Pro Roadmap - Non-versioned Editing: “Ability to undo and/or discard edits before committing”

[Bud]

Regarding the ArcGIS Pro Roadmap - December 2021

Non-versioned editing - support of workflows similar to those implemented in ArcMap for editing non-versioned data. When implemented, edits against non-versioned data will not be written directly to the database, giving the user the ability to undo and/or discard edits before committing.

What is meant by the word “undo”?

I suspect it means that ALL edits in a session can be discarded. I don’t think it’s referring to true undo functionality. I.e., we won’t be able to undo (CTRL+Z) the last individual edit within a greater editing session.

Can someone confirm what the intent is? I’m aware that roadmap plans are tentative/subject to change.

Thanks!

[AmeliaBradshaw]

Hello @Bud thank you for the question! As I understand it, this statement refers to true undo which removes the last individual edit and can be performed using the 'Undo' button in the Quick Access Toolbar or using Ctrl+Z. This is discussed in the "Filter undo and redo for editing" documentation, which states the following for Pro 2.9: "You cannot undo editing operations made to nonversioned data in an enterprise geodatabase." This of course will change in a future release once we implement undo for nonversioned data. 

Please let me know if you have further questions! 

[Bud]

Thanks!

Regarding:

"...workflows similar to those implemented in ArcMap for editing non-versioned data."

This is my understanding:

• Currently, in ArcMap, we can discard edits when editing unversioned data (but we can't undo).
• Currently, in ArcGIS Pro, we can't discard edits when editing unversioned data (we can't undo either).
  • The edits get automatically saved (the save & discard buttons are greyed-out).
  • And we don't seem to have the option of disabling auto-saving the edits either; it's already disabled by default :
    

I'm still skeptical that future versions of ArcGIS Pro will allow undo of unversioned data. My guess is: it will only be possible to discard an edit session, not undo (consistent with how ArcMap works now).

I would be very happy to be wrong though.