topic Displaying a virtual link between related or linked objects in Cartography and Maps Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/displaying-a-virtual-link-between-related-or/m-p/873694#M864 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to know if there is a way to create a visible virtual link between related objects.</P><P></P><P>Example.</P><P></P><P>I have 9000 service locations that each have a Transformer_ID displaying the id of the transformer that is serving that location.</P><P>I have 3000 transformers that serve those 9000 service locations and each has a unique Transformer_ID</P><P></P><P>What I would like to see is a way to visually display which service location is related or joined to a given transformer.&nbsp; Not so much for mapping purposes but for error checking.</P><P></P><P>My current method is to create X,Y for both features, join them based on Transformer_ID, then export the joined table as a .txt and from the .txt do xy to line and create the links.&nbsp; I can then go through the map and quickly find any errors.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:48:05 GMT RobertBorchert 2015-04-20T18:48:05Z Displaying a virtual link between related or linked objects https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/displaying-a-virtual-link-between-related-or/m-p/873694#M864 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to know if there is a way to create a visible virtual link between related objects.</P><P></P><P>Example.</P><P></P><P>I have 9000 service locations that each have a Transformer_ID displaying the id of the transformer that is serving that location.</P><P>I have 3000 transformers that serve those 9000 service locations and each has a unique Transformer_ID</P><P></P><P>What I would like to see is a way to visually display which service location is related or joined to a given transformer.&nbsp; Not so much for mapping purposes but for error checking.</P><P></P><P>My current method is to create X,Y for both features, join them based on Transformer_ID, then export the joined table as a .txt and from the .txt do xy to line and create the links.&nbsp; I can then go through the map and quickly find any errors.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:48:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/cartography-and-maps-questions/displaying-a-virtual-link-between-related-or/m-p/873694#M864 RobertBorchert 2015-04-20T18:48:05Z