Latest Contributions by IanMurray

Kinda sounds like its not processing all of your polygons in the dissolve each time.  How many do you have to dissolve? Also I'm guessing that it has nothing to do with North vs South, but more based on it processing X number of polygons, in order of FID or OID and stops at a certain point.  Are you working with a shapefile or GDB Feature Class? ... View more

Few thoughts. First, you are dissolving based on the ID field, do the north and south parts have different ID numbers? Second you are running this as part of a larger script it sounds like, perhaps you have a selection that was not cleared from an earlier operation which is only dissolving selected features?  If you could post more of your script, perhaps that could be helpful in finding the issue. ... View more

I'm  sure you were intending this for an exercise in Web GIS, but I decided to bring your arcgis server to ArcGIS for Desktop for a try as a .lpk. Fallbrook, San Marcos, and Vista all allowed me to create local copies for editting and able to sync back, while the Oceanside one doesn't even come in with the lpk file. Within the web map, since all the food stores are symbolized the same, I can't tell which are which. Also worth noting, I think your Fallbrook dataset came in with the lpk, but the dataset was empty, no points were showing on the map. ... View more

The Trace Tool is on the Feature Construction Tool Bar and only works when you are creating features.  Make sure you have selected Create Features and have selected a template to use when creating your feature.  The Trace Tool should un-grey then and be usable. ... View more

you just need to indent your last line to the same indentation as the last line, otherwise its running outside of your for-loop ... View more

Creating the array after the for row in rows would work too, since it creates a new array each time.  Your code was just missing the parantheses, otherwise it would have been fine as is. ... View more

I'd do some debugging to check if you are actually connected to the sde with the path you gave it as the workspace or not.  You can use the workspace properties to check the connection string of the workspace and check the name of the server.  If you get blank strings, then there is a problem with your path to the sde, if not it could be that the feature classes in the sde are in feature datasets, not directly within the sde, so its returning no feature classes. Help with Workspace Properties - ArcGIS Help 10.1 ... View more

When you export a map document to a kml, it doesn't export the entire map document as seen in layout view, but the dataframe you select.  If your legend is partially outside of your dataframe boundaries, that could be what is causing the issue. Can you post a screenshot of the map in question in layout view? ... View more

Lots of things get suggested, but the implementation of them is another matter entirely.  Best thing you can do is add your vote to an idea and hope ESRI decides to implement it. ... View more

You can add suggestions here. Esri Arcgis Ideas | Ideas Submission Portal ... View more

Amanda I think they are aware of that option, but their dilemma is that they want maps to autosave to version 10.0, when doing a regular save, or when prompted if they want to save when closing an mxd.  Unfortunately Arcmap defaults to the version you are using when saving an mxd, even if the map is an older version to start with. James, according to an older set of posts Change the setting of the GDB/MXD to default to ArcGIS 9.3 versions , it wasn't possible to change the default mxd version.  I would probably recommend making an add-in button that allows you to save your current mxd you have open into a 10.0.  Other suggestion would be make a python code or script tool that would allow users to convert a map document, instead of those requesting a mxd in 10.0 version, they could use the tool or script to convert it themselves. ... View more

can you post a screenshot of your table of contents in ArcGIS, with all the layer showing? ... View more

You could select all property polygons then do a select by location with selection method "remove from currently  selected features" if a parcel polygon intersects an orchard polygon. ... View more