Latest Contributions by AdrianWelsh

That's pretty awesome! Make it happen! ... View more

Thanks for putting this together! It is great to have these folks recognized. ... View more

I agree with this and think that the Esri folks should be awarded for their time in these forums. ... View more

I have had this issue for a while too. I believe it is a limitation of AGOL, unfortunately. I wish this would get fixed and I wish we had as much layer control in AGOL as we do in ArcMap, etc. I also have had the same issue of bringing in the services individually (but my issue is that the symbology gets messed up - along with the labels, unfortunately). Maybe a customized web map would solve this issue? ... View more

I'm late to the party but I agree with the others. I would say learn to use Python. While there are tons of resources out there on how to code with any language, I find that the Python route has been the best route to use (and, like Dan said), Python will continue to be utilized in Pro and future desktop applications. You can tackle javascript later. ... View more

Ah VBA. Those were good times! Thanks for the suggestions. ... View more

Sanity test from cmsauth.esri.com ... View more

I am not positive but I would imagine that this would require developing a custom application in order to do this. The out-of-the-box mentality of the pop-up boxes kind of has a mind of its own (as you have probably noticed). Having something more customized based on a particular attribute would require digging into the coding of this and making a custom application. ... View more

That is true - it isn't too hard to create one if you know the WKID. For the projects that I am working on, each prj will have to be a custom made projection file with different values for the parameters (such as false easting, false northing, etc). So, unfortunately, this method will not work for me. Thanks though! ... View more

I agree with both of you. It would be nice to not have to create a custom .prj file each time (and I'd be curious to check out your book, Margaret Maher​), but I have seen what Darren is mentioning on how surveyors prefer to adjust the origin, etc. And yes, we have circled back around! ... View more

I had to go the same route as Kyle. I deleted my bookmarks and recreated them in order to have them ordered in the way that I wanted. It's a major pain but I do not know a work around for that. ... View more

Hi Debra, I do not work for a county office but one of the best things you can do is to sell your 'product' by just showing off what GIS can do. Flashy maps always wow decision-makers like county officials. But, also you can show the power of GIS by showing an app you created or a process you made to look up information quickly (or show a way to generate mailers by doing a buffer search around a property, obtaining the addresses, and spitting out mailing labels, etc). There is an older ArcUser article on on Esri's site that shares the value of GIS to a county office: Illustrating the Value of GIS You can also search different county GIS departments to see what they are doing (some have some good descriptions that you can craft your write-up from). I just did a quick search and found this on Rutherford County in North Carolina (GIS Department) but there are countless other places you can look. Hope this helps! Cheers, Adrian ... View more

Cheating! Oh well, you win. I agree though. This worked. (I even double checked it with arcpy.SpatialReference.exportToString() and it checked out correctly). Thanks for your help, Darren Wiens​ and Dan Patterson​! ... View more

It seems that Darren is right that there is a mistake in the properties. All the read/write options are really read only. In any case, I have conceded to just using the projection string that Dan pointed out and have successfully recreated my own string based on some variables. But, I still am stuck with making the string file stick! import arcpy #User defined variables (to be actually defined later) #Project name related PIN = 12345 ProjName = "New_Project" #Projection related ProjectionName = "Lambert_Conformal_Conic" FalseEasting = 640811.6365 FalseNorthing = -436753.4539 CentralMeridian = -111.5 StandardParallel1 = 40.65 StandardParallel2 = 39 ScaleFactor = 1.000240774 LatOfOrigin = 38.3333 LinearUnit = "Foot_US" MetersPerFoot = 0.3048006096 #Geographic Coordinate System GeoCS = '"GCS_NAD_1983_2011",DATUM["D_NAD_1983_2011",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["egree",0.0174532925199433]' #The string for the projection with user inputted variables projString = ('PROJCS["' + str(PIN) + '_' + ProjName +             '",GEOGCS[' + GeoCS +             '],PROJECTION["' + ProjectionName +             '"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",' + str(FalseEasting) +             '],PARAMETER["False_Northing",' + str(FalseNorthing) +             '],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",' + str(CentralMeridian) +             '],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",' + str(StandardParallel1) +             '],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",' + str(StandardParallel2) +             '],PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",' + str(ScaleFactor) +             '],PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",' + str(LatOfOrigin) +             '],UNIT["' + LinearUnit + '",' + str(MetersPerFoot) + ']]') outputPrj = r"C:\Temp\TempPlaceHolder.prj" spaRef = arcpy.SpatialReference() spaRef.createFromFile(outputPrj) spaRef.loadFromString(projString) print spaRef.exportToString() #edited to fix code... From looking at the print out, the string looks as it is intended. But, how do I make it stick? When I look at the actual .prj file, it still has the old projection info. I think I am only changing the "object" in Python but I want to save changes to the .prj file.... ... View more