Latest Contributions by ChrisFox

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

Currently the most efficient way to accomplish this in both workflow and drawing performance is to author the symbology for multiple layers that makes sense at each scale and then set visible scale ranges on the layers. ... View more

@dknudesn, the scenario you described worked fine for me. I have a Top Level folder, and sub folders called Data and Maps. I stored my MXD in the maps folder and the data in the data folder. I moved the Top Level folder to another directory and everything was sourced fine. ... View more

This functionality is available with the Production Mapping Extension: Layout Window ... View more

I would like to point you to a recent blog post on this topic, How to Escalate a Bug. By following this procedure you can accomplish several of the items you have discussed in this post. First you can track your bugs and follow the status. Second you have the opportunity to escalate bugs that are crtitcal to your workflows to the User Advocacy Group. This allows you to talk with someone directly at Esri regarding the key issues that are impacting you. ... View more

I would like to point you to a recent blog post on this topic, How to Escalate a Bug. By following this procedure you can accomplish several of the items you have discussed in this post. First you can track your bugs and follow the status. Second you have the opportunity to escalate bugs that are crtitcal to your workflows to the User Advocacy Group. This allows you to talk with someone directly at Esri regarding the key issues that are impacting you. ... View more

You can do this now without a relationship class, but it requires both features classes be in the same geodatabase. Below is an example query: "STATE_NAME" IN (SELECT "NAME" FROM states WHERE "POP1990" > 1000000)   In the query above I am selecting the Cities by the State they are related to whose State's population is greater than 10 million. Below is the format of the query explained "{Primary Key Name}" IN (SELECT "{Foriegn Key Name}" FROM {Destination Table/FC Name} WHERE {WHERE clause to be run for related table}) ... View more

Just to keep the conversation going and to help us better understand the request, other than the fact that you have no need to use this functionality, why would disabling it improve the user experience for you? ... View more

You can use the flip line geoprocessing tool to flip the direction of the lines, the tool will work on selected records as well. ... View more

You can accomplish this if you join your town centre data to the ward data. After you create the join you could enable the dynamic text by changing the property to equal <tablename>.<fieldname> where tablename represents the name of the joined table and fieldname represents the field in the joined table you want to display the attribute for. For example: <dyn type="page" property="CentreData.TOWN_SIZE"/> ... View more

I recently posted a C# sample to arcgis.com that shows how with a Console Application we can pass in a string representing folder connections to create multiple folder connections outside of ArcGIS. This application could be used to run from command line or via a batch file for a user to create these connections without the user having to manually set them. Connect to Folder Console Application ... View more