Latest Contributions by AndrewQuee

We're evaluating Pro as a possible future case as we begin plans to migrate our MOTS platform from 10.3.1 to 10.6. What I've found it that it's very much the same as going from say, Office 97 to the more modern ribbon system, or from Windows 7 to Windows 10.  They do do pretty the exact same thing, but in their own way.  "Same, same, but different." I will admit that some colourful language has eventuated (it seems Pro wants you to track a process path, not give you the whole shebang in litter of toolbars and buttons, and who thought it would be a good idea to bury the explore tool so you can't navigate once a tool is active?) but as with the new Office and Windows once you get used to how it works, it actually makes more sense and is more intuitive and easy to learn. We're recommending to clients thinking about taking up GIS that unless they need functionality in Desktop right now, they should consider starting with Pro so they're only learning one system, not two. The one lining here is that Esri is taking on board comments and suggestions for improvements as Pro evolve.  Good luck getting anything major changed in Desktop, it's pretty much set in stone now.  Some ArcGIS Ideas have been kicking around for 10+ years in one form or another. ... View more

Thanks for the demo, that illustrates it well.  I didn't mention it but there's also a great demo in the documentation for the Navigator.  I left it as an Easter egg for enquiring minds. I'd go a step further and say there should be  keyboard shortcut for this, e.g.  ESC stop drawing, halts your process and returns your active tool back to explore/navigate. When I came across this the other day I was dumbfounded that to be able to move my map while using a tool I had to google search, come back through this forum then modify Pro so that I could do a basic action that has been a part of Desktop (and every GIS application) for decades. ... View more

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, there is an undocumented feature where you can also press wheel down (mouse button 3) to drag-pan a 2D map, and wheel up/down zooms in/out just like in Desktop.  The bonus here is that when you release the wheel your former tool will reactivate.   Much quicker and easier than messing around with fiddly mode buttons in the taskbar.   Alternatively, if you are a visual interface person, using Pro on a tablet with no mouse or do not have a scroll wheel, you can enable the Navigator widget in 2D mapping.  This allows you to do the same thing but left-click/touch dragging the navigator pans the map.  The disadvantage is that it either pans or zooms by toggling the Navigator to/from full control, you can't do both at the same time.   edit: One thing to note is that if you use the shortcut explorer tool a lot (as I do) you do not have access to the drop arrow which changes identify modes.  If the explorer tool is not querying layers 'underneath, verify that you have the right option selected. ... View more

You can make it bigger any time you like (Windows 10, but works the same in Windows 7.  Even XP had this feature, kind of) Only scalable applications can use this many legacy ones don't but I assume that Pro can do it. ... View more

Fair call, I'm still learning .NET so I still tend to think along hacky VB6/VBA lines. That's probably a more elegant solution and I have looked at .NET logging objects before.  I didn't mention it because I must have gone a step too far in the docs and the next thing I knew I was knee-deep in ASP, Windows Server and enterprise web server territory looking at listeners and instrumenters, which is imho waaay overkill for looking at a simple log file. If anyone has a simple class or some sample code for implementing this, that'd be most appreciated. ... View more

You should be able to use https://my.esri.com/#/downloads and get all the different files for each installation available under your licence agreement. Under 'My Organizations' choose 'Downloads', then a product then scroll down to 'Developer Tools' (oops, I chose Desktop 10.5.1, but 10.4.1 is just underneath it) If you cannot see the options above, contact your licence administrator to enable them for you, or to download them on your behalf. ... View more

It depends how far you want to go with your presentation. You could create a new form with multiline scrolling text control on it and dump the text in there.  This gives you the most control over presentation but is the most development work/maintenance, and allows you to integrate this with your application. Or if you just want to see the log and don't care about the trimmings, you could simply get the system to use the default application to  open the qualified path and filename with  Process.Start(FILE_NAME) Open a txt file when a button clicked in VB.NET - Stack Overflow  For me this opens the log file with Notepad++, which gives me all the power I could need for most log files.  If your log file is in the gigabytes-realm of size, you will need a more heavy-duty solution. ... View more

