Latest Contributions by RandyKreuziger

We have a geoprocessing service that generates PDF maps based on input parameters from the user.  One of those parameters  determines which basemap the user wants.  One of our basemaps is an internal cache service that has mayor public lands symbolized and is therefore not in the maps TOC.  There are a a few more things on this basemap but we only want some of it added to the PDF map's legend. So I was thinking of having a second data frame placed outside the page that would have only those layers that we wanted to add to the legend but I don't see a way to add these to the legend.  There is no way to know how many layers might be turned one by the user so I have no clue what the length of the primary legend is going to be. We are using ArcInfo 10.0.   Thanks ... View more

I've only modified a small percentage of scripts to use arcpy.  At what version will arcgisscripting go away and arcpy be the only option? ... View more

A couple on my users keep getting network i/o error Geodatabase.sde.gbd_items when using MXDs that contain nothing but SDE layers and an ESRI basemap.  I've checked the map document and see no problems when running using it at our head quarters so it doesn't look like an ArcSDE problem.  Is there any settings on the PC that can help prevent these types of errors? ... View more

I'm trying to publish a map in 10.1 pre-release to ArcGIS Online.  The publishing fails with a popup that says "Please consult the GP Results Window for enhanced error description" but there is no window.  Is this information stored in a log file somewhere? Thanks Full error message below Service Publishing Result Packaging succeeded, but publishing failed. Failed to execute (UploadServiceDefinition). Please consult the GP Results Window for enhanced error description. ... View more

We have 1400 7.5 minute USGS Topos stored in an ArcSDE raster catalog that we need to get back out to TIFs for use in a non ESRI application.  I've exported a half dozen using the CopyRaster_management tool and then built pyramids so they would look nicer when viewed at scales less than 1 to 24,000.  In each case the resulting rasters look different then the Raster Catalog when viewed in ArcMap.  In some cases there is a cyan bar that shows up across the top of the tif and in other cases black text nearly disappears.  The tifs seem fine but the pyramids have problems.  Attached is a screen shot of the cyan stripe. ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 SP4. ... View more

We have high quality PDF maps for most of our Wildlife Areas.  The feature class we put out in our web applications contains a field with a hyper link to these PDFs.  Not all Wildlife Areas have a PDF map but I'd like to programmatically populate the field and then NULL out the field if there is no PDF map at that web location.  Does anyone know how to test the validity of a web URL in Python?   Thanks ... View more

How can I delete all Metadata?  We are still managing our metadata in FGDC format then doing an upgrade metadata.  But for some feature classes that we are exporting we want to delete it all and ust send an HTML file with the data. ... View more