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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:31:48 +0200
From: Marco Boeringa <boeringa@nieuwland.nl>
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Subject: [metadata] Theme Browser 4.1 released: XML metadata searches on
	ArcSDE geodatabases
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Hi list members,

Nieuwland Automatisering has released version 4.1 of Theme Browser. 
Theme Browser is an "ArcCatalog-like" extension for ArcView 3.x, and 
includes many advanced search and metadata options.

New features in version 4.1:
- Geodatabase Browser and Theme Browser now use Microsoft's .NET 
framework 1.1 or higher for XML metadata parsing, dramatically improving 
search speed (probably close to a factor of 10). Theme Browser now 
processes five hundred to a thousand metadata files per minute on modern 
3.0 GHz machines, allowing you to process medium sized metadata 
repositories (1000 - 5000 metadata records) with ease.
- Geodatabase Browser now supports keyword metadata searches against 
ArcSDE geodatabases, including searches based on "spatial extent" and 
"publication date". No "ESRI Metadata Server" is necessary to support 
this, Geodatabase Browser will directly read the XML files in the 
geodatabase. A new search dialog has been added to facilitate this.
- The new search functionality supports "cross-database" querying, 
allowing you to search more than one database connection at a time and 
showing results for all of them.
- Connection parameters (server name & database username) are now being 
saved for later usage, allowing a faster login.
- Theme Browser 4.1 adds support for NOAA's nautical charts in digital 
BSB (*.kap) format (requires the NOAA's Chartviewer extension as well, 
see http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/chartview/index.html)
- Geodatabase Browser no longer sets the "Maximum number of rows in a 
keyset table" parameter of the Database Tables Preferences to a value of 
0. Setting it to 0 allowed selectable, so called "keyset", tables for 
any size of database theme attribute table (e.g. 1 million records). 
However, due to limitations in ArcView and Database Access, this would 
generally lead to "lock-ups" of ArcView when attempting to create an 
attribute selection using the attribute selection dialog.
Users can instead use the alternative method of opening the Theme 
Properties for a database theme, and then modifying the "SQL  Where" 
clause of the theme, for performing attribute selections. This will work 
even if the attribute table is not a selectable "keyset" table.
- Other minor improvements.

To download a copy, either go to the Nieuwland website:
http://www.nieuwland.nl/index.cfm?pid=1152
or ESRI's ArcScripts website:
http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12081

Best regards,

Marco Boeringa
Nieuwland Automatisering
Wageningen
The Netherlands



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