Latest Contributions by DanNarsavage

Not sure whether this addresses your problem but I found it (and then this thread) during my search for solving another issue.  Based on it, you may want to check that background geoprocessing is turned off. Can't get reference to result from MakeQueryLayer_management ... View more

Wow, I had to dig a little for this one.  Sorry I never posted anything answering this question. I contacted ESRI support, and we winnowed it down to a problem only with SDE connections.  I was in the process of doing more testing when things began working all on their own.  From the best we could tell, the only thing that changed was that I uninstalled a .NET add-in that I'd created a couple years earlier.  We decided to blame the arcpy problem on some unspecified .NET code that was not entirely compatible with the most recent ArcThis or ArcThat, and we closed the support call at that point. Hope that helps! Dan ... View more

Thanks Doug!  Helped a lot.  FYI, I altered the table to contain the three new fields (ON_CHANGEGEO, ON_MANUAL, & RUN_WEIGHT) rather than deleting & re-creating, and that worked fine. ... View more

That sure did it.  Thanks Mathew!  Seems like a bit of a band-aid for some sort of incompatibility between 10.1 & Win7 threading or something like that, but it solves my problem! ... View more

Been a long time since this thread was spawned & maybe there's a better way to deal with this by now, but I couldn't find it so I hacked a resolution by adding THREE text graphics for every label I wanted to place in the map: two of them act as a highlight/mask... First to create the three slightly different symbols: var TextSymbolJson = {  // This is the main readable label     "type": "esriTS",     "color": [0, 0, 0, 255],     "verticalAlignment": "middle",     "horizontalAlignment": "center",     "font": {         "family": "Arial",         "size": 16,         "style": "normal",         "weight": "bold",         "decoration": "none"     } }; // This one is white, partially transparent, a bit bigger & bolder, and offset south 1 pixel from the main label (1st part of the mask) var TextHighlightJson1 = Object.create(TextSymbolJson); TextHighlightJson1.color = [255, 255, 255, 245]; TextHighlightJson1.yoffset = -1; TextHighlightJson1.font.size = 18; TextHighlightJson1.font.weight = "bolder"; // This one is just like the one above except offset north 1 pixel (2nd part of the mask) var TextHighlightJson2 = Object.create(TextHighlightJson1); TextHighlightJson2.yoffset = 1; Then to use those symbols ... for (feature in ListOfFeaturesToLabel) {       AddNumText = feature.attributes.PROPADDNUM;       AddNumPoint = feature.geometry.getExtent().getCenter();       var TS = new esri.symbol.TextSymbol(TextSymbolJson);       TS.setColor(layerTextColor);       TS.setText(AddNumText);       var labelPointGraphic = new esri.Graphic(AddNumPoint, TS);       var highlightSymbol1 = new esri.symbol.TextSymbol(TextHighlightJson1);       highlightSymbol1.setText(AddNumText);       var highlightGraphic1 = new esri.Graphic(AddNumPoint, highlightSymbol1);       var highlightSymbol2 = new esri.symbol.TextSymbol(TextHighlightJson2);       highlightSymbol2.setText(AddNumText);       var highlightGraphic2 = new esri.Graphic(AddNumPoint, highlightSymbol2);       map.graphics.add(highlightGraphic1);       map.graphics.add(highlightGraphic2);       map.graphics.add(labelPointGraphic);      // Make sure to add the main label to the map last so it's on top of its mask } ... View more

An interesting twist to this story is that shortly after the above error started happening, ArcMap started crashing whenever I try to start editing (regardless of the workspace or type of workspace).  Lovely.  I've restarted & even reinstalled, and now I wish I could retire.  I'll be logging a service call here in not too long . . . ... View more

