Latest Contributions by DanaNolan

The number I was looking for was NIM084360 from 9/2012; perhaps it is the same thing? My access to this forum at work is horrifically slow, so I would not have looked for another bug. Hi Dana, Are you referring to NIM071576: The Feature to Point tool creates a different center point when the option to constrain the point to the inside of the polygon is enabled, but the center point is actually inside the polygon. ? If so, it shows as having been fixed in the next release. Best, Melanie S. ... View more

This is very common and is probably related to the printing engine, transparency, and just too much information/layers for the buggy interface ArcView uses to print. (Labels also disappear sometimes on multiframe maps.) You can try fiddling with the resolution by making the output-page size bigger or by reducing the resolution of the export. You could also try exporting to a lossless format like TIFF and creating a PDF from that if you have a PDF creator like full Acrobat, but this doesn't work very often. The last resort is exporting parts of the map separately and reassembling them in Illustrator or similar tool, if you have access to one. ... View more

It looks like you need at least one more field as a key. MUID is a unit identifier, while chorizons are more detailed, so this is a many-to-one relationship to MUID. The likely candidate key fields are component and chorizon. I haven't done any work with the newer format soils data, but see especially pg2-35 in this document: ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NSSC/guidebook/Using_the_SSURGO_Template.doc for an Access example. ... View more

Can you tell me how I would vew the source code of the html popup?  I can view it in the KML file and do not find anything wrong (other than the field aliases being truncated). Rob This is sounding like a little ESRI bug when generating or transforming the XML; XSL does have a replace function that could take out one letter, I suspect because you have spaces in your aliases. To look at the popup source: View Source will only show you the XML. I use Firefox with Firebug (this is a miniapp that can be added to Firefox) to view the hidden HTML. This requires navigating away to a new tab from the XML page and then back after opening it in Firefox. Right now, this isn't working for me because Firefox is not playing nice today, but it was when I was developing my XSL. ... View more

Are you talking about the field labels that come from the aliases (FieldName) or the content (FieldValue) of one of your fields? Which HTML popup XSL are you using? If it is custom code, there could be an error in it. Do a View Source on the popups with problems to see if the XML has the contents you would expect for that record. ... View more

Yes. That is essentially what the HTML popup is (though you have to struggle with XSL). ... View more

This sound like a COUNT problem. Within each group field, you want the singles. Something like this, or a subquery (not sure if having is supported in ESRI, but subqueries sometimes are). If not, you can get a count using the Summary Statistics, and select from that table. SELECT department, COUNT(*) as "Number of employees" FROM employees GROUP BY department HAVING COUNT(*) = 1; ... View more

I need to do this also. Is there code out there to use existing symbol class names (labels) or descriptions? I don't mind adding in the categories for the styles manually. TIA ... View more

You can also experiment with minimum mapping units (lengths), placing the labels at different offsets from the beginning of the line to keep short segments from being labeled (also looks a bit better than labeling anywhere that fits). Offsetting the label from the road a bit may keep crooked streets from labeling "crookedly" or at all. I would also exclude ramps and unnamed streets and such from labeling, if you have fields that could help you do that. In general, it is a lot easier to spend the time getting 90% of the labels you want by tweaking Maplex once, then adding the few most important ones than it is to get into adding, deleting, and moving annotation. You can always force the most important segments to label by putting them in their own labeling class with a high priority and buffer. ... View more

Using 9.3.1 and a 9900 record input, I have tried: input from SDE Input from Personal GDB input from dbf table Output to table (dbf) Output to Personal GDB table Output to SDE table Also, I have tried using different input and pivot fields, though of course, this is rather pointless as I need to use certain ones. I always got the 210 error, except once (I believe one PGDB to PGDB try) when I got no error but no file.:p However, I also recently discovered that my license was set to ArcView rather than ArcInfo by mistake. With ArcInfo, or maybe just because it's Thursday, it worked today on my second try...just as I was about to agree with you that it never ever works. I still don't believe this should be this difficult. I wanted to avoid using Excel to do this. ... View more

Everything but layer order (a property of the data frame) is already saved with the layer. But I think what your asking for is some better way to have an archetype layer with instances that are slightly different, and that these state differences are easily documentable. For example, a particular class of labels is usally turned off for small-scale mapping or for presentations. ... View more

Yes. The text and sizes of the boxes in draft mode is so far off from the actual size, the current draft mode is only partly useful.  Moving around a giant scale bar box doesn't make sense when the finished map's bar will be small. ... View more

Although I do agree with your suggestion, you can use SQL comments in the DQ. The separate box you are suggesting would have to be kept up to date with the SQL, otherwise it would do more harm than good. Another consideration is who looks at the DQ tab. If the DQ is permanent, it should probably be commented in the General tab of the layer. I do this for layers. ... View more

There were some requests, either on the old forums or the ESRI Ideas site, for this. Not sure of the status. I agree that this causes problems; for instance, some Maplex labeling properties entered with points sometimes move the labels to strange locations in Standard because of unit translation problems. I have been creating layers for other people to use, and I have had to try to work around this problem. Note: I still use 9.2 because I am working for that impoverished big state in the West. The labeling engine is a property of the data frame, not the layer, which means it doesn't save with the layer. If you have the wrong labeler set, then add layers, you have to remove them and readd them to undo any translation problems. So, you could figure out how to do a script thad adds a new data frame, sets its labeling engine, and copies any existing layers to the new data frame. But, I don't think we should have to do this kind of thing. ... View more