Working through that now. Any grouping we had configured in the map is gone at this point. For example, our users like to turn on 'electric' layers as a group, but would now have to know to go back and turn on the lights and work requests as well. To have to do this for everything we use related tables for would just not work for us.
I think I understand ESRI's reasoning here, if there is a GPS location, just click on the point to see the attributes of it directly, right? From our perspective, we collect several inspections per asset per year. We want to use a point feature class to easily symbolize for the crews when an inspection has been completed. For our office users, it would be difficult to guess at which 'inspection' they would need to click on to see the series of inspections. (Think 20 or so inspections for each asset over a couple years). We've toyed with the idea of collecting the points with GPS, then extracting the data to flat tables which should allow us to display related records in a web map. There is significant overhead involved with this so we haven't proceeded with it yet. Think doing this for pole inspections, light repairs, manhole inspections, gas valve inspections, water valve inspections, gas riser inspections, bar code tracking gas assets, gas leaks, water leaks, any attached images, etc...
