Latest Contributions by RonnieRichards

We too are having problems updating the data behind a hosted feature service using the overwrite existing service option. We have been struggling with this for months and the only work-a-round we found was to delete the service and republish as others suggested on this thread. We use SDE for all of our data sources before they go out to feature services. There does not seem to be a way to automate the "Data" side to all of this. The delete and append features tool do not appear to work against service url's. I wish we could just use gdb replication or better yet simply dropping a FGDB out on AGOL org. ... View more

Ok in concept that might be possible but both templates do not approach the application the same way. They appear to have different authors. If you expect users to be obtain code and inject code from other templates the application approach, configuration and setup of the templates needs to be identical. Something I have yet to see between any of them. Also recently the basic_viewer no longer appears to support being hosted outside of AGOL. Today I downloaded the basic viewer and legend and the basic viewer is throwing errors when not being hosted by AGOL. This template comes up with 404 errors and it seems to happen in this section of app.js. But if you look at Legend it does not even contain an app.js. again different authors is not going to allow users to reuse template code with easse. line 52 (app.js)          //Check to see if the app is hosted on arcgis.com. If the app is hosted then set the arcgisUrl to the proper environment (dev, qa, production).               //Also set the proxy to the Arcgis.com proxy.               //If the app isn't hosted or the user has specified a proxy url or geometry service url then use the user-defined values ... View more

I agree SDE Connections need to be improved. The current procedure is difficult and does not work well for many reasons as the author explains. Why not create a data source connection manager in the MXD where we can manage the various data sources including multiple sde connections? Many will say to use the Data Source manager tool in ArcCatalog by right clicking on the .mxd but even this tool does not work properly in 10.1. It has been around since 9.3 and still does not deal with SDE connections correctly.   I did author a tool years ago that might help you. Several users have emailed me they use my tool to break their mxd's and fix the sources in the new mxd which is much easier than repathing. Unfortunately you would need to wait for the mxd to open to repath your data...  http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=56FA061F-1422-2418-A076-D0B56BCD8745 ... View more

Please do this especially since the register geodatabase option in ArcGIS Server 10.1 ONLY supports .sde connection files! So it seems SDE Workgroup users have to create .sde connections now anyways . As the author suggests this is rundant and a confusing process for new sde users.  ... View more

Please also improve this situation in Arcpy. I wish would also report a schema lock but instead it reports it cannot create the output feature class or table. Even with overwriteoutput = true there are times when a single user environment creates schema locks and arcpy does not report the correct error. Instead we start chasing down overwriteoutput options when it is not the real issue or cause of the error.   ... View more

I do not recall when overWriteouput was introduced but you might be able to simply place this at the top of your script. This environment setting allows overwriting existing outputs. http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=OverwriteOutput%20method If that does not exist in 9.1, you might be able to use the Delete command and then when you recreate the feature class has already been deleted? Hope this helps Ron ... View more

Agree. We all implement relational databases for a reason... You should see te faces of the database managers when I explain their relational database with normalized tables does not benefit the geodatabase much as we have to build tools to convert and maintain domain tables using toolboxes yet even these are lacking useful tools such as sort or reorder values. The geodatabase should use more relational design for its functionality. This might the same as this idea here, so make sure you vote for both. https://community.esri.com/ideas/1781 ... View more

It would be great if one could edit multiple fields for selected features in a single editing process. Right now the workflow seems to be right clicking on each column and performing a calculate several time. This is a slow workflow especially when loading expressions and having to switch the expression language each time in the calculate window since it does not remember the last settings. One way to accomplish this would be to allow the editor the option to select a number of fields to perform edits to. Very simple custom edit forms that supported domains and expressions...  Then when ready to edit click a simple button which opens a simple form which would allow static values, domains and expressions to be entered for each field. This way the editor simply fills out the form and clicks "apply" and all of the affected attributes would be updated for the selection set in a single edit action. Right now the fastest tool to do this is Attribute Transfer tool but it does not allow expressions and requires clicking to each feature which needs attributes applied. ... View more

Yes please make it so. It is ridiculous to deal with domain management tools or add ins to perform the simplest of tasks... (sort domains) Better yet provide a command that creates a view thereby allowing the admin to sort the view as desired.  It is a really fun having to explain to an Applications Manager who knows nothing about ArcGIS that their highly normalized database will have to be redundantly converted into the geodatabase using properietary arctoolbox/arcpy commands.  Domains as tables or views just makes sense and fits into the majority of the database world.  ... View more

This is an old thread but this was the only place I found the zippertask for 10.x and had no problems registering the tool and adding it to ArcMap 10 SP3. Make sure to put the command in quotes because some directory names might contain spaces. Here is an example: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcGIS\bin\EsriRegAsm.exe" "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\custom\ZipperPrj_Net.dll" Sure wish this tool was in the resource center or better yet built into the baseline ArcGIS Desktop product... How many years has it been a "sample" but it's one of the only ways to bring polygon's together in ArcGIS? ... View more

I think one primary question would be is the data from SQL Server using a spatial data type? If no... you might look into the BDC Service which can make external lists from various database platforms. But using this service successfully really depends on which level of SharePoint you are using. If data redundancy is not an issue the SSIS Integration Services sharepoint adapters can push/pull data from any database into/out of a sharepoint list in an unattended automated fashion. ... View more