Latest Contributions by Robert_LeClair

One resolution to Pro crashes to go to the manufacturer's website for your video/graphics card and update the driver directly from them.  Simply using a Windows Update procedure will not work.  Once the latest driver is installed, then a lot of Pro crashes/instability is removed. ... View more

Graeme - correct.  If maintenance lapses or is not renewed, then the use of ArcGIS Pro is not available.  But your ArcMap/ArcCatalog licenses remain at their last maintained release.  As far as software costs, that's a question for our sales team as well as the executive team - well above my pay grade. ... View more

Excel is supported at ArcGIS Pro 1.1 which is expected to be released this summer. ... View more

Still there and working. ... View more

You are correct that ArcGIS for Desktop (not including ArcGIS Pro) are perpetual licenses.  If you discontinue maintenance, then a user can continue to use ArcGIS for Desktop (i.e. ArcMap, ArcCatalog, etc.) without future upgrades.  ArcGIS Pro uses a new licensing model that is subscription based.  As long as user is current on maintenance, they may continue to use ArcGIS Pro.  Many software companies moved to the subscription based licensing model a while ago.  With ArcGIS Pro, Esri uses this model.  It is a paradigm shift from perpetual licenses certainly.  As to the why's of changing the licensing model, I'd had to defer to the ArcGIS Pro team as I'm an ArcGIS Pro Instructor for Esri.  Hope this clarifies the question. ... View more

Does your system meet the minimum system requirements?  You may access them at ArcGIS Pro system requirements—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS for Professionals Further you can test your computer to see if it's Pro Ready at:  Can You Run It? What's the result? ... View more

Not sure as I'm not on the ArcGIS Pro Dev Team - I'm an Instructor (Desktop, SDE, Pro).  I certainly hope so though - would love to see it too! ... View more

Thomas - you are correct that ArcGIS Pro 1.0 is not complete.  The Pro Development team is working hard for the next release 1.1 this summer and 1.2 later.  Each subsequent release will bring further enhancements to the software, stability fixes, and new functionality.  I would think the Excel issue will be addressed in a future release. ... View more

By "ruins" the whole database, what do you mean?  Since there's only 1 feature class (that is versioned), adding an attribute field would be seen across all versions. ... View more

Are the feature class(es) unversioned and/or in an archived feature class? ... View more

Thomas - one possible workflow to use: Use the Excel to Table GP tool in Pro. Work with the converted table that's stored in the Geodatabase. Hope this helps! Regards, Robert LeClair Esri-Denver ... View more

Jean-Guy, ArcGIS Pro 1.0 is not a finished product rather is the first release of a new Desktop application.  At the 1.1 release (and future releases), there will be more functionality introduced into the application.  Annotation is coming as is a more robust mapping experience.  Hope this helps. Regards, Robert LeClair Esri-Denver ... View more

An option is to consider is in the same Context Menu - select Data -> Export Features.  This starts the Copy Features GP tool.  Granted it creates a new feature class but would work.  Not sure if the ArcMap functionality is to be ported over in the future or not. ... View more