Latest Contributions by ChrisFox

@colmokane, I completely agree, i merged these ideas all together because I believe the point of all the ideas is to be able to display only the selected records. At Def Query shouldn't be required, I think this was just seen as an intermediate step to the ultimate goal of only displaying the selected records. ... View more

If you create a describe object from a layer you can get access to the FIDSet property which returns a semi-colon delimited string of the FID of all selected features in the layer. Based on this below is some sample code to accomplish the items you mention: - Determine if a selection had been made. desc = arcpy.Describe(lyr) if not  desc.FIDSet  == '':    print 'Layer has a selection' - Get a count of how many features/records were selected. 2 options: result = arcpy.GetCount_management(lyr) print result.getOutput(0) or desc = arcpy.Describe(lyr) len(desc.FIDSet.split(";")) - Further manipulate that selection. Use select layer by attribute and Selection types, Add_To_Selection, Remove_From_Selection, or Subset_Selection to modify the existing selection. ... View more

You can accomplish this with Python. Below is a sample script: import arcpy mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r"C:\Project\ParcelAtlas.mxd") ddpDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "DDPDataFrameName")[0] #Replace name of DDP Data Frame otherDF = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "OtherDataFrameName")[0] #Replace name of Other Data Frame you want to rotate for pageNum in range(1, mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount + 1):     mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageNum     otherDF.rotation = ddpDF.rotation     arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, r"C:\Project\OutPut\ParcelAtlas_Page" + str(pageNum) + ".pdf") del mxd ... View more

You can create your own projection file using international foot by following the procedure below: Open the Data Frame Properties and go to the coordinate system tab Select the appropriate State Plane US Foot coordinate system and click Modify Change the name of the coordinate system to something unique, for example ending in IntlFoot In the linear unit drop-down, change the name from Foot_US to Foot Click OK Click Add to Favorites You can not use that spatial reference to project your data collected in US feet to international feet. ... View more

You can create your own projection file using international foot by following the procedure below: Open the Data Frame Properties and go to the coordinate system tab Select the appropriate State Plane US Foot coordinate system and click Modify Change the name of the coordinate system to something unique, for example ending in IntlFoot In the linear unit drop-down, change the name from Foot_US to Foot Click OK Click Add to Favorites You can not use that spatial reference to project your data collected in US feet to international feet. ... View more

OLE DB providers are provided by the database provider not the client applications connecting to them. If you install a valid OLE DB provider for MySQL you can use that to connect to MySQL databases, this has always been supported. I think the request here is to add support for MySQL as a dbms for the geodatabase. ... View more

At 10.1 we added a new label expression parser for Python, so you can now build label expressions using Python. ... View more

If you are referring to inserting a pdf into the layout as a graphic you can do this now, by going to Insert > Object. If you are referring to adding a geopdf as a datasource to a map, this idea is documented at: https://community.esri.com/ideas/2156 ... View more

If you are at ArcGIS 10 and have at least an arceditor license level I would recommend you use Geodatabase attachments: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Enabling_attachments/001t000003vt000000/ ... View more

I don't know if there is a proper way, but if you are using shapefiles it would be advisable you use hyperlinks that are defined by values in a field. The workflow would be to in the case of a PDF, add a new string or text field and for each feature add the appropriate path to the pdf to that field. Then you can set Field property for Hyperlinks for the layer to this new field. This unfortunately will only support one hyperlink per feature, but it is much safer for shapefiles.  ... View more

Unfortunately when your hyperlinks are maintained this way there is no out of the box solution to get a list of the hyperlinked documents for the layer. I would also caution you if you are you are maintaining hyperlinks in this way when the underlying data is a Shapefile. In the help it says the following: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00s500000004000000.htm After deleting features from a shapefile, you may find that dynamic hyperlinks are attached to different features. This occurs because ArcMap uses the feature ID (FID) field to associate dynamic hyperlinks with features, but the FIDs of shapefiles must be recalculated when features are deleted. To ensure hyperlinks are always associated with the proper features, only use dynamic hyperlinks with geodatabase features classes (geodatabase features always have unique ID values). Field-based hyperlinks can be used with shapefiles without this limitation. ... View more

Are you maintaining the hyperlinks using the Support Hyperlinks using field option in the layer properties, or by going through the identify window and adding hyperlinks? If you are using the field option, what data type is the field? ... View more

In ArcMap, right-click the field that contains the hyperlink paths to the PDFs and select summarize, specify the output location of the table and click ok. This will produce a table with all the unique hyperlinks used for the shapefile. ... View more

One thing to consider is that a point feature class can also be a multi-point feature class which means each row could contain the definition of x number or points. ... View more