Latest Contributions by DavidWheelock

Thanks Robert. It's still mystifying that the ArcGIS Pro team projects to have Pro at "functional equivalency" with ArcMap in Q2 2017 when major issues like this are still present, and the Idea for this on GeoNet is still not yet under consideration.  Here it is:  Add Stand Alone Data Catalog Like ArcCatalog to ArcGIS Pro This idea is now up to 1170 points in the voting, and rising steadily, which puts it in the top 140 most popular ideas out of 11,934 currently on GeoNet.  This idea has recently risen to "Reviewed" status.  Most of the ideas from this point and upward on the list are either Implemented or Under Consideration. https://community.esri.com/community/arcgis-ideas/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D~objecttype~objecttype%5Bidea%5D&sortKey=score&start=120 ... View more

Do you know a way to make a masking layer do what we're asking here?  The example that you refer to is different from what's being discussed. ... View more

Be sure and go here and up-vote this idea: Clip map to shape in ArcGIS Pro Ideas are what ESRI uses to decide what features to add. ... View more

Robert, how does ESRI evaluate the numbers of votes on our ideas?  Is it just raw numbers or does ESRI do any user demographics on them?  My idea below is now up to 77 up-votes and 730 points, total.  That's more than some and less than others, but definitely getting some support.  However, it's still not yet "Under consideration".  Clearly, ESRI is not considering this an issue.  Why? Please read the use-cases that people have been writing in the link below: Add Stand Alone Data Catalog Like ArcCatalog to ArcGIS Pro https://community.esri.com/ideas/12671-add-stand-alone-data-catalog-to-arcgis-pro-like-arccatalog I'd be willing to bet that those votes represent a select and indispensable set of users: geospatial DBA's and those who do that job when there's no one with that title in their organization.  Most GIS folks probably use ArcCatalog from time to time and what Pro offers them for this may be just fine for them.  GDBA's, on the other hand use ArcCatalog intensively and may need a mapping app like ArcMap or Pro rarely, if ever.  Yet, no one would deny the critical nature of the GDBA's work. Now, GDBA's are a tiny fraction of the GIS user community; let's say 5%, at most.  So, if they are the ones giving these up-votes, it's MUCH more significant that it has achieved a total of 730 points.  If the GDBA population is only 1/20 of the total population, that means that the total significance of this vote could be as much as 20-times more than 730, perhaps the equivalent of 14,000 points.  That would make it one of your most requested Ideas of all time and of critical importance to the geospatial DBA community.  By comparison, auto mechanics are only a small percentage of the tool-buying community.  Yet, their services are critically important to the rest of us, and the tools they use, though used only by the mechanics and purchased in small numbers, are equally critical. Like the tools used by auto mechanics, ArcCatalog, though used intensively by a small percentage of the GIS community, is critically important for the critical work that they do and to the entire GIS community which depends on the GDBA's. ... View more

Absolutely, Clip-To-Shape needs to be added to Pro.  Stunned that it hasn't been added, yet.  Today, I wanted to try out Pro to work around the ArcMap problem where data frames are not transparent when exported to PDF.  The page I found said to use Pro to fix this problem.  HOWEVER, Pro can't do Clip-To-Shape, which my map requires, so it's not up to the task, either. Please, vote UP on this suggestion in ArcGIS Ideas: Clip map to shape in ArcGIS Pro arcgisprostillnotreadyforprimetime‌ ... View more

Thanks.  I don't know how ESRI goes about combining ideas into a single idea.  ESRI? ... View more

Robert, it's funny how long these things DO last sometimes.  An ESRI Tech Support tech told me in a phone call in about 2004 that ArcScene was being deprecated and I should move to ArcGlobe, and, yet,...ArcScene is still here.  ... View more

Thank you, Robert.  If these features that we need are coming, that's fine.  I can be patient and wait. I began using ESRI products in the mid '90's with ArcInfo 7 and ArcView 1.0.  I've seen the old ArcView and ArcGIS develop from shells into functional GIS products.  I would love to see Pro do that, too. It's when we see statements like "there is no plan for a Pro ArcCatalog", implying an opposition within the ESRI Pro dev team to the idea, that we get concerned. Is the Ideas site the best way to alert the ArcGIS Pro Dev Team to our needs or is there another place, too? ... View more

Robert.  Asking users to use ArcGIS Pro's project pane to manage all of their data is like asking Windows users to use MS Word's Browsing window to manage their files.  A browse window is no replacement for a full-featured data management app like ArcCatalog.  Just not going to happen. Who's idea WAS this?! ... View more

Aaron, I just added the same suggestion this afternoon.  It's already got 120 points: Add Stand Alone Data Catalog Like ArcCatalog to ArcGIS Pro ... View more

Done!  Here's the Idea.  It's already got a few UP-votes. Add Stand Alone Data Catalog Like ArcCatalog to ArcGIS Pro https://community.esri.com/ideas/12671-add-stand-alone-data-catalog-to-arcgis-pro-like-arccatalog Renato Salvaleon, please check out my ArcCatalog suggestion above and give it an up-vote, if you like it. ... View more

Thank you Robert.  I acknowledge that you're not on the development team and so won't be able to answer my comment below.  But if you could simply relay the following: I haven't seen anything like the easy data management functionality of ArcCatalog in ArcGIS Pro.  And the last thing I want to do is create a whole Pro project folder when all I want to do is look at some data that someone just sent me in an e-mail.  If the end-game really is the extinction of ArcMap 10-15 years from now, then Pro will have to have a replacement for ArcCatalog.  I'd like for someone at ESRI to admit to that and put it on the development schedule. ... View more

Jake and Rhonda.  The CURRENT info from ESRI appears to be that ArcGIS Pro WILL replace ArcMap/ArcCatalog and we should all start migrating.  Am I correct in this understanding?  This is a big problem for many of us who heavily use features of ArcMap/ArcCatalog that Pro simply doesn't have, such as ArcCatalog-style data management and many others. See this thread for more details: https://community.esri.com/ideas/1216 Go to pages 3-5 in the thread for the recent conversations. There's also a very good suggestion here: Create an ArcGIS Pro feature "road map" What information do you have for us on this? ... View more

Thanks, Duncan.  It's actually shapefiles that use DBase 4 format.  That's older than fGDB and pGDB!  As far as I can tell, fGDB is completely proprietary to ESRI, though I think ESRI has published the spec, as they did with the shapefile, so that it can become a common medium of transfer. ... View more