Internal date field in an ArcSDE dataset?

heatherGrybas — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:23:04 GMT

I'm hoping someone would be able to give me some help or point me in the right direction. You've probably all heard this before but I don't have any programming experience so if you could bare with me I will try hard to figure it out. I'm working with someone who knows more than I do though.

Just a little back story; I've set up a simple Flex viewer application where the general public can help update one of our datasets by leaving a request. The request data is stored in a versioned ArcSDE database. My next step is to set up a geoprocessing service that will run nightly and extract that day's requests by looking at a date field that the user has to fill in with each next request. I hit a snag with the "date" type field because ArcSDE automatically stores date and time together which interferes with a widget that we want to use (if anyone knows who to fix the date I would appreciate it!) Currently the users have to hand punch a date into (working on an automatic date function right now but that won't be ready till much later) a numeric field. Long story short, does anyone know if there is an internal date field that is automatically kept and updated by ArcServer when someone makes an edit to a versioned dataset? If so is it accessible? So far the hand punched date field is not useful for this purpose.

Thanks for the help everyone.

-Heather

Re: Internal date field in an ArcSDE dataset?

JakeSkinner — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:03:00 GMT

Hi Heather,

This will be part of the core functionality at 10.1 with Editor Tracking. This functionality records who edited which features. You can see an example within the following video:

http://video.arcgis.com/watch/428/to...r-desktop-10.1

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