topic How do I populate feature linked annotation class for existing features? in Data Management Questions

How do I populate feature linked annotation class for existing features?

JohnBerg — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 19:20:04 GMT

I've created a new feature linked annotation class related to an existing populate feature class. When I place a new feature the feature linked annotation is created and populated. How do I handle the already existing data in the feature class so that when I update the attribute in the feature linked annotation the annotation will show ?

Do I need to mass create all the related records? And if so how? Can I do it as needed?

Or did I miss some option or different way I should have created the feature linked annotation class which would have handled this?

thanks

John

Re: How do I populate feature linked annotation class for existing features?

JayantaPoddar — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:15:07 GMT

Check this out How To: Update a feature-linked annotation by updating the original label expression

Re: How do I populate feature linked annotation class for existing features?

JohnBerg — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:24:50 GMT

That works for items with a row in the annotation table but doesn't help if I already have a bunch of records I'm now creating a link to.

I belive the answer is to use a label expression first and then convert labels to annotation - that covers the existing records. My mistake was going directly to arccatalog first and creating the linked annotation class but that doesn't populate rows for existing data.