Upon further review, ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 3 is OK
August 3, 2007 6 Comments
Damian has the best news possible for everyone:
All,
After further investigation, it’s been determined that SP3 is OK as is and the initial files will be reposted this evening without any changes. Anyone who may have already downloaded SP3 should use what they have downloaded already as we have not changed the setups and what you may have downloaded is good.
The issue that caused the confusion is related to the use of Boolean values in GP tools in .NET. At 9.2 there is a bug that the TRUE value never worked for these GP tools, and the FALSE value only worked in some limited cases. Given that, we feel that the changes in SP3 have a positive impact on a majority of the user community and limited negative impact on very few applications.
There is now a Knowledge base article describing the API change as some people will be affected ( http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techArticles.articleShow&d=33441 ).
I will post an update as the files go live again on the site.
Again I apolgize for the confusion this caused.
Thanks,
Damian
The files are back and those who have already downloaded the SP3 won’t have to download a new version. Thanks to Damian to getting the word out on this. If you are still confused about what happened and why people were getting errors, make sure you check out the KB Article on the changes to ESRI.ArcGIS.Geoprocessor at 9.2 SP 3.
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To those city slickers out there…..this is what as known as jumping the gun.
err no.. there is a bug in the rendering of cartographic representations…. (on sp2 was working fine!)
it’s with esri now…
a patch ESRI please so we can get on with some work….
back to blogging then it is…
Mapperz
Is a “cartographic representation” equivalent to an annotation? Since we’ve applied SP3 to our SDE and IMS, our annotation layers only display when we are zoomed to full extent. If we zoom in, they disappear. This happens both when viewing them using ArcMap and ArcCatalog as well as our ArcIMS app.
Points, Lines, Polygons
A cartographic representation is a set of rules, overrides, and graphical edits that allow you to represent features cartographically without having to modify the underlying feature geometry.
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?id=177&pid=171&topicname=Cartographic_representations
Fixed ‘Text’ (size,colour, ref scale)
Annotation is typically text, but it can also include graphic shapes—for example, boxes or arrows—that require other types of symbology
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?id=2119&pid=2118&topicname=Annotation_in_the_geodatabase
sorry for the long urls…
Mapperz
Ok, so it looks like annotations are not cartographic representations. I found a workaround to my problem, and guess we’ll put in a support ticket to get an official solution. Thanks for the information.