https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-questions/water-main-material-domain/m-p/1561780#M4584 <P>Hi,</P><P>I been working on a water utility network and noticed the material field uses text values in the essentials data model and short values in the expanded data model. What's the reason behind using the different data types?</P><P>Regards</P> Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:59:15 GMT Lorne_Dmitruk 2024-11-22T16:59:15Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-questions/water-main-material-domain/m-p/1561780#M4584 <P>Hi,</P><P>I been working on a water utility network and noticed the material field uses text values in the essentials data model and short values in the expanded data model. What's the reason behind using the different data types?</P><P>Regards</P> Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:59:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-questions/water-main-material-domain/m-p/1561780#M4584 Lorne_Dmitruk 2024-11-22T16:59:15Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-questions/water-main-material-domain/m-p/1561967#M4589 <P>The feedback we received was that a lot of people would prefer to keep a text domain for that field, although a integer field is better for database performance.</P> <P>For an essential migration, using a text field provides a more straight forward migration of data.&nbsp;</P> Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:23:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-utility-network-questions/water-main-material-domain/m-p/1561967#M4589 MikeMillerGIS 2024-11-23T17:23:58Z