Latest Contributions by JonathanQuinn

I'd suggest you look into the Simply Polygon tool as well.  There are options for specifying how far away vertices need to be from each other to remove them.  Make a backup of your data if you play with this tool, as it will change the geometry of your original data. ... View more

There are two bugs logged for ArcGIS Server 10.1 in regards to the performance when listing/accessing services: ArcCatalog: NIM086874 ArcGIS Server Manager: NIM085259 The cause of both bugs is the requests that are made to validate the services.  Currently, 10.1 SP1 resolved NIM085259 as there is one new admin tool to validate services.  ArcCatalog, however, calls for 4 requests to the service, which causes the delay you're seeing.  I don't know the timeline for a resolution, but that's the cause for the performance issue.  You can use Fiddler to watch these requests go through: Fiddler: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/version.asp ... View more

No, I believe that Bing Maps should be authorized for anyone who accesses them, if the key is created for a public website. ... View more

Hm, sounds like a spatial index problem.  Are you using 10.1?  Can you right click on the feature class, go to Properties > Indexes tab > and click Delete to delete the spatial index, then Create to create a new one? ... View more

Use the Points to Line tool to generate lines between the points.  Use a sort field to order the lines as they're created.  You can then create a field and use the Calculate Geometry function to calculate the length of all line features. ... View more

Can you open the attribute table and see the feature you just created?  Do you have any definition queries on?  Can you add the data to a new map and see if the new features show up? ... View more

If you name your web adaptor arcgis, then it doesn't matter what you do; it'll resolve to the same location.  If you don't though, then including the port or not including the port should be the main difference: For example, if my default instance name is arcgis and I configure the web adaptor with arcgiswebadaptor: http://<servername>:6080/arcgis/rest will work. http://<servername>:6080/arcgiswebadaptor/rest will not work. http://<servername>/arcgis/rest will not work. http://<servername>/arcgiswebadaptor/rest will work. ... View more

You'll want to create an Windows Live ID first.  Once you do that, you'll be able to create a key.  It's free, unless you're using more than 125,000 transactions within a 12 month period.  Here's some more information that may be useful on transaction information and usage limits. ... View more

Going off on the posts above, setting the minimum number of instances on services that aren't used as often will definitely conserve some resources on your server, as a SOC processes won't spin up until it's requested.  The other thing you can do is look into using low isolation for some services.  This will allow multiple requests to use one SOC process so it doesn't spin up another instance when the service is requested.  The only drawback is if two users are using the same SOC process, if that process crashes, both users will be affected.  With high isolation, both users will have a dedicated SOC process. ... View more

So the folder is already registered with the server, but it still asks to copy data?  Is the data located on the same server as ArcGIS Server?  Are you using a local or domain ArcGIS Server account? ... View more

In your model, you've set it up correctly it seems like, but you're not doing anything with the results, so it overwrites them each time.  Look into using a model within a model and the Collect Values tool to gather the results from the iteration, and merge or append them or do whatever else you need to.  The section called "Advanced use of model iterators" should point you in the right direction. ... View more

No, you can't.  CAD file types are not supported in ArcGIS for Server 10.1.  Please see this resource for more information on what's supported. ... View more

You're definitely correct in moving the SDE connection file to an absolute path, (C:\Temp), rather than keep it in the Database Connections location.  ArcGIS Server doesn't know what "Database Connections" are, that's something ArcMap resolves as a path.   When you register an SDE database, the location of the database doesn't matter, so it's not going to be a big deal if the SDE connection file gets moved to the arcgisinput folder.  Currently, there's a bug that publishing a geoprocessing service using a python script jumbles up the published script: NIM084619 So you're saying that publishing the script attempts to move the SDE feature classes to a file geodatabase in the arcgisinput folder? ... View more