Latest Contributions by TristanKnowlton

There is a problem in my organization's web maps where information from a joined table only appears intermittently when using the identify tool.  We have a polygon feature service for parcels on our GIS server that is joined to SQL data from another server by parcel number.  All the data appears properly when using ArcGIS desktop, but when using our web maps or even the map viewer in ArcGIS online, the joined data does not properly appear for many parcels when identifying a feature.  If I refresh the page, a different set of features does not show the joined data.  I have attached pictures to show what I mean. Here is a picture with with a properly working identified parcel:  And here is a picture with empty joined data: I am unsure how to resolve this issue.  It started happening within the past few months.  I would appreciate any advice, but bear in mind I am by no means an ArcGIS expert. ... View more

For various reasons, my organization needs to set up an additional ArcGIS server at a separate physical location from our current server.   What is the best way to do this, performance-wise?  Do we need another Enterprise license to do this?  The new server needs to have the same data as the old server, so that if the old server goes down, the new one still functions properly. ... View more

My organization's ArcGIS server hosts several Flash/Flex viewer maps.  It seems that the server creates new ArcSOC EXE processes each time someone accesses one of the maps.  The ArcGIS documentation says that these processes are supposed to be reused and eventually killed, but they never seem to be killed on their own.  Eventually they start taking up too much memory and our maps stop working until I go into the Task Manager and kill them manually.  How do I stop this from happening? ... View more

Instead of having to use arcpy scripting to create high quality maps, make the high quality printing an out of the box configuration.  The current printing in ArcGIS Server is to grainy and very low resolution, it would be nice to not have to go through the steps in the help documentation to create high quality maps.  The process to produce high quality maps is currently fairly complex.   Help documention referenced above: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//0057000000mr000000 http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Tutorial_Advanced_high_quality_web_map_printing_exporting_using_arcpy_mapping/0057000000mq000000/ ... View more

Instead of having to use arcpy scripting to create high quality maps, make the high quality printing an out of the box configuration.  The current printing in ArcGIS Server is to grainy and very low resolution, it would be nice to not have to go through the steps in the help documentation to create high quality maps.  The process to produce high quality maps is currently fairly complex.   Help documention referenced above: http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//0057000000mr000000 http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Tutorial_Advanced_high_quality_web_map_printing_exporting_using_arcpy_mapping/0057000000mq000000/ ... View more

Wondering if anyone has had problems with custom layout printing performance from the Flex Viewer.  I have created a custom layout to use in the print widget.  When I use it to generate a print page, it takes between 1 minute and 1.5 minutes to create the pdf.  It did not do this at the beginning when I began creating the layout, it seemed that the more complicated I made the print layout in ArcMap, the worse the performance became when testing it.  Anyone have a solution to this problem?  Thanks! Darryl ... View more

I have a process that runs the 64-bit version of python as well as the 32-bit version.  The processes run on a machine with both ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop installed.  The 64-bit processes stop/start map services on the server while the 32-bit process does some database joins, db analyze, deletion, copying, and compressing.  I need this process to be automated and would like them to run under a single scheduled task on Windows Server 2008.  I have ran the pythons scripts successfully individually as well as combining the processes into a single python script.  The scripts work when run from Python IDLE, the command line, as well as from batch (.bat) files.  However, they only way they will run in scheduled tasks is if they are each in a separate scheduled tasks.  I tried to created a separate batch file for each process and then call all three batch files from another batch file, didn't work.  I tried 1 batch file that calls each version of python individually with each script, didn't work. I can't call python within the scheduled task with the .py script as the argument because I need to call Python's two versions: C:\Python27\ArcGISx6410.1\python.exe & C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\python.exe. The following batch file executes the first script but will not execute the second or third scripts: ECHO ON C:\PYTHON27\ArcGISx6410.1\python.exe D:\GIS\Automation_Files\PythonScripts\StopServices.py C:\PYTHON27\ArcGIS10.1\python.exe D:\GIS\Automation_Files\PythonScripts\ParcelJoin.py C:\PYTHON27\ArcGISx6410.1\python.exe D:\GIS\Automation_Files\PythonScripts\StopServices.py pause Thanks! ... View more