ArcGIS GUI Issues

October 26th, 2006 · 6 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, GIS

I’ve been loading a ton of data into SDSFIE and I’ve noticed an issue with the Load Data GUI. Unlike every other “multiple import/load” dialog, the “load data” dialog is totally different.

You have to use a standard windows dialog to add features, not drag and drop from any ArcGIS application (ArcCatalog or ArcMap). Compared to the Import Feature Class (multiple) it is such a pain in the ass. Why can’t that dialog be the same as all the others?

I can just drag and drop any data layer on to that guy and go on my way. But with the first one, you have to browse and click OK, then you have to click again to add it to the collection. Then I have to repeat all those steps for every data layer I want to add. What a hassle! I just want the ability to drag and drop, is that asking too much?

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6 responses so far ↓

1 GeoMullah // Oct 26, 2006 at 1:42 pm

How about an open ESRI gripe and complaint post?
2 James Fee // Oct 26, 2006 at 1:44 pm

You want a daily gripe forum? Lets conserve and use yesterdays.
3 David E. Wright // Oct 26, 2006 at 3:50 pm

Hey man, thats better that the old days of SDSFIE.. remember before there was any of the GUI??
4 James Fee // Oct 26, 2006 at 4:18 pm

I’ll be honest David, you could batch things up loading into SDE.

Here I can’t batch a thing.
5 oakfish // Oct 30, 2006 at 7:42 am

Speaking of loading data into SDE, I was curious about something, James. Do you have a real production setup of SDE and AGS? If so, what’s it like? Just in general I mean… what kind of disk space, memory, CPU, and data connectivity do your database and application servers have?

What do people out there recommend? I can’t handle ESRI’s huge configuration document. It has a lot of good concepts, but it’s hard to decipher. Plus I am likely to only need a minimal configuration. All help is appreciated.
6 James Fee // Oct 30, 2006 at 2:48 pm

We have a production SDE and developer SDE and AGS (we don’t deploy AGS at our company internally).

As far as servers and disk space, we don’t really have fast servers (pretty much pedestrian by standards these days), but we don’t have thousands of hits so it isn’t really a big issue.

A good place to find out configuration needs is the hardware partners section of ESRI’s website.

http://gis2.esri.com/partners/hw_promo/hw_promo.cfm

These are probably a good gage, just pick the type of deployment you want and then see what the hardware vendors and ESRI recommend.