Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Security issue with portal. Your users may need to VPN into the local network then they should be able to use single sign in. Or you may need to allow firewall access to the external virtual users.  ... View more

What type of account do you possess? ... View more

Look through the course catalog and there should be some lessons that include the data.  You will need to download the data separate and place it in the proper location https://www.esri.com/training/catalog/search/  ... View more

Access the Database via MS Access.  However does not work with File Geodatabase ... View more

Create a new attribute and populate it with ObjectID before generating the report ... View more

You need to limit your link length to 255 characters. ... View more

do you have a common factor to connect various points that should be included in the same polygon? If you do then you can either create Theisen polygons or use the point to line tool followed by the line to polygon.   But if you do not have any data attached to your points that make them relevant to each other they you may be in for a rough time. if your only talking a thousand points or so you can just draw the polygons. ... View more

Don't remove ArcMap until you are 100% Pro.  And not even then ... View more

Are you actually changing the settings for the feature service once a week?  or are you just updating attributes in the point feature, adding and deleting. etc. If you are just making edits you don't need to publish the service every week. ... View more

In my professional and honest opinion most of what I read here is overkill for the computers being used.  If your having serious issues taking that long to open Pro you should look to your HDD and system software integrity.  There are many things that can effect performance and no matter the size of you computer unit they will contribute to performance.  I do generally recommend gaming computers as GIS workstations.  Xeon processors are overkill and you would not even begin to touch what they are normally designed for.    Below is a snapshot of my work computer.  It is far from a gaming computer and does not have stats that make you grin.   But I just opened Pro in 9 seconds.  It works very well.   ... View more

A best practice if you want to change a projection on a feature class.  First it is best to not define the projection for a Feature Class, you should define a projection for a Feature Dataset.  If you want to change the projection you should create a new feature dataset with the projection you want.  Then import the feature class into the new dataset.  ... View more

Ahh San Jose State University. ... View more

Then I would just make the 40 x 40 boxes and clip them.  ... View more

Well the black lines remind me of parcels. My initial thought was to select the large polygon,  set snapping to the vertices of the black lines and then use the Cut Polygon tool and you can slice up that large polygon in a matter of 30 seconds.   Or you can use the first idea and then clip it to fit the large polygon ... View more

create a 40 x 40 foot square starting in one corner. Copy and paste it and then use the move command to move it 40 feet in one direction or another. Paste again and move 80 feet.etc.. ... View more