Latest Contributions by RobertBorchert

Little to fancy. Create an attribute telling you how many points a polygon should have. Populate the attribute with the number of points. Run the Create Random points function. name your output. Constraining feature should be your polygon layer Choose Number of points and field.  use the drop down to find the field. Hit ok. ... View more

this is an irritant. I have only gotten around it by utilizing Julian dates.  However, not using the full Julian but only the Year + day of the year ... View more

You should be able to do that with Domains.  You can create your base subtype and then for a particular attribute you can assign a domain to only one or more attributes in different subtypes. I think sub subtypes would get in the way of templates.  And if you added a new domained attribute to your feature you would have to visit ever single iteration possible and manually set the domian for each subtype. Perhaps you could share you 100+ options and someone may be able to suggest a better way to do it. ... View more

Or at least the ability to Flash it or something. ... View more

Several ways to go about this. Now do you simply want to strip out the numerical portion of the address and store it in a new attribute or do you simply want to get rid of it.? I will assume you want to preserve the numerical portion of the address. This part will allow you to populate the new Number attribute left( [servAddr1], (instr(1, [servAddr1]," ")-1)) what this does is takes the left portion of the full address up to the first space and populate just that.  The -1 is critical or it will copy the space as well. for the rest of it this formula will take everything but the number.  I populated servAddr2 with the number mid( [servAddr1], (len( [servAddr2])+2),50) In this case it will populate the street portion with everything after the space after the number.  It will take the length of your address portion  and start there and put in everything after that. The +2 is important so it will start 2 spaces after the end of the number and not include the space. it actually takes a lot longer to write this than it does to do it.   Just substitute servAddr1 with your attributes. ... View more

To much thought going into this thread.  Do it the simple way. Simply create a new string column to label from.  Use a string because an integer column will always have at least a zero. Go into MS Access and calculate then number column from the name column Val([Roads]![STR_NAME]) Then simply find and replace a whole cell values of Zero with a <Null> ... View more

There must be a setting somewhere.  I have my pipelines with a P and they stay perpendicular to the line.  I tried to reproduce the issue and when I did it the P's came out perpendicular. Here is how I made the lines and it must have that setting done for the pre made line symbols. Start off with Aqueduct default line symbol.   It should be a light blue line with Dots Then just change the color and the dots to the letter P.  I tried it that way and it worked for me. ... View more

Can you expand on your techniqe you are using and your settings? How large is your MXD? What type of database are you working off of? How large of an area are you tyring to export? I just exported a Georeferenced PDF of a township and it took about 5 seconds. ... View more

It is possible with a FileGeodatabase at this time. Click on Customize ArcCatalog Options.  Check the Modified box.  However it would be great to do this with a personal geodatabase.   ... View more

It is possible with a FileGeodatabase at this time. Click on Customize ArcCatalog Options.  Check the Modified box.  However it would be great to do this with a personal geodatabase.   ... View more

I agree.  However, I think they need to go further and complety revamp and rethink the entire Style Manager and working with colors.  I don't know the best answer but what we have to deal with is cumbersom. ... View more

Start a GIS session and  add your table. Use the Make Event Layer tool to add the XY data. It should default to WGS84.  it will then make an event layer. After it is done the points should be in the proper spot. Then export your Event layer to you database and it should automatically convert the projection. ... View more

Frustrating that this should be such a simple thing and this idea has been active for over 5 years.  ... View more

Frustrating that this should be such a simple thing and this idea has been active for over 5 years.  ... View more