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Denise, Thanks for the quick response. Although it seem like your suggestion using studio would work - I'm not sure if it's the right solution for my workflow (multiple users with varying degrees of comfort with ArcGIS). I think we will have to use the check-in, check-out method. Nevertheless.... Regarding my prior statement about shapefiles and domains: when I check out a GDB using "export as background data to shapefile (make editable)" option in the "get data for arcpad" function - the button for "select existing forms/scripts" is unselectable. So, when I export this and put on GPS - the shapefile is editable in that I can take points - but all the domain dropdowns are completely blank - therefore I cannot take any other information associated with that point. When I did this in v9.3 - all the domains from the GDB were automatically exported as dropdowns in the shapefile fields - I did not have to select anything extra - and I could collect all relevant data. To me, it seems like ESRI is disabling some functionality of the shapefile to push us toward using the axf? or am I missing some crucial step here? Thanks, Matt
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Yes, I did think of this as an option - though also not ideal. It is somewhat time consuming to upload a refreshed copy of the GDB to each GPS each day. Another option I can use to handle this is just uploading data at the end of the week - and then swiping the GPS clean. This is also not a preferred way - but doable. Since there seems to be no way to specify what records to upload from AXF files - is there any way I can still use a shapefile version and upload with ArcCatalog dataloader. Why has v10 disabled the dropdown domains in a shapefile that is exported from "get data for ArcPad"? Is there any way around this? Being able to upload a specific subset of the data is a very useful function. thanks.
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The situation: I am using a file geodatabase to manage all weed mapping data at my office. It is being used by multiple staff members to collect weed data - and was exported as an axf file ( so multiple users, multiple GPSs). The problem: After a day of data collection ??? I upload the data using the ???get data from ArcPad??? function ??? which works great ??? uploads all the data on the GPS to the GDB. BUT, when you collect more data on that GPS the next day ??? and try to upload again ??? it uploads all the records from the previous day again, creating multiple identical records. There does not seem to be away around this besides deleting all the records from that axf file on the GPS after each day ??? which is far from ideal. There does not seem to be a way of just uploading a subset of the data ??? ie - just that day???s records. How it worked before: In 9.3, I exported the GDB to the GPS units as a shapefile to collect the data. Then, I used the Data Loader function in ArcCatalog to upload the data to the GDB ??? which allows you to setup a query to just upload a specific subset of the data. This worked great. Unfortunately, now, when I export the GDB in v10 as a shapefile for the GPS ??? none of the domain dropdowns appear, making it useless for GPS data collection. So, I switched to the AXF file format ??? which allowed the domain dropdowns to appear. Unfortunately, the ArcCatalog data loader does not recognize axf files ??? so I cannot use this function any longer. So, now I use the ArcPad Data Manager extension ??? ???get data from ArcPad??? button ??? which does not allow you to query the data - and just uploads everything in that axf file ??? thereby creating identical records in the GDB. Any thoughts? It seems like there should be an easy solution here. Either figure out how to have functional shapefile data collection so I can continue to use the data loader, or figure out how to eliminate identical record uploads from the axf....
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