arcpad 7 selecting the get schema data only option

[adamkorreckt]

when you check out data in arcpad and you do not select "get schema data option"  just for locating features, and when you check it back in it does not repopulate the existing points right. so what if you do the exact same thing and you found a feature you didn't have so you collected that point. when you go to check back in does it repopulate all the points or just the ones you add. wanted to clearify this before trying. any help would be great.

[TimHopper]

Adam,

When you check out your data to axf format (using the ArcPad Data Manager toolbar) a new field gets added behind the scenes called "AXF_STATUS".  This status field holds numerical values which indicate what should be done to the features when checking them back in.

For existing features that get checked out but do not get modified, the value in the status field indicates to ArcPad that nothing should be done to the original features.  Nothing will get checked back in and nothing will happen to the existing features in the geodatabase.

If you added a new feature, a status number would indicate that and it would be copied into the geodatabase.

Likewise, if you modified an existing feature's attributes, geometry, deleted it, etc, a status number would indicate what action was performed and the necessary changes would be made back in the geodatabase from which the data came.

Hope that helps.