Latest Contributions by Bud

ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0; mobile geodatabase and file geodatabase: Background: When I copy a standalone GDB table to a mobile geodatabase using Catalog copy/paste, the table automatically gets a "main." alias prefix. (That's not consistent with pasting a *FC* into a mGDB, but that's a separate issue.) Idea: When I copy the mGDB table to a fGDB via Catalog copy/paste, the "main." alias prefix gets carried over to the new fGDB table. It's confusing to see main.my_table in a file geodatabase table in the Contents pane. It makes me think it's a mGDB table, but it's actually a fGDB table. Could that behaviour be changed so the "main." alias prefix doesn't get carried over? Video: ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0; Mobile Geodatabase The Make Route Event Layer geoprocessing should auto-populate these parameters: From-Measure Field parameter: Auto-populate with FMEAS field if it exists. To-Measure Field parameter: Auto-populate with TMEAS field if it exists. Bud_0-1715316289960.png FMEAS and TMEAS are standard Esri linear referencing fields. So it would make sense if the tool would automatically use those fields. Currently, the tool doesn't do that. ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0; mobile geodatabase. I have a linear referencing standalone table. The table has a user-defined ID field that is a big integer datatype. I want to use that field in geoprocessing tools like Make Route Event Layer. But the big int field isn't shown as an option in the Route Identifier Field parameter picklist. Bud_0-1715315061848.png Could all geoprocessing tools, including Make Route Event Layer, be enhanced to allow mobile geodatabase big integer fields? ... View more

In Pro 2.9.5, it was relatively easy to navigate to the NAD 1983 UTM projections: Bud_0-1715310906045.png   But in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0, I need to dive and scroll a lot more: Bud_1-1715311169314.png A zoomable version of the screenshot: https://i.sstatic.net/OaPdgy18.png  Could that be changed so that it's less cumbersome to navigate to the NAD 83 UTM projections? I'm aware that I can search for a specific projection. But I prefer to browse the projection folders to make sure I'm getting the right one.   ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 2.9.5; Oracle 18c 10.7.1 EGDB: I use the Diagnostic Monitor > Logs tab to troubleshoot layer performance issues in Pro, like this: slow route event layers. I use an "endcursor" filter to review the SQL queries that were sent to the database. Bud_0-1715309582502.png It would help if there were a way to get the total elapsed time of all the filtered logs. ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 2.9.5; Oracle 18c 10.7.1 EGDB: I have a linear referencing Route Event Layer. 3,000 roads/routes in an M-enabled FC. 20,000 events in a table. There are attribute indexes on the ID fields. The layer takes 10 seconds to refresh when I zoom in & out in the map. The properties are set to the default caching option: Keep the cache between sessions. Invalidate the cache when the data is updated. Bud_0-1715307858224.png How does Pro know when the data was last updated, and the cache needs to be refreshed? ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 2.9.5; Oracle 18c 10.7.1 EGDB: I have two identical annotation FCs with existing features: ANNO_1 and ANNO_2. The projection is NAD 83 UTM 17N. The extents are the same and are up to date since the FCs were recently imported. In ANNO_1, I create a new feature. I'm testing for Esri Case 03605230, so I create the feature outside of the FC's extents (north of planet earth, as indicated by the base map).  When I created the new feature in ANNO_1, ANNO_1's extents were automatically updated, as expected. However, if I append the new feature from ANNO_1 into ANNO_2 via the Append tool (using a SQL expression to isolate the new feature), ANNO_2's extents don't automatically update. That's unexpected. To me, appending data should automatically update the extents, just like editing does. I've submitted this as an idea because the docs suggest this might be working as designed. Define Feature Class Properties - Extent A feature class has a spatial extent property that is based on the last known spatial extent of all the coordinates in the feature class. The extent property is not always updated when features in the feature class are edited. This means that the values in the extent property may not contain the actual spatial extent of the features. You can recalculate the feature class extent or manually set the extent values. I'm aware that I can recalculate the feature class extents using a GP tool. But it seems like that should be done automatically when loading data. Related: Catalog Pane — Load option in annotation FC context menu ... View more

When a layer is selected in the Contents pane, use a keyboard shortcut to open the active definition query in SQL mode. Bud_0-1715278706875.png That would allow for fast SQL changes to the definition query, similar to what we can do with query layers in 3.3.0: Query Layer — Keyboard shortcut to SQL editing window What's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.3 - Geodatabases and databases With a query layer selected in the Contents pane, you can use the Ctrl+Q keyboard shortcut to open the Edit Query Layer dialog box. ... View more

When searching my Community profile, I noticed that searching for extent (10 results) returns fewer results than extents (16 results). If anything, I'd think the singular word would have more results than the plural since extent is in extents, but extents isn't in extent. What's the reason behind that behaviour? https://community.esri.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=authorId&q=extent&noSynonym=false&phrase=extents&author_id=351335&collapse_discussion=true  Bud_0-1715277846717.png https://community.esri.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=authorId&q=extents&noSynonym=false&phrase=extents&author_id=351335&collapse_discussion=true Bud_1-1715277870216.png   ... View more