Latest Contributions by LindaMcCafferty

Hello – Thank you for the response. The issue we are having is that if a basemap is being used by another user, we don’t have any idea who that user is to ask him/her to remove it. The iPad indicates that is being used, but no name is given. Since our iPads are used by several users, we would have no idea who to contact. Does that make sense? Linda McCafferty, GISP Geospatial Services Information Technology Bureau 561.682.2726 ... View more

I'm performing an inventory of 400 features, each one with an attachment. My attachments all read Photo1.jpg for each one of my locations. This is causing problems when referencing the photos later. Is there a way to have Collector uniquely name each attachment in the inventory? Hi Joe You mentioned that you are referencing the photos.  I have a similar project and was wondering how you are getting the photos from the layer.  I am programming with C#. Even if you are using Python or some other language I could convert it to what I need.   Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Linda ... View more

What I need to do is access the photos that are stored in the layer file through code with C#. Any ideas or examples?  Thank you ... View more

Neil - Thank you so much for pointing that out to me!  When creating the balloon callout, I had to use the FocusMap as the graphics container.  I concentrated so much on trying to delete the element, that I didn't pay attention to where it was added.   If anyone is interested, the revised code is:              IMxDocument pMxDocument = (IMxDocument)m_application.Document;             IActiveView pActiveView = pMxDocument.PageLayout as IActiveView;             IGraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = pMxDocument.PageLayout as IGraphicsContainer;             IGraphicsContainer mapGraphicsContainer = pMxDocument.FocusMap as IGraphicsContainer;             IElement element = null;             ICompositeLayer pCompositeLayer = null;             ICompositeGraphicsLayer pCompositeGraphicsLayer = null;             try             {                 if (pMxDocument.ActiveView is IMap)                 {                     pMxDocument.ActiveView = pMxDocument.PageLayout as IActiveView;                 }                 mapGraphicsContainer.Reset();                 element = mapGraphicsContainer.Next();                 while (element != null)                 {                     if (!(element is IMapFrame))                     {                         mapGraphicsContainer.DeleteElement(element);                         mapGraphicsContainer.Reset();                     }                     element = mapGraphicsContainer.Next();                 }                 graphicsContainer.Reset();                 element = graphicsContainer.Next();                 while (element != null)                 {                     if (!(element is IMapFrame))                     {                         graphicsContainer.DeleteElement(element);                         graphicsContainer.Reset();                         pActiveView.PartialRefresh(esriViewDrawPhase.esriViewGraphics, element, pActiveView.Extent);                     }                     element = graphicsContainer.Next();                 } This deletes elements in both the PageLayout and FocusMap.  You're adding the text elements to the map's graphics container.  Your code that deletes the elements is looping through the page layout's graphics container.  The map and the page layout are both graphics containers and contain their own set of graphic elements. ... View more

The problem is that when I manually go to Tools --> Select All Elements, the balloon callouts are not selected, but everything else is.  So when I programmatically select all elements with the graphicsContainer, it does not see these elements to delete.  Attached is a screen capture when I select all the elements.    The strange part is when I create the balloon callout, the TextElement gets put into an IElement and added like this.                         IGraphicsContainer pGreaphicsContainer = pMxDocument.FocusMap as IGraphicsContainer;                         pGreaphicsContainer.AddElement(pElement, 0); A balloon callout isn't a type of graphic element so you can't loop through the elements looking for it.  A callout is a text background object, which is a property of a text element that uses a formatted text symbol.  In order to determine if a graphic element has a callout you first need to determine whether or not it implements ITextElement.  If it does, then you need to check to see if the type of symbol is IFormattedTextSymbol.  If it is, then you need to see if the background object is set and if so if it is IBalloonCallout.  Or if you're just interested in deleting all text elements then just check the element type and delete it if it's ITextElement. ... View more

You can use the arcpy.Append_management command to do this. I'm trying to append feature classes together using C# but am running into an error  (see attached).  My code is:                 object[] InLayers = new object[1];                 InLayers[0] = "ROW_points2polygons; ROW_linePolygons; AreaFeatures";                 object[] OutLayer = new object[1];                 OutLayer[0] = "c:\\ROW_Scrub.gdb" + "\\" + "ROW_Appended";                 System.Type SystemTypeGp = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1");                 System.Object objDispatch = Activator.CreateInstance(SystemTypeGp);                 SystemTypeGp.InvokeMember("Toolbox", BindingFlags.SetProperty, null, objDispatch,                     new object[] { @"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx" });                 SystemTypeGp.InvokeMember("Append", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public, null, OutLayer, InLayers); Can you tell me what is meant by BindingFlags and Binders?  Most of the examples that I find are written using Python.  Thanks for any help you can provide. ... View more

Here is code that I use to create a filegeodatabase using C# Could it be that you are using accessworkspace instead of the FileGDBWorkspaceFactoryClass? IWorkspaceFactory2 fgdbWorkspaceFactory = new FileGDBWorkspaceFactoryClass(); fgdbWorkspaceFactory = new FileGDBWorkspaceFactoryClass(); fgdbWorkspaceFactory.Create(ClsGlobalVariables.User_Data_Path + Environment.UserName + "\\exhibits\\", "fileGDBForFacilities", null, 0); Hope this helps!  Linda ... View more