Latest Contributions by MattWilkie3

‎02-11-2019

We're going to be living with concurrent ArcMap and ArcPro projects for many years. It would be good to have best practice or at least suggested folder structure(s) for projects that want or need to use both of these products at the same time on the same data and maps. What have you tried already, and from that experience what works and what doesn't? Keep in mind there's never going to be a realized ideal. Meaning: please don't turn into a litany of complaint thread. Both products have deep assumptions about folder structure that can't be easily changed. Recognizing that starting point, what practical things can we do to make using the two together somewhat more efficient and productive? (That said, please do feel free to link to other places, Ideas for instance, where those itchy things have potential for change.)

‎02-11-2019

I don't think disabling the home folder will really help those of us who use corporate shared/project structures.The concept is baked in to too many places within ArcMap and Pro's assumptions. What I think could work is if ANY folder could be marked and saved as Home for that project, the same way as can be done for default geodatabase now. I do despise that we can't use "go up" to next folder in tree from the Home folder. Not being able to do so creates so much extra clicking and navigating. We should always be able to navigate the file system. There's is already a button to go to Folder Connections.

‎02-04-2019

This idea split from ArcGIS Pro: Provide an option that requires all edit sessions to be manually started as it is a distinct idea. Every edit session should be started deliberately, intentionally, willfully and knowingly, especially now that Pro can simultaneously edit two or more different workspaces (e.g., file GDB and SDE). Many of us have decades of ArcMap's "manual start edit session" paradigm in our operating assumptions. Although a bit inconvenient, the ArcMap approach is less dangerous and less error-prone. A significant number of new people could also stumble into this pit-fall.

‎01-28-2019

Thank you

‎01-24-2019

The release notes for Pro 2.3 and pre-release for ArcMap 10.7 say "You can no longer create user-schema geodatabases in Oracle". Where can I find more information on this? I'd like to get the back story and understand why. I don't know that I care a great deal however there will probably be "it makes for better information management" principle involved somewhere and I should probably know what that is. Thanks.

‎01-24-2019

Yes it's available in My Esri downloads now. Thanks for the follow up. Pro won't let me update in place, which is inconvenient for me but that's okay because I'd rather download once and have our users install from a local server. (We're bandwidth constrained.)

‎01-24-2019

ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop and says 2.3 is released but it's not available in My Esri downloads. Is there somewhere else to get it?

‎01-15-2019

A further limitation of Selections that Def Queries don't have is that many operations ignore the features/rows in "Selection from layer xxxxx" and read straight from the source table anyway.

‎01-10-2019

We want to be able to stop ArcGIS Pro from checking for updates on startup (because it adds slowness to a process that already lags) BUT still allow the person to manually check for and apply updates when they want to. The current method described in the KB conflates these distinct operations into a single setting (FAQ: Is it possible to block update notifications in ArcGIS Pro, so that end-users are unable to install updates from wi… ) and when set disallows people to upgrade at all.

‎01-10-2019

I didn't find an accessible solution for v10 arcpy, however in Pro it's available out of the box as arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject().defaultGeodatabase. See ArcGISProject—ArcPy | ArcGIS Desktop and file geodatabase - Setting default gdb from ArcPy? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange for more

‎01-09-2019

A thousand times YES! (and please also make sure to include a keyboard shortcut to get to it. Office uses [Alt-Q].)

‎12-20-2018

See arcgis desktop - Exporting ESRI image Tiles designed for Export? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange Nutshell summary: by exploring the REST API service page and it's sub-pages, especially Export Tiles Estimate, you can test and refine input parameters until you get usable results.

‎12-18-2018

Personal Geodatabase a.k.a. Esri specific tables inside an Access MDB container is clearly a dead end road, or a cul-de-sac at the very least. There are reasons both inside and outside the Arcgis ecosystem for this. External factors include: MS has deprecated .mdb in favour of .accdb; the 2GB file size limit; mdb requires distinct SQL syntax and reserved keywords. I'll leave it to someone else to enumerate the Esri reasons. I submit that a fruitful path forward would be to embrace SQLite as the future Personal Geodatabase format: SQLite db are single files that can be moved and hosted anywhere. There's no chance of breakage because of forgetting a side car file somewhere along the way. ArcGIS already has baseline support for the format via Support for OGC GeoPackage specification in ArcGIS. SQLite is used under the hood by ArcGIS Collector already anyway - How To: Access offline edits from Collector for ArcGIS directly from an Android or iOS device The SQL Features That SQLite Does Not Implement list is mercifully short There are ODBC drivers which would allow clients to continue to use MS Access as a front end. In the event there are limitations of this route: There is an actively maintained on all major platforms full featured client in DB Browser for SQLite (there are other clients also) SQLite is as about as future proofed as one can get. It has official authors' commitment through to year 2050 and is recommended by US Library of Congress for digital preservation. See Long Term Support. SQLite is the most rigorously tested application/library/format I've ever read up on, with 711 times as much test code and scripts as feature code. See How SQLite Is Tested. Note: this suggestion is different from Add support for SQLite/SpatiaLite and PostGIS geodatabases (which I encourage people to vote for and comment on). What I'm proposing here is "make SQLite-gdb a first class citizen on par with File-GDB", which is more than just "supports", which Esri can argue it does already. (For me 'no editing' means 'not supported').

‎12-12-2018

Still present in 10.6, though it's fixed in ArcPro. I've summarized your and Tim Haverland‌ diagnosis and solution at arcmap - Make Query Layer - where are the results? - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange . Thank you for getting me on the right track!

‎11-14-2018

Thank you for the rownum work-around Ryan. I've added it to the conversation at arcgis desktop - Converting double field to integer in database view so ArcMap query layer can use field as unique ident…

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Latest Contributions by MattWilkie3

Folder structure for shared Pro and Map projects

Re: Disable home folder and default geodatabase

Option "Make newly added layers editable by default" should be "opt-in" (the default as "disabled")

Re: You can no longer create user-schema geodatabases in Oracle

You can no longer create user-schema geodatabases in Oracle

Re: Pro 2.3 released but where to download?

Pro 2.3 released but where to download?

Re: Hide or display records selected

Pro: Make "allow update" and "update check on startup" distinct settings

Re: Changing the default geodatabase

Re: Add search to ArcGIS Pro ribbon

Re: How to export World Imagery WMS tiles?

Re: Enable ArcGIS Pro to access ESRI Personal Geodatabases

Re: Can't get reference to result from MakeQueryLayer_management

Re: Setting OID Fields in Make Query Layer Function

You can no longer create user-schema geodatabases ...

Re: Do you use a drawing tablet with ArcGIS Pro?

Re: Pro Concurrent Use licenses, any drawbacks?

Pro Concurrent Use licenses, any drawbacks?

Re: Making an Auto-Focusing Real-Time Dashboard