Disabling relationship classes

Question

For example, I have a relationship class containing tax lots and owners. I also have a relationship class containing tax lots and addresses. Both are one-to-many. I only want to show the tax lots and owners one. I'm stuck.

(Googling around, there appears to at one point have been either a checkbox where you could turn one of them off or an option to completely delete one of them from your map. Did that functionality exist in the past and has be removed?

ESRI Chat box suggests I make a definition query. Does that mean I have to delete the relationship classes? I don't want to have to make a query every time I open a new map (and I have staff don't know how to make definition queries anyway). That also sounds like a terrible workaround.)

Thanks,

Tycho

abaldenweck@blm.gov_BLM_EGIS · Answer

What do you mean by "show"? Like in the pop-ups?

You absolutely do not need to delete the relationship classes to use a definition query. (As an aside, if you do need a definition query used for everyone, pull your data into the map, apply the query, then save a layer file and point everyone to the layer file instead of the data source)