Latest Contributions by JonPedder

We're almost there, here's the output <</T(Member1)/V(Member1Jon P)>> <</T(Member2)/V(Member2Arnold G)>> <</T(Member3)/V(Member3Art F)>> <</T(Member4)/V(Member4Pete H)>> I don't need the member1Jon P just Jon P in the second part. ... View more

Thanks so much for all your help today, I'll give this a shot shortly. I'm not really sure exactly what's going on in this loop. Any chance you have time to explain this code? I'd rather learn why this works than blindly copy/paste to resolve my immediate need. Thanks again Jon ... View more

Yes, that's exactly it ... View more

Sorry for being unclear. As I mentioned, ultimately I'm writing values to an FDF file, which will be used in conjunction with a PDF template. The PDF contains fields for each Member, there can be up to 9 members. The fields are named Member1, Member2, etc. through Member9. The line of code that writes the values out is this. Using the field name in the PDF/FDF, and the data from the script txt.write("<</T(FDF Field Name)/V(" + str(arcpy variable name) + ")>>\n") [\code] I have potentially 9 team members, but not always. I may have none or some, not always 9. I'm trying to write these values in a loop. So something like this Loop through the members list create a variable for each item in the list populate that variable with the value from the list write that variableto the FDF file using txt.write so the loop would actually contain the txt.write     for item in lMembers:         FDF_Field_Name = FDF_Field_Name+item         FDF_Field_Name+item = lmembers+string_value         txt.write("<</T(FDF_Field_Name)/V(" + str(FDF_Field_Name+item) + ")>>\n")         arcpy.AddMessage(item) something like that, probably clear as mud now ;) Cheers ... View more

Ah ha! So if I'd like to increment wMembers to wMembers+item_Number and another to wMemberName+Item_value     item = None     for item in lMembers:         wMembers+item_number = item         wMewmberName+Value_of_lMember         so i'd end up with wMembers1 containing value Jon P wmembers2 containing value Arnold G wMember3 containing value Pete H etc How would i manage that? Thanks again ... View more

Yes the names populate correctly. The reason the list 'could' be empty is if there are no people in that Team yet. The team name woudl exist in the teams table by has no members at this time, so i need to account for that. I'm very new to Python (like a week) and I'm unaware of dictionaries, which is why I didn't use them 🙂 Thanks for the other tips. [ATTACH=CONFIG]16519[/ATTACH] I've attached the run screen as a screenshot ... View more

Ok thanks, here goes. Note that I haven't written code to write out the lMembers info yet. #arcpy.env.workspace = workspc arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = "True" from arcpy import env # Pull data from Incident_Information FC fc1="Incident_Information" rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc1) row = rows.next() arcpy.AddMessage(fc1) while row:     # Loop through rowns and pull incident name from Incident_Name field     Incident_Name = row.getValue("Incident_Name")     arcpy.AddMessage("while loop 1")     row = rows.next() del rows del row # Loops through the Assignmets table and read field values to vars fc2="Assignments" rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc2) arcpy.AddMessage(fc2) row = rows.next() # Pull data from the Assignments feature class aVar from Assignments while row:     arcpy.AddMessage("Get Assignment Information")     aAssign = row.getValue("Assignments.Assignment_Number")     aDesc = row.getValue("Assignments.Description")     aMiles = row.getValue("Assignments.Mileage")     aInsertion = row.getValue("Assignments.Insertion")     aStatus = row.getValue("Assignments.Status")     aOpPeriod = row.getValue("Assignments.Period")     aTeam = row.getValue("Assignments.Team_Name")     # Pull data from Op Period FC using Period number     arcpy.AddMessage("Matching Operation Period")     fc4 = "Operation_Period"     rowPeriod = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc4, "Period = " + str(aOpPeriod))     # loops through operation periods and reads values into vars based on Op number pVar for Period     for x in rowPeriod:         pWeather = x.getValue("Weather")         pSafety = x.getValue("Safety_Message")         pFreqP = x.getValue("Primary_Comms")         pFreqE = x.getValue("Emergency_Comms")         pPlans = x.getValue("Planning_Chief")     del x     # Pull data from Teams FC using Assignment Number building quesry in var qTeam     arcpy.AddMessage("Matching Teams")     fc5 = "Teams"     qTeam = '"Team_Name"' + "='" + str(aTeam) + "'"     arcpy.AddMessage(qTeam)     rowPeriod = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc5,qTeam)     # loops through Teams and reads values into vars based on Team name tVar for Team     for y in rowPeriod:         tType = y.getValue("Team_Type")         tCallSign = y.getValue("radio_Call_Sign")         tLeader = y.getValue("Leader")     del y     del rowPeriod         # Pull data from Team Members FC using Team Name building query in mVar     arcpy.AddMessage("Matching Team Members")     fc6 = "Team_Members"     qTeam = '"Team_Name"' + "='" + str(aTeam) + "'"     arcpy.AddMessage(qTeam)     rowMembers = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc6,qTeam)     lMembers = []     # loops through Teams and reads values into list lMembers. List = lVar     z = 0     for z in rowMembers:         mName = z.getValue("Name")         lMembers.append(mName)         arcpy.AddMessage(mName)     del z     del rowMembers         arcpy.AddMessage("Building Assignment Number " + str(aAssign))     # Create new fdf file     filename = output + "/" + str(aAssign) + ".fdf"     txt= open (filename, "w")     txt.write("%FDF-1.2\n")     txt.write("%????\n")     txt.write("1 0 obj<</FDF<</F(ICS-204.pdf)/Fields 2 0 R>>>>\n")     txt.write("endobj\n")     txt.write("2 0 obj[\n")     txt.write ("\n")     # Write field names to FDF file     txt.write("<</T(incident_name)/V(" + str(Incident_Name) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(assignment_number)/V(" + str(aAssign) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(operational_period)/V(" + str(aOpPeriod) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(asgn_description)/V(" + str(aDesc) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(resource_type)/V(" + str(tType) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(asgn.description)/V(" + str(aDesc) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(.size_of_assignment)/V(" + str(aMiles) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(transport_instructions)/V(" + str(aInsertion) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(radio_call)/V(" + str(tCallSign) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(freq_command)/V(" + str(pFreqP) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(freq_command)/V(" + str(pFreqE) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(prepared_by)/V(" + str(pPlans) + ")>>\n")     txt.write("<</T(notes)/V(" + str(pWeather) + ")>>\n")     # Write Team Members to FDF file from list lMembers     for item in lMembers:         wMembers = item         arcpy.AddMessage(item)     del item                 # Close and write FDF file     txt.write("]\n")     txt.write("endobj\n")     txt.write("trailer\n")     txt.write("<</Root 1 0 R>>\n")     txt.write("%%EO\n")     txt.close ()     row = rows.next() del rows del row I very much appreciate your help Thanks Jon ... View more

