topic Automated Generate Id - Sequence vs. Object Id in State & Local Government Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/automated-generate-id-sequence-vs-object-id/m-p/50431#M329 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am curious about the pros and cons or reasoning for how the demo Local Gov geodatabase is setup in regard to generating id's for feature classes.&nbsp; I notice that in the demo dataset the generate id for Road Centerline is set to use the dynamic value/generate id combination to populate CENTERLINEID whereas the Facility Site Polygon is set to use dynamic value with an expression that is pulling the object id into the FACILITYID.&nbsp; What should dictate which is the better way or best practice? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Since I have been migrating to Local Gov Model I have been curious about this especially in an instance where I may have records related to features by an ID.&nbsp; When and if a feature were to be split (because a new road or sewerline is added) and a new ID generated for one of the two features it seems that I would then lose the link between the related record and the full original feature.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:28:41 GMT JaredCollier 2013-08-23T20:28:41Z Automated Generate Id - Sequence vs. Object Id https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/automated-generate-id-sequence-vs-object-id/m-p/50431#M329 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am curious about the pros and cons or reasoning for how the demo Local Gov geodatabase is setup in regard to generating id's for feature classes.&nbsp; I notice that in the demo dataset the generate id for Road Centerline is set to use the dynamic value/generate id combination to populate CENTERLINEID whereas the Facility Site Polygon is set to use dynamic value with an expression that is pulling the object id into the FACILITYID.&nbsp; What should dictate which is the better way or best practice? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Since I have been migrating to Local Gov Model I have been curious about this especially in an instance where I may have records related to features by an ID.&nbsp; When and if a feature were to be split (because a new road or sewerline is added) and a new ID generated for one of the two features it seems that I would then lose the link between the related record and the full original feature.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:28:41 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/state-local-government-questions/automated-generate-id-sequence-vs-object-id/m-p/50431#M329 JaredCollier 2013-08-23T20:28:41Z