Latest Contributions by CoyPotts1

I'm a little unsure of what you mean, but I will wait for your response to get a better idea. Thanks! ... View more

Hi, guys, I just wanted to check back in here and see if either of you have had a chance to take a look at the sample data yet.  Thanks again for the assistance thus far. ... View more

Thanks for that, Xander.  I've gotten used to viewing the threads in the inbox view of the new website layout.  ... View more

I have a sample of all three feature classes, but I am unsure how to upload them here.  I don't see an option to do so through the reply window. Thanks again for your help with this, guys. ... View more

Okay, so I've had some time to review these suggestions and run some tests.  Here are my conclusions so far. Dan: I tried to run the Spanning Tree tool, but it gave me a really weird output.  I used a network with only a few points and I got a pretty spider web looking line output that didn't follow the paths of my line feature class.  Also, I'm not really sure if this tool would give me the output that I need. Say you have three points (nodes feature class) along a linear path (fiber feature class) that all connect to a final point (hub feature class).  Let's just say that each segment of fiber connecting each node and to the hub is 1 mile in length and the nodes are numbered 1 through 3 starting with the one closest to the hub. I want an output that measures the length from each node back to the hub, as shown below: Node 1: 1 Mile Node 2: 2 Miles Node 3: 3 Miles Total:  6 Miles     (<--- this isn't necessary as I can do it in excel, just putting it here for a visual of what I want) Unless I was simply inputting my parameters incorrectly, I don't think the spanning tree tool will give what I need. One thing that really leads me to believe that this isn't what I need is that there is no option to select the hub as the single point that all nodes are routed back to.  Please correct me if I am wrong. My inputs were as follows: Input points:  node feature class Grouping Field:  field that contains node names (I wasn't real sure what to use here) Output polyline:  just saved as a basic shapefile Start node:  I left this blank Xander: Your suggestion actually seems promising from what I have read about it.  It appears that it is supposed to give an output that has the distance of each node back to a neutral point location based on the shortest distance, which will only be one option since there will only ever be one linking connection from each node back to the hub.  However, my limited knowledge and experience with running Python scripts has hindered my ability to run an adequate test case.  I loaded the python script into the python window and tried to run it, but I don't get anything as an output.  Just reading the code I can see that I am supposed to select a starting point (I guess I would select the hub) that each node will be measured back to, but I don't know how to do that.  I tried to simply grab the hub with my cursor, but I still didn't get an output when running the script.  I ended up learning how to add a script to a toolbox, so I added the script and ran it.  It doesn't give an option for any input parameters, and it gave the following error message "IndentationError: unexpected indent (recipe-119466-1.py, line 10) Do you have any suggestions? ... View more

Thanks to both of you for offering up suggestions.  I have never heard of either of these, and I have yet to be able to look into them or try them.  I just wanted to thank you for the assistance.  I'll update further once I have played with them to see if either will work for our needs. Thanks again! ... View more

Yes, I had the preconditions set.  I failed to mention that in the original post.  I ran the model as shown below: Save Folder - precondition - Apply Layer Symbology (for KMZ export) - precondition - Map To KML - precondition - Apply Layer Symbology (original/default) In theory that should work, but like I said in the original message, the model runs too quickly for the change to apply.  When I manually apply a layer as symbology, it takes about 3-5 seconds to apply.  The model doesn't wait for it to apply before moving on, though, and spits out  a KMZ with the original symbology. ... View more

Yeah, there is a stop function in Model Builder, but I don't think it really works for what I need, or I just haven't been using it correctly.  I'll play around with exporting the model to script and manually modifying it.  That's where I get messed up with scripting, though, as I'm unaware of the proper syntax of a lot of the stuff involved. I'll try it out and if I feel like I'm getting somewhere I'll post the code here for further input. Thanks! ... View more

I am still looking for a solution to this problem.  Just wanted to bump this up to hopefully find someone willing and able to assist.  Thanks! ... View more

Yes, I have been leaving the legend outside of the dataframe.  We produce JPEG outputs of our maps as well, and we don't want the legend to appear on them, so I left it out to the side hoping that it would be functional within the KMZ, but not have to manually move it each time for our JPEG exports.  I ran a couple tests after reading this (didn't see your reply until today), and I tried both inside and outside the dataframe, and nothing seems to fix the issues.  The below image shows where I have been leaving the legend.  However, even after I moved the legend entirely within the dataframe and saved the map, I still get the same result (shown at bottom) As you can see, the legend cut off the title, and even added some space at the bottom. ... View more

I see.  For some reason I was mistakenly thinking that X was Latitude and Y was Longitude.  Yes, they are correct when switched.  I think I was still confused on the other stuff that I didn't even think to reverse them...(dummy ). I don't think I'll use the attribute assistant because we don't actually create point data, we load it in from shapefiles.  We create line and other data after that, but no points are created.  Definitely good to know for future reference, though! Thanks a ton for your assistance and thorough responses.  I appreciate your time. ... View more