topic Simulate the behavior of ArcMap's Topology Edit tool in ArcGIS JavaScript Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/simulate-the-behavior-of-arcmap-s-topology-edit/m-p/560437#M52287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">We have a feature data set with three polyline feature classes that share geometry and participate in a topology with just one rule.&nbsp; These can be edited in ArcMap using the Topology Edit tool, where a user modifies one feature’s geometry and the features in the other two feature classes with coincident geometries snap in place along with the feature being edited.&nbsp; We found ways in the API to create and edit topologies and to check for topology errors, but not a way to edit while maintaining shared geometry like ArcMap’s topology edit tool.&nbsp; Our Esri representative spoke to some developers at the user conference who said the nuts and bolts exist.&nbsp; We are reaching out for a description of the methodology to simulate what the Topology Edit tool does because without it, our locally-hosted application users would have to snap every vertex in place manually in order to honor the topology rule "must be covered by feature class of".</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Amending this post - my Esri rep directed me to this forum but I now see this is for JavaScript API, not Java.&nbsp; We are using the Java API because we are working with versioned data which is required in order to work with a topology, and versioning with the "move edits to base" option will not work per our tests.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:40:32 GMT JeffSchloss 2016-07-07T12:40:32Z Simulate the behavior of ArcMap's Topology Edit tool https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/simulate-the-behavior-of-arcmap-s-topology-edit/m-p/560437#M52287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">We have a feature data set with three polyline feature classes that share geometry and participate in a topology with just one rule.&nbsp; These can be edited in ArcMap using the Topology Edit tool, where a user modifies one feature’s geometry and the features in the other two feature classes with coincident geometries snap in place along with the feature being edited.&nbsp; We found ways in the API to create and edit topologies and to check for topology errors, but not a way to edit while maintaining shared geometry like ArcMap’s topology edit tool.&nbsp; Our Esri representative spoke to some developers at the user conference who said the nuts and bolts exist.&nbsp; We are reaching out for a description of the methodology to simulate what the Topology Edit tool does because without it, our locally-hosted application users would have to snap every vertex in place manually in order to honor the topology rule "must be covered by feature class of".</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Amending this post - my Esri rep directed me to this forum but I now see this is for JavaScript API, not Java.&nbsp; We are using the Java API because we are working with versioned data which is required in order to work with a topology, and versioning with the "move edits to base" option will not work per our tests.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:40:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-javascript-maps-sdk-questions/simulate-the-behavior-of-arcmap-s-topology-edit/m-p/560437#M52287 JeffSchloss 2016-07-07T12:40:32Z