Latest Contributions by AZendel

I vaguely remember a tool that would allow you to draw a line from one polygon to an adjacent polygon to merge them.  Then the polygon at the end of the line would be merged with the polygon at the start of the line.  The resulting merged polygon would receive the attribute of the polygon at the start of the drawn line.  Does anyone else remember that tool?  Was that an ArcView 3.2 tool?  Is there an equivalent in Pro or ArcMap? ... View more

At our office, we receive new computers every few years.  The last time around for me, we met and exceeded the minimum requirements for Pro. This machine was not cheap.  That investment has paid off in terms of map performance in Pro.  The rendering is fast and it and the display is beautiful (seems like Pro uses more antialiasing than ArcMap).   You’d think that map rendering/display is one of the more resource demanding aspects of Pro in terms of processing, memory and the graphics card. Reason would then suggest that if the map can perform so well, the interface of Pro should be insanely fast.   But a lot of time, components of the interface outside of the map or scene become so slow and/or unresponsive that it’s frequently crippling. That may sound like an exaggeration or overstatement, but 20 seconds here, 20 seconds there adds up.  In fact, I’m writing a lot of the sentences of this post while I’m waiting for the interface to unfreeze so I can resume my GIS tasks. Most of the UI freezing that I experience is with the Contents pane.  When I add a layer to the map, the layer is rendered on the map nearly instantly.  But many times the Contents pane goes unresponsive.  So I can’t drag the layer up and down or switch to any of the other content tabs.  But the longest hangs happen on the Edit tab.  Here’s the output from Monitor for just switching to the Edit tab in a map with only about 12 layers in it: 20 seconds just to switch to the Edit tab Below is the output when I checked or unchecked one layer at a time on the edit tab: There are five layers on this map that I want to mark as uneditable.  So at the average wait time of 18 seconds for every click, I can’t start doing my work for a total 90 seconds.  If there’s a group layer in the map, I get a very similar lag just to expand the group layer so I can view what layers within it are currently editable. Here’s a really bad hang up that happened when I opened the field properties for a feature class from the Catalog pane: Almost a minute and a half to display the field list?!? This one occurred when I switched from the edit tab to the “list by drawing order tab” 28 seconds? Sometimes these functions show up when trying to interact with the interface, even when all layers are flagged as uneditable What does CanEditDataAsync have to do with the interface, especially when there are no editable layers in the map? This popped up when I double clicked the “Make Feature Layer” tool in Model Builder: Again, what does this have to do with editing? All the while, Windows Task Manager is reporting that 7.7 GB of 16 GB is available.  I’ve tried disabling all of the McAfee scans on my computer that I can; I have fairly high level privileges over individual workstations, but not over our domain. All of our file geodatabases are a Windows file server.  We must store needed data there because the C-drives on our individual workstations are not backed up. My two primary questions at this point: 1) Am I the only Pro user who’s experiencing this?  I’m currently on Pro 2.0.1, but I was experiencing these problems with previous versions as well 2) Is there anything I can do about this? Is there some sort of setting, in Pro or Windows, that will alleviate these problems? I'd really like to start using Pro for more of my projects and regular workflows.  But all of these repeated delays make it hard to do that when deadlines approach. Thanks. ... View more

This weird behavior is occurring in both Chrome and Internet Explorer while trying to build a URL that will be displayed in a pop up for an AGO feature layer.  I've successfully started the expression by using: var myURL = 'https://www.google.com/maps/place/'; myURL = myURL + $feature.STOP_NAME; return myURL; These initial lines of code are producing the results that I was expecting, as shown in the popup below: But when I attempt to edit my expression, by double-clicking "URL" or highlighting "URL" and clicking the "Configure expression" (gear) button to the right, the expression "title" and the expression window are totally blank. Example: So I can't continue to edit and refine my URL that will be built using two additional fields on the  $feature.  Am I missing something?  Or is this a bug? As a workaround, I'm building my expression in notepad and will paste the final working version into the expression box.  But this will make it problematic to edit the URL at a later date. ... View more

The inability to edit annotation in Pro < 2.0 was one of the biggest limitations that kept me from using Pro in many workflows.  So I had been looking forward to the release of 2.0 even since I read that it'd include annotation editing.  I've taken the full 2.0 Pro release for a test drive and was able to convert some street labels to annotation. Excellent start.  Then I wanted to create some annotation for the streets that were missing a label.  I opened the 'create features' panel and noticed that there was only one option for creating an annotation feature: horizontal ArcMap gives you several options here: horizontal, straight, curved and (my favorite) follow feature.  Are those options available in Pro?  How do I enable them?  I did find the help topic on changing an existing anno feature to a circular arc and Bezier curve.  That new flexibility will probably come in handy at some point.  But if I need to create a curved annotation feature, it seems that I'll first have create a horizontal annotation, then convert to circular or Bezier and adjust as needed.  That's not a very efficient approach to adding a lot of curved annotation features.   Is there a way to directly create a curved or follow feature annotation? How? Thanks! ... View more