Old Data: A FC of building polygons with the name of a facility we inspect. If the building had >1 facility per building (very common) only one was included.
New Data: FC of building polygons that contain facilities and a table (non-spatial) of facilities. There is a 1-M relationship class of buildings to facilities (M facilities to 1 building). Facilities table contains all the information we have on the facility in our sql database.
We have a custom addin that included a facility search/zoom tool (by name) that searched the old--incomplete--data. Our users would like a new tool for the new data.
The Problem: Our users have no database connections. They use .lyr files. So if I create a geoprocessing tool or a Python Addin that querys the facilities table then related FC and zooms to the selected FC building they will need a database connection. Or at least I think so.
Any ideas of how to do this without connecting them to the sde? Also on a python approach for selecting the related records?
