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Relationship class with rules appearance in ArcGIS Pro

PierreloupDucroix — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:55:46 GMT

Hello,

after adding rules to a relationship in order to limit relations with only some subtypes, I can see that it is not reflected in Pro interface.

Here you can see that only Hydrant can have a relation with a hydrant inspection, however when selecting a Valve, the hydrant inspection relationship is still visible. Is this the normal behavior ? I would expect that the relationship is limited to valid subtypes.

Note : when trying to add a hydrant maintenance in relation with a valve, I get the expected behavior :

Re: Relationship class with rules appearance in ArcGIS Pro

MHeadley — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:30:47 GMT

So, just adding the Relationship Class Rules caused the error message? I've tried reproducing this behavior with no success... I am still able to add a maintenance records to the Hydrant Maintenance table when features other than Fire Hydrant are selected. I'm wondering if a Validation Attribute Rule would be the way to go... my fear is that editors will accidentally add maintenance records to the wrong tables... I was hoping there was a way to only show relationship classes per subtype, but haven't figured it out yet.

Re: Relationship class with rules appearance in ArcGIS Pro

PierreloupDucroix — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:28:51 GMT

Hello, I opened a support case a year ago, and the bug has been reproduced and referenced here:

https://support.esri.com/fr-fr/bug/rules-enabled-on-a-relationship-class-are-not-honored-b-bug-000176986

I also found another bug that seems to describe the same behavior:

https://support.esri.com/fr-fr/bug/relationship-class-rules-that-are-set-to-restrict-relat-bug-000136199

The workaround is to duplicate the layers instead of using subtype group layers, but this doesn't seem relevant for a utility network.