Latest Contributions by BradFindlay

Like many of you who do GIS I am a visual person, so its great to be able to visualize what is going on with the Geodatabase state tree. I miss this tool and would love to see it as a new enhancement! ... View more

We ran into a similar problem with our Flex Viewer, returning a similar error code. It turns out our problem was the map used to create the map service was modified to include a join on the layer being searched on, and then the service was republished. Because of this change, the fields configured in the Search Widget need to be reconfigured to indicate which table was being searched on, such as seen in the example below. Instead of our old configuration: <field name="PARCELS.APN" alias="Parcel Number" /> With the join we needed this:     <field name="PROD_SDE.DBO.PARCELS.APN" alias="Parcel Number" /> Once I made this change the search tool worked perfectly again. Brad Findlay GIS Analyst City of Rancho Cordova ... View more

This problem stumped me for a while too, but I figured out a solution: From the GIS Servers service list, right click your service --> Manage Cache --> Manage Tiles. Next in the Manage Map Server Cache Tiles dialog, make sure Recreate All Tiles is specified in the Update Mode variable, the click OK to create the tiles. This solution seemed to work great for me, and my tiles were created successfully after this tool was finished running. I don't however claim to be an expert in creating map service caches. Brad Findlay GIS Analyst City of Rancho Cordova ... View more

This is a good idea, but it would be even better if ESRI could add functionality to import a domain directly from another geodatabase rather than have to export from one geodatabase to a table then from the table to your new geodatabase. I believe there is a copy domain idea along these lines that is being implemented. ... View more

My feelings exactly Fritz, well done idea. Too much wasted paper in my opinion. The automatic subscriptions need to stop and there needs to be a better way to manage your subscriptions on the ESRI site. The default subscription should be e-subscriptions if at all. ESRI seems to make it easy to subscribe to these but unsubscribing...if you can still do that, is not obvious. ... View more

A good suggestion rgrichards. Perhaps ESRI could add a "List Tables" tab to the table of contents might be one way to do this. ... View more

A good suggestion rgrichards. Perhaps ESRI could add a "List Tables" tab to the table of contents might be one way to do this. ... View more

Hi Rico, Sorry for my much delayed response as I must have missed the notification of your comment back in July. In case you�??re still working on this solution I wanted to comment. I'm no expert by any means, but what I meant when I said output "sentences matched what could be recognized by ArcPad" was that Trimble receivers require a certain NMEA string setting if you are using NMEA protocol as opposed to TSIP protocol to transfer the GPS location information to your device from the receiver. I looked up the setting is an old ESRI documentation for Using ArcPAD (here is a link I found that should work: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/tmillett/course/geog205/files/Using%20ArcPad.pdf ). On page 141 at the bottom you will see the NMEA Settings when using NMEA protocol. The String format is =(check), GGA, VTG,GLL, GSA, GSV, RMC, ZDA. These are the expected output string ArcPAD needs to plot the GPS position. For more info on what those string elements mean see the following link. http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm. As far as your question as to what is happening, I believe you have it right. In my case I needed Trimble Survey Controller to be open to establish the RTK connection with the network. That was the hard part for me and my solution with having both the Controller software and ArcPad open at the same time is a little cumbersome. Hopefully you can find a way to do this with your hardware, and I'll bet Bill can help you with expert advice if you�??re having trouble. Cheers, Brad ... View more

I am really surprised this functionality doesn't already exist in SDE as it does it personal or file geodatabases. Sounds like this would be a great improvement. ... View more

I am gritting my teeth and dealing with the general slowness of Arc 10 in consideration of the new enhancements that have been incorperated at this version, but the slowness during editing has to be fixed. I am not being very productive with this version as I tipically wait 5-6 second per edit for my screen to refresh and show the changes and that is just barley acceptable... ... View more

Success! Got this to work with a trial version of ArcPad 10 loaded onto the TSC2 handheld connected to a R6 receiver (with integrated cell phone) via a serial cable. Basically I downloaded Trimble�??s GPS Configurator  software (as suggested by Daniel) to configure the receiver to output a NMEA string, making sure the sentences matched what could be recognized by ArcPad.  I also set the baud rate (9600) and the port to match a DB9 port that I connected to the handheld via a female to female serial cable. Then I configured ArcPad to accept a NMEA string with the same connection parameters, and set the GPS mode to RTK Fixed/Float and the HDOP to filter my position quality (EPE is apparently only output by Garmin GPS receivers). I tested the connection with the debug tool in ArcPad and the signal looked good. Then getting it all to work, I did some research and figured out that I didn�??t need to use GNSS internet radio because the TSC2 handheld unit has Trimble Survey Controller software installed which is imbedded with its own NTRIP client. This meant however that I had to have Survey Controller open to first establish the cellular connection to the RTK network, before switching to ArcPad to collect my data. I only tested this with a couple of points but occasionally I would briefly lose the cellular connection (which is normal for cellular RTK connections I am told). When that happed ArcPAD would warn me the RTK signal was lost and then Survey Controller would take over to establish a connection again. When that was done I could switch back to ArcPad and continue collection. Like I said I only tried this for a couple of points and I have not tested the accuracy in detail, but the solution seemed to be working as the points lined up well with a few points collected with Survey Controller (which was reporting an estimated error margin of about .06 ft at the time I believe). The workflow might be a little cumbersome in this solution but it seems like if you need high precision with your GPS data plus the benefits of ArcPAD (disconnected editing, etc.) this might be one possible route to go. Thanks for your input, Brad ... View more

This post it a little old now but I was just curious if anyone got this to work, (using ArcPad 10, a Trimble TSC2 handheld and a Trimble R8 GPS receiver. A thread in the old forums (see below) hinted that this might be possible with an R8 receiver but I think there were complications with quality control on the RTK signal and possibly software compatibility issues. I was looking into making this work with a R6 receiver but getting it to work sounds like a daunting process with no guarantees of acceptable results, so I am wondering if it worth my time. http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1583&t=215046 Thanks, Brad ... View more

Joe, Perhaps you were thinking of ArcExplorer (different than ArcGIS Explorer). You can still download it but it is no longer supported and was superceeded by ArcGIS Explorer. Both read shapefiles I believe. I know the names are pretty similar so it can be confusing... http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/explorer/arcexplorer.html Good luck, Brad ... View more