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Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

Anonymous User — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:26:21 GMT

Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema. The ArcGIS Diagrammer available from ArcScripts is an example of such a utility. Schema is presented as editable graphics in an environment familiar to users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Essentially ArcGIS diagrammer is a visual editor for ESRI’s Xml Workspace Document which are created by ArcCatalog, the management application in the ArcGIS Desktop product suite.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

AaronAddison — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:18:37 GMT

This is sorely needed. Any tool developed should also support diagramming relationship classes.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

MarkStewart — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:57:39 GMT

I agree that this is badly needed. In addition, the tool needs to also provide the ability to reapply schema to existing geodatabases. For instance, if I delete composite relationships and geometric networks in order to load data with the Simple Data Loader, I should be able to then reapply those relationships and networks after the data load.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

SAMUELAMOAKO-ATTA — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:35:08 GMT

Such an integrated tool will go a long way to make designing, documenting, and diagramming (the three Ds) in ArcGIS a lot smoother instead using other add-ins or third party tools which doesn't always work well.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

ChrisJacob — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:30:26 GMT

Have you investigated the GDB XRay tool? It offers many useful features in documenting datasets...

http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=15119
and
http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/localgovernment/archive/2010/07/10/Xray-for-ArcGIS-10-Beta-Available-for-Download.aspx

Chris Jacob
City of Waterloo

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

DavidKlein — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:17:47 GMT

I've been using ArcGIS Diagrammer to build a fairly complex electric distribution and transmission model, and one thing I just found that it could do that would have saved me a couple of days of sleuthing is detecting incompatible relationship classes. I had accidentally created 2 feature classes duplicated composite relationships, and no good way to tell which one was faulty. My only recourse was to import into arccatalog repeatedly until I narrowed it down to a small enough set to analyze. This would be a good thing to catch on the Validate command.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

danan — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:08:22 GMT

I would like to see a UML Profile of the Geodatabase, since Diagrammer (while quite nice) is an unsupported Esri research project. And GDB XRay has you use Excel for round-trip geodatabase design? There must be a better way.

With a UML Profile of the Geodatabase, one could use a tool like Enterprise Architect to build, document, and trace back items to requirements and use cases. Would be quite helpful in building Very Large Geodatabases and be able to communicate those designs to non-GIS folks within the Enterprise:

https://community.esri.com/ideas/2720

Considering the XML Schema of the Geodatabase, so far as I know, can exhaustively represent everything in a Geodatabase; and since the importing and exporting of XML Workspace Documents already exists in ArcCatalog, it seems possible in principle to generate a UML Profile and leave it to others (like Sparx Systems) to develop design tools. Diagrammer and GDB Xray are nice gestures, but don't offer a complete and holistic geodatabase design solution for modern enterprise systems.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

PeterVeenstra — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:59:50 GMT

I echo the thoughts presented by 'dananrg' below (or above). ESRI has a plethora of scripts and utilities written by there own internal staff and users for the management of SDE and the Geodatabase particularly for SDE and Schema management. These thoughts have been posted to the Geodatabase BLOG as well. The XML schema for the geodatabase exists which is good (except large!). But it does exhaustively itemize the structure of a geodatabase and since it is XML can be extended. So - tools to analyze the XML as a representation of the schema and then allow it to be 'applied' back against the schema would be helpful. I've posted a request for a schema differences tool - this is done for replica's right now. Same thing applies for here. There are other tools (Like Sparx Enterprise Architect) that could be used to handle the diagramming side of things but the management and assessment of the schema added by EsRi would be powerful.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

GuidoStein — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:37:11 GMT

I am at the point where I am willing to build a tool using python, but I have two issues:

1) There is no tool for building annotation using python

2) I need to pin down a interchange format for the tool

any thoughts...

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

GuidoStein — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:43:34 GMT

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

danan — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:12:35 GMT

I'm helping organize a Special Interest Group at the 2011 Int'l UC to facilitate discussion about GDB modeling.

Description from UC agenda:

http://events.esri.com/uc/2011/infoWeb/OnlineAgenda/?fa=ofg_details_form&ScheduleID=2755

“This Special Interest Group will discuss available and forthcoming GDB design tools, patterns, and emerging issues. The group will provide participants with an opportunity to communicate their database design and modeling requirements to Esri staff who will be present.”

For more information visit:

http://spatialdba.com

Please take a minute to fill out the following survey:

http://spatialdba.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=72916〈=en

I'm keeping the survey open until August 31, 2011.

Geodatabase Data Model Diagram

BrianBradshaw — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:43:32 GMT

It would be really great to have a way to dynamically create a diagram of a geodatabase data model. Currently we can use tools like GDB XRay, GDB Diagrammer and Visio to create a graphic data model diagram but if any changes need to be made to the geodatabase you have to start all over again. So the idea is to build this functionality into Desktop to enable interactive edits to the geodatabase that would be reflected in the data model diagram.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

InnaNogeste — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:13:44 GMT

I am currently using ArcGIS Diagrammer to create Schema reports from XML Workspace docs.

The output uses default colours set by ArcGIS Diagrammer, however these default colours aren't suitable for our use.
We would prefer to be able to define our own RGB/CMYK colours for the different different sections/colours.

ESRI Support Australia advised me to contact this web page to request an enhancement for the next release of ArcGIS Diagrammer to include the option of changing the default colours in schema reports to user defined colours.

Re: Add a utility or tool to create, edit and analyze the geodatabase schema

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:22:52 GMT

It seems there are multiple places to comment on ArcGIS Diagrammer functionality, so I am going to cover my bases....

When diagramming in ArcGIS Diagrammer, it would be nice to "hide" certain types of objects, specifically Subtypes.

I work with feature classes that utilize large numbers of subtypes. Although when diving deep into the schema or designing a geodatabase it is important to have those on the diagram, when trying to export a diagram for business users or management types, the display of all the subtypes is clutter. I can go ahead and delete them all for making a graphic to present, but even that is a bit of a hassle.

ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

TonyViveiros — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:25:27 GMT

The current 10.2 release of ArcGIS Diagrammer does not work with ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 and will be the final Diagrammer release according to the link here.

ArcGIS Diagrmmer functionality is needed for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

BradAnderson1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:46:10 GMT

Ouch, I could not agree more. The Diagrammer tool saves a great deal of time, it is extremely useful. Unless there is another efficient method to view the GDB schema from the exported XML file, the Diagrammer functionality is needed at 10.3.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

deleted-user-8KkqhMYcTNGx — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:04:22 GMT

No Disrespect to Xray but it is not as user friendly as ArcGIS Diagrammer. Please upgrade Diagrammer!

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

deleted-user-8KkqhMYcTNGx — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:11:57 GMT

If Xray had the HTML formatting that ArcGIS Diagrammer gives when you import a schema into excel it would be a little more user friendly and easy to read.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

AdamDaily — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:59:53 GMT

I would like to see diagrammer updated for 10.3. Its a useful tool. If its going away, what is a suitable replacement?

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer Functionality for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3

PARDPublisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:10:43 GMT

I tried the x-ray for geodatabases add-in in ArcGIS Catalog. I prefer the ArcGIS Diagrammer to this option because it has more functionality. I use it all the time. Please give us an upgraded version of ArcGIS Diagrammer. Thanks