Remove ability to add a record without first creating the geometry

JoshWhite

Currently there is the ability to add a record to a feature class without the corresponding geometry.  This can cause problems that can later be addressed with the repair geometry tool but my point is to remove this entirely.  I see no need to add data to an attribute table without first creating the geometry.  Tables may be a different story but really should be edited in their native format rather than as part of an ArcMap editing session.

DavidKnudsen

I have actually used this capability in geocoding operations: the entire input table of addresses is output to a feature class, but addresses that could not be geocoded have no geometry. I won't argue that there aren't better ways of doing this, but at the time I found it a good thing to have all the input records in the output file for review. I could manually create geometry for some of the records that hadn't been geocoded.