Latest Contributions by RonnieRichards

You cannot remove default values from fields using a toolbox but can certainly assign them with "Assign Default to Field" but that is where we made a mistake what if you need to revert changes back? You cannot easily remove this default value. Please create a tool that to "Remove Default from Field" because the work-a-rounds recommended by the support analysts are not reasonable.  1) You can reapply a default value using the tool but it will not accept a blank value or the database <null> values. If the field is a string field the tool will place '<null>' in the field and this is not acceptable. It will accept space but not a blank space "" so please consider providing the option or keywords to place true <null> or blank values.  2) You can manually remove the Default value from a field and place a blank value using ArcCatalog but never the original database <null> values again. W used arcpy and applied this default to 60 feature classes, it is not reasonable to manuall have to type in blank values for each feature class field. 3) It is not reasonable to use 3rd party tools or Xray add-ins to modify the schema and reimport the data model. This data resides in a multi-user versioned environment and this is a major change for something we thought was so simple. We used a toolbox to apply values, why can't we use the same set of toolboxes to now remove them? 4) It is not reasonable to add temporary fields, calculate values, drop the column with the default value, add the column back, calculate from the temp field, drop the temp field. This changes the field order and could cause a number of excessive records in the version tables... all for what seems to be a very simple function. Again this seems so simple yet a tool or keywords do not exist in Assign tool to reassign the database <null> or a "" blank string as a default value once one has been assigned. Thanks for considering!! ... View more

You cannot remove default values from fields using a toolbox but can certainly assign them with "Assign Default to Field" but that is where we made a mistake what if you need to revert changes back? You cannot easily remove this default value. Please create a tool that to "Remove Default from Field" because the work-a-rounds recommended by the support analysts are not reasonable.  1) You can reapply a default value using the tool but it will not accept a blank value or the database <null> values. If the field is a string field the tool will place '<null>' in the field and this is not acceptable. It will accept space but not a blank space "" so please consider providing the option or keywords to place true <null> or blank values.  2) You can manually remove the Default value from a field and place a blank value using ArcCatalog but never the original database <null> values again. W used arcpy and applied this default to 60 feature classes, it is not reasonable to manuall have to type in blank values for each feature class field. 3) It is not reasonable to use 3rd party tools or Xray add-ins to modify the schema and reimport the data model. This data resides in a multi-user versioned environment and this is a major change for something we thought was so simple. We used a toolbox to apply values, why can't we use the same set of toolboxes to now remove them? 4) It is not reasonable to add temporary fields, calculate values, drop the column with the default value, add the column back, calculate from the temp field, drop the temp field. This changes the field order and could cause a number of excessive records in the version tables... all for what seems to be a very simple function. Again this seems so simple yet a tool or keywords do not exist in Assign tool to reassign the database <null> or a "" blank string as a default value once one has been assigned. Thanks for considering!! ... View more

Why is the web map limited to a single base map? There are many use cases that should allow multiple base maps enabled with some sort of transparency between them that users could toggle. All of the other ESRI web API's seem to allow for multiple base maps so why is this platform limited to one? Sure you could create your own base map gallery but the challenge here that is an Organization-wide setting? Why not allow us to have multiple base map galleries? I guess that is just another idea...  ... View more

It appears there is no way to sort services in the new ArcGIS Server manager. They appear to be in the created order. This makes it very difficult to manage and administer when many services exist. In some ways the older Server Manager did a better job of allowing admins to manage the services.   We want the ability to sort Services By Name or Publication Date, Order or By Type. ArcCatalog displays the Services in A-Z order so why doesn't ArcGIS Server Manager. I found a similar idea from 2011 with many of the same complaints but that was 2011 and we are now several releases since that post. The status lists under consideration which of these enhancements are under consideration? Maybe we need to need to be specific and ask for exactly what we want here it goes we want the ability to sort services by a varierty of options mentioned above  http://c.na9.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=087300000008JPMAA2 ... View more

It would be great if Locators stored in SDE that reference versioned data would update the indexes automatically/dynamically. If all editing is taking place in the database locators need to be smarter or scheduled and not require the user to rebuild indexes manually or using python. Or it would be great if geocode services could be set to auto-update/rebuild the source locator at some frequency.   ... View more

It would be great if Locators stored in SDE that reference versioned data would update the indexes automatically/dynamically. If all editing is taking place in the database locators need to be smarter or scheduled and not require the user to rebuild indexes manually or using python. Or it would be great if geocode services could be set to auto-update/rebuild the source locator at some frequency.   ... View more