Latest Contributions by MichaelBranscomb

Ngone, You are seeing browken layers (red exclamation marks) because the map is referencing data on your local machine (e.g. C:\Data\...) which ArcGIS Online does not know anything about. You will need to create Layer Packages for your data (using ArcGIS Desktop) then reference those online LayerPackages in your Explorer map and then upload that map for your users (Explorer maps remember where the data came from). In the next release of ArcGIS Explorer (due this summer) we have been working hard on improving the sharing capabilities of Explorer and the integration with ArcGIS.com. Regards Mike ... View more

Hi, Please can you provide some more information about the issue you're experiencing with basemaps? - Are these the OOTB / built-in basemaps (e.g. "Bing Maps Aerial") or are they custom basemaps you have created yourself (via Save As > New Basemap). - If you're experiencing problems with the built-in basemaps you could try uninstalling ArcGIS Explorer and confirming that all files have been removed from C:\Program Files\Explorer\basemaps then reinstall. - If you're experiencing problems with your own basemap I suggest opening the nmf on which your basemap is based and checking which layers are no longer working then remove them and re-add them from working datasources (your basemaps get saved in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\ArcGIS Explorer\My Basemaps). Regards Mike ... View more

Ngone, You have several options here - but if you simply want to publish your Explorer map to your colleagues and allow them to be able to see the Shapefiles on your machine then I suggest that you try adding your Shapefiles to ArcGIS Explorer via a UNC path. To do this... 1. You'll need to create a network share first (right click the folder where your data is then click Properties > Sharing). 2. Once you've created the share, e.g. "Data", you and your users will be able to access this via "\\<YOUR_MACHINE_NAME>\Data". NOTE: Any colleague you want to see the data will need to be on the same Local Area Network (LAN) as you. The next stage you might want to consider would be moving your data on to a central filserver on your network (LAN) so that when you turn your PC off, your colleagues can still see the data. The process would be the same as if it were on local machine, but now your users (and maybe you too) will access the data as "\\<FILE_SERVER_NAME>\Data". For more information on sharing content via UNC and networks see http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Methods_for_distributing_tools. **Better still, you could use ArcGIS.com to host your data and maps and have users access it from there. This would avoid them having to be on the same network - they would just need an internet connection. See http://www.arcgis.com/home/content.html to get started. What usually happens with sharing data on a fileserver is that somone starts to edit the data and someone else gets locked our of editing, or people make local copies of the data, and then wonder which is most up to date. Then you should start thinking about ArcGIS Server... http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver/index.html. I hope this helps. Regards Mike ... View more

James, We are looking into adding Note editing functionality in the next release of ArcGIS Explorer. Any move tool will not drag the feature as such - rather the user will likely have a representation of the feature which they can drop in an alternative location. Regards Mike ... View more

You could try looking at the SelectedItemsCollection Class - I believe that can be used to retrieve and set the selected items in the Contents window. Regards Mike ... View more

Susan, Apologies for the deay in replying - unfortunately this is the ArcGIS Explorer forum rather than the ArcExplorer forum. I would suggest you download and install ArcGIS Explorer to assess whether that meets your requirements: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/download.html. Regards Mike ... View more

Eugene, Can you provide more information on your workflow - I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "measure by radius". Regards Mike ... View more

James, OpenGL drawing is not exposed in the ArcGIS Explorer 900/1200 APIs - more info from SDK help below: ArcGIS Explorer 500 exposed two events that enabled developers to draw graphics with OpenGL; this functionality is not supported in the ArcGIS Explorer 900 application; however ArcGIS Explorer 900 adds the concept of a Graphic, which is way to draw to the map using existing symbology�??graphics are not persisted to the map document and are ideal for drawing moving objects. Regards Mike ... View more

Jerry, Unfortunately map tips for FeatureLayers are not exposed in the API in the current release of ArcGIS Explorer. Regards Mike ... View more

Loren, There are no default tools for searching FeatureLayers (shapefiles, Geodatabase feature classes, etc) but there are some great Add-Ins available for searching / selecting feature layers - I've listed them here but you can also go to http://www.arcgisonline.com > Tools. Taking a look at the variety of ideas here about how people would like to interact with data in ArcGIS Explorer indicates may indicate why there's nothing out of the box. However - we'll consider this for inclusion in a future release. Find Features: http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=77d649f30a7b4bf9b9781b8b9a44499b Query Features: http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=187ece93958e4e7a86f918a00df0f36b Query Plus: http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=86d1eb20b0564b9f8a528e0e723ae3e6 Select-o-Matic: http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=42ee1150bd2943a69ea274b70d5c0e03 Table Viewer: http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/item.html?id=ee882a6bef9c4ae4be6cebd2e631ab4f Regards Mike ... View more

It is not possible to extend the ArcGIS Explorer layer support. Some additional content support is offered via Layer Packages created within ArcGIS Desktop - but not for custom layers. without understanding more about exactly what your heat map comprises it is difficult to offer specific advice but you could explore putting your custom content into a popup window for a Note or perhaps within a Map Service in ArcGIS Server? Regards Mike ... View more

The SpaceNavigator is supported. You need to click the ArcGIS Explorer pearl/button > ArcGIS Options > Navigation then check the box to "enable 3D navigation devices". Please see http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisexplorer/1200//en/options_navigation.htm for more information. You may need to adjust the settings for your navigation device to achieve the desired experience. Regards Mike ... View more

Patrick, ArcGIS Explorer 1200 is built to work with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and is not guaranteed to be forwards compatible with ArcGIS 10.0. There will be a new release of ArcGIS Explorer around the same time as ArcGIS 10.0 is released which will support ArcGIS 10.0. Regards Mike ... View more

Mary, Within the current API there is no way to create a new FeatureLayer. However - there may be other alternatives here: 1. Is the OOTB GP support (via the Analysis Gallery) sufficient for your GP service / requirements? 2. Create Notes (or Folders of Notes) to represent the features being returned from your GP Service. 3. In ArcGIS 10 there's a new GP tool called "Package Layer" which you could add at the end of your GP Model to export a Layer Package of the results then programmatically down that and add to Explorer via the API. 4. Again in ArcGIS 10 - ArcGIS Server this time - there's a new option to request GP Service output results as a Layer Package. So 2 is probably the best way forwards for you in the current Explorer 1200 API with ArcGIS 9.X. Regards Mike ... View more

Hi, Due to the graphics intensive nature of ArcGIS Explorer it will not run in a remote desktop session and you are unlikely to get a good user experience running it over other remote display technologies such as Citrix or WTS. If installing the application directly on end user's machine is not an option but they are always online you could consider looking out for the forthcoming ArcGIS Explorer Online mentioned in this blog post: http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/arcgisexplorerblog/archive/2010/02/18/new-releases-of-arcgis-explorer-and-arcgis-explorer-online-at-feduc.aspx and as seen at the recent Dev Summit. Regards Mike ... View more