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Multiple users editing different feature datasets within a file geodatabase

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My workplace is made up of 4 computers, each running windows 7 and ArcGIS 10.2.1.

Up until now, all of our projects have been shapefile based, organised into various folders. All of the data we work with is held on our server. We all access parts of the data and make edits all the time (obviously we cant edit the same shapefile at the same time, so we check with each other that a shapefile is free to edit before continuing).
We are now migrating to file geodatabases as they are supposedly quicker (see my other thread about slow selecting with shapefiles!), and it is the standard format for Arc projects nowadays.

The first geodatabase project we have set up has encountered problems however. But first here is the structure of the project in question:

FILE GEODATABASE 1
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Feature.....Dataset....A......------------------......Feature......Dataset.....B
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Feature Class 1....Feature Class 2....................Feature Class 3.......Feature Class 4


Now, on the ESRI resource website, it says a file geodatabase can have 'many readers or one writer per feature dataset, stand-alone feature class, or table'. So my understanding of this is that User 1 can make edits within Feature Dataset A, whilst User 2 can make edits within Feature Dataset B. correct?

However, at our office this is not the case. Our issue is that if User 1 is editing a Class within Dataset A, User 2 can NOT make any edits within Dataset B! An error will appear on his screen 'No editable layers':
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Why does this happen when the ESRI resource website says that each dataset can have its own writer?
thanks in advance for any help.
Theo
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Data Driven Pages and Dynamic Attachments stored in SDE

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I found this help article on how to expose photos that are attached to features dynamically in data driven pages, so that each page will show its own photo.

http://support.esri.com/ja/knowledge...s/detail/42153

It tells you to navigate to the file path where the photo is stored in order to add it to the layout view of the map.

"4. Insert a picture by doing the following:
A. Click Insert > Picture.
B. Browse to and select one of the images that is referenced in the feature class attribute table.
C. Click Open."

However, my photo attachments are managed by SDE in a related table, so I don't know how to do that.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Jake

coincident lines

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Hello,

Is there any way to show and print coincident polygon lines with ArcGis basic license ?

Thanks, Joe

Editing Vertices Greyed out on Drawing Toolbar

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I am editing some annotations in arcmap and I have an annotation that I need to change the position of along a stream. The annotation is splined to the stream but I have to redo it as I am moving it to another position. I'm not very experienced with annotations in general so I'm not sure if what I'm trying to do is correct. Right now I am in an edit session, I have the Active Annotation Target set toe the correct layer. I select the annotation I am planning to edit. In order to "re-spline" it to the stream I would select the edit vertices correct? Right now that is greyed out and I haven't found out what to do to fix it. I also have the annotation layers set to selectable in the table of contents. Is there anything else I need to check?

Thanks,

Assigning approach direction of road lanes

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Hi,

I need to assign approach directions (northbound, southbound, etc.) to all turn lanes in my connectivity dataset. How would I go about doing that? I've been playing around with this problem for a week and cannot figure out what to do.

Each intersection lane (pink) is connected to two links (IN_LINK and OUT_LINK). I am ultimately interested in identifying approach directions for turn lanes only, but the through ('THRU') lanes provide IN_LINK and OUT_LINK data that I think I can use to determine the approach directions for turn lanes.

Does anyone know how I should approach this problem using Python?

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Map package doesn't export joined table

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Using ArcGIS 10.2, I created a mpk. EVerything went OK except that one layer was joined to an Excel table. That table did not become part of the mpk, and therefore everything that depended on it (symbology, labels, definition queries) failed. Any suggestions as to why this occurred would be welcome. Thank you.

ArcMap crash error message

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I am getting the error message that displays when ArcMap crashes every time I close a map. It doesn't crash while I am using it just when I close out a map I get the crash message. Anybody else experienced this.
Erik

Can't edit a arcgis online feature service in desktop 10.2.2

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I just recently upgraded to 10.2.2 desktop from 10.2.1 desktop and when I try to edit a feature service fro ArcGIS Online in desktop the option to do so is no longer there.

In 10.2.1, I could right click on the group layer to enable editing, then right click the feature service to download a local copy for editing. Those options are no longer there. Is there a new way to do this in 10.2.2?

Bulk Snap Command

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Has anyone found a working replacement for the Bulk Snap Command.

Attention ESRI staff. This is a tool that should have been BUILT in as a core tool 10 years ago when some 3rd party person first developed it.

Anyone know of a current tool that will do the same thing?

How to batch export layout view bookmarks to TIFF?

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Hello,

I have a series of 22 bookmarks in layout view for a mapping booklet and would like to export as a batch to .tif files without having to individually export each one. Is there a way I can do this?

Thanks,
Katie

Label Zoom Visibility

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ArcGIS 10.2.2 on Windows 7 32 bit (new Win 7 computer arriving tomorrow).

I'm a complete novice to ArcGIS starting now (June 2014), so speak loud and slow...

I have 10 years of experience with GIS - just not ESRI, so I know what I want to see, now how do I see it?? I've checked the Help, but following the guidance doesn't seem to work. I think I'm missing something very basic.

