topic Inconsistency and redundancy in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/inconsistency-and-redundancy/m-p/776385#M5257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>While I still only have little experience in the GIS world, I do have some experience in developing administrative applications. When using a RDMS like SQL server I always try to avoid redundant data, because it can lead to inconsistency. In the short time I have worked with GIS Ive seen&nbsp;multiple examples on "Colletor" apps where the user added new attributes to a feature class (which really doesnt belong there) and the "developers" then created a windows scheduled task to copy the some of the data to another feature class. As an application developer it really hurts to see, and I belive that the users either are using "Collector" wrong og using it for something it wasnt supposed to be used for.</P><P>Am I wrong? Is it acceptable to change the datamodel to fit a soloution made in a generic tool? Is it&nbsp;<SPAN>acceptable&nbsp;you have to use windows scheduled task to syncronize data between feature classes?</SPAN></P><P></P><P>Best regards</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:19:20 GMT leonoestergaard 2019-09-24T12:19:20Z Inconsistency and redundancy https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/inconsistency-and-redundancy/m-p/776385#M5257 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>While I still only have little experience in the GIS world, I do have some experience in developing administrative applications. When using a RDMS like SQL server I always try to avoid redundant data, because it can lead to inconsistency. In the short time I have worked with GIS Ive seen&nbsp;multiple examples on "Colletor" apps where the user added new attributes to a feature class (which really doesnt belong there) and the "developers" then created a windows scheduled task to copy the some of the data to another feature class. As an application developer it really hurts to see, and I belive that the users either are using "Collector" wrong og using it for something it wasnt supposed to be used for.</P><P>Am I wrong? Is it acceptable to change the datamodel to fit a soloution made in a generic tool? Is it&nbsp;<SPAN>acceptable&nbsp;you have to use windows scheduled task to syncronize data between feature classes?</SPAN></P><P></P><P>Best regards</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:19:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/inconsistency-and-redundancy/m-p/776385#M5257 leonoestergaard 2019-09-24T12:19:20Z