Latest Contributions by DavidWheelock

The 2010 NAIP is still not in the ESRI World Imagery layer.  Does ESRI still plan to do this update by the end of 2011? ... View more

I've been wanting this for YEARS.  ... View more

I, too, am running a workhorse 64Bit 16GB computer. My ArcMap 10 crashes on startup 10% to 50% of the time.  It crashed during an ESRI staff-performed demo during our local user user group user group meeting 3 days ago.  This does not happen at 9.3.1, which remains much more stable.  10 broke it and it's still not fixed. I can't believe ESRI is getting all tingly about all the new features in 10.1 when they still haven't gotten 10 stable yet. Please, ESRI, give us a MAJOR QA/QC release on 10.0 and get it stable before moving forward with 10.1. ... View more

LIVE Online Focus Groups for New Features Change can be good, but change can also be bad. How about this?  ESRI should have LIVE Online Focus Groups for new features while they're still in the proposal/design/development phase.  Advertise it like the LIVE webinars.  Let the actual developers demonstrate a new feature and allow users to comment and make suggestions, exactly like the webinars. Give the users a Boo!  button and a Yea! button, ;), or a scale to rate the new feature. This sounds like an exciting idea! I'll bet it would have avoided the whole table-display fiasco!  :) ... View more

To Mark Hoyland, et. al., Google Analytics fails to report a great deal of the traffic on my Flex Viewer site. I've had the Google Analytics HTML snippet installed in my Flex Viewer site for more than a year.  I have it installed in the Index.html file, but not in the MXML or AS3 files, yet.  It shows many visits and shows the time of some visits as lasting many minutes. However, quite often, when I check the reverse-proxy server logs, I can see visits of several minutes duration or longer which don't show up at all in the Google Analytics reports or which show up as a 0 or 1 second visit. Questions: Would installing the MXML or AS3 code in the my viewer cause these mystery visits to show up properly? Is there some sort of deliberate or unintentional blocking by some networks or users that occurs that prevents activity from being reported to Google Analytics? Please respond with any information you have to offer. Best regards, David Wheelock Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry ... View more

I will definitely be implementing the Google Analytics Flex Code Snippets in the near future. I've been using the code in the HTML wrapper for some time and have been very frustrated that much/most of the apparent traffic on my site is not caught by Google Analytics!  I know this because the Reverse Proxy log shows many long visits that don't even appear in the Google Analytics logs or which show up as a visit of 00:00:01, when the RP logs show them on the site for 5-10 minutes. At this point I'm just trying to find out how much time people are spending on the site. QUESTIONS: Is there a "best place" to put the Flex code snippet to catch most of the action or do I need to put it in all of the widgets, too?  Can I just put it in the Config.xml to get most things? I'm still at Flex View 1.3.  Is that a problem? Thanks, David ... View more

The 2010 NAIP started becoming available in July 2010 for Oklahoma.  However, I'm not seeing any of that on the ArcGIS Online World Imagery service.  Does ESRI have a time frame for when this will be updated with the 2010 NAIP? Thanks! ... View more

Thanks.  Would increasing the number of instances help? ... View more

Thanks Robert. I'm at 9.3.1.  I've had so MANY problems with Desktop 10 that I had no plans to go to 10 on the Server.  Is ArcGIS Server 10 stable without a service pack?  Are you using it? I thought you of all people would know of a programmatic solution to this.  I haven't seen this problem on your Flex site.  Have you had to deal with this at any point? ... View more

Thanks Josh. Yes, sometimes they all appear on the first try, probably soon after someone else was on the site so the services are refreshed and haven't been put to sleep by the system.  The problem probably occurs after the services are asleep and have to be restarted, which causes a delay.  Then the Flex Viewer fails to wait long enough for the service to respond and apparently writes it off and ignores it when it arrives.  This forces the user to close the browser window and restart the browser to see all of the services, now refreshed.  On the second try all the services are almost always there. What I want is a way to just tell the Flex viewer to WAIT for the service to respond. David ... View more

Here's my app: http://maps.oda.state.ok.us/pslv The config file is attached. David Wheelock    Application Specialist    [email protected] Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry 2800 North Lincoln Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4298 Phone: (405) 522-5477 FAX: (405) 522-3590 http://www.oda.state.ok.us   "We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others." Pascal ... View more

Thanks.  I've got multiple services involved.  And it's actually whole services that don't appear, rather than layers within a service.  I might have left that impression.  Either all the layers in a service show up or the whole service is just missing. All the services are needed for one thing or another, so it's difficult to decide which one to leave out.  I know that the .NET viewer can handle this, why can't Flex handle it? Is there a way to make Flex wait on the tardy services? ... View more

"Data dumpster"  HOW TRUE!  🙂 ESRI:  Please combine these into a single topic. This idea is also here: https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=0873000000088oUAAQ and here: https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=0873000000087Qz&mc=0 Let's promote this!  I need it today.  Forcing you to store all of your data at the "root" level is just senseless.  I was told by ESRI that this was coming, but I haven't seen it yet.  Is it there in 10? I, too, was told by ESRI staff NOT to use feature datasets for this purpose, because of the issues described below.  I do it anyway, but lately I've been running into the locking issue.  GRRrrrrr..... ... View more