Latest Contributions by ChrisFox

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

Jody, At 10.1 you can enable editor tracking. This gives you the ability to track when a feature was created and by who and when a feature was last edited and by who. Using this functionality you could run a query to return all records that had been created or updated Today. With python you could automate this to run the query, create a report and have it e-mailed to you daily. Below is a blog post that talks about configuring a script to send you an e-mail after a geoprocessing tool is run. Although not exactly the same the idea is similar. http://blogs.esri.com/esri/supportcenter/2011/06/07/you-ve-got-mail/ ... View more