Latest Contributions by RichardDaniels

As a side note, the examples use TIMEOUT settings of as little as 10 seconds. Since network outages can result in delays or a person may be away from their desk when the "reconnect to license server" message is received this appears short. We set this to the maximum time we think a user would have a license and don't consider a license hung until it has not responded to a longer time. For example, we use TIMEOUT AFTER 24 HOURS TIMEOUTALL 86400 and set shorter times for specific futures, like ARC/INFO TIMEOUT ARC/INFO 120 ... View more

Just as a point of clarification, most field surveys conducted with "plain table" were highly accurate. If the map you are using was created by the USGS or Coastal Survey (or their predecessors) the data will be of high quality. Your issue is selecting and using the best method for georeferencing your information. If you are georeferencing a topo map you should check to see if you have any benchmarks listed. You may be able to find their current coordinates and use them to georeference you map as well. For step by step method for georeferencing historical maps take at look at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/TO300/PAP300/P300.HTM ... View more

The pocket agenda is handy and should be kept; however, this year the way the advertising pages were inserted divided up the agenda. Instead of being at the end of each day, or between session time slots, they were inserted between sessions in the same slot (so you could miss sessions located after the advertisement, e.g. page 42).The information for the plenary session was to generic as well, it said "8:30 AM to 3:30 PM" which missed the 1 1/2 hour lunch break. In the past the break would have been listed. What I missed was the "pocket" for the pocket agenda. The solid plastic badge backing they gave out this year was not functional. On the application front, the best "agenda app" could be based on the pocket agenda; however,the Session titles would be hyperlinks that when clicked would "expand" and show the session description and the paper titles & authors. If the titles were clicked they would expand to a second level to show the abstract. There would be a Search screen on the top of the application as well based on keyword, author, day, and title that would return a result list. When a result is selected it would jump into the agenda at the selected location. the key is that the agenda does not have to be the "same" as the planner, since the planner is used prior to the event while the pocket agenda is designed to be used "on the fly" while you are on the escalator in the Convention Center at 8:30 AM. ... View more

Well the ESRI preconference planning tool was pretty hard to navigate, even on a dual monitor PC, so trying to use it while actually at the conference was out. To be honest, the thing that needs the most work is access to the session descriptions or paper abstracts. Instead of focusing on bling and fancy code they need something that is fast and easy to use, like this example for the AAG -> http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/index.cfm?mtgID=59 ... View more

danielri;343086 wrote: If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occur. QUOTE] Note at 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 you can still set the values shown here but the MSI does not appear to actually use them, thus setting the version min to a large number may be your best bet. CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Checkbox table AND CheckboxForUpgrade value to 0 in the Property table SoftwareUpgradeCheckBox condition to SOFTWAREUPGRADE="false" in ControlCondition table SetCheckForSoftwareUpgrade condition to CheckboxForUpgrade="0" inControlEvent  table ... View more

I don't know how to fix it, but before Python 2.6.x there was no explicit way to declare an abstract class. It changed with the abc (Abstract Base Class) module now available from the standard library in Python 2.7. I'm getting the same error with this line of code. partGeom = arcpy.Geometry("polygon", arcpy.Array(trPoints)) The variable partGeom probably needs to be declared now... Rich ... View more

This is the key, you need to open an inbound port on the ArcGIS Server for port 6080. How to do this is described at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947814(v=ws.10).aspx. Rich ... View more

If you will be 'deploying' the Maps for Office package to your users and they DON'T have admin on their computers then you should tweak the msi so that the 'check for updates' option is turned off after installation (i.e., in Excel you will find this setting in File | Esri Maps). If you have access to an MSI editing tool like Orca, just go to the Property Table and change the "CheckboxForUpgrade" properties valu to 0, ensure ALLUSERS is set to 1. Other option would be to just go to the Upgrade Table and change the versionmin number to a large value like 3.0 so an upgrade never can occour. just saying... ... View more

This still applies, substitute the new 10.2 FlexLM lmutil.exe to the one provided by the download and you are in business. ... View more

Current ArcGIS Server Enterprise licenses (basic, standard, and advanced) are for 4-cores. There are "additional cores" licenses availalbe that give you "blocks" of 4 more cores. However, in most cases a 8-core machine would be virtualized and you would actually run 2 to 4 VM's on the same hardware. In that case you would just assign the license to one of these VM's. Enjoy, Rich ... View more

Looks like problem is the "ARCGIS using TCP-port 0" issue.  In your service.txt file located at C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\License10.1\bin make sure you have a port specified. The top two lines of the file should look something link the following: SERVER MYSERVERNAME ANY 27000 VENDOR ARCGIS PORT=1234 Most likely you need to lock your vendor daemon to a static port. There is a ESRI troubleshooting document for this that was first written for ArcGIS 9.x which still applies. ... View more

You want Microsoft SQL Native Client 2008 R2, version 10.5x or greater. If you have an older client installed you may be able to connect to SQL 2008 but not 2008 R2. There is a version that works included on the ArcGIS DVD in the support folder. ... View more

You can manage your map documents (.mxd) in ArcCatalog. Navigate to the MXD in ArcCatalog then right click on it and you will be given a "Set Data Sources" option where you can update multiple connections at once. 🙂 ... View more

As a side note, the 'no cost' Geocoder option will return a graphic representing the geocoded location. If you select these graphics and use the Graphic to Feature command you should be able to get a feature class or shapefile with the locations. This is described at http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Converting_between_graphics_and_features and still applies to v10. ... View more

The services reference in the announcement are also included with ArcGIS Desktop[ATTACH=CONFIG]23840[/ATTACH], how will there retirement impact Esri's desktop applications which were sold based on the availability of these, or similar, services? Geocoding �?� European Address Locator �?� North American Address Locator �?� North American Address Locator (ArcGIS 10 style) �?� United States Street Locator �?� United States Street Locator (ArcGIS 10 style) �?� World Places Locator ... View more