Latest Contributions by AZendel

Is there an ETA on editing annotation in Pro?  1.4? ... View more

Please put this high on the priority list, ESRI.  ETA? ... View more

Annotations cannot be created and edited in Pro:  FAQ: Can annotations be created or edited in ArcGIS Pro?  Seems a bit crazy: How can a PROfessional mapping software package not support the full use of annotations?  ESRI, please prioritize this ... View more

Ditto.  ESRI, get on this fast! ... View more

Full support of annotation creations and editing should be core functionality in any PROfessional mapping software.   I just spent a lot of time refining some maps and street labels in Pro.  I wanted to convert the labels to GDB annotations so I could edit them.  And then, BAM, ArcGIS Pro snafu.  It'd be different if I could export the layout to ArcMap or the streets layer to an ArcMap-readable layer file so I could convert the annotation there.  But I can't. I may have just lost some substantial time if I have to start over again in ArcMap. When will annotation be fully supported, ESRI?  Seems to me that this should be a top priority.   ... View more

I'm just now learning Pro.   This is crazy.  Yeah, the UNC work-around is acceptable, but why can't you connect to a root folder ?!?!?  A lot of our staff refer to \\fileserver\shared as "The G Drive".  Is there a good reason for this restriction, ESRI? ... View more

Yes, please! ... View more

Can we watch the Plenary live over the web?  If not, when and where will video recordings be posted?  Thanks. ... View more

Good to know.  I'll look into that.  But it'd still be nice if we could do the following when creating a table or feature class: AA isn't too hard to set up, but the above is just so much more convenient. Thanks.  ... View more

I did.  I just didn't want to have "Certificate Number: ad58-ger6-s8ff-g265-87s56d" on our certificates.  Some day there may be a need to label a map with the unique numbers.   "10053" would look much better on a map.  Also, this blog post says: "This should not be used for a Unique ID.  These values can change if you have to reload the data at some point or if you drop the Global ID field and re-add it. "  I don't really follow that or am having trouble interpreting it...... ... View more

This may be a slightly off topic, but I think an auto-number, auto-increment or user-defined sequence field type should be available at the geodatabase level, not just at the application level or UI level (like Attribute Assistant).  Here's a case: I programmatically insert some rows into a table that contains certified address certificates.  The ArcMap user selects address points, enters some more information into a form and then prints the certificate.  Before the print happens, I insert the certificate data into the certificate able using ArcObjects.  AA seems to be hooked into the ArcMap interface, so even though I had set up AA auto-number, it didn't populate the field.  So I worked around it by writing code to do just what AA does for autonumber: read the last number used in a setup table, add the next number to the target table and then increment the set up table by 1.  That's a considerable amount of coding and testing that could have been eliminated by an auto-number field.  Even the more 'lightweight' databases (Access, SQLite) have auto-number fields. A third-party consultant once told us that ObjectID fields are not guaranteed to always be unique, especially in multi-editor environments, though duplicates are probably very, very rare.  (That was ~8 years ago, maybe that has changed).   But the problem with ObjectID's is that they'll likely get reset when a table or feature class is moved to a separate database (or copied within one database).  That can make it hard to migrate to new versions of ArcGIS, create backup and testing databases and do regular GDB maintenance. I know a number of people who find AA very handy and there's probably going to be some AA use cases for me in the future.  But I think that auto-number should be available at the DB level.  If I have misunderstood anything about AA or GDB's, then please correct me. ... View more

That did the trick.  I was thinking that the "within" spatial relationship option that maps to esriSpatialRelWithin meant "are within distance of" like the option in the "Select by location" dialog in ArcMap.  As did one of my co-workers.  If any ESRI folks read this, consider changing "within" to "contained within" on the HTML form.  I realize that changing esriSpatialRelWithin to something else will break code all over the world and is therefore infeasible.  ... View more