Latest Contributions by RogerDunn

It sounds as though you are new to the product, which is great and I welcome you to the community.  Please know that labeling in ArcMap is basically its own course and takes a really long time to master.  There are so many options, and so many combinations of options, that it could be difficult to assist you without further information, screen shots, and so forth. By design, ArcMap does not normally show labels all on top of each other, so it has to selectively pick which ones to display and which ones to hide.  There are ways to tweak this, but by default, it may seem random to you.  Let us see your map at different scales before we suggest ways to configure the settings. ... View more

Oh, and I've also seen this problem when a layer's spatial index is out of date.  Catalog > Properties of the feature class > Indexes > Spatial Index > Update... ... View more

You can also see your map's selection tolerance.  Another thing I'd look at is how zoomed in you are.  Zoom levels like "1:0.7" don't work well interactively. ... View more

I remember experiencing this with 10.6.  In my case, the C:\Python27 directory had had its permissions changed so that only Administrators could view its contents.  To fix it, I clicked the Python folder, waited for File Explorer to tell me that it wasn't accessible and asked if I wanted to make it accessible, to which I clicked Yes.  Python, after all, is necessary for a lot of ArcMap functionality so it made sense why it was crashing.  But still no idea on how those permissions got changed.  I saw this on four other workstations in my organization, out of perhaps 25 workstations. ... View more

On page 67 of the ArcGIS 9 Managing ArcSDE: Application Servers book, it says, "If the system administrator account is not being used to start the service, make sure the user is a member of the administrator power group." The way I fixed this problem on our legacy server was to have the service run as the Administrator on the local box, rather than the Local Service Account option.  When I did that, I got a dialog message that Administrator was then being granted login privileges.  Despite that, when I restarted the server, ArcSDE ran automatically like I had hoped.  I believe that the reason that people are able to start the service when they're logged in is because they're logging in with an account with administrative privileges before starting the service Now, our service has a few nuances.  For instance, arcsde isn't really the name of our service--we customized it.  And, we don't use a database called sde, we renamed it something else, and then set the SDE_ADMIN_DATABASE configuration parameter to that name.  But we modified etc\services like we were supposed to, and services.sde, and added %SDEHOME% to %PATH%, yet none of those things made ArcSDE start automatically, successfully, after server reboot.     ... View more

There is a reason that my implementation is more complex.  The stake holder wanted to update one field in the master class based on date fields in TWO detail classes.  The code has to look at the latest inspection in both of the related tables, get the maximum, and then do date math to find the number of days different.  I also set up variables and method parameters instead of hard-coding any field names.  Still, I can tell your grasp of Python is stronger than mine, so a mix of our code could be close to ideal. I also want to add another note.  I used to have a problem where the call to stopEditing would raise an exception about the state of the edits.  I found another thread on this forum that mentioned that the key to not raising the exception is to delete (del) the variable holding the cursor.  In my code above, this is masterRow. ... View more