Latest Contributions by MarkPeacey

Thanks Gerardo. Our local support vendor suggested the same and I've now implemented an output parameter for messaging and to indicate it has finished. Only problem is running the GP tool more than once just shows up the same message. Our IE settings are set to cache the json response so it gives the same response when run again in the same session. Apparently in the Silverlight API you can disable client caching. Not so in the prebuilt ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight. ... View more

Hopefully you won't have to do it again, if you do try this http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001700000022000000http:// tool and then use the other one called Table to Domain to import them back. It'll at least save you having to copy a large amount of material. There's also this tool http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geodatabase/details?entryID=D62A883B-1422-2418-8873-5721AB32134Dhttp:// which can help when handling domains. ... View more

Hi Eric V, I have the same problem, there is no Register option. Am on a 64bit Win7 machine. The only other thing I could think of is maybe I need to install the .Net SDK as that was mentioned somewhere in the help the text document that you download with the file has in it. If you've managed to register it and get it going I'd be interested in knowing how. Thanks, Mark ... View more

I have ArcGis Desktop 10.1 beta installed and I have downloaded the v 1.2 of the geoportal. However, when trying to install the geoportal publish client, I receive the message "No ArcGIS Desktop 10 or later found" message and the install process is stopped. Any pointer about this issue? http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoportal/forums/forum/1096643/topic/4899200?message=10956475 - this link would suggest they will be porting the desktop add-ins for 10.1 but haven't done so yet. ... View more

There's a V1.2 release of Geoportal http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/geoportal/index.php?title=Version_1.2 ... View more

For ISO 19139 metadata the Geoportal looks at HierarchyLevel for it's icon type and Dataset has been 'assigned' the downloadable data icon. It would be nice if there was further details on how one could re-assign an icon to a different content type, which I'm sure must be possible. It might be worth taking a look at the fgdc-indexables.xml file in here Tomcat 6.0\webapps\geoportal\WEB-INF\classes\gpt\metadata\fgdc - though we're running version 1.0.14 of Geoportal and by the sounds of it things have changed a bit for handling of FGDC metadata for the 1.1 and 1.1.1 versions. ... View more

Ended up being a completely unrelated issue, DBA was killing connections to the database and not restarting them for 10-15 min in order for other processing to occur. Geoportal does not keep polling the database so it falls over. ... View more

You need the Publisher extension to create .pmf's from the ArcMap project you setup. ... View more

Below is the drastically improved script which utilises a dictionary. Now takes less than 20 sec to process 10000+ features. There's still a number of improvements that could be made to the code, especially for the field deletes etc. as I've just specified them based on knowing the input files. # Purpose: Allow for symbolic representation where helicopter bait drop swaths overlap. The more overlaps the higher the concentration applied. import arcpy import time import sys arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True print "Start time = " + time.asctime() # Variables defined by the user infc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) existFGDB = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1) existFGDBPath = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2) FGDBlocation = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(3) FGDBname = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(4) outfcname = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(5) # Checks if the user has specified an existing geodatabase for the output. If so there's a change # to the path variables so the existing geodatabase is used. # Function to define path to existing geodatabase def FGDBsource():     global FGDB     FGDB = existFGDBPath     print arcpy.AddMessage("Opted to put output in existing file geodatabase") FGDB = FGDBlocation + "\\" + FGDBname + ".gdb" # Call definition above if output selected to go into existing geodatabase if existFGDB == 'true':     #Should be capital "T" but ArcMap returns lower case!     FGDBsource() # Otherwise create new geodatabase  else:     print arcpy.AddMessage("Opted to create new file geodatabase")     # Create new File Geodatabase to hold output featureclass     arcpy.CreateFileGDB_management(FGDBlocation, FGDBname)     print arcpy.AddMessage("Created new file geodatabase") # Set script variables unionout = FGDB + "\\union" jointbl = FGDB + "\\join_table" output = FGDB + "\\" + outfcname try:     # Run repair incase of empty geometries and self intersects     arcpy.RepairGeometry_management(infc)     print arcpy.AddMessage("Repaired geometry")     # Create temporary layer in memory for processing     arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(infc, "in_memory\temp")         # Union featureclass to process overlaps     arcpy.Union_analysis ("in_memory\temp", unionout)     print arcpy.AddMessage("Completed union")     # Create temporary layer in memory for processing     arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(unionout, "in_memory\temp")     # Delete unrequired fields     arcpy.DeleteField_management("in_memory\temp", ["Id", "Area", "Hectares"])     # Create new field for storing overlap count to be populated     arcpy.AddField_management("in_memory\temp", "Count", "SHORT", "2")    ##    # Create attribute index to speed up querying ##    arcpy.AddIndex_management("in_memory\temp", "Shape", "Shape_Index") ##    print arcyp.AddMessage("Completed field changes and index build") except:     print arcpy.GetMessages() # Dictionary for storing feature areas countDict = {} # For getting shapefield name shapefldname = arcpy.Describe("in_memory\temp").ShapeFieldName # Setup cursor for update rows = arcpy.UpdateCursor("in_memory\temp", "", "", "Shape; Count") print arcpy.AddMessage("Populating dictionary") # For iterating through features for row in rows:     feat = row.getValue(shapefldname)     # Get area of each feature using geometry object     area = feat.area     # If value is not in dictionary add it to dictionary with count = 1     if countDict.has_key(area) == 0:         countDict[area] = 1     # If area value is in dictionary add + 1 to the count value and delete the row as it's a duplicate     elif countDict.has_key(area) == 1:         countDict[area] = countDict[area] + 1         rows.deleteRow(row)     else:         print "Error"         print arcpy.AddMessage("Error: error with Shapefield value")         print arcpy.GetMessages() # Setup another cursor for update table = arcpy.UpdateCursor("in_memory\temp", "", "", "Shape; Count") arcpy.AddMessage("Populating overlap 'Count' field") # For iterating through non-duplicate features in order to write Count field for r in table:     # Getting area again     feat = r.getValue(shapefldname)     area = feat.area     # Write count if count is not equal to zero     if countDict[area] in range(1, 10):         r.Count = int(countDict[area])         table.updateRow(r)     else:         print arcpy.AddMessage("Error: count value not between 1-10")         print arcpy.GetMessages() # Copy feature class from memory to a physical location arcpy.CopyFeatures_management("in_memory\temp", output) arcpy.AddMessage("Created output featureclass") # Add the output featureclass to the current map arcpy.SetParameterAsText(6, output) arcpy.AddMessage("Adding output to current mxd") # Clean up redunadant layers and cursors to remove them from memory arcpy.Delete_management("in_memory\temp") arcpy.Delete_management(unionout) del row, rows, r, table, arcpy     print "End time = " + time.asctime() ... View more

Would this script help? http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=16700 Thanks Chris, I did have a look at your script previously which gave me the idea of using a dictionary to prevent duplication. I think I'll implement that plus use the Geometry objects and hopefully that speeds things up. ... View more

Yes it's a script tool and I'm running it "in process" already. I'm thinking I'll have to re-write the script to utilise Arcpy geometry, based on the centroid of the features, to work out the number of polygons that intersect and see if I can get the same result with better speed. I'm still baffled by what Arc is doing, when it runs a script tool, to slow everything down by that order of magnitude. I've got a few more test shapefiles so will try them when I have time, but I've heard from a colleague that it still runs very slowly in Arc. ... View more