Latest Contributions by DanaNolan

You can't edit or modify the second side (joined table) fields. If you added a new field, it is probably now in the first table. Make sure you are using the correct field as there are often many duplicate names in a join. Try exporting the join to a new table before adding the new field if you get really stuck. ... View more

I've never seen new records create annotation automatically (10.6, SQL Server). Deleting and changing fields does automatically affect annotation. Select the new records and right click on the layer/Select. There is an option Annotate Selected Features. You may have to be in edit for this to work. I don't use feature-linked annotation much anymore because of issues and my workflows. ... View more

You may want to look into the SDSFIE federal standards and the Esri Utility models (I don't know what these are called now). SDSFIE has utility schemas and some standard domains. ... View more

First, MGRS is simply an abstraction based on UTM. It is a shorthand display system for UTM meters. If I need MGRS grids, I calculate them from the meters using Python/Field Calculate. You can also use the Convert Coordinate Notation tool. Second, MGRS grids are not truly numeric, since they can and do start with a meaningful 0 and they must have a zone and 100K grid square. I guess if they are closely spaced, you don't have to display the grid square. ... View more

This sounds like a simple definition query on the standalone table, then a join back to the feature class on your media_table_id field and a field calculation to do the population.   ... View more

Have you looked at Increase Polygon Area tool? It has minimum area as one parameter, though it still uses a linear distance as another parameter. I don't know if it accepts negative buffers. If you can get a script to calculate your value based on your shape, so you can create a linear distance, store it in a field and Buffer by field value. ... View more

We have this problem sometimes with big exports (large high resolution), but it seems to be limited to SDE rasters (usually hillshades). Our file based imagery does not have this issue, and SDE-based vector layers sometimes also do not draw fully. Clearly, a network hiccup. Another common possibility is that your PDFs are not rendering everything ArcMap exported; if you zoom in and wait, can you see what you are missing?  Have you tried printed the affected pages? ... View more

You only have to do that once, the first time. After that, you have your fields and append does not require using the field maps if you set it to TEST.  If you are dealing with extra fields in some files, you can add fields manually using the Append field map. But I would just try a big merge to get all the fields first, empty the feature, then use append. ... View more

The lakes themselves may work as an index if you experiment with the zoom percentage. You can also experiment with how much to round the scale. Choosing to, for example, round scale to the nearest 2000 will guarantee a minimum map scale of 1:2000, but it could also mean a map page best generated at 10,500 will generate at 12000. There are two typical problems: shapes that are too far from rectangular pages (such as super long and skinny) and shapes with outlier sizes; your tiny ones may look zoomed in too far and not include enough surrounding features, and the super large ones may not show enough detail because the scale is too small. Methods I have used to deal with these kind of problems include excluding the outliers from the DD map index feature, copying the index feature and editing some of the shapes to get a better fit, and creating 2 DD mxd layouts, such as one for portrait and one for landscape layouts (using a layout field to select which shapes to include when). One advantage of copying a polygon feature that is your index is that you can then do a Page Query on it, which  you cannot do directly on an index polygon feature. ... View more

At any precision, each contour represents a closed polygon that represents where the elevation is above or below the break value, such as 10m. 10m contours draw completely different shapes than 100m contours, with many more bends  than 100m contours. They should not be evenly distributed. They may even cross the 100m contour lines because they are working from more information. Brown is 20m line; greet is detail ... View more