SDE Version keep it or recreate it

JoseSanchez

Hello everyone,

We have a question about best practices in ArcSDE Administration with versions.

We have 2 versions created from DEFAULT used for web editing that are permanent. Editors digitize 2 feature classes in each version using ArcGIS Online. We would like to know the best way to manage these 2 versions. Should we periodically, for example every month, remove and recreate both versions with the same name and privileges. Or is it better to keep these 2 versions indefinitely.

Thanks.

jskinner

This would be a decision on how you want to handle the edits.  If you have multiple versions, for example one per editor, you will need to perform more maintenance on the back end such as reconciling/posting these versions.  You will also need to have multiple feature services, web maps, and web applications.  Users do not have the ability to switch to another version using a feature service, therefore a service would need to be published for each version, added to a web map, and then a editing application created from this.

If you have one version for all editors, this would be more manageable as you could have have one service, one web map, and one web application.  I recommend enabling Editor Tracking, especially if using one version.  That way you will know who made what edits, and you can also restrict edits to the feature's creator if need be.