Customizing ArcPad solutions

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1 Esri International User Conference San Diego, California Technical Workshops 25 July 2012 Customizing ArcPad solutions Marika Vertzonis, Gareth Walters, Stephen Quan

2 Session Outline What can be customized? Custom Projects - Forms Editing - Toolbar editing - Scripting Business Logic - Shortcut Apps Harnessing SQL Extending beyond ArcPad Geoprocessing

3 Toolbars and Tools Projects Forms Data

4 Do I need to be a programmer? Full on code jockey * * But sometimes it Helps J No programming skills required Simple Toolbars, Basic data capture forms, Symbology Scripted Forms & Applets Extensions

5 ArcPad customized

6 Anatomy of projects Toolbars and Tools Management Forms People Data Business Rules Preferences Scripting

7 Where do your customizations go? My ArcPad folder - per user on desktop systems - per device on Windows Mobile systems - Preferences and configuration files ArcPad folder - Common to all users on desktop systems - Templates - Applets - Styles - Datum configuration Your project folder(s) - Could hold all files - App - Good for deployment

8 Custom Projects Configuration - Forms - Toolbars - Preferences - Shortcut Apps - Incorporation of business logic Data - Definition Queries + + Map Customizations Shortcut Deploy

9 Forms Edit: - Feature & Related Tables - Used for data capture and edit Identify - Used when identifying features. - If not present uses Edit form in read-only mode Query - Added to Find dialog - Search template, just fill in the boxes Other - Application specific forms

10 Forms Editing Demo

11 Toolbars System QuickCapture - Dynamic Editing Map Navigator Status Bar Custom

12 Preferences & Configuration Application Project User

13 App Shortcuts Start ArcPad with a range of command line options and parameters (.LNK) On Windows Mobile :- - \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ArcPad App App Icon (.ICO) extracted and saved in project folder with same name as map

14 Preferences Demo

15 Business Logic Embed in ArcGIS GeoDatabase - Domains & Subtypes Extend via Scripting - Data Validation

16 Business Rules Demo

17 Data Background - Not editable - Reference - Information Only (Vectors) - Read Only - For visual reference only (Raster or Vector) Operational - Editable - focused on field task (not ALL available data) Demo Theater Session: Preparing & Deploying data to ArcPad

18 Scripting environments available for ArcPad JavaScript, VBScript & Python Event Driven - Application - Forms/Controls - System Objects (eg GPS) ArcPad Object Model Execute SQL Commands

19 ArcGIS Online Help Check out the new Python samples here

20 SQL Definition Queries Query Forms Use standard SQL to edit/maintain data - SELECT - UPDATE - DELETE

21 Definition Queries ArcMap ArcPad Studio Dynamically via Layers.Filter()

22 Query Forms Query forms are search templates that automatically get added to the Find dialog Default query form automatically created for each feature class Useful for simplifying field work flows requiring repeatedly performed searches

23 SQL editing DataSource object s Execute method allows any SQL statement to be run against the AXF file - Bulk Updates - Bulk Deletes - Statistical queries (Aggregate functions) - Sort records - Copy data between tables Much faster than iterating with RecordSet object

24 SQL Demo Bulk Edits

25 Extensions Datum Transform Projection Vector / Raster ArcPad GPS Rangefinder Camera

26 Camera Extensions Custom Image Sources Camera SDK ArcPad Sketch Direct Show VFW Camera

27 Extending Scripting with Extensions quality, hwnd)

28 Geoprocessing Data management Automation

29 Geoprocessing Demo

30 The Road Ahead ArcPad Release in the Fall - Support for ArcGIS Server Further integration with ArcGIS Online - HTML forms with JavaScript - Form customization in ArcPad Beyond ArcPad Core ArcPad functionality on ios, Android, WP7, WP8 - HTML forms - Unmanaged data collection - Related table support

31 Resources Make your suggestions known : Resources Team blog Twitter

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