Latest Contributions by BrianO_keefe

I'm working with custom built Javascript maps made by an ESRI contract YEARS AGO... I inherited them (lucky me). Now they are throwing errors and I get to figure out why, yay! We did an upgrade to 10.2 from 10.1 and suddenly our Test and Dev environments crashed. Our production is fine. The weird thing is... the Dev environment was upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2 but the Test and Prod were not. Test and Dev no longer work but Prod does. We moved some databases from Oracle to SQL so I'm assuming that might be part of the problem but I can't figure out what to do at this point?! I started by getting an error, a javascript alert that said: xml [objectError] So I broke it down until I could READ the error... I used the following code: function objToString (obj) {     var str = '';     for (var p in obj) {         if (obj.hasOwnProperty(p)) {             str += p + '::' + obj + '\n';         }     }     return str; } I passed the [object Error] to this function and got a MASSIVE error screen. The web apps this error is happening are legacy and critical. They were also written by keyboard monkeys. The dojo references are: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/3.0/js/dojo/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css" />         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/3.0/js/dojo/dojox/grid/resources/tundraGrid.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/3.0/js/dojo/dojox/layout/resources/FloatingPane.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/3.0/js/dojo/dojox/layout/resources/ResizeHandle.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/3.0/js/dojo/dojox/layout/resources/ExpandoPane.css" /> I'm lost... does anyone have any ideas? ... View more

I thought that you could use the Web Adaptor to restrict backwards breadcrumbing to Rest Services. But I can't find anything breaking down this process. Is there a tutorial or a guide for this? We have the web adaptor setup on a 10.1 server and would like to consider a 10.2 server as well. However, we have several internal maps with proprietary data that we don't want shared and with the rest services it doesn't take a genius to get the URL and backtrack to the treasure trove. How can we stop this for select services? ... View more

I work for Local City Government and we get our Counties Parcel Data in Shapefile format. After reviewing the LGIM I believe we are going to try to shift gears and begin to build our GIS foundation on top of it but only if we can figure out how to get our current data sources INTO the LGIM. I've read the 'Getting started with ArcGIS for Local Government' and I still have more questions than answers. I have our Counties parcel data (currently) in SDE and also in the Shapefiles we get directly from them. We have generated the LGIM from the XML in our SDE as well. Step 4 of the 'Getting started with ArcGIS for Local Government' states (quite simplistically) to "Load your data into the Local Government geodatabase" without discussing field names, aliases, etc. I realise that Step 3 says to "configure the model to meet your specific needs" but it doesn't give an example. Am I correct in assuming the following hypothetical situation? LGIM has fields A, B, C, and D. MyData has fields W, X, Y, and Z. When we compare the two datasets we find that A = X, B = Y and C = Z. When we compare the two datasets we find that LGIM has D but we don't have an equivalent. When we compare the two datasets we find that MyData has W but the LGIM doesn't have an equivalent. So... in our Model Builder we set up a Truncate and Append. We truncate out the live data in SDE. We append our Shapefile from the County INTO the (now truncated) SDE. In our Append we: 1) match A > X, B > Y, C > Z 2) we leave D blank because we don't have one (but we DON'T remove it from LGIM) 3) we CREATE a field for W in the LGIM If this is correct then I'll be starting the process as soon as I get this verified. If this is incorrect... where can I go for more assistance? ... View more

The current standard Query Widget allows a single query. Does anyone know of a widget allowing for more than a single query? Like the Bookmarks widget but with a list of Queries? ... View more

I've asked a few questions about this Local Government Data Model and I'm not getting any answers. I've got a full plate and am working on quarterly work but I really want to shift gears and get our GIS foundation built on what looks like a great model. So, in the interest of try and try again, here is a new question. We are a City Government where County Government is the entity that manages Parcel data. So we get a copy but we do not manage this data. We get updates, and up till now we just truncate-n-append to update the parcels. We would LIKE to use the Local Government Data Model for this, we've imported the empty model into SDE and we've dug around and found multiple locations for parcel data, but nothing that looks like we could import our parcel data to? Can someone give me a few tips? Ideas? Anything? Are we using a Parcel Fabric? What happens to the fabric when we get an updated dataset from County with new parcels... new parcel ID's... new boundaries... etc? ... View more

My GIS co-worker and I are very interested in the Local Government Data Model, especially the Addressing section. We are putting a GIS foundation in place and would like to do it right. We have downloaded the Data Model and X-Ray and created the GeoDatabase. But we work in an SDE setup and would prefer to just port it over to SDE and keep on moving. However, I thought I remembered seeing that you had to keep it in GDB format for some reason or the other. Can anyone let me know if the Local Government Data Model can be converted to SDE and used correctly from there? ... View more