Field maps contain a ton if information so they're a bit of a handful when you try to make them from scratch in python.  To get your own code, you can perform a spatial join using the tool in ArcCatalog with the field map exactly like you want it, then open the Geoprocessor's Results dialog and copy the field map string from there.  Here's some code that I built with that as a starting point.  FieldMapString = "" \                 + """AddressNumber "AddressNumber" true true false 4 Long 0 10 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,AddressNumber,-1,-1;"""\                 + """AddressNumberFraction "AddressNumberFraction" true true false 3 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,AddressNumberFraction,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PreDirection "PreDirection" true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PreDirection,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PreType "PreType" true true false 20 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PreType,-1,-1;"""\                 + """CoreStreetName "CoreStreetName" true true false 20 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,CoreStreetName,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PostType "PostType" true true false 20 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PostType,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PostDirection "PostDirection" true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PostDirection,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PostModifier "PostModifier" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC + """,PostModifier,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PostalCity "PostalCity" true true false 15 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PostalCity,-1,-1;"""\                 + """SubUnitType "SubUnitType" true true false 15 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,SubUnitType,-1,-1;"""\                 + """SubUnitIdentifier "SubUnitIdentifier" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,SubUnitIdentifier,-1,-1;"""\                 + """AddressPointID "AddressPointID" true true false 4 Long 0 10 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,AddressPointID,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PointIssue "PointIssue" true true false 2 Short 0 5 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,PointIssue,-1,-1;"""\                 + """AddressChange "AddressChange" true true false 2 Short 0 5 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,AddressChange,-1,-1;"""\                 + """ParcelException "ParcelException" true true false 2 Short 0 5 ,First,#,""" + AddressFC+ """,ParcelException,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PARCEL "PARCEL" true true false 50 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PARCEL,-1,-1;"""\                 + """ADDRESS "ADDRESS" true true false 60 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,ADDRESS,-1,-1;"""\                 + """CITY_STATE "CITY_STATE" true true false 41 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,CITY_STATE,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPADDNUM "PROPADDNUM" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPADDNUM,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPPREDIR "PROPPREDIR" true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPPREDIR,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPSTNM "PROPSTNM" true true false 25 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPSTNM,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPSTTYPE "PROPSTTYPE" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPSTTYPE,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPPOST "PROPPOST" true true false 2 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPPOST,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPUNIT "PROPUNIT" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPUNIT,-1,-1;"""\                 + """PROPUNUM "PROPUNUM" true true false 10 Text 0 0 ,First,#,""" + ParcelFC+ """,PROPUNUM,-1,-1;""" fieldmappings = arcpy.FieldMappings() fieldmappings.loadFromString(FieldMapString) arcpy.SpatialJoin_analysis(AddressFC, ParcelFC, SpatialJoinFC, "JOIN_ONE_TO_MANY", "KEEP_COMMON", fieldmappings) ... View more

Hi Jacob. This is one of my beefs with the fabric--dealing with things in bulk is nigh impossible & you're kinda limited to editing individual features inside ArcMap edit sessions. There's some reasonable logic behind this (bulk changes can easily hose things up with all of the fabric's complex relationships), but in practice this makes for some serious headaches now & again. Anyway I think that ESRI might be working on ways to allow some bulk management of parcel fabric features. In the meantime, there is a workaround but it's ugly and scary (at least to me). If you're running your fabric in SDE then you can connect directly to the RDBMS, find the tables that contain the fabric's features, and find & delete those rogue features using SQL commands (note that you can't just delete the parcel features; you'll have to also delete the lines and points related to the parcels, but you also have to avoid deleting any points that are shared with parcels that you DON'T want to delete).  Also note that you'll want to compress back to state zero and disallow editors from editing the fabric while you're doing this to make sure you don't miss anything in the A & D tables.  I've done this successfully once before (coincidentally it was with hundreds of road ROWs that I screwed up importing), but I made about seventeen backups of our database and drank an entire bottle of whiskey before I worked up the nerve to attempt it. 🙂 I suppose if you're using a personal GDB then you can do essentially the same thing using MS Access. ... View more

FINALLY getting to read the replies.  Thanks both of you.  Regarding tweaking the PPM values, there's the first instance of what's sure to be many inadequacies of the user.  🙂  That may be a crucial improvement to our process, but we'll have to see.  I'm working on getting a bunch of data together before we chat.  You should have that soon.  Thanks again! ... View more