Latest Contributions by WesMiller

Not sure if this will work for you Aggregate Points—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

Do you have an identifier to identify the exterior walls? Feature To Polygon—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

You could set the script up to take a parameter GetParameterAsText—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop Running custom (model or script) tools in the background—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

How is your data set up? Could you provide an example? Will this tool work for you XY To Line—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

Change this line cityName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) to cityName = 'A Known City Name' ... View more

See this thread Calculating angles using ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 ... View more

In your original script this line arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management("Cities", "NEW_SELECTION", " CITY_NAME = 'cityName' ") would have run successful without selecting anything unless you have a value of 'cityName' This line cityName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) is used for an external variable most common would be model builder ... View more

import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") #set the dataframe df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Layers")[0] cities = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "Cities")[0] #Establish variables cityName = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) #Set variable as the parameter for the city search arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(cities, "NEW_SELECTION", "CITY_NAME = '{}' ".format(cityName)) df.zoomToSelectedFeatures() arcpy.RefreshActiveView() ... View more

If you are using mail merge it will hurt nothing to leave the OID field in place. ... View more

Defining fields in tables—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

Just got this today have a look. Esri Training | Extend ArcGIS Pro Functionality with Add-Ins ... View more

Have you looked at this tool Make Query Layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop ... View more

That would be a nice addition. ... View more

You could store the connection file with your script and get the home path of the script see below. That would take away the ability to use it somewhere else. hmpath = os.path.realpath(__file__) h,t = os.path.split(hmpath) ... View more

Just as a thought you could put the connection file in the same directory as the .lyr files that your users already have access. ... View more