Latest Contributions by DanaNolan

Global IDs would not be a first choice for a relationship; they are used in distributed databases and other situations, but can be hard to work with. Just use a good foreign key for the relationship, one you already have that is unique (on the 1 side of the relationship) and does not change.  A relationship class can help prevent orphans, but you already have the bad data so you will have to clean that up first. If you set the relationship up to cascade delete the many records when you delete the one related feature, you probably won't get orphans again.  But, you could lose table records if you accidentally or temporarily delete a feature.  I don't have many  1-many situations.  ... View more

It sounds like you can join-by-attribute the old property records to the new feature class table, assuming the field that is used in the relationships to link tables is usable. When you start a join from the many side (table), it should find all the one side (feature) records that match. If the link field cannot be used to match the records, you will have to look at other fields and/or clean up the data until you get a single field that can match old records to new features. ... View more

Yes, I have, back in 10.4. Nothing worked (reloading from table, typing/copying in everything in the domain, GP append/remove value tools). I did not have the same problem with the domain in my file geodatabases. I had to use a new copy of the domain. After over a year, the problem went away, but I cannot explain why, but I was able to repoint features to the fixed domain with the original standard domain name. Plus the latest version of SDSFIE does not need that domain, so I rarely use it. It is possible that a compress or some other big change fixed it but no one noticed the change. ... View more

Read up on Spatial Join. Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS Desktop  This can add the parcel number data to your other table, if that is what you want. The tool is part of the ArcMap Join tool although you do have to choose to join spatially, as join by attribute is the default. There is also a geoprocessing tool that does this, and will give you more options. ... View more

Topology rules often don't make sense for most of the data. Especially true if someone at a higher level created them for several departments/organizations. They are just there to force you to look at the data and decide whether there is a real error there. I probably have a 500 to 1 exception to real error ration, but that is what exceptions are for. ... View more

I have to work with topologies, not of my design, that generate such errors. There are a huge number of exceptions and overlapping errors and exceptions, but one of the bad areas that triggers the error is less than 100 square meters (out of a million+ acres) and has almost no data in it. So I think the topology engine must be producing bad geometry or just simply can't handle something there. If I turn on Task Manager while these bad areas are being validated, I can see ArcGIS slow down to almost no read/write activity, but it will continue for at least 10 minutes until it fails if I don't cancel validation.  I mapped the bad areas, which I digitized as a few polygons. Then I validate in sections, avoiding these areas.  This works, but even when I have had to rebuild the topology due to feature name changes, the bad areas are always there.  ... View more

Thanks. I went with 2020 and ArcPro 2.5 because of some important changes in 2.5. ... View more

Relative path would require the data paths to be set up in each user's space. So that is often the same folder or a folder under the location of the mxd.  Not sure why they can't copy it that way, You could look into Map Packaging, which will keep links together; however, it is not always reliable or easy to use. ... View more

What software are you using? If you can use SDE (enterprise) databases, there is an archiving toolset for tracking histories of feature classes as well as editor tracking, which operates at the record level. So search for these; they may be available with other software such as Pro. ... View more