I'm drawing a small cemetery (4,000 spaces on a few acres). I want lot labels to appear on the grave lots when I'm at a zoom scale from 1:1 to roughly 1:500 but not any higher. As the user zooms in and out, these labels should remain one size relative to the polygon in which they pertain. So when zoomed out they should be rendered in an illegibly small font finally disappearing completely at 1:501. Above that zoom scale (1:501 and further zoomed out) I would like a block number to appear (blocks are on a different layer). I would like the block number to appear between 1:501 and 1:10,000 and then disappear at 1:10,001. At 1:10,001 and further I would like to see section labels appear. What I have now is lot and block labels appearing as 8-pt font at all scales.

I've been using the standard Label Manager. Click on Scale Range... and make the appropriate changes to Out beyond and In beyond, but that seems to do nothing. What am I missing to make this work?

There seems to be a link between these zoom scales and the Frame Reference Scale. I have tried a Frame Reference Scale of None, 1:300, and 1:24,000. There is no change from one to the other that I can see when I change these.

Also will all these scale zoom visibility features make the jump to a Geodatabase file when I'm finished? This is the most critical part. It will be going to an ArcGIS Online account, and this zoom rendering is what I'm shooting for.

Legend exporting issues with a dashed symbol patch

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I was curious to know if anyone else has experienced the issue where exporting your maps using the symbol patch of a circle as a dashed line never seems to export. If the symbol is a solid line or solid line with a fill combination, it works just fine. If the symbol is a dashed line it never works. I have noticed that an ellipse with a dashed line exports correctly. I have been noticing this issue since 10.0 and I recently upgraded to 10.2.2 and it’s still there. Any suggestions or a work around?

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Creat 20x20m fishnet in lat/ long projection

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Hi,

I'm trying to create a 20x20m fishnet grid to define quadrats for field data surveys. The maps I am using are in British National Grid and projected into Geographical Co-ordinate system WGS 1984 (this is because I want to use the maps in conjunction with a GPS unit that only works in lat/long). Creating fishnets works in the same spatial units as the dataframe. I want to draw 20x20m grids in a lat/long dataframe. I have tried converting the 20m measurements into degrees (according to geographical location - roughly 51deg N) but the grids do not appear to be a) square or b) of uniform size when plotted in a slightly (100m away) different location.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Helen

should I save .mxd

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Hi all,

I did install Arcmap 10 on my system, it open with default settings, in GUI I enabled editor and draw tool. But after restart these tool disappear from toolbar menu and again I have to enable them. what I should do in .mxd or .mxt

Identify Geometric Sink or Source

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Does anyone know if it's possible to identify the connected source or sink for a geometric network?

I'm trying to assign the associated lift / pumping station IDs to the gravity manholes and mains without having to set flags and trace upstream from the wet well (sink) at each location.

Thank you,
Daniel

Error Message - Unable to open some MXDs

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when I try to open up some map documents, I get the error message, "Opening the selected ArcMap Document Failed. An unexpected error occurred while loading the map document. The last successfully loaded component was: esri GeoDatabase.WorkspaceName
The specified file does not contain a valid ArcMap document. (See attachment)

HOWEVER, my co-worker can open the file fine on her computer.

Any Ideas?
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1:10k Data Driven Pages - Keymap showing data frame extent of 1:50K Index

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I'm trying to use data driven pages in Arc 10.2.1 to create map book from a polygon index of 1:10k map sheets and also have a key map that zooms to and centers on the data frame extent of the 1:50K map sheet that contains the 10k map sheets being driven to. I'm looking for any insight on how to do this or if its even possible?

Using Met Office UKCP09 shapefile data in GIS

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Hi there,

For a project of mine, I am wanting to use shapefiles, created by UKCP09 model map data (Available on this website here: http://ukclimateprojections.metoffice.gov.uk/21708 ) - Figure 1 is a map from which a shapefile is created from to be able to be used in GIS.

I have uploaded the shapefile into ArcMap but it just simply displays the grid squares (Figure 2), presumably the 25x25km grid squares which the model data represents. I have no idea how to go about actually displaying the actual data (Precipitation in this case) onto ArcMap. I am relatively new to GIS and also wish to add an OS Map and a DEM.

Can anyone guide me with what to do to be able to show the map data correctly?

Many thanks.
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Adding a coordinate system?

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Can anyone tell me how to easily define a coordinate system for an existing feature class? I have a layer that displays correctly in a map but has no coordinate system. When I add that layer to any other maps I get a warning about how the layer has no coordinate system and can only be drawn but not projected. I don't even know how this happens!

Thanks everyone!

Output a table from multiple buffers?

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I have a bunch of points in my map. What I would like to do is see how many points are within a certain distance of some specific points. I have about 60 specific points to draw buffers around and that will take a long time. Is there an easier way to get a table of points that intersect the buffers and have a field that tells which buffer it came from?

I feel like this may be a python task but I don't know python :(

Thanks everyone!
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