Utility Network Upgrade: Questions on Save Edits and Unreconciled Versions

[Oiligriv]

Good morning,

I would like some information regarding the Utility Network upgrade.

Referring to the documentation linked below: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/utility-network/utility-network-dataset-administr...

1. Regarding "Save Edits": This is listed as a requirement. Could you please clarify exactly what is meant by this in this context?

2. Regarding Versions: Is it possible to perform the Utility Network upgrade if there are user versions that have not yet been reconciled?

Thank you.

Virgilio

[RobertKrisher]

Save Edits - This statement only applies if you are running upgrade dataset against a local mobile/file geodatabase and have unsaved edits in Pro. In the case of an enterprise geodatabase, you have already disconnected active connections and turned off your services, so it should not be possible to have unsaved edits.

Versions - Upgrade Dataset can be performed on a utility network dataset in a branch versioned geodatabase that has outstanding user versions with unposted edits without causing any data to be lost. It is only the act of Unregistering a dataset as versioned that will cause historical information and unposted versions to be loss.

[Oiligriv]

Just to be sure, are any versions not reconciled with Default included?

[RobertKrisher · Accepted solution]

Upgrading the utility network is an operation performed on the entire dataset that affects all rows, across all versions. You can find details about this process in the Utility network upgrade history topic in the ArcGIS Online Help: Utility network upgrade history—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation. You can find any special instructions and considerations for each upgrade on that page.

[VishApte_NGIS]

Hi @Oiligriv 

We recently upgraded UNM from V5 to V7. As a precaution, we had requested all editors to post their versions but saw few branch versions with edits still in the system at the time of upgrade. However, disable topology, upgrade dataset and enable topology kept those versions and their edits intact. So no data was lost.

As @RobertKrisher mentioned, unregistering will lose all versions and any edits with it. But you don't need to unregister UN dataset for upgrading UNM version.

Cheers,

Vish