Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

or the lack of documentation for the <Addininfo> xml tag.   ... View more

The above is a good idea, if the fonts look good in ArcMap (or Pro) and then are missing or are replaced by #!%# in the PDF then Adobe may not be able to use you selected font.   *this behavior can seen when using an ESRI font (or symbol style) that is ONLY available on machines with ArcGIS Desktop installed. In this case the PDF would look fine on your machine but if someone without ArcGIS Desktop opened it on 'their' machine they would see the !#$#!@ issue. ... View more

What is the best way to do something like this? I need to wait until a layout templated is loaded before updating some of its elements. *this example will not run since we can't return a Task<> with this call. //add the layout to the project and wait for import to complete Task t = await QueuedTask.Run<Task>(() => Project.Current.ImportItem(theItem, true)); t.Wait; ... View more

On the ArcMap side (client)  there is not an exposed setting for this. No settings are listed in Advanced Settings document   found in c:\program files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.8\Utilities regarding layer timeouts.   ... View more

I would try reloading your True Type Fonts. Assuming you are on Windows 10, Open the Windows 10 Settings menu, click on Personalization, and then click on the Fonts tab. You should see in-line examples of the font faces you currently have installed. Other option is navigate to C:\Windows\Fonts. On my machine I have 266 font styles loaded.  If you navigate in File Explorer, on the left side there will be a Font Settings link, follow this to the Restore default font settings button. See example photo attached. This may be worth a try... ... View more

Have you tried the ArcToolbox Table to Table tool? It would take any table (shapefile, feature class, etc.) and export to csv, txt, or dbf file formats. If your table does not have x,y coords use the Add XY Coordinates tool to add POINT_X and POINT_Y fields with those values to the table prior to exporting. ... View more

Steps are: 0. Open ArcMap, do not load an existing MXD. 1. add a table to ArcMap, this can be an Excel worksheet or .csv file. If using .csv ensure you have a header row. 2. look at your table in ArcMap, what are the x and y fields called? Look at the coordinates, are they longitude and latitude decimal degrees or something else like UTM? 3. Use Map an XY option on the table, use the field names identified in step 2 as input. 4. You will see your points on the map and a New Layer will be added to the map you now have two options, define the projection for the Layer and Save to a .lyr file OR 5. right click on the layer and Export Data to Shapefile. 6. Use the Define Projection in ArcToolbox to set the projection.  Now when  you load the shapefile or layer file into your 'other map' it will be reprojected on the fly to match your Map document. ... View more

It would not hurt to return all your licenses then provision and load the new ones. Otherwise your old expired licenses may remain in your concurrent license pool for all to see (for ever 🙂 ... View more

One problem with the use of favorites as a way to pass styles between projects  is that  they are per user. Also the user has to have access to the style and know where to find them on the network or software install folder path. Most large organizations have a a custom style they use on their maps OR use one of the ArcMap style sets that fits with their business. Currently these are 'just there' in ArcMap if you place the style file in the correct place.  ... View more

Once solution would be for ESRI to publish the styles for Pro to AGOL and have them available 'from the web' similar to how you can get images from Microsoft Word (Insert ribbon, Pictures group, Stock Images) . This would be connected on the Appearance Ribbon tab | Drawing Group, Import Symbiology. ... View more

probably, but then we would have to have all our users login to their organizational account in ArcGIS Pro and ensure all +500 staff actually have a account.  Since we only have 150 AGOL accounts that is a problem 🙂 ... View more

Nice, but an organization would want to modify the install package so this was set automatically. One can't assume 2 or more users are going to do anything the same way (or follow directions). Any idea if these settings get saved in the registry? ... View more

It was fairly easy in ArcGIS Pro 2.4.x and prior because if you place a map template at C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ProjectTemplates it was shown in the list of default templates on ArcGIS Pro startup (project selection screen).   With ArcGIS Pro 2.6 they took this capability away 😞     ... View more