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What's Fixed in Build 66 

Resolved Problems

Check In / Check Out Tab

  • Multiple shape features that are checked in to the national database now can be checked out to the personal geodatabase.  ESRI has provided a hot fix to the ArcObjects software to resolve this problem.  This hot fix was incorporated into the ArcGIS patch that is applied to ArcGIS SP3 during the Build 66 installation.

Toolkit Menu Bar

  • Customer Folders Report - Toolkit Reports no longer display deleted plans.

Folders Tab

  • Deleting a Customer Folder and/or a conservation plan within a Customer Folder now works correctly.
  • Create new customer - The tax identification code is no longer displayed in the SCIMS web page.
  • Create new customer - New Customer folder name now generated with single underscore instead of multiple underscores.

General Tab

  • Business name now displays correctly when participant is not the decision maker.

Practice Scheduler

  • Contract Wizard - A cost list is no longer required for the CTA-GENRL program.
  • Contract Wizard - Can now select the ProTracts rounding method as an alternate rounding method.
  • When saving a plan, the user must confirm that CTA-GENRL will be assigned by default to unassigned program fields.
  • The date/time setting now correctly allows for time zone.
  • The modified narrative will now copy to other land units using the Copy to Cell Below function.

Toolkit Preferences

  • Can now add local land uses.
  • Preferences no longer changes the NRCS land use name to a land use code. The land use name remains displayed.

Custom ArcGIS Tools

  • Can now delete a practice.
Attribute Tool
  • Practices can now be attributed with the units that the state has selected.
  • National practice names are now used in the Attribute Tool.
  • Practice names are displayed in the Attribute Tool.
Import Tool
  • The import legacy shape file tool will set the lat/lon and CRA for land units if the user's workstation has an authenticated connection to the national server.
  • NRCS land uses are now used in the Attribute Tool.
Digitizer Tools
  • The Copy/Paste functionality has been enabled in the Land Unit Editor toolbar.
  • Splitting a polygon adjacent to a neighboring polygon will no longer result in a gap when the split intersects the side of the neighboring polygon.
  • When two land units are merged, one land unit is selected to keep its tabular information for the resulting merged land unit.  The other land unit's tabular information is discarded.
  • When land units are deleted, the attribute record is marked for deletion and will disappear after a check in/out.
  • Append is now functional in the Shape file editor tool.
  • Cluster tolerance default setting was reduced to 1m from previous 5m setting.

 

New Features


See also the Release Notes.

Reporting Tab

  • The new Reporting Tab helps you report on conservation plans and practices. Use the Reporting Tab to:
    • View conservation guide and conservation management system information for a plan
    • Select the organizations that performed the conservation work
    • View reportable practices

       

Buffer Tools

  • The Buffer Tool does not allow for buffering on one side of a line; however, this functionality will be available in a future version of Toolkit 2004. 

Practice Layers

  • The ability to create Practice Layers in Toolkit 2004 is very limited.  New practice layers may be created for practices that do not exist in the practice schedule.  At the time they are attributed, the new practices will automatically be added to the practice schedule.  However, if the user creates a practice feature in ArcGIS for a practice that already exists in the practice schedule, a duplicate record will be created in the schedule after the practice feature has been attributed.  Manually edit the practice schedule to remove duplicates.
  • There is no ability to link new practice features to existing records in the practice schedule.  This enhancement will be available in a future version of Toolkit 2004.
  • There is no ability to import into the National Conservation Planning Database practice shapefiles that were created in earlier version of Toolkit.  This functionality will be added in a future version of Toolkit.  Toolkit 2004 does allow existing practice shapefiles to be added as layers in ArcGIS projects, which can be edited using the Toolkit digitizing tools.

New Theme Tool

  • Creating a Planning Land Unit layer with the New Theme Tool using a Common Land Unit shapefile as the data source will not work if the shapefile is in a read-only folder and does not have a projection file.  Toolkit fails when attempting to write a projection file.  In this situation, either create a projection file for the CLU shapefile or set the folder permissions to allow write access.
  • Cluster tolerance default setting was reduced to 1.5m from previous 5m setting.


 

 

  


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