Latest Contributions by EricPaitz

Oops, I think the links should be https://community.esri.com/ideas/1622 https://community.esri.com/ideas/1621 ... View more

I 100% agree. I have posted two other similar ideas. Allow users to select features, open the attribute table and edit the symbology for a Map Service Layer in ArcMap. https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=0873000000088aqAAA Allow a Definition Expression to be added to a Map Service Layer from ArcMap/ArcGIS Explorer https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=0873000000088alAAA ... View more

Oh yeah I totally agree with using an SOE that only returns the extent of the query. Go to the ideas page I linked above and vote for the idea! 🙂 ... View more

Hey Swingley, I did play around with the new FeatureLayer in the Flex API...which manages the call to the Query Operation and management of the response and display of the geometries. I did not use the maxAllowableOffset parameter. I will have to go back and see if this will help with our data. Thanks for the hint. The root issue in this thread is that ArcGIS Server should be able to return the extent (i.e. return where the query results are) of the query rather then the results of the query. Sometimes you need all the result attributes (+ the geometries) and sometimes you just need the attributes and sometimes you only need the extent of the results. Thanks,    -eric ... View more

Anaish, to answer your question...as far as I know there is no way to get ArcGIS Server to return the extent of a query...meaning just returning the xmin, ymin, xmax and ymax of the FeatureSet. Right now you have to call the REST Query Operation which will serialize all of the vertices that make-up the result geometry. In the case of polygons this can be a rather large response. Using Firebug I have seen the response be several megabytes in size. Once you have all of the geometries serialized down to the client you can then loop through each to get an extent, but this is exactly what you are trying to avoided. BTW there is a helper function in the Flex API that will give you and extent for a FeatureSet. The best approach, until this is part of core, is to write your own ArcGIS Server Object Extension that mimics the REST Query Operation but only returns the extent of the results. I have added an idea to the ideas page about this very issue. http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000088OQAAY ... View more

This idea has already been considered by ESRI. Implementing this idea can come with a price. In the case of an SDE Geodatabase that uses Oracle, SQL Server, etc a table name must be unique and the RDBMS does not have any type of logical container like a folder, so all of this would have to be created by ESRI and managed by SDE in its system tables. If you have a folder called Ohio and another folder called Utah and in each of these folders you have a Feature Class called Rivers this means to the RDBMS that you have two tables called Rivers which is not allowed. This is also true for Feature Dataset.  SDE would have to totally take control of all the table names and use something like a GUID (or some other naming convention) for each table name so that SDE could create this “logical” container called a folder. This means it will look like you have a Feature Class called Rivers to ArcGIS but using the RDBMS tools you will never see a table called Rivers. This may be possible to implement using a File GDB because its structure is 100% created by ESRI and not limited by an RDBMS, but I suspect that ESRI wants to have that same user experience with any Geodatabase implementation. It’s a good idea but can be very difficult to implement. ... View more

I agree that the performance of browsing data can be very slow. A related issue is that the user interface will totally lock-up while its trying to fetch and paint the results to the screen. When browsing large amounts of files or folders using Windows Explorer it does not lock-up because its being done in a thread so the UI thread is not locked-up. ArcGIS Desktop should use an in-process thread so the main UI thread does not lock-up, and then the use can cancel the operation or navigate to another folder locaiton without waiting. ... View more

OK I have seen just this week that there might be an issue with the REST Find Operation and a service published from an MSD vs. and MXD. Specifically we are using SQL Server 2008 and ArcSDE 9.3.1. We noticed a possible issue with text fields that hold numeric values like 1234. I have not tried to query the area or length fields. For now try and publish your Map Service from the MXD and see if it works any better. If it does then for now I think you have to use the MXD. We wanted to use the MSD because of transparency issues, what do you need the MSD? Are you using SDE? If so what version and specifically which RDBMS are you using (SDE, Oracle, etc...)? ... View more

Is your Map Service being published from an MXD or an MSD? ... View more

As far as I understand it all of the www.arcgis.com content uses the Java Script API for the Map Viewer. Now last week I did a search for something, I cant remember exactly what, and one of the links was to a silverlight application and it wanted to install the plug-in. I am not allowed to install that plug-in at my client site so I was unable to view the app/data. It all comes down to exactly what you are clicking on to view. As far as I know if you try and use www.arcgis.com to view/overlay data in the Map Viewer it will use the Java Script API and call the Map Service for data. All of that does not require the Silverlight plug-in or any plug-in. If you try and view external content (I think an external application hosted by a 3rd party) then its up to the publisher and how they created the application. ... View more

I just checked and our servers are all running 9.3.1. I have yet to install 9.3.1 SP1 or SP2 so I think it was the jump from 9.3. to 9.3.1 that did it. I also remember having to update our exported Web Service Handlers because our exposed web server is a Linux OS running Apache/Tomcat but our AGS 9.3.1 for the Java Platform is internal to the firewall running a Windows OS. ... View more

I know its been awhile since you posted this but I ran into a similar situation when the rows being returned contain special characters like ' " / \ etc. Not sure which version you are using but after we installed the latest update or service pack our problem was fixed. ... View more

Thanks everyone! Based on all the comments these are the two small classes I came up with. The first is just a way to wrap the IApplication and expose its Handle as a IWin32Window. This class can be used as the owner of the Show() method on a Form. That will deal with being ontop of the ArcMap application (only) and to minimize, maximize and restore with the ArcMap application too. The second class is a base class that any of my modeless forms can inherit from. Thanks again! 🙂 public class IApplicationWrapper : System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window { System.IntPtr m_pIntPtr; public IApplicationWrapper(IApplication pApplication) {   m_pIntPtr = new IntPtr(pApplication.hWnd); } public IApplicationWrapper(SystemIntPtr pIntPtr) {   m_pIntPtr = pIntPtr; } IntPtr System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Windwo.Handle {   Get { return m_pIntPtr; } } } public class BaseForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form { private IApplication m_pApplication = null; ~BaseForm() {   ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.ComRelease.ReleaseCOMObject(m_pApplication); } protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {   if (m_pApplication != null) {    this.Left = (((((IWindowPosition)m_pApplication).Width / 2) + ((IWindowPosition)m_pApplication).Left) �?? (this.Width / 2));    this.Top = (((((IWindowPosition)m_pApplication).Height / 2) + ((IWindowPosition)m_pApplication).Top) �?? (this.Height / 2));   }   base.OnLoad(e); } public void Show(IApplication pApplication) {   m_pApplication = pApplication   this.Show(new IApplicationWrapper(pApplication)); } } ... View more