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‎12-21-2017

nb - I can send you the code if you want, but - as I said in my original post - it is a 5 year old project written in old version of Flashplayer. if you want the code, let me know thanks, Graham

‎12-21-2017

No problem. I dont know much about operations dashboard except it is part of ESRI's online offering. We run on premise here. I don't know how customisable / configurable / extendable dashboard is, but if your organisation is anything like mine, there will be some very specific requirements which may prove difficult to implement with an off the shelf solution. Good luck. Please mark my post as helpful if it answered your question. thanks, Graham

‎12-21-2017

Hi Chelsea. This is a very old post and may well have been superceded by better ways of doing this in JavaScript etc.. But yes, at the time I did solve this in a solution that did not use the flexviewer but instead was a from scratch flash player project. See screen shot from our user guide. If you have specific questions I can try and answer them but in essence I just created a project with an mxml file which was where I built out the dashboard I then added a view stack into which I inserted areas for all the different charts (which can be expanded to go full screen or 'pop back' into their container area I then used the mx.charts class in FLash to create the types of charts I wanted, configured them as required and bound them to my data sources. For multiple lines on a line chart you just add a line series for each line you want. As I said I'm not convinced a flash based solution for any sort of future proof solution is going to be your best way forward but that is for you/your employer to decide. You might want to consider investigating javascript/angular/some other modern browser compliant technology, but seeing as I don't know what business problem you are trying to solve I cannot advise further. Hope this helps a bit! cheers Graham

‎03-09-2017

I have added this thread to a different board and had more responses and engagement. So rather than leave this thread open too, I am closing it off as assumed answered and will continue to try and get a solution on the other geonet board.

‎03-08-2017

Hi Jonathan, Thanks very much for your reply. I was running the script above just as a script in IDLE initially so as to check if it works before wrapping it in a tool and publishing it. Yours and Filips input has been very helpful. The issue I seem to be hitting is getting the generatenear tool to actually work. It doesn't seem to like the inputs. I have just tried publishing the generatenear on it's own, with inputs coming from dummy features I created in a gdb just to see if I can get it to work and then view the resultant python script. This is where I hit my newest problem - which is that we are on Server standard here and I just found out that to publish advanced geoprocessing tools you need Server advanced or at a minimum the spatial analyst server extension. Hopefully this is useful to anyone else stumbling across this thread. I will update this thread as we get nearer to a solution Thanks to everyone who has offered input and advice so far.

‎03-07-2017

hi Dan, Wondering if you may have some useful insight into my thread on a very similar topic in the geonet python space here. Would certainly appreciate your input.

‎03-07-2017

Hey Filip, thanks for the feedback. Guess this was simple in explanation only, the execution not so simple huh! I did consider publishing the generatetool as a service as - as you point out if I already have a rest end point to accept the postcode and get an XY and I publish the featureset as a service which could be queried with a select using the passed in ID's - the inputs for the generatenear can all be gotten in REST and then it would be a 3rd call to do the distance calculations. the issue I hit pretty quickly was generatenear needs its inputs as features but a simple XY is not a feature. I figured if I had to do more geoprocessing to take an XY and make it a point in a feature class that I might as well go the whole hog and do the lot in a script. If you (or anyone else!) have any tips on the easiest way to publish the generatenear as a REST service so I can leave everything up to the client and just make a bunch of resources available over http then I'd love to hear them. thanks!

‎03-07-2017

HI Neil, thanks for your comment. The co-ords are as returned by another REST call to the findaddresscandidates service that we already have published. The end user inputs a postcode the client calls to the service returns the XY and this would then be used as the first passed in parameter for my script

