arcgis-10.0arcgis-desktopattachmentsfields-attributesphotos
Does anyone have an elegant solution to adding/viewing attachments, like a table/photos for example from within ArcMap using only the ArcGIS basic license level? Or any suggestions?
I'm looking for a way to deliver an .mxd or file geodatabase with features that are clickable and link to tables of info and photos. The above feature of 10.0 is great; however I am limited by the license we have.
You can clip a raster to an irregularly shaped polygon (following the polygons geometry) using the tool you tried before, Clip.
Scrolling down a little further in your screenshot, click the checkmark to enable Clipping Geometry (see image). You should have this available at v9.3; This screen is from 9.3.1
The Polyline class has a new method called "positionAlongLine" in ArcGIS 10.1. This will return a PointGeometry object with exactly one point at a specified distance from the starting end of the line, or a fraction of the distance between the start and end. To find the midpoint, you would just need to do positionAlongLine(0.5,True). To find the midpoints for lines and add their coordinates to the attribute table, you could do Field Calculator on the following statement:
!Shape!.positionAlongLine(0.5,True).firstPoint.X!Shape!.positionAlongLine(0.5,True).firstPoint.YNote that you need to be using the Python parser in field calculator for this to work.
If you wanted to access this point object in Python, you would just do the following:
Input_shp = "C:\Temp\Line.shp"
Cursor = arcpy.SearchCursor(Input_shp)
for Feature in Cursor:
Midpoint = Feature.shape.positionAlongLine(0.50,True).firstPoint
print Midpoint.X
print Midpoint.Y
Best Answer
As mentioned in our Comments, your best option appears to be to investigate HTML Popups. If that does not meet your requirements perhaps edit your Question to further refine them by describing why not.
As an aside, and you are probably already aware of this, a Basic license allows you to view geodatabase attachments, but does not allow you to create them because that process involves creating/updating relationship classes in the background which requires Standard or Advanced licensing.