idea Additional Topology Rules and Functionality in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

NickSelleh — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:45:22 GMT

Add a rule: Points must be covered by lines - The user would be able to select multiple feature classes for the point and line features. This would be a quick and dirty way to see if your entire Utility Sys has been snapped up properly...

Functionality:

Add Attribute Logic to Topology. Example: myPolygon must contain one point where point.location_type = 'Hospital' (give hawatson credit for this)
Add Logic (And, Or, etc.) to Topology rules Example: Vales Must Be Covered by Mains OR Laterals Example 2: Hydrants AND Valves Must Be Covered by Mains OR Laterals.

Imagine how much better work would be.

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

NicolasPy — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:47:47 GMT

To link with "Provide a way to extend the topology rules framework" at https://c.na1.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=0873000000087rgAAA

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

shivagugila — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:56:27 GMT

Hi,

I would like to see topology functionality include a query option. such as 'select by attributes' and 'select by location' to the feature classes being included for topology.

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

LaurenFagg — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:23:42 GMT

I would like something similar, but would be happy with the ability to build your own vbscript or boolean style rules. eg. "Roads must share a boundary with (Parcels OR creeks OR Intersections)

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

DavidWhiterod — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:33:56 GMT

This would be a god-send!

Topology is very useful but we cannot use it as much as we would like as some of our layers:

1. can aligned with roads OR parcels - the complex boolean logic would be great!
2. can validly break topology rules when attributes change - i.e. all features with the same value (an application number) must not overlap but they can validly overlap the features of another application. As there are too many applications it is too difficult to see up a sub-type of each application number - the ability to have topology respect changes in attribute (like a 'group by' in SQL) would be great!!

Also, the ability to:

1. validate topology only using the selected (and definition query'd) features would be very useful
2. use layers in more than one topology (mentioned elsewhere)

would be great too!

Cheers

David

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

DavidWhiterod — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:41:50 GMT

I would vote 100 times for this and the other topology-related ideas. Topology is great but requires a number of enhancements to allow it to better model real-world data.

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

AndyAston — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:07:38 GMT

Yes! The topology tools need enhanced, including functionality to build multi-criteria topological rules.

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

MichaelSnook — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:22:30 GMT

Well 10 years later...this would be MUCH welcomed functionality. The Pro Parcel Fabric would benefit greatly from this. One of the biggest rules that we need in our organization would be to add 'Tax Parcels Must Not Overlap'. This is nearly impossible to do because of historical parcels unless we want to mark all historical parcel overlaps as exceptions...not really viable. If a definition query could be added to the rule ('retiredbyrecord IS NULL') it would solve all these issues -- and not just tax parcels. Another critical topology rule would be to test if conveyance division public rights-of-way overlap tax parcels...again this is just not possible currently.

Please consider this again!

Thanks!

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

SSWoodward — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:09:06 GMT

Thank you all so much for your comments.

There were two asks in this original idea. The first was for a specific topology rule "Points must be covered by lines". This is rule now exists in the set of predefined topological rules. You can find information about this rule at the link below

ArcGIS Pro - Topolgy Rules - Points

The original Idea also contained a request for the ability to apply more complex custom topological rules. This type of functionality can be achieved in ArcGIS Pro using Attribute Rules. I would love to hear if users have been able to successfully apply attribute rules to achieve these types of validation checks in their workflows.

If not, what have been your roadblocks?

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality

SSWoodward — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:29:27 GMT

Thank you for sharing your Idea with the ESRI Community. This idea has been closed due to inactivity.

Users looking for similar functionality may open a new idea related to the current version of ArcGIS Pro.

Re: Additional Topology Rules and Functionality - Status changed to: Closed

SSWoodward — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:36:09 GMT