Latest Contributions by JonathanQuinn

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

Take a look at this blog, that describes in detail the benefits of the Make Query Table tool in creating a one to many join. ... View more

I was just taking a look at the Excel sheet you provided; when I bring it into ArcMap and look at the field headings, they show values that don't match up with the headings in Excel: [ATTACH=CONFIG]14237[/ATTACH] I copied and pasted all of the cells into a new .xslx file, saved it, and when I brought that table into ArcMap, the field headings came in correctly: [ATTACH=CONFIG]14238[/ATTACH] The points to line and buffer tools worked successfully using point data created from this Excel sheet.  Do your field headings look correct when looking at the attribute table from the Excel sheet? ... View more