Latest Contributions by TimDonoyou

hi there, you should just be able to use value as the variable in the calculatefield tool without any % or ' you might need to use str() or int() depending on the field type hope this helps cheers Tim ... View more

Hi Richard Many thanks for your advice and links - really helpful. While I admit I am not a python expert I have created scripts to automate many of our workflows and have included validation scriptswith these so have more than a basic knowledge. What I am hoping to achieve is a combination of using a featureset and recordset or attribute lists to add multiple species to a ecology habitat type...the user will click a point to add a habitat type which can be from a feature template or a list parameter...the habitat type selected will determine the species list dropdown - i can do this already using the vaildation script to change the species tick list...BUT...if possible I would really like to also include an abundance attribute (D, A, F, O, R) for each species and this is not possible at the moment as the value list defaults to a ticklist - do you know if it is possible to create a value table for string parameters? or would I be better off going the .net route? if so where is the best place to get started? Any pointers are much appreciated. Cheers Tim ... View more

Hi All, Appreciate this is an old thread but any progress on this? has it been solved in 10.2? I have looked at the help menus but it doesn't give any more information than 10.1 version. If possible I would like a 2 column input table - column 1 will be a habitat type selected from a dropdown and then column 2 would be a species selected from another dropdown whose values would change depending on the habitat selected for column 1. Cheers Tim ... View more

Hi there, As far as I know the MakeFeatureLayer tool just creates a temporary layer for use within the current tool or mxd and does not save it to disc (copy features will do this if needed) and therefore your "OutPolyLyr" does not actually exist in your "C:/ArcGIS/SurfCityData/Scratch/ViewshedPolys" folder and the Select by attribute tool cannot find it. If you remove or comment out the OutPolyLyr = OutPoly.split(".")[0]+"_Lyr" line from your script then I think it should work. Hope this helps thnaks Tim ... View more

As a work around you could create a geodatabase annotation featureclass from your labels and then include / add this to your mobilecache. cheers Tim ... View more

Hi Jared, Without using python you could do a spatial join with the bird points as the target layer and the state polygons as the join layer. This would assign a StateID / Name to each point which you could summarise by and get the sum of the bird count attribute. If necessary you could join this by attribute back to the original state polygon layer. The alternative in python would be to use a search or update cursor to loop through each feature in the polygon layer, select by location the points within in each feature, get the value of the bird count attribute for each point, sum them and then update a field in the polygon layer - this is straightforward to code but would probably take longer than the spatial join approach described above. Hope this helps Cheers Tim ... View more

Hi there, in the code you need to get the parameter as text: parameter1 = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(n) ## n is the position of the parameter in the list defined below starting at 0 then you add the script to ArcToolbox... http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Adding_a_script_tool/00150000001r000000/ hope this helps cheers Tim ... View more

Hi Connor Just out of interest - have you managed to deploy ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 10.x projects in a co-ordinate system other than WGS84...? We have found that the software is not able to transform the GPS WGS84 input co-ordinates into British National Grid and therefore set up all our data and mobile projects in WGS84. We are using Trimble Juno 5 devices. Thanks Tim ... View more

Hi Darryl, We have found that GCS/World/GCS_WGS_1984.prj to be the most reliably accurate but it does mean transforming all our layers and base maps from British National Grid to this for every project deployment which can take some time. Hope this helps - let us know if you find an alternative way of transforming projected co-ordinate systems to work with ArcGIS Mobile 10.x and / or hopefully this issue is resolved in ArcGIS 10.2 - it was fine in ArcGIS Mobile 3.x...! Thanks Tim ... View more