Latest Contributions by JonathanQuinn

By map tips, do you mean HTML Popups?  There are a couple different options you can use to display photos using the HTML Popup tool: You can create a field that will hold a path to the photos on your hard drive, or create a field that will hold the URL to photos that are hosted online and the use the As a URL option for the HTML Popup Properties:      1)  In the properties of the layer, go to the HTML Popup page.      2)  Select the As a URL radio button, adn then choose the field that stores the path to your photo, whether it be on your hard drive or the internet. If you have an ArcEditor or ArcInfo license, you can use the attachments functionality to add photos to individual features as attachments.      1)  If you're using a shapefile, export it to a feature class in a geodatabase first.  Right click on the feature class and go to Attachments > Create Attachments.      2)  Then, in an Edit session, go to the Attributes window, and use the Attachment Manager to add an attachment. You can also add a raster field to your attribute table, and then store your image in the attribute table, (the image will be stored in the geodatabase).      1)  Open the attribute table for the layer, and go to Add Field > Raster      2)  In an edit session, you'll now be able to click on the arrow for the value and choose which picture you want to upload. ... View more

You can try to save it as a python snippet, then create a python script tool out of it that can be run in the future.  Here are some instructions on script tool parameters to set parameters for your tool. At 10.1, you'll be able to interact with the results of geoprocessing tasks in more ways, for example by saving it as a geoprocessing package that can be used again or saving a result file from the result, (scroll to the bottom of the page to see the information), which can then be stored somewhere for later use. ... View more

For your first, question, you're going to want to use the clipping functions available in the Data Frame Properties, all the way down the page on the resource center link.  Go to View > Data Frame Properties > Data Frame > Clipping Options and set the clipping options to the data driven pages extent.  Then, if you'd like to exclude any layers from the clip, (for example you had imagery in your map and you wanted to display it beyond the boundaries of the index polygon while clipping everything else, you'd exclude the layer from the clip).  Set the border to a line to distinguish the polygon.  Can you upload a shapefile of your grid features? ... View more

You can add the Iterate Feature Classes iterator to the end of the model so that will iterate through each feature class and delete them.  Set a precondtion that the final output needs to be created before the iterator runs. ... View more

I assume you've checked for leading or trailing spaces in the field names?  Is the data available to share? ... View more

Take a look at the tiling options when printing a map about three quarters down the page.  You can choose to Tile Map to Printer Paper, which will print multiple sections of the map. ... View more

It appears as though one of the layers in the map has a transparency set on it; the grey polygon with red outline.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but this also may be the topmost layer in the table of contents.  If so, what's happening is that the layer with the transparency is being rasterized, (or turned into an image), and all layers beneath that layer with the transparency are being rasterized as well, resulting in one Image layer.  Take a look at this resource regarding exporting to pdfs, and why layers in the Table of Contents of ArcMap don't match the layers in the PDF. Finally, regarding the "Other" layers in the pdf, I'd suggest you play around with grouping all layout elements by selecting them, right clicking on one element, and clicking Group.  This will create one "Other" layer in the pdf. ... View more

Take a look at these two resources; this one is a blog that describes a model that populates a parameter with values in a field, and this one is the link to the model from the resource center geoprocessing gallery. ... View more

Have you considered using an in_memory workspace?  If you don't need the intermediate data that are created in the geodatabase, you can set the outputs of the data that would've been written to the geodatabase to an in-memory workspace, i.e. a clip could write to in_memory/clip_result.  This clip_result feature layer can then be used in later processes in the model, but after the model finishes, it will be deleted. One thing to note, if this is an intensive model, in that it creates a lot of intermediate data, you might be better off saving to the geodatabase.  In that case, take a look at the use of intermediate data to manage data that is not needed after the model completes. ... View more

This page should get you going.  If feature templates aren't created automatically when you first start an edit session, you'll have to create them manually.  At 10.1, they will always be created automatically. ... View more

Use the Add Join tool under Data Management Tools > Joins as many times as you need to perform the join, then use the Feature Class to Feature Class tool under Conversion Tools > To Geodatabase, (you can save it as a shapefile or feature class depending on the location), to create a layer that permanently contains those additional fields.  You'll probably have to use the Make Feature Layer tool if you're bringing in a shapefile or feature class as the input Layer Name or Table View. ... View more

Can you share your model so we can take a look at it?  I assume you're using an iterator, such as Iterate Feature Class, (which will work with shapefiles), and then building your model off of that.  What values are you calculating into the field? ... View more

Another method you can use in the future is the Select By Attribute function to select all records in that field that are null, then the Field Calculator to calculate a 0 for those records; if you have records selected in a field, the field calculator will only run on those records. ... View more

As tonylocandro mentioned, it is not recommended or advised to edit a dbf of a shapefile outside of ArcMap, as it is easy to corrupt data.  As for saving an Excel sheet as a dbf, in the Catalog window in ArcMap or ArcCatalog, expand the excel sheet to bring up the individual pages.  Then, right click on it > Export > to dBase (single).  This will allow you to save the Excel sheet as a dbf. ... View more