Hello, your post was an interesting thing to find today. I have not read your attachments yet, but I think they may not answer a question I seek an answer to. I am writing to you because you may have expertise to help me.
I am working on an asset inventory geodatabase for a rural domestic water systems group. I am using ArcGIS 10.1, but need to communicate with my client about what I am doing, and need something i can show him so we can discuss design issues. My client does not use ArcMap or Arc Catalog, and is too busy to come to the place where I work to look at my monitor. So, I need to give him papers or email him docs he can read in common forms...Pdfs, Microsoft apps.
I am wondering what is the best/easiest way to present/print information about my geodatabase schema. Currently I am entering info about feature classes and domains into an Excell spreadsheet, but am unhappy with how much work that is and how it is a process which requires additional synchronizing work any time I edit the schema.
If you have any tips or can direct me to good info please do.
Thanks,
Adrienne
I am working on an asset inventory geodatabase for a rural domestic water systems group. I am using ArcGIS 10.1, but need to communicate with my client about what I am doing, and need something i can show him so we can discuss design issues. My client does not use ArcMap or Arc Catalog, and is too busy to come to the place where I work to look at my monitor. So, I need to give him papers or email him docs he can read in common forms...Pdfs, Microsoft apps.
