topic Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3 in Data Management Questions

ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

MichaelGayheart1 — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:53:34 GMT

We utilize ArcGIS Diagrammer to maintain all of our GDB designs. After upgrading to 10.3, we can't open ArcGIS Diagrammer. An update supporting 10.3 would be greatly appreciated!

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:55:00 GMT

Hi Michael Gayheart, thank you for your question relating to ArcGIS Diagrammer. Unfortunately the current version for 10.2 will be final release of Diagrammer. The reason for this is because Diagrammer uses a third party charting library that is no longer available. A 10.3 release of Diagrammer would require significant reengineering to support a new charting library.

If you require the capabilities of Diagrammer for future work then you may want to consider maintaining a computer with ArcGIS Desktop 10.2. Also, if certain capabilities are not available in 10.3 then I would suggest submit these features to the ArcGIS Ideas site for consideration in future release of ArcGIS.

Hope this helps.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:03:23 GMT

Richie Carmichael‌, I don't recall seeing any comments or documentation about Diagrammer being retired at 10.2. Did I miss it somewhere?

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

ToddLaQuay — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:37:46 GMT

I downgraded one of our systems back to ArcGIS v 10.2 from v10.3 in hopes of being able to use Diagrammer again and it throws the same error still of Microsoft.Net Framework. Unhandled exception error has occurred in your application. The type initializer for "ESRI.ArcGIS.DiagrammerEnvironment" threw an exception. Telling it to continue anyways opens a blank windows. Is there a way to correct this so we can use Diagrammer again?

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:07:22 GMT

Hi Todd, please check that the computer has Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Download Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 from Official Microsoft Download Center

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

ToddLaQuay — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:36:45 GMT

We confirmed that we have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed on the machine running Windows 7 and ArcGIS v10.2.2. The machine also has Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 installed. It still encounters the same error though when we try to run the program

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:23:13 GMT

Hi Todd, could you message me a screenshot of the error and/or any text in the error window. Thanks, Richie.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

ToddLaQuay — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:33:35 GMT

Attached is a Word file with the screen shot and all of the text in the error message details. Thank you for your help.

SNI-GIS<https://sni.org/departments/gis-department/>

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:59:02 GMT

Hi Todd, you might be using ArcGIS Diagrammer for 9.2 rather than ArcGIS Diagrammer for 10.2. Can you verify that you are using the correct install?

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

ToddLaQuay — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:05:59 GMT

Oh thats embarrassing, I got the 2 files mixed up in our downloads. Thank you for your help.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:10:46 GMT

No problem Todd. Glad that we were able to find a solution.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

ThomasColson — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:05:18 GMT

being able to document and diagram a geodatabase is a pretty important part of a Geodatabase design and administration work flow. What are ESRI's plans to support that in light of the retirement of the diagrammer tool?

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

TrevorHart2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:44:32 GMT

Did anyone at Esri happen to notice that Crainiate ERM components are now open source? http://opendiagram.codeplex.com/

http://opendiagram.codeplex.com/

We really need this tool to be updated!

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:01:08 GMT

Hi Trevor,

Yes, we were aware that Crainiate's ERM Diagram, the technology used by ArcGIS Diagrammer, went open source a few years ago. While open diagram appears almost identical to ERM Diagram it is lacking some or all layout classes. But more importantly, open diagram is no longer maintained or supported.

Just prior to last year's user conference, Jack Dangermond made the following comment with respect to Esri's support for CASE tools:

ArcGIS will continue to support CASE tools through the ArcGIS 10.3 release. However, CASE tools may not be shipped with future releases of ArcGIS that follow 10.3. For users interested in geodatabase design with UML, we recommend using Sparx Systems’ Enterprise Architect as it offers many advantages over the CASE tools functionality.
UC Q&A | 2014 Esri User Conference

As such, I would encourage you to evaluate Enterprise Architect for your design efforts.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

TrevorHart2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:06:16 GMT

Thanks Richie, that’s a shame about your tool as it really has been very helpful in our data modelling efforts over the years.

We do have and have used EA for data modelling but have found your tool provides a better workflow. We also have a number of current projects relying on Diagrammer for data modelling.

BTW I have found by dropping in the following 10.2 DLL’s from the .Net Developers Kit into the Diagrammer BIN directory that I can get it working on a machine that has 10.3 installed. So problem solved for the short term.

ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.Catalog.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.CatalogUI.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.DataSourcesGDB.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.Display.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.ExceptionHandler.dll (Included in the Diagrammer install)
ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.GeoDatabaseDistributed.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.GeoDatabaseExtensions.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.Geometry.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.Output.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.System.dll
ESRI.ArcGIS.Version.dll

Regards

Trevor

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

dkav — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:00:25 GMT

I can confirm that Trevor's solution works for 10.2.2.

Two comments:

The SDK required Developer Studio 2010 or 2012 preinstalled
ESRI.ArcGIS.ExceptionHandler.dll was already present in the bin folder

Thanks,

Darren

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

TrevorHart2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:22:41 GMT

Thanks Darren.

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

RichieCarmichael — Thu, 07 May 2015 00:03:52 GMT

Trevor Hart Darren Kavanagh

The source for ArcGIS Diagrammer has been published to github. Message me your ids if you would like to be a contributor.

richiecarmichael/arcgis-diagrammer · GitHub

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

dkav — Tue, 12 May 2015 21:46:57 GMT

Richie Carmichael

I haven't worked in C# before but I am happy to test.

Darren

Re: ArcGIS Diagrammer 10.3

kiransingh3 — Thu, 14 May 2015 21:18:34 GMT

I have arc 10.1 on my machine, will diagrammer 10.2 will work on it?