Add a "use default" option to Data Manager so that users can get the param layers from web services.

[lbross]

[jdduh]

This feature will be implemented in 2017-18 project period.

[jdduh]

The image services are at:
http://basins.geog.pdx.edu/arcgis/rest/services/BAGIS_Databin

Please use the 1981-2010 PRISM web services as the default.

It seems that the tags field in the original dataset is propagated to the tags description of the image service. See http://basins.geog.pdx.edu/arcgis/rest/services/BAGIS_Databin/PRISM_1971_2000_tmax_august/ImageServer/info/iteminfo for an example.

Here is what it looks like in ArcMap.

[lbross]

Does the Data Manager need to support web feature services or just image services? The current implementation supports feature classes in a geodatabase but I don't believe any of the layers in the default data bin are vectors.

[jdduh]

We can limit the webservices to only image services. That means a vector layer needs to be converted into a raster layer first.

[lbross]

After many fits and starts, I have been able to access the IMetadata object and our BAGIS Tag from an image service! Unfortunately the tags in the sample image services aren't in the correct format. The commas need to be semicolons, otherwise the xml parsing fails. Example tag for a temperature layer:
BAGIS Tag < Please do not modify: ZUnitCategory|Temperature; ZUnit|Celsius; > End Tag

[jdduh]

If I change the commas to semicolons, will BAGIS-P be able to handle the updated format? Or you can make it to parse either format?

[lbross]

The format that I requested (semicolons) is actually the original format. I copied the tag in my comment from one of the temperature layers in PE_SR_Obs_nmonth_Databin_10072016.gdb.

I think what is happening is that the field we are using (Tags) is expecting a comma-separated collection of words. When you put a comma inside of the BAGIS tag, it parses it apart. BAGIS-P needs it to be a single string to parse.

[lbross]

Any chance you can update the format of the units tags on the server this weekend?

[jdduh]

ArcGIS server automatically replaces semicolors with commas when publishing the services. If I replace the commas with semicolons in the tag, then the BAGIS tag becomes scrambled (see image below). ArcGIS Server treats semicolons as default tag delimiters. Please suggest a workaround so that the tag works for both addins and the server.

[lbross]

Nice. Can you try replacing the commas with pipes? '|'? From the desktop client, the units will be read-only on the services so I only need to update the function that reads the units from the metadata. And I already have to do this to read the metadata from a service. I will read the contents of the tag 2 different ways depending on whether it comes from a service or file.