Latest Contributions by AZendel

Thanks for your response.  The critical step that I was missing was to preview the site and then start searching for keywords/tags.  Now everything is making sense and we can probably proceed with setting up our open data site.  I was under the impression that I was going to have to add data listing widget or a dataset map widget for any of our datasets to be visible to website users.  In other words, I thought that I had to build the interface (add widgets) for our users to use.  So I never thought to try the 'preview site' because I didn't think there would be anything to preview (beyond the banner images, placeholder images, etc that are very intuitive to set up).  I would suggest that ESRI staff add something to the documentation that shows people how to discover the URLs that will access their datasets (e.g., http://mygroup.myorg.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=population&sort_by=relevance).  I think the best spot would be between the "Data Report" section and "Design the Layout of your Open Data Site" section, or near the top of the latter.  Maybe something like: "You do not have to add widgets or modify HTML, CSS, Markdown for people to discover data on your site.  To understand this, click the 'Preview Site' button and then search for a tag that you've attached to one of your datasets.  The URL in browser bar on the search results page should be used as a template to create links to your data in the Design Layout tab" Or is it already in your documentation and have I overlooked it?  I do think videos would be helpful, but I think that somehow working this into the documentation is more important, especially if your weeks away from publishing the videos.  Using MarkDown, CSS, image links, etc will be easy now that I know which URLs to use when laying out the site.  ... View more

This response doesn't directly address the inability to save changes, but I have uncovered a bug in the "Dataset Map" widget.  Here's what the ESRI Tech Support staffer wrote to me: As per our discussion and the observed behaviour, we have logged a bug with ID 000086559 for endlessly spinning wheel while configuring the Open Data homepage for Open Data site. I hope the issue will be taken care of soon. This suggests that they are having some issues with the interface on the design layout tab.  It may be related to your inability to save the page.  ... View more

Thanks, Ben.  The explode suggestion is a good idea.  It's somewhat similar to using the 'zoom to selected features' to verify that I'm aware of every part of the fragmented that is selected.  I just have to remember to do either one with each edit.  It'd still be nice  to have an easy way to "clean" the line so that all of the vertices are are in the order that you would expect.  It'd be even better if one could specify an edit mode that would reorder vertices at the end of every merge.  This fragmented ordering makes me a bit uneasy to think about how these lines will appear if I ever need to export them to a different format.  ... View more

I have a point feature class in a SQL Express ("Personal ArcSDE") geodatabase.   I also get the same error when I attempt to create an ODBC linked table to said feature class from within Access .  I'm able to link to all non-spatial tables, even those that are registered with the geodatabase from within the ESRI realm.  The two point feature classes in my database have both a clustered index and a spatial index.  I suspect that one of those indexes is breaking the ODBC connection.  Unlike you, I am able to see the feature class base tables in SSMS. My work around was to create a view of the feature class in SSMS and then create the ODBC link to the view and not the table.  This may not be possibly in your situation since you can't even see the base table in SSMS.  However, I first tried creating the view using something to effect of: CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_MyView] AS SELECT     dbo.MyFeatureClassBaseTable.* FROM         dbo.MyFeatureClassBaseTable I was able to create the ODBC link from Access to this view.  But when I attempted to edit a cell's value in Access, I was getting some sort of error.  I deleted the view and the link  and then created a new view that lists all of the columns that I need, such as CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_MyView] AS SELECT     dbo.Col1, Col2, Col3 FROM         dbo.MyFeatureClassBaseTable Now I can edit cell values in Access. ESRI constantly warns users about monkeying with geodatabase tables outside of the ArcGIS environment.  I agree that it comes with risks of corruption.  But at the same time, SQL is often a much, much more efficient way of managing data.  I've been using Access and SSMA to manipulate geodatabase data for over a decade.  I have never encountered a problem using Access or SQL as long as: -- you don't monkey with any versioned tables or feature classes in any way -- you don't delete features in a feature class (sometimes the spatial indexes are in separate tables and the corresponding row would also need to be deleted) -- you don't add a row to a feature class (for the same reason as above) -- you don't add a row to a non-spatial table that is registered with the geodb and therefore has an OBJECTID field that ArcGIS libraries should manage -- you don't delete any tables or FCs that are registered with the geodatabase ... View more

Tony, Are you successfully running 32 bit and 64 bit oracle clients on the same Windows desktops? It would be nice to use the 64 bit geoprocessing on Pro but I absolutely need to be edit our SDE data that I'm currently accessing via the 32 bit client. Also, are you having to change the path string when you need to switch between 32 and 64? Or is it "seamless"? Thanks ... View more

Of course!  I bet that's the issue.  Oracle client configurations can be tricky, especially when using LDAP and OS Authentication.  I'm tempted to co-install the 64-bit client to run along side the current 32-bit installation, but I'm not going to risk causing problems with my ability to edit critical SDE feature classes.  Another question: I'm aware that some 10.2 'background' geoprocessing tools run on 64-bit.  In ArcGIS Pro, do all of the other geoprocessing tools run on 64-bit?  Or is ArcGIS Pro using the same geoprocessing libraries as 10.2? Thanks for the speedy response, Alex ... View more

I'm creating my breaks in the exact same way as this demo that I based my code on: http://jsbin.com/ILAYUNeK.  I've also attached a complete version of my code as a txt file. I haven't changed much other than styling the dropdown / legend, adding the Stamen 'toner' layer and substituting my own AGO polygon feature service.  Initially, I uploaded all of the counties in TN to my feature service in case we later wanted to show counties outside of our 8-county focus area.  I was using setDefinitionExpression on the layer and using the 'where' parameter on  GenerateRendererTask.execute.  I suspected that this definition query was causing some of the issues, so I deleted all but the eight focus counties in ArcMap and then created a new feature service with only the 8 counties.  Then I commented out all of the places where I had applied the definition query.  These commented lines are still in the attached code.  I still ran into the same problem: counties that are in the highest and lowest class breaks sometimes don't display. Thanks for another quick response.  You've been very helpful. ... View more