If you’re using the Attribute Assistant, we need your help!

[MikeMillerGIS]

We’re doing some research into how the Attribute Assistant is being used. We’d like to see what rules you are using and how you configured your dynamic value table. 

This information will help us plan for the future. We want to know what are the most common rules.  We also want to see your gnarly and complicated rules to see how far the Attribute Assistant is being pushed.

So please share your dynamic value table along with any comments you have in this thread. We appreciate your help on this effort!

Thanks,

Mike

ArcGIS Solutions

PS: If you don’t know what the Attribute Assistant is (or aren’t sure if you are using it already) no worries.  You can learn more about Attribute Assistant on the ArcGIS Solution site here. 

[MikeMillerGIS]

Jay,

     I cannot repo this issue with the version posted above.  The install of the new add in may have not been successful.  Can you try the following.

1: Open ArcMap, open Add in manager, and delete the Attribute Assistant

2:  Close ArcMap and Open it again, verify the add in removed in the Add In Manager

3:  Open the assembly cache folder and ensure the old version is gone, Browse to one of the locations below, find the correct folder by opening them up and look for a file called AttributeAssistant.dll, delete this folder if it exist.

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ESRI\Desktop10.4\AssemblyCache

%LOCALAPPDATA%\ESRI\Desktop10.3\AssemblyCache

4:  Install new add in from this forum

[MikeMillerGIS]

We have released the fix on the solution site.  All solutions using the AA have been updated.  Thanks everyone for reporting and helping us isolate the issue.

[JayClark]

I didn't see any of the two folder, and attached a screenshot of the add-in as well as a test project in the zip file.  Still can't get the manual event to update the fields.  Thanks again.

[MikeMillerGIS]

When I run your test data through, here is what I get

[JayClark]

I just ran a file search for the attributeassistant.dll, and was able to find the other one, and deleted it.  So it works now.   Thanks a bunch.

[MikeMillerGIS]

Great!  BTW, We are looking at rolling an update out next week with this fix, I will post an update here if it happens.

[PriscillaCole]

Question for the group - Is there a dynamic value table method to access map document properties? I'd like to have attribute assistant use the map title to auto-populate a field on create, as a means of populating a project ID. Most methods appear to pull info from tables or geometry relationships, but few other file or system properties. Our current workflow has a new version and new MXD created per project ID, and we're thinking that pulling from the map title could be an easy solution for the front end users. Other ideas we've kicked around are MXD name (minus extension), or possibly the version name.

I know in layout mode, dynamic text is used to display the map title via: <dyn type="document" property="title"/>.

arcpy can also access the map title like this:

mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT")

mxd.title

Is there a method or VB expression to grab the same information?

Thanks in advance!

mmiller-esristaff​ timw1984​

[TimWitt2]

Priscilla,

looking through here, I can't find a way to do this.

Sorry I couldn't help

Tim

[MikeMillerGIS]

Tim is correct, there is not a method to pull info from map document.

[JoeBorgione]

Today I just started a new gig which is AA centric for county wide address points. (Salt Lake County, UT.)  At this point I'm just dipping my big toe into the pool, but I see I'm in good company with a number of familiar names.

One Question- the Value Info field takes VB instructions; is there any discussion to move towards Python here?

Tim Witt​

Jeff Ward​