Latest Contributions by DustinEdge

So I had the same problem....at 1 AM..to setup tablets for the morning! Not cool. I went back to basics and added a layer at a time and tested the mxd against the CreatMobileCache tool. 2 possibilities: it did not like some data that was in geographics (unlikely though). There was 1 point file that was causing the error. Check Geometries did not find any issues, so I used Copy Features and created a new feature class. And that worked! Well done ESRI for providing useless documentation once again. ... View more

Hi Oleg I should have specified that the resolution option was on a full Windows tablet. I'm not sure about Windows Mobile devices Sorry. ... View more

It's things like this that make me realise that ESRI don't care about their users. A simple thing like a converter for MID/MIF to shapefile would not hurt their profit margins, but yet they remove from the latest versions. If MapInfo can provide a translator, what's stopping ESRI?? (Dont get me started on the whole USB GPS issue)... Cheers ... View more

sigh...and yet another ESRI fail where the software engineers are disconnected from the users. ... View more

UPDATE Arrgghhh....lines with arrowheads at the start/end are "line decorations". The nice little tip from ESRI says that they get downgraded. Well that really limits my options. THANKS ESRI ... View more

Thanks Akhil that does help. When u say u code the symbology using the MultiLayer Object..does that mean you are usingSDK and not the out-of-the-box solution? The table in that link is not entirely accurate. the basic carto line with an arrowhead comes under cartographic line" but the arrows don't show. Even 2 offset lines that are both carto lines doesn't come through. I guess it's trial & error to see what works ... View more

Hi there AGM 10.1.2 allows the users to specify the resolution of the photo now. Cheers ... View more

Hi John I had the same issue a few days ago. My situation was that I was building the Mobile project on the tablet by accessing the cache off our network drive. And same things....I couldn't preview any of the layers. I copied the cache to the local drive and then built the mobile project. That worked. Cheers ... View more

Hi Ethan me too. I'm running AGM 10.2 and while the sync cache tool runs without error it does show warnings that there were "errors in posting updates". With no other explanation. I haven't changed anything in my methodology so dont know what's the problem.. ESRI? Cheers ... View more

Hi All just thought I'd update everyone with my tablet testing experience so far. The first Dell latitude I had might have had a dud chip as I was not getting any information from the sensor. I got my hands on a second one and after uninstalling the official dell driver and installing the lenovo one (courtesy of Localiser forum posting) I was getting perfect GPS coordinates. As a safety measure, I switched the wifi off to ensure that the Windows Location sensor was not settling for the wifi location. I loaded ArcPad 10.2 and noticed that it had a "Location Sensor" option under the GPS configuration. While I could see my current position on the aerial photo, it wasn't reporting the usual GPS information....very strange. I'm amazed that someone at ESRI had the foresight to access the location sensor from ArcPad, but the same was not implemented for AGM! Very disappointing. It looks like AGM will need Localiser (or something similar) to expose the GPS data as a COM port. Interestingly, the Panasonic FZ-G1 toughpad also runs Windows 8 and the builtin GPS has been exposed as a COM port so AGM worked just perfectly. So it comes down to Dell & ESRI dropping the ball a little bit. Cheers ... View more

Hi Rebecca A couple of things... I just got my hands on a Panasonic FZ-G1 toughpad (with dedicated GPS chip) that's running Windows 8 with AGM 10.2. The COM ports were all visible and AGM 10.2 had no problem seeing the GPS and getting a lock. Now, I'm not sure if this is something that Panasonic has done to ensure that the GPS is exposed via a traditional COM port, or maybe its because it has a dedicated GPS chip in the first place. I also have a DELL tablet running Windows 8, but from I can gather, it only has a Location Sensor that uses the wifi, and not a dedicated GPS chip. I tried using that extension that I posted about earlier, but it didn't make a difference. This is my comment on that blog: Seeing as the tags say "AGM SDK" only and that previous forum postings (from ESRI) have indicated that access to the Location API in subsequent versions would only be available through customisation I suspect like alot of other bugs, ESRI does not deem this issue worthy of their time and it will not get resolved anytime soon. As always, I would love ESRI to prove me wrong... Maybe someone else might work it out.... Regards ... View more

I seriously cannot believe this!! Found this buried on the resources page...after filtering for sample code built by the ArcGISMobileDevTeam. The Windows sensor/location API extension adds support for the use of GPS receivers with Windows 8 laptops and tablets. http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=45044c94f07c40c3996bc0c43948f050 I really believe they have some major communication issues between teams over at ESRI ... View more