Thankyou for the help, but for some reason when I run it I can no longer scroll though all through the three channels to ensure it worked properly. I switched the file type to .dv as needed but after its all set it only opens up as a single image rather than three merged stacks like when I do it manually. I also tried using stack to images instead of split channels and the same issue occurs.
Well, since I did not know what kind of images, image type and format you use, I could not define it that specifically. I am not familiar with the .dv image format and its modalities. But it seems you solved the rest.
I'm hoping someone from the Experience Builder team can answer this question. Is it in the workplan to add the reshape, split, and merge tools to the edit widget? Currently in my agency we are using those tools for wildfire and forest stand mapping using Web App Builder. Since WAB will be retiring next year, I need to begin making transition plans.
I'm having the same question. Is there a plan to have an Edit widget in Experience Builder like the one in Web AppBuilder? Please, we need to have a powerful Edit widget (merge, cut, reshape, autocomplete) in Experience Builder before you phase out Web AppBuilder. We got a 100 Portal users and they do all the forestry mapping/editing using Web AppBuilder.
Thank you,
Abi
Below is a dataset that was run through split-merge. The background image is the resulting aerial. The black outlines are the edges of each of the overlapping submodels, and the different shades of orange correspond to the number of submodels overlapping in a particular area (1 model at the lightest, and 3 models for the most intense orange).
To enable split merge, you have to specify your split size in number of images. This should be close to as large a number of images that can process at a time on your machine (make it 20% less than the maximum to be safe). The process then breaks your dataset into chunks approximately this size including overlap between these submodels and then processes them in sequence and stitches them back together.
We'd really like to see some of the Smart Editor widget and Edit widget from WebApp Builder brought into Experience Builder. We're working with farmers to enable them to map their current farm layouts and then plan what it could look like over the next 30 years.
It's cumbersome to have to redraw/adjust the layout multiple times. If we could get them to copy what's already been made and then split or merge polygons from there, that would save a lot of time for them and make our product more appealing to use, especially for these users who are not GIS people. These features are usable in WAB, but they don't have the conditional visibility at the level we need that ExB has.
Please consider adding in these improvements. It would definitely up the usability of the Edit widget in Experience Builder! If we could hide feature to feature and geometry guides from the user, but have it turned on from the back end, that would be great too.
We would really appreciate these enhancements as well! Our biologists would like to use the EB edit widget to delineate vegetation types, and sometimes the easiest way to do this without ending up with slivers and gaps is to start out with an outline of the study area and start splitting it into its consituent parts. They also use it to delineate long drainages, and occasionally click too fast and unintentionally complete a polygon prematurely. A merge tool would allow them to create the remaining portion of the drainage and then merge it with the first part.
Without the ability to split, copy and merge the edit widget is lacking cruical functionality for quite a few users. If a feature has 50 property fields it is just to cumbersome to draw a new feature instead of just splitting or copying.
Since Web AppBuilder support will end with the retirement of JavaScript 3.x API on July 1, 2024, it would be important for us to have these functionnalities available in Experience Builder before then.
These enhancements would be very beneficial to my company also. As an agricultural company we need something to help us map pivots, and residential buffers for buildings. Is there any update as to when these might be available?
We need the Edit widgit in WebApp Builder to be available in Experience Builder. Our agency has100 Portal users and all of our users use WebApp Builder apps to do a variety of spatial data creation and edits using the WebApp Builder Edit widget, and if that and the Geprocessing widgets are not going to be available in Experience Builder from next year then we will not be able to perform our agency business objectives. It will render our Portal useless.
The Individual Merge Letters add-in is by far the most downloaded add-in from this site with many thousands of users world wide. However feedback, while helpful in developing the add-in, has revealed a fatal flaw when presented with CSV data sources.
Thanks probably to Microsoft's interminable updates, it has been found that the process now fails when presented with merge documents using CSV data sources. Why this should occur I have not yet been able to establish, so I have recommended the use of Excel data sources, which do not exhibit this limitation.
Unfortunately CSV data sources have been used as a means of overcoming the 256 field limit for mail merge and while admittedly few users have suffered from this limitation, I felt that I should address it. The solution is the add-in featured on this page.
I should point out that while there were some formatting issues with the original Individual Merge Letters add-in, this has now been fixed, however where any formatting anomalies remain, where Excel data sources are used, theMany to One add-in, used in One to One mode will split the document without affecting the original formatting, as it does not use mail merge to complete the process and may be considered as an alternative.
The add-in is a template which should be installed in the Word startup folder. The zip file includes a self extracting installer or you can manually save the template into the required folder - If you have not changed the preferred startup folder it can be located (in English language versions of Windows) by typing
%appdata%\Microsoft\Word\Startup
in the Windows Explorer Address bar and pressing Enter.
When run for the first time, the following dialog is displayed. The add-in can use PDF Creator to create protected PDF files (see later) but it requires the user to indicate whether this third party application is present.
you will see the following dialog with the available fields from the current merge document displayed. You may select any item from the dropdown list to be used as the filename. Ideally you would use a filename that is unique to each record, though the application will not overwrite existing filenames where two records share the same data. Instead a number is added to the filename.
As the add-in only works with merge documents, there will always be fields from that document presented in the list when the add-in is run. The first time the add-in is run (and at any time when a selected folder to store the documents is no longer available) the folder path text box will be empty and coloured pink.
If the folder path is typed into the dialog and that path doesn't exist, the background colour will remain pink and the 'Split to Documents' action button will be disabled. A folder selected with the browse function will always be valid, so the background colour will change to green,
The add-in provides for a second field to be included in the filenames of the individual documents. This second field is always inserted after the first selected field data, and you may choose from a small selection of separator characters.
The add-in by default creates PDF format files using Word's built-in PDF converter, however for users who have PDF Creator installed, the add-in will detect this and offer the option to create PDF files using PDF Creator, with the additional option of creating those PDF files with a selection of security options which are presented when you leave the main dialog and the relevant option is selected (see second and third illustrations below).
When splitting to PDF format with PDFCreator the add-in additionally provides the option to engage PDF security measures. When the 'Continue' button on the main dialog is clicked, a second userform will open to offer that facility. Clicking 'Cancel' on this userform will cancel the whole process.
Currently the additional security options are only supported when the option PDF is checked. Should you check one of the other PDF format types, the dialog changes as shown below and any security settings entered are returned to their default values.
The merge starts by creating a new merge document. In some circumstances e.g. in non-English version of Word, and where there may be more than one unnamed document present, the process may not be able to identify which is the merge document. When that happens you will see the following dialog which will list the unnamed documents. Select the merged document and click 'Continue' which will become available when a selection has been made. Cancel will cancel the entire process.
Clicking the button produces the following warning. As that can become irritating with continued use, there is an option on the warning message not to show it in the future, until the add-in is reset.
The messages are created in html format. Paragraph breaks inserted into the Message Body Text field are preserved without the need to use html tags in the text. HTML tags are not translated by the process and will appear as text in the message body if used.
When the button is clicked again (note the changed caption) the macro panel is replaced by the PDF panel but the button background remains changed as an indicator of the macro use. This is important as preferred settings are stored for re-use.
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