Latest Contributions by KevinGooss

My site breaks when i upgrade api versions from 2.8 to 3.1 I see many posts in here that error with esri not defined. i don't think that is my issue and i have taken great pains to not reference esri.* outside of dojo.ready. My issue is that the api does not appear to load properly, i never even hit dojo.ready. When i have the 2.8 api I see files like this being loaded: http://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/2.8/js/dojo/dojox/gfx/svg.xd.js but when i have the 3.1 api these calls error out and i see it is trying to load that resource from here instead: http://myserver.com/dojox/gfx/svg.js Why would it be looking local to find this? it is doing likewise for jsapi_en-us.js and Dialog.jsa nd number.js I get 6 or 7 errors on load. Anybody seen this before? Could it have anything to do with my module path:   <script type="text/javascript">djConfig = { parseOnLoad: true,usePlainJson: true, baseUrl: "", modulePaths: { "tg": "JGF/js/jg"}}</script>     <script type="text/javascript" src="https://serverapi.arcgisonline.com/jsapi/arcgis/?v=3.1"></script> ... View more

I'm trying to export a map and have a definition query on one of the visible layers. As my reference i'm using these two help files from esri: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/exportwebmap_spec.html http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//0154000004w8000000 unfortunately, they differ. And i'm not sure why and which is correct. I see the term "operational layers" used in one example but in another they just refer to "layer". I'm fairly certain that my request will not work because even though I have defined a definition expression I haven't really said which layer it applies to. Here is my request: {     "mapOptions": {         "extent": {             "xmin": -10277673.334899997,             "ymin": 4527010.491500001,             "xmax": -10276963.904200003,             "ymax": 4527654.234599998,             "spatialReference": {                 "wkid": 102100             }         },         "scale": 13619.999999999998,         "rotation": 0,         "spatialReference": {             "wkid": 102100         }     },     "operationalLayers": [         {             "id": null,             "url": "http://blah.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/MDC/MDC_Edit/MapServer",             "title": "FGC_Edit",             "opacity": 0.9,             "layerDefinition": {                 "definitionExpression": "SHPID='1496E00C03C6494D8A6EDE861FDBA387'"             },             "visibleLayers": [                 5             ]         }     ],     "baseMap": {         "title": "My Base Map",         "baseMapLayers": [             {                 "url": "http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer"             }         ]     },     "exportOptions": {         "dpi": 96,         "outputSize": [             500,             500         ]     },     "layoutOptions": {         "titleText": ""     } } ... View more

I have a simple python script that accepts a feature class name and a list of object ids. the script makes an sde connection with a hard-coded sde file and then exports the chosen features to a shapefile and stamps that to disk. The tool runs fine in my python ide. The tool runs fine in Arcmap. When i click on the results and select Share as GP service i select new service and am presented with the Service Editor dialog. When i try to publish (or analyze) i get errors that my tool "contains broken project data source" I'm actually getting 4 things in the Prepare are. one is High severity error with code 68 broken project data. The other 3 are high warnings with code 24032 datasource is not registered with server. Why are there 3 warnings and an error? I have registered this data source with ags using ArcCatalog (both normally and as an ags managed data source) When i click on the warnings I get the Data Stores dialog and i see my registered data store. I then click Validate All and get a check. I can do this for all 3 warnings and they are then listed as Re-Analyze. But when i analyze again they return! When i click on the sole error message my Task is removed from the Service Editor and I am brought to the General tab. Not sure what to do there. Am I missing something? How can I get this gp tool to publish? ... View more

I see how i can publish a gp tool by creating the tool, running it in arcmap, and then selecting the results and clicking Share As... That creates an sd file that i can then use in ags manager to publish my tool. The problem is that i have a toolbox with 30 tools in it. I don't want to run all 30 and go through this process. Can't i just publish the entire toolbox somehow? Also, why the change in publishing gp services? I liked being able to go into catalog, connect to my ags, then right click and add new service based on a python scripted tool. that seemed like a great workflow because i could then edit the python script in the background without having to reup my service (unless i changed params). It appears that under the new workflow I cannot modify my python script without having to open arcmap and rerun everything. This will add much time to my dev process. ... View more

I'm confused about all of the data copying going on when i publish a service in 10.1 I don't want my data copied anywhere. I have sde on my ags machine so there should be no duplication of data. I can create just an sd file in arcmap and then i can use that sd file to create a published service and i think the data is not copied. but what if i want to change the mxd slightly? how would i go about updating the service with the new sd file? Maybe I'm missing something but copying data is not a good thing in my book. Also when i publish mxds as services I see duplicate mxd/msd/sd files buried in esri directories. I want there to be one copy of my mxd, one copy of my msd, and one copy of the sd. and i want all of those files to be in MY directories, where i put them. ... View more

I am trying to use python and arcpy.mapping to export a map to pdf. I want the map to have some layers from my mxd and i also want to pass in a url to an external layer (like, say, esri streets) from a different server. I can turn layers on and off in my own mxd and zoom to an aoi and all that jazz and then export to pdf and it works. But how can i integrate a layer from an external source like another arcgis server? I see the ListMapService method but i have never been successful in getting it to run. I always get a connection error. Why are there 2 required parameters to this method - url and server? Seems to me that if you have the url to a rest services directory then you have everything you need to list out the services available - that's all my browser needs. I also see that i can add any .lyr file to my mxd before i export it. But I want to add layers that i don't own and that are not on my server. Can this be done at 10.0? ... View more