Latest Contributions by DanaNolan

The grid labels don't seem to disappear when they are the full corner labels, e.g.3115000m N for a UTM full northing label. You can try fiddling around with corner labels if you can get to them for your coordinate system. ... View more

Your Trimble has built-in 3.5G modem connection capabilities. You can add a simcard. You need to then get a trial of a virtual base station network in your area and test connecting to see if you are going to get reliable service. These services usually have daily rates and other options. Not cheap. I don't see why you would need any special software. We went another route, so I haven't tried these methods. ... View more

The (Windows) Accessories/System Tools  Character Map tool also shows you all the symbols for your installed fonts. It also lets you copy and paste the one you choose, so you can skip the Alt- and character number step. ... View more

If anyone else encounters this problem, I am offering one (not very easy) solution. We had to migrate to a new server, and this problem disappeared when the files were copied. There is probably a less dramatic way to reset these version specifications, such as a command-line solution. ... View more

Thank you for your reply.   If you only want to register a single feature class as versioned, you will need to consider moving it out of the feature dataset. I definitely don't want to do that. I want to register almost all of the FDSs as versioned so I can edit this data. As for the first part of your post, I'm not sure if this is your production database or how much data you have, but might it be possible to create new feature datasets and feature classes... then load those feature classes with the data from your existing feature classes?  Otherwise, it may be cleaner to simply create a new geodatabase entirely... although more time consuming. This is a mapping/production dataset accessed by other groups. We really can't take it down easily or rename all the datasets, and right now I have little ArcSDE DBA support. There are about 100 feature classes, with about 20 of them loose and about 5 in feature datasets that do not have this problem. So how did this happen? way back in version 8.3? This seems like a bug that the database upgrade tools did not take care of this. ... View more

Agree wholeheartedly. This drives us all nuts. One thing that works around the problem is setting a bunch of bookmarks for the ArcPad map of where we will be going. That makes getting back to the right scale and location a little easier.  I tried saving a default scale with that map but that does not help at all. This still happens after marking a few points, even very close together. ... View more

You could also try using a legend with the legend limiter or doing a page definition query on the buildings layer. This only requires adding a field to buildings that links those records to your DD index layer driver field. ... View more

The popup tool only works in Data view. It also only works on the top record of a layer with the popup tool enabled (but I believe this is the default). ... View more

To do this while digitizing, you can use the Editor's Show Vertices window. It may not be real graceful to copy these values into a table, but you can see X and Y as you draw the polygons. ... View more

Yes. But you could save parts of your symbology/labeling in styles now, which helps somewhat. Another problem with selection layers is that if some of the data changes and no longer exists in the (hidden) selection list, the database will throw out errors when you open the layer. This happened to me in Oracle/SDE at a previous job. It seemed that the selection is based on ObjectIDs, and these do change or disappear as data changes.  It would be a good idea to have a refresh function that could automatically prune any problem results. ... View more

This is not available currently. The description field is quite different than the label field in a legend. This is similar to a 1/17/2012 idea and should be combined. ... View more