Latest Contributions by AdrianMarsden

Hi We have a third party application with data stored in Oracle.  There is a table with text fields for east/north. We want to create an Event Layer.  We cannot modify the table and as it is 3rd party don't want to add an Oracle view as it may mess with the support. So, anyone any ideas if it is possible to cast/convert text fields within Desktop to create an event theme? Cheers ACM ... View more

Hi I've found lots of scripts that take a MXD and publish it, or take a sddraft file.  However these all seem to create a new service with the default settings.  I really need a script that replicates the "Share As>>Map Service>>Overwrite and existing service" menu options in Desktop. It would be nice if at the end of this Wizard there was an option to save what you have as a sddraft, as at that point it has picked up all the settings from the existing service. Have I missed something here? Cheers ACM ... View more

Hi I have an awful web app that is mainly legacy code I wrote many years back, but functions and the users use it all the time WE're moving stuff around and at the moment the desktops are at a different site to the data so I'm hitting latency issues. I have this code             //return the layer descriptions and © text into arrays - we use this later for the info dialog to generate hyperlinks and © text             dojo.forEach(dynamicMapServiceLayer.layerInfos, function (layer) {                 var requestHandle = esri.request({                     url: mapservice2 + "/" + layer.id + "?f=json",                     handleAs: "json",                     load: function (data) {                         LayerAttach[layer.id] = data.hasAttachments;                         console.debug(dynamicMapServiceLayer.layerInfos[layer.id])                         LayerDescriptions[layer.id] = data.description;                                             dynamicMapServiceLayer.layerInfos[layer.id].copyrightText = data.copyrightText;                                             },                 }, { useProxy: true });             });‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Which I have on the Onload event of the main dynamic map  It reads extra stuff from the rest data of the service that I use to create hyperlinks (as good old ArcIMS did)  All worked fine until this latency hit.  I have a sub-site that on start up takes a feature passed in the URL, finds the extent of that feature, then passes that into a ID task on the main service.  The output uses the arrays/data produced in the above routine.  With the latency I am getting results of the ID task back before I get all the info from the above code. I have vague knowledge of defers and the like so surely I should add to each loop above a wait until the data is back until stepping forward, or a wait until everything is back Any advice welcomed. In the short term I've given those users who use this sub-site Chrome, which can handle things faster and not get caught up. Cheers ACM ... View more

Hi I've got a web app that could potentially be used by three geographical bodies. The app features an address search, that hits a service with a single layer that has address records in. When it is one body it is easy, the address service layer has features just for that body. When it is one of three bodies I'd like to a) detect where they are coming from to keep a single code base - I'm sure I can do this by IP address range, login name or something then b) have the address layer to be used in the FIND task have all 3 areas addresses, but the find to work something like this plain English SQL; Find where address contains <User inputted search string> AND area = <area defined by which body the user is from> I'm not sure if this is possible - any ideas?  The find task has searchfields, and search text.  Currently my searchfields are three that contain different components of the address.  So searchFields = "Address1, Address2, Postcode" and searchText would equal "Magnolia Cottage" or something So, if I expand the Searchfields to include "Area" (which may be "East Utopia", Gotham City", "Cursed Earth (north)" for the three bodies, I'd then have to tag one of these three onto "Magnolia Cottage" - which would fail. I could query the incoming recordset, but this seems hard and wasteful, where a simple addition of a AND to the find task would work. Any ideas? ACM ... View more