{"id":188461,"date":"2010-09-15T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=188461"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:50:35","slug":"sharing-notes-as-layer-packages","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/sharing-collaboration\/sharing-notes-as-layer-packages","title":{"rendered":"Sharing notes as layer packages"},"author":7641,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941,37511],"tags":[42281,38251,24801],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-188461","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-sharing-collaboration","tag-explorer","tag-package","tag-sharing"],"acf":{"short_description":"A new feature in the latest release (build 1500) of ArcGIS Explorer is the ability to share (export) notes as layer packages.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>A new feature in the latest release (build 1500) of ArcGIS Explorer is the ability to share (export) notes as layer packages. <a title=\"View the create notes help topic\" href=\"http:\/\/webhelp.esri.com\/arcgisexplorer\/1500\/\/en\/hh_goto.htm#create_a_note.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notes<\/a>\u00a0have always been an easy and powerful way to add non-geographic content,\u00a0such as\u00a0photos, documents, movies, websites, and more to your map. Now those same notes can be shared as layer packages to use in ArcMap. Let\u2019s take a closer look\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve\u00a0placed a point note in the middle of the Esri Redlands campus and added a link to the Esri website in the note popup. Here\u2019s what the popup looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7587.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To share this as a layer package, right-click the note in the map contents and choose Share\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7588.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be presented with a couple of choices to make. First is the format for sharing. The choices are: as an Explorer\u00a0map content file (.nmc), layer package (.lpk), or KML. We\u2019ve choosen Layer Package in this example.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7585.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, you\u2019ll have a choice of how you want to share the layer package. You can share it as a file, E-mail it, or add it to ArcGIS Online. We\u2019ve chosen File.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7586.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Layer packages require a description, and\u00a0when sharing\u00a0one from Explorer you\u2019ll be automatically\u00a0prompted to add one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7589.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After completing the above steps, you\u2019ll now have a layer package, in our case one named\u00a0<em>Esri Redlands.lpk<\/em>, saved to the folder you specified.<\/p>\n<p>Next we\u2019ll start ArcMap and add the layer package we\u2019ve just created.\u00a0In ArcMap layer packages are not yet supported using Add (that\u2019s coming in the 10.1 release) but we can drag-and-drop our layer package into the map document instead. We\u2019ve also added the World Topographic basemap from ArcGIS Online to get our map off to a good start. After drag-and-drop, the layer package will be listed in our contents:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7592.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To display the popup window we use the HTML popup tool, which was introduced at the ArcGIS 9.3.1 release.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7590.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Use the HTML popup tool to click the note in ArcMap to display the popup contents \u2013 it\u2019s just like the original Explorer note.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/info_7591.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more information view the\u00a0<a title=\"View help topic\" href=\"http:\/\/webhelp.esri.com\/arcgisexplorer\/1500\/\/en\/hh_goto.htm#sharing_layer_packages.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharing layer packages<\/a>\u00a0Explorer help topic.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":7641,"user_firstname":"Bernie","user_lastname":"Szukalski","nickname":"Bern Szukalski","user_nicename":"bszukalski","display_name":"Bern Szukalski","user_email":"bszukalski@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-26 17:55:14","user_description":"I am a corporate technology evangelist and geo advocate at Esri, focusing on ways to broaden access to geographic information and helping customers succeed with ArcGIS. \r\n\r\nOn a good day I'm making a map, on a great day I'm on one. 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