Layers from Licensed File Geodatabase behave inconsistently in ArcMap

JillHalchin — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:51:43 GMT

Context:

10.3.1 Desktop Advanced

Windows 7 64bit

i7 Dell workstation

I need to send a copy of sensitive data to a contractor and created a Licensed File Geodatabase. That much worked well, but I found that the documentation on these GDB doesn't discuss functionality in ArcMap - definition query, symbols, labels, joins, etc. I did some testing to make sure that the recipient can get the information he needs in the usual ways. I immediately ran into inconsistencies and missing functionality.

Observations:

Selecting from attribute table doesn’t hightlight the feature, just the table record.
Interactive select tool highlights both the feature and its table record.
Can’t push relates (relationship classes) from the table (Related tables: None).
Can’t flash feature from the table.
Can identify from the attribute table and all fields are shown, then select from the id window will highlight the feature.
Interactive Identify tool returns only the resource name, can’t flash or select the feature.
Related tables aren’t shown in the identify window, regardless of how you open the id window.
Zoom and pan to a feature are grayed out in the Identify window.
Zoom and pan go to the center of the extent of the entire layer, not the selected feature. License tab in Layer Properties is empty.
Can establish a join, but the features don’t display. Removed the join and get drawing error: cannot acquire a lock. Data is on my computer, not open in any other software. Closed MXD and reopened it. Data is back. This happened twice, so it wasn’t a brief network slowdown, which can cause drawing errors.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, because I don't see anyone else reporting problem with licensed FGDB. Any suggestions are welcome.

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