I can do the FDF part (let me know if you're interested in how that works. if I try the following, I receive this error. <type 'exceptions.NameError'>: name 'item' is not defined for item in lMembers:         wMembers = item         arcpy.AddMessage(item) lMembers is a list of peoples names, the number of folks vary. I need to write these names to variables to build my FDF file. So i actually need two variables creates, one for the variable name and one containing the persons name. I thought I'd simplify my question by just asking how to pull the name value from the list. In the end I'm looking to get something like this variable item+numeric number for item (this would be the variable field placeholder, so 1, 2, 3, 4, etc) variable name+ value for item (this is the string value from the lMembers, Jon, Steve, Amy, etc.) the code will look somewhat like that, that writes the files txt.write("<</T(item)/V(" + str(name) + ")>>\n") ... View more

Here's a better explanation The list lMembers contains values such as [jon, pete, paul, steve, etc] when I iterate that list later I want to pull the values from this list and write them to an output, building an FDF file. The code is attempting to do the following loop for as many times as there are items in the list for each list item, write that value to a output variable that can then be written out ... View more

I'd also like to add my 2 cents. Support for downloading GPS units to ArcMap is sorely missing at this time, simple products can seemingly easily download and upload tracks and points to and from GPS units.  The core comms agent must be there somewhere as you can connect a real time GPS now to ArcMap, but not download tracks or waypoints. This is core functionality that is missing from such a robust product such as ArcMap. Heck even the FREE Explorer can import GPX files natively while the expensive and robust ArcMAP simply can't. I feel that ALL public safety departments and teams would give ESRI a huge round of applause if they would add support to pull data directly from GPS units. A bigger round if we had the ability to push polygons and points to the GPS also. Thanks ... View more

Is it still the case that there isn't a way to turn DDP on/off within Python? ... View more

I'm also hopelessly lost on your explanation here. Sorry "You also need to assign a handler to the queryTask. You can do this in the MXML by declaring a function in the result property, actionscript by adding an eventlistener, or by binding the executedLastResult of the query task to a component." ... View more

Thanks again John. I had just found out about declaring the var outside the function so i did move it. i see the changes in the function code and 'get' those, not quite sure what you mean about queryAssignment.where=resultPeriod if I change the query to exactly this I get an error that quotes are expected, if I add quotes I get an error that 'State' where was referenced without being declared. Again thanks for helping ... View more

Thanks very much John, you can probably tell I'm a newbie and had no idea you didn't need {} within actionscript. I'm pretty close I think but the query itself isn't executing. here's what I have. Here�??s the defined query <esri:QueryTask                   id="queryTaskAssignments"                   url="http://blah blah/MapServer/6"                   />                         <esri:Query                   id="queryAssignments"                   returnGeometry="true"                   outFields="[assignment_number,team_name,timeslider,team_name,description]"                   where="resultPeriod"             /> Here�??s the button and text box       <s:TextInput id="textPeriod" enabled="true"/>         <s:Button id="textButton" label="Go" enabled="true" click="textButton_clickHandler(event)"/> Here�??s the actionscript             // function to return assignments to data grid                   public function textButton_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void                   {                                                 var resultPeriod:String = "";                                                             if (textPeriod.text>"") {                               resultPeriod = new String('period ='.concat(textPeriod.text))                         }                         if (textPeriod.text=="") {                               resultPeriod = "1=1"                         }                                                 queryTaskAssignments.execute(queryAssignments);                   } I tested with Alert.Show(resultperiod) and get the correct strings to pass to the where= statement, no compiler errors but it�??s not firing the query. Is there something I need to do to pass values from with an actionscrip to mxml? Thanks again Jon ... View more