Follow-up to above, here is the response from Esri AU support to specific questions I asked. Thank you for contacting Esri Australia - Technical Support. My name is A. and I will be assisting with your case. Below are responses to your questions. 1) Are there fixes in later versions/patches of Data Reviewer that are not available to 10.3.1? Yes each update of ArcGIS Desktop, will include fixes to bugs identified in earlier versions.  Below is an overview of bugs that have been address after 10.3.1. ArcGIS Desktop 10.4 & 10.4.1:  BUG-000083979, BUG-000087652, BUG-000090826, BUG-000092615, NIM103890, NIM104780, TFS81021, TFS68388, TFS81362, TFS81392, TFS81397, TFS813969. ArcGIS Desktop 10.5 and 10.5.1 BUG-000104583, TFS91111, TFS92797, TFS95294, TFS95471, TFS95786, TFS97213, TFS98461. They can also be source online here. 2) If there are subsequent fixes such as TFS100368 for Data Reviewer that are not available at 10.3.1, is there a plan to do this?  (i.e. future patch 8 and so forth) No, Esri typically will provide bug fixes for the current version of ArcGIS Desktop. If a bug has been identified at a particular version and is version specific, for example only occurs at 10.3.1, Esri may address fixing the bug at the version it is occurring. This particular bug TFS100368 impacted a number of customers, Esri released a patch specific to address this error and another bug at 10.5. The next release of ArcGIS Desktop - 10.5.1 will automatically include the fixes for bug identified in previous versions. Esri doesn't generally release a patch for older version of ArcGIS Desktop if a bug has been addressed in a newer release. 3) Please confirm whether or not “cumulative maintenance patch for ArcGIS Data Reviewer 10.5” includes all fixes for all versions of ArcGIS Data Reviewer Yes, installing ArcGIS Desktop 10.5, then the cumulative maintenance patch for ArcGIS Data Reviewer 10.5 will address all bugs fixed in previous versions. (10.4.1, 10.4). Kind regards, A. ... View more

Also see https://community.esri.com/ideas/1293  ... View more

I can't speak to 10.4 as we are at 10.3.1 for production, but in our recent testing and implementation of versioned editing using data reviewer for QA, we noticed that installing the 10.3.1 Data Reviewer patch (link is patch 7, we are at patch 5) resulted in a potential 50% speed increase over the base installation.  I'm not sure how many of these improvements are in 10.4, probably most/all of them. Also, be aware that the configuration of data reviewer is critical to performance.  At one point we were versioning the internal DR tables themselves (as recommended in the documentation) but this caused extra slow downs and database headaches.  We are also using operating system authentication with editor tracking to manage privileges and record an audit trail of changes, some ways of doing this are more efficient than others. 'Suboptimal'  misconfiguration, stack of technologies or check definitions can add delays at every level of the process, leading to extremely frustrating performance.  (e.g. Vertex duplication check = extreme thrashing) I believe we have gone from doing whole of dataset QA that took tens of hours in R&D to tens of minutes in production while also doubling the number of checks done. ... View more

Hi Stacy, we're looking at a very similar job to your original post.  Could you please post your sample code?  If it's too long Pastebin.com  would be fine. ... View more

I know there are many changes that need to happen before Pro is a 'fully featured' replacement for Desktop.  Just off the bat, in our business as data managers, and even in some of our users processing workflows, it is essential to use ArcCatalog side-by-side, or standalone.  Until add standalone data catalog is actioned, we will not be migrating to Pro. As a government mapping and data warehousing agency, until Pro provides the full range of cartographic and raster management tools that Desktop does, as well as a fully realised development environment for the customisations we require to maintain productivity levels, we have no intention to migrate to Pro. As an indication, we have one Pro install which we use as a toy to see what Esri is up to from time to time.  Then we go back to Desktop to get work done. ... View more

That is good yes, but unfortunately I'm developing for 10.3.1, so need to dig a little deeper than /latest.  There's actually no way to get back to earlier versions from that page, and almost nothing links forwards.  Documentation | ArcGIS for Developers  leads to latest and nothing else, so does ArcGIS Resources, Help for Previous Versions | ArcGIS Resources  is dead.  I can get the 10.3 application help, but not arcobjects. Hence, why I have to use searches on a bookmarked URL and refine back from "latest" to "10.3" as posted (the examples above still don't work, 2 months later) or potter around the index. The closest workaround I've found is to ditch the entire webhelp, install the SDK help locally, configure Visual Studio to use only that and never go out to the web, just so I can actually search the manual.  Bonus F1 to jump straight to the help. ... View more