Customer Service Toolkit - Arkansas

Toolkit Tips, Tricks, & Shortcuts, Reference, and Help Materials (all files are Adobe Acrobat documents). 

Tips and Tricks

• 0 - Index page for Supplemental, Reference, and Toolkit Help Material - Arkansas  (15KB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - If you print the entire toolkit manual and supplemental material package you may want an index page to place in your notebook.

• 1 - Using a CLU Layer to Create Planned Land Units - Arkansas  (8.2 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 07/05) - Using the already digitized common land unit layer (CLU) allows you to use Farm Service delineations, acreage calculations, and field numbers as a guide.

• 2 - Using a Garmin Map76 with Toolkit - Arkansas  (8.2 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Easy directions for using the Garmin GPS to take data from Toolkit to the field and back again.

• 3 - Editing or Adding a Practice Narrative for Toolkit - Arkansas  (0.8 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Add a practice to use in conservation plans.

• 4 - Toolkit Practice Customer - Arkansas  (0.7 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Make a "fake" customer to use for practice or for printing one time ArcMap documents for walk-in customers.

• 5 - Using the Base Layer to Create Custom Layers - Arkansas  (1.5 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - The base layer contains land units for all customers that you have checked out.  This option can be useful for creating specific program shapefile layers.

• 6 - Reporting Progress from Toolkit - Arkansas  (0.9 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Goaled and non-goaled items can be reported using toolkit.

• 7 - Adding Tools to ArcMap - Arkansas  (1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Special buttons can be added to your toolbar that will make your use of ArcMap faster and easier.  You decide what makes your work less complicated and add those shortcuts.

• 7b - The Continuous Pan Zoom Tool for ArcMap  (0.3 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - This tool is just one of the many special buttons that can be added to your ArcMap toolbar to make your work easier.

• 8 - Deleting Un-needed plan databases - Arkansas  (0.5 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Consplan1, consplan2,...consplan9?  How can you combine and eliminate redundant consplans?

• 9 - Using the PLSS layer to zoom to a land legal description (1.3 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 04/06) - You can easily zoom to a legal description following these instructions.

• 10 - How to Make Address and Name Changes in the Preferences that will Remain Consistent from Plan to Plan (0.6 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 04/07) - submitted by John Kluthe

• 11 - Creating a Default County Template (1.4 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 04/07) - This document will show the user how to create a default ArcMap document for their county.

• 12 - Creating Buffers and Waste Exclusion Areas (3.7 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 04/07) - While these instructions are targeted toward animal waste applications, some of the procedures demonstrated here will also work for other types of buffers such as Riparian Forest Buffers and those developed for CRP. 

Reference Materials

• R1 - An Introduction to Geographical Data for NRCS Users - Arkansas  (0.1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - The hard concepts, made easy.

• R2 - Toolkit Glossary - Arkansas  (0.1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - The hard words, made easy.

• R3 - Toolkit Toolbar - Arkansas  (0.3 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 01/06) - Easy explanation of Toolkit buttons.

Helpful Materials from Other States

Disclaimer: The documents and references in this section were developed by and for some other state; consequently, the information may not be applicable to you.  If you have questions about the processes in these documents contact your area office or Arkansas Toolkit Coordinator. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE PERSONS LISTED ON THESE DOCUMENTS! 

• VT1 - Export Shapefiles for Sharing with Partners  - Vermont  (0.4 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 2005) - Toolkit doesn't store information in shapefile format but it is sometimes necessary to convert your data to a shapefile to share the information with other GIS users.

• VT2 - Reset to Advanced - Vermont  (0.1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 2005) - The advanced user level allows a user more options. Arkansas users should all reset their preferences to advanced.

• VT3 - Copy and Paste Features into Database - Vermont  (0.3 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 09/05) - Often there are instances where features (points, lines or polygons), typically in shapefile format, already exist. We can copy the features and paste them into the ‘land unit’ or ‘practice’ layers.

• WV - Instructions for Snapping Lines Together- West Virginia (2.3.4 MB Adobe Acrobat document, 10/05) - Developed by Chris Winslow.  Snapping Corners Together (p1-3); Snapping Double Lines in a Field Together (p4-6); Snapping Lines Using SP1 (p7-10).

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