Latest Contributions by AlexeyTereshenkov

No problem, glad you got it! Sure, there are ways to give points to an answer or mark a post as an answer. Check the description here: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/forums-mvp/ ... View more

I see. There is one option that GIS Server administrator can enable - this one will prohibit storing local cache at the client side, but this is applicable to the cached services only. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//006600000180000000 I am not aware of any out-of-the-box functionality that would implement the behaviour you are looking for. When you add an image service or a map service to ArcMap, you cannot force the software to not allow a user to add this map service layer into a basemap group layer. ... View more

Larry, glad you got it! However, I am not exactly sure I understand what is your use case. Could you clarify what are you trying to achieve with the "to configure image services to disable/enable �??basemap layer�?? working remotely at workstation, if containing any image services"? Thanks! ... View more

Brad, have found myself recently that one can update the title of a map service within your ArcGIS Server connection in the Catalog window. Right-click the service and choose Item Description. Then update the Title. However, this seems not to update the Title found in the Document Info section you are interested in. This updates the Title found under http://server:6080/arcgis/rest/services/service/MapServer/info/iteminfo. If you could access this title instead, this would be a good workaround. ... View more

Sure. Basemap layer concept is a new concept and was introduced in ArcGIS 10. See, basemap layer is a group layer which is created in ArcMap Table of Contents and can contain some of layers you might have on your map. The basemap layer behaves much like a group layer in that you can drag content into it. However, as soon as you drag layers to the basemap group layer, they are cached locally internally by ArcMap in the scale you are currently viewing the map. When you are going to pan the map, ArcMap will draw this cached tiles instead of going into your geodatabase and retrieving the features. Thus basemap layers provide greater performance when working with many reference layers that are static and don't have to be edited. This functionality is available in ArcGIS Desktop and does not require ArcGIS Server license. The basemap layers can be only seen and accessed within ArcMap. Read more on how to create basemap layer in ArcMap. ArcGIS Server map service is a published map document (with some map layers) which makes it possible to access the map document and layers + data from many other clients including but not limited to web applications, ArcGIS clients, and non-Esri clients. You publish map services by using a special software - ArcGIS Server - which has to be licensed. The drawing engine and techniques used to cache the basemap layer locally within ArcMap are not supported within ArcGIS Server. To get the map service to work fast, one is supposed to create a map service with all the reference layers that will not change often and then publish this map document as a map service and then cache it. So when you read ArcGIS Server layer in the Help, Esri refers to a layer in ArcMap Table of Contents which you created by adding a map service / image service to the map document (probably by dragging in from the GIS Server connection in the Catalog window). ... View more

Larry, In 10.1, you will not be able to publish a map document containing a layer from ArcGIS Server (for instance, an image service layer). When running the Analyze tool in ArcMap, an error will be returned and the publishing process will not continue. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00sq0000001m000000 ... View more

Hanne, ESRI ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework is a piece of software that is available in version 10.0. You can read more about it here. This is a piece of software you are supposed to buy from a local Esri distributor in your country/state. You can obtain the current prices only from your local Esri distributor. The list of distributors can be seen here. You will be provided with the Esri customer account which you can use to login into Esri Customer Care portal where you can download all the software you have access to.  Another option of obtaining the software would be ask for a DVD or another media applicable which might be sent to your place. After downloading/receiving and installing the ESRI ArcGIS Server 10.0 for the Microsoft .NET Framework, you would need to license it either by contacting your local Esri distributor customer service or by using the Internet online or via e-mail. Information on what is available in each license level (there is a couple of them) can be found in the functionality matrix here. ... View more

Jamal, The SL Viewer has been designed to include a basemap and one or more operational layers. A web application built in the Viewer must contain at least one basemap. A workaround for you would be to publish a map document with an empty or switched off map layer, set the data frame background color to be just slightly different from what white, then publish this map as a service and finally cache this map service in those scales you plan to you use operational layers. This will result in having a basemap which will server just as a white background. If you don't want to do this, you might just go into the source code of the deployed application with a basemap and then just comment out the piece of code which adds the basemap (you comment out in xml file with the <!-- code -->. The Map.xml file you need to edit is located in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Apps\NoBasemap\Config folder by default. This will result in grey background in your application and on top of this grey background your operational layers will be drawn. I've added the Topographic basemap layer in Builder and thus my code looks like this: <!--<esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer ID="Topographic" Url="http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Terrain_Base/MapServer" MinimumResolution="0">   <esriExtensibility: Document.IsBaseMap>true</esriExtensibility: Document.IsBaseMap>   <esriMapping:LayerExtensions.LayerName>Terrain</esriMapping:LayerExtensions.LayerName>   <esriMapping:LayerExtensions.LayerInfos />   <esriExtensibility:LayerProperties.IsPopupEnabled>true</esriExtensibility:LayerProperties.IsPopupEnabled>   <esriExtensibility:LayerProperties.IsVisibleInMapContents>true</esriExtensibility:LayerProperties.IsVisibleInMapContents> </esri:ArcGISTiledMapServiceLayer> --> ... View more

Tracy, can't comment anything on that right now, but I had some issues with printing a legend with the PrintingTools service in 10.1 myself and all the problems I had were solved with the SP1. Have you installed the one? ... View more

Jamal, If you refer to a "published mxd" meaning an ArcGIS Server map service (a service you create by publishing a map document in ArcMap), then you are correct. It will take more time to draw a map service in ArcMap than the original .mxd map document it has been based on. The matter is that there is a longer chain of actions being involved: ArcMap needs to ask ArcGIS Server to retrieve a certain area of the map service, ArcGIS Server goes to the file geodatabase, retrieves the data needed in the extent, compiles a raster image and sends it back to ArcMap. The extra time required to get the map documents served drawn in ArcMap comparing to drawing the original vector data is something one has to accept. The only exception I can think of when the published map service will actually draw faster in ArcMap then the original .mxd document, is when the original map document contains lots of advanced symbology and multiple layers and the map service has been cached. In this case, it might go faster to get the cache tiles from the server rather than draw "raw" vector data from a geodatabase. As a common practice, you don't need to access the map service in ArcMap if you have access to the original map document. The whole point of publishing a map document as a map service is to make the map information accessible to non-ArcMap users or users without access to the original map document. ... View more

Stephanie, you should probably be able to achieve this by using the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory API with a scripting language - http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Scripting_with_the_ArcGIS_Server_Administrator_API/0154000005r1000000/. ... View more

Stephanie, I haven't set up the Oracle Spatial connection with the AGS 10.1 yet, but would you try to check this help page to see if this can help? http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Registering_an_Oracle_database_with_the_server/015400000617000000/ ... View more

In 10.1, there is no instance concept. The closest you can get is to use the Web Adaptor component which can be installed separately. It will provide an entry point for your GIS Server requests. You can have multiple web adaptors installed on the same machine (i.e., web site) or on different web sites on the same machine. By providing different names to the web adaptor you give a unique way to access the system. Thereafter, you may secure your services much like you could with the 10.0 and earlier. Finally, if you want to limit access to certain services on certain machines, you might take a look at the clusters - another new concept in 10.1. Cluster is a way to group machines in a group on which certain GIS services will run. ... View more

Adam, are you sure it is outlined in the http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/install-guides/arcgis-server-web-adaptor-iis/10.1/index.html#/Windows_Server_2012_IIS_requirements/01nz00000015000000/? ... View more