch. 2) I guess that python stuff mentioned by Chris_Fox but I don't know python. There may be a way to do this with python but again, I don't know python (yet, I guess). ... View more

Would love this feature. Maybe it's doable with coding but I can't find any references. ... View more

Another "duh" moment.  Input and output layer are the same. Next phase is I have close to 300/400 of these...any way to do something to have them batched automatically via a model or (ick) python.  As in apply this (very simple) model (really just a tool) to everything in this folder? ... View more

Dan - Yeah, I've been to that page and done the tutorial  :).  I sort of have a model basically using the apply symbology tool but when I try to use it as a batch I get error 000735 input layer:value is required although it would seem that the layers are there.  I will play around some more.  I'm also surprised that there is no "output" location for my batch shapes. Do you have any other resources to recommend?  I'm really not getting this very quickly - the tutorial didn't do much for me. Thanks. ... View more

Hi Jennifer, Thanks for providing the sample data. I tried the following: Added the \v10\0000subset_AVL.lyr to ArcMap. Ran the Apply Symbology From Layer tool (Data Management toolbox - Layers and Table Views toolset in ArcGIS 10 SP3):    Input Layer is the subset_AVL    Symbology Layer is the \ABQ_sym\0000subset_ABQ_sym.lyr. The subset_AVL layer was symbolized, showing the 7 unique values from SUBMARKET field; none of them were in the symbology layer. The symbol colors were unique and the labels were shown correctly. Please see attachment. Did you not get what I get? What ArcGIS version are you using? OK - I have to apologize profusely for wasting your time and say thank you for taking the time to show me something basic. I'm trying to learn how to make a model to do this in a batch and I made the assumption that the "apply" symbology tool would work like the "import" symbology option in the feature symbology tab.  I thought they were essentially the same thing which is why I got flustered. Now I have to figure out how to make the "input layer" into a parameter and then make this a tool so that I can do a batch. I got sidetracked with not understanding the tool - and now can move onto the model which I really  have no idea where to start. ... View more

Thanks for providing more details and preparing a sample data. Yes, you can just attach a zip file to the post. Hi - There are two packaged layer files in the attached zip file. One, subset_ABQ, has the symbology that I would like to use (remembering that field submarket will have different values in each different shapefile) and the second, subset_AVL, is another file to be processed that has default symbology. Thank you for your help. ... View more

Dan - sorry for not posting today.  Off doing other work and was having a problem making a packaged layer file (i made one but can't find it anywhere on the computer 😞 ). I realized that you'd need packaged layer with one of the shapefiles to see the symbolism I was trying to duplicate. I will post tomorrow. ... View more

Could you provide some more details about how the symbology layer is made and saved and what you see wrong, perhaps with some screenshots? Are you working on vector features or rasters? Or you can share your data, so that we can have a look. Hi Dan - So the symbology layer is just one of the market layers that I've set up the way I want.  The two main items are: 1) It's a Category type symbology 2) The Value Field is the field "Submarket" which is the same field name but not the same values in each shapefile. 3) The Color Ramp is "Dark Glazes" I am working with vectors - polygons. In order to share files I put the shapefile files in a zip and then attach to post, right?  I will go ahead and make samples of two of the submarket files and show one with symbology and one as is. Thanks! ... View more