Latest Contributions by ChrisFox

Duncan, It is true that there is no longer a stand-alone tool for identify. In Pro you can configure whether you want to return a Pop-up for all the top-most, visible layers, selectable layers, etc by clicking the dropdown on the Explore command. This is how you can return multiple features in multiple layers. The pop-up experience in Pro is designed to be similar to other applications in the platform including the arcgis.com viewer where a single click with the navigate tool will show a pop-up. Pop-ups can be configured for each layer to control what fields display, show hyperlinks, embed images, add graphs etc. When I author a pop-up in Pro that definition is carried over when I share it as a WebMap. This makes it really easy to share my map online and ensure that anyone using my WebMap gets a nice pop-up when they identify any features. For the experience of a tree view and a list of features and their attributes we would recommend using the attributes pane and the feature selection. Some nice features of attributes pane that you didn't have with identify is you can edit the attributes directly. You can also select multiple records in the view and it will show you which fields are identical and it allows you to update the attribute for multiple features at once. This pane now supports selected rows in stand-alone tables. It also provides more information about the feature geometry and easier access to edit the geometry than was available in identify. -Chris ... View more

Alternatively, you could perform a select by attribute and then a select by location using only the selected records from the source layer. ... View more

If you have a table and you use the display XY command to create a point event layer and then you later edit and modify the values for the X or Y coordinate the point in the event layer will dynamically update to reflect the change in the table. ... View more

It is not that simple because the x coordinate of a point in decimal degrees will be different if the point is in NAD27 vs NAD83. I think the best way to accomplish this is to use the projectAs method on the Geometry object passing in a new spatial reference and appropriate geographic transformation. This will return a new Geometry object and then you can access the X and Y coordinates of the point in the new spatial reference. ... View more

By default, a user is restricted to a single session meaning when they start a session and land on a server, if they start something else, it will piggy-back off of that session and be placed on the same server. This is ideal since it helps with workflows and minimizes licensing impacts (if you start a second ArcMap and it lands on second server….another license is checked-out). Can you check if you have set the option "restrict the user to a single session" is set to Yes. This will not limit you ability to launch multiple instances of ArcMap but will for ensure that the load balancing is at the session level vs individual app launch in this case. ... View more

In the specific scenario you described above you should be able to right-click the tool and select "Why" this will bring up a dialog box that will print the exception that was raised. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 21, in __init__ ImportError: No module named foo ... View more

The tool that is closer to right-click layer > Export Data is the Feature Class to Feature Class tool. ... View more

@davenicht, I can not reproduce what you are describing. If there is no selection FIDSet should return an empty string. ... View more

Yes, unfortunately those are just not implemented. We did add the ability at 10.1 to clone a text or graphic element in the layout. So if one already exists you can clone a copy it and modify some properties. ... View more

At 10.0 and 10.1 you will find many MXDs are available with the install at: <ArcGIS Desktop Install>\MapTemplates This gives you all sorts of MXDs with different layout sizes and orientation. In addition, depending on how you are sharing your code, if you are building a python add-in it is possible to package data including a blank MXD along with your add-in: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/#/Essential_Python_add_in_concepts/014p0000001p000000/ ... View more

What if you had a blank MXD available with the tool or script that you just created a copy from and did what you needed to do? ... View more

Please check out the following help topic to learn more about how to add an OLE DB connection at 10.1: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//006600000452000000 ... View more

Captain, I wrote a gp function tool that calls the same ArcObjects Interfaces to rename a field alias (in addition to a field name) for 10.1. This makes it very easy to call the gp tool from python: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4c0bcc95449f4a67822c7f68dc7c6cd4 ... View more