Latest Contributions by JonMorris2

I don't know about Java, but have found Pycharm to be very good at working with Python, and Webstorm is good for Javascript and HTML. Any of the JetBrains family should work as they all share the same functionality. They contain a lot of features that I take for granted (e.g. duplicate line, CSS lookup) and are not available as standard in other IDEs (*cough* Visual Studio *cough*). The professional licence is very reasonable if you can persuade your company to pay for it. If not, the community edition seems to be just as good. ... View more

I think you can just copy and paste the whole expression, e.g.      If ( InStr( [APPARATUS1], "Ladder" ) <> 0 OR InStr( [APPARATUS1], "Tower" ) <> 0 ) Then My VB is a bit rusty though, I mostly use python these days. ... View more

I've had many problems publishing GP Tools to server and never fully got to the bottom of them. Some days the analyser runs really slowly and some days it runs ok. All I can do is try it again and hope it works. I thought it might be to do with the load on the SDE server - if more users are connected, it takes longer - but that might have nothing to do with it. If it helps, here are some of the issues I had: Remove results from display before publishing - Arcmap claims data source is different when it isn't There is a bug at 10.2 where the data store is not used in python scripts - Published GP service is not using data store Builtin python modules are being copied to the server - Publishing GP service is very slow ... View more

As a workaround, you could run a script to check the required fonts are installed. I wrote something similar a few years ago - here it is slightly modified. If you create a text file requiredfonts.txt with all the fonts you need, the script will check they are all present.     @echo off     setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     reg export "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fonts" %COMPUTERNAME%fonts.reg     if exist %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt del %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt /q     if exist %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt del %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt /q     :: look at fonts in registry ::     for /f "tokens=1-2* delims==" %%a in ('type %COMPUTERNAME%fonts.reg') do (         if "%%~b" neq "" (             set FONTPATH=%%~b             if "!FONTPATH!" equ "!FONTPATH::\=!" set FONTPATH=c:\windows\fonts\%%~b             if "!FONTPATH!" neq "!FONTPATH:\\=!" set FONTPATH=!FONTPATH:\\=\!             :: check if font is in fonts folder ::             if not exist "!FONTPATH!" (                 echo %%~a found in registry but not C:\Windows\Fonts             ) else (                 echo %%~b >> %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt                 for /f "tokens=*" %%c in ('dir "!FONTPATH!" /b/s/a') do (                     echo %%a        %%~tc >> %COMPUTERNAME%fontsByDate.txt                 )             )         )     )     :: check required list ::     if exist requiredfonts.txt (         for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('type requiredfonts.txt') do (             for /f "tokens=2 delims=:" %%c in ('find /i /c "%%a" %COMPUTERNAME%fontsReg.txt') do (                 if %%c equ 0 (                     echo %%a not found on %COMPUTERNAME%.                 )             )         )     )     pause     endlocal     goto :eof ... View more

This is still a bug in 10.3. I found it on the support site and status is still New, so we'll have to keep using the workaround. NIM086862: Incorrect temporary path is returned through Add-In.. ... View more

the service will use templates from the folder you chose in step#2. Does it copy all the templates in the folder? I didn't know that. Or set up an equivalent path on the desktop machine so we can get a GP result that can be published. I've put the templates on the server at d:\maps\exportwebmaptemplates, so I thought I'd need to create a d:\maps\exportwebmaptemplates folder on my desktop to put the templates in. Either that or edit the script after publishing. do you happen to have a NIM or BUG id for the above issue? can you pls share that with me. i'm not currently aware of any bug with output file name. I don't think Esri UK have entered it into Nimbus yet. I've asked for a status update, so I'll let you know when they get back to me. ... View more

Ok. Can we still use our custom map templates if just publishing the Export Web Map tool to our server? Sounds like we'd have to manually edit the template path after publishing. Or set up an equivalent path on the desktop machine so we can get a GP result that can be published. The script wrapper is needed anyway as a workaround to a bug where the export image filename is not returned. I've raised an issue with Esri UK support - CAS-17137-N6H0T4: Arcpy.ExportWebMap_server returns incorrect output file name. ... View more

An alternative is to publish a print service on your own server - then you can add custom templates with your company logo and all the elements you like. The script can be a simple wrapper for the ExportWebMap tool, like this:   import arcpy   Web_Map_as_JSON = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)   Format = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)   Layout_Template = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)   Layout_Templates_Folder = r'd:\maps\exportwebmaptemplates'   Output_File = None   result = arcpy.ExportWebMap_server(   Web_Map_as_JSON,   Output_File,   Format,   Layout_Templates_Folder,   Layout_Template   ) Then just add the mxd templates to the folder on the server you've named above (in our case d:\maps\exportwebmaptemplates). When you publish the tool to the server, add all the template names to a choice list so users can just pick the one they want. Parameter: Layout_Template Data Type: GPString Display Name Layout Template Description: TODO Direction: esriGPParameterDirectionInput Default Value: MAP_ONLY Parameter Type: esriGPParameterTypeOptional Category: Choice List: [ MAP_ONLY, A3 Landscape, A3 Landscape Legend Only, A3 Landscape No Legend, A3 Portrait, A3 Portrait Legend Only, A3 Portrait No Legend, A4 Landscape, A4 Landscape Legend Only, A4 Landscape No Legend, A4 Portrait, A4 Portrait Legend Only, A4 Portrait No Legend, Letter ANSI A Landscape, Letter ANSI A Landscape Legend Only, Letter ANSI A Landscape No Legend, Letter ANSI A Portrait, Letter ANSI A Portrait Legend Only, Letter ANSI A Portrait No Legend, Tabloid ANSI B Landscape, Tabloid ANSI B Landscape Legend Only, Tabloid ANSI B Landscape No Legend, Tabloid ANSI B Portrait, Tabloid ANSI B Portrait Legend Only, Tabloid ANSI B Portrait No Legend ] ... View more

"During normal business hours". For Geonet, that seems to be Pacific time, even though the site is used by people from all over the world. If anything goes wrong with Geonet, us Europeans usually have to wait until mid-afternoon before anything is resolved. ... View more

Sorry, I'm just doing this off the top of my head. Have you tried creating a IMaplexLabelStackingProperties object, adding separators, then adding it back into the overposter layer properties? ... View more