Latest Contributions by RickAnderson

Still not completely sure what you have configured here.  What does it look like in ArcMap when the user clicks the generate diagram button and points to this schematic dataset and diagram template?  Is the name field a dropdown list that has concatenated values of substationid - substationtype?  If so, that is exactly what you need to pass in the name parameter of the rest call on server. [ATTACH=CONFIG]22260[/ATTACH]  In the attached image, you can see that my name field is a dropdown list containing some sort of field data.  On the server side, if I wanted to create this diagram, I would need to pass in the value of 671 for the name parameter.  Also for custom query on server you need to make sure to pass in an empty initialobjects parameter in the buildercontext.  See the rest api help for generatediagram ... View more

Typically the process for an SDE database is something like this: 1. As the SDE user, create a schematic dataset 2. If you don't want SDE to be the owner, this dataset can now be deleted (leaves behind 3 critical system tables) 3. Now as the user you do want to own the dataset, create a new schematic dataset and go through the normal configuration steps. For assigning permissions to an existing dataset, you need to use ArcCatalog and right-click the dataset and then choose the Privileges command and go through the process. ... View more

First, I would recommend you try to figure out what the issue is with creating a geometric network as that will make it far easier to work with Schematics. That said, to use custom query for this case it depends on everything going on so far.  It sounds like you are actually trying to use 'mixed mode' where you have the point feature classes coming from the user making a selection on the map, but you want to run a query to get the links.  Is that correct, or is everything custom query?  This is a key thing to understand.  If you are having the user manually select the point features, then the identifier that schematics uses is a combination of classid-objectid-subid.  You will see that value in the SCHEMTICTID column of the schematic feature class.  So then for the link schematic feature class when doing custom query, you must specify 2 attributes in configuration for OriginNode and ExtremityNode.  So these tell the link which 2 SCHEMATICTID records they connect with.  Again, if those are coming from standard feature selection and not custom query, then you need to use a function attribute etc... in configuration to append the classid and subid to your girdstationid and substationid values so they match what the nodes have as a SCHEMATICTID.  Now, if everything is custom query (nodes and links), then it depends on what you specify as the UniqueIdentifier for the nodes.  You still need the OriginNode and ExtremityNode configured and they need to match how you configure the unique identifier of the nodes. There is a video available for Configuring Custom Queries on the resource center as well as lots of information in the help files.  Custom Queries are definitely an 'Advance' configuration and again I would recommend figuring out how to fix your geometric network issues and only use custom query as a last resort. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/schematics/01n600000012000000.htm ... View more