‎03-06-2017

hi, I recently posted this thread in the geoprocessing forum with not much response. I have tried to soldier on but keep hitting issues. Everything I know about Geoprocessing and Python I have hacked together from google searches. Would someone please be able to take a look at my script here and see where it is going wrong? In short I am trying to test my theory that I can pass in an XY and a list of id's as two parameters. then create a point based on the xy and a select on my feature class where the id's are equal to the id's passed in and then use the result of the above 2 operations as inputs for a call to the "generatenear" tool to get the distances from my XY to all the selected features. I'm sure this should be pretty straight forward but my python skills aren't up to the challenge. I have tried to use the in_memory workspace and this seems to be the cause of most of my problems! I have hardcoded the values for the origin point and some feature id's but in the real version these would need to be passed in parameters from a call to the python script. The intent is to publish the script as a GP tool so it can be consumed via REST by one of our company websites. Some pointers, links to relevant tutorials info etc.. would be greatly appreciated: I appreciate you guys aren't going to write the code for me, but I am struggling a fair bit. Am I far off? I don't get any errors but the output in the IDLE debugger window is: working all done None How do I check if there is something in myOutput and how would I expose this so it can be consumed by a REST get operation?

‎03-02-2017

hi, I have a requirement for one of our IT Services to direct users to the nearest location which meets their requirements. The user will input their requirements and based on that be recommended a list of suitable locations. I then need to provide distances to those recommended locations, recommend the user goes to the nearest one, but allow them the option to go to one of the others. The website they use for this is not built on top of GIS. what I want to do is pass the postcode of the users location and the list of recommended locations to a geoprocessing service published as a REST end point on our GIS server and have that service do the "distance crunching" and return the results of each appropriate location and distance to it in stacked order nearest to furthest. This sounds pretty straight forward, but I am not very experienced with geoprocessing tools and model builder and am not sure how to get a model to accept parameters passed in via a REST call and create an output that can be read back into the calling service via JSON. I'm sure other people must have done something similar before and I have google around but I am either not getting the google search terms right or the result I want is buried too far down the list, but I am having trouble finding examples/tutorials of how to do what I want. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? thanks, Graham

‎08-22-2014

thanks all for the input into this. I raised a call with ESRI Uk support and spoke to Simon who was extremely helpful. He explained that the multiple database model that was no longer supported actually realetd to having multiple databases on one instance but ONLY ONE of thos databases had the SDE schema loaded into it. That is not the design i was looking at we are looking at 4 SQL SDE Databases and also a flat file store for Raster imagery with a view to creating mosaics from that iaw best practice (thanks @Vince Angleo, you were right and we did have that covered, just didnt explain in my original post). When i explained the design to Simon he felt it was workable so we are going with it. thanks for all your responses.

‎08-21-2014

Hi Riyas, Thanks for replying. Very useful info. I did go on an ESRI course for Data management in the multi-user database and we covered off DbTune, although i had forgotten about that until i just dug out my notes. The course was on 9.3 (i know! it's taken us along time to get from planning to do this to actually doing it! ) but i guess the principles havent changed too much. The multiple database thing was my biggest concern after i read the ESRI docs today. We have planned on having 4 dbs on 1 sql server instance. I am assuming this is a massive no-no. Should we be mixing Raster and Vector in the same Db? Does that matter? We are planning on using Raster files and mosaicking for Raster imagery but we will have other raster that we wont manage in this way.

‎08-21-2014

Hi all, I am in the process of designing an enterprise solution for our GIS. Previously we were doing everything in file geodatabases and it was hard to get the right data out to the right people at the right time and make our GIS data available for the whole business to use in support of their daily activities. Speaking with our GIS manager i have come up with a design, which includes multiple databases and several different schemas within these databases. What i want to do is make sure i design a solution that is in-line with current best practices. I know the multiple database model is now unsupported in ESRI post 10.1 / 10.2. How are people organising a really large GIS now? Are there any good best practice guidelines anywhere? Should i be looking at multiple schemas and multiple databases or is it ok to just put everything in one big pot? I thought i had this sussed, then started to read some of the guidance in the ESRI help and began to doubt myself. I reliase this question is quite open ended and there are potentially lots of options, but any guidance would be gratefully recieved!!

‎08-14-2014

Hi Pavlin, Apparently anything other than basic feature services is exactly what you do get with Basic license for server. You need standard if you want the mapping and KML capabilities. I also found that trying to publish 10.2 services from 10.1 desktop doesnt work and will confuse matters further!

‎07-14-2014

Hi Rene, thanks for replying. I will look into it and let you know how i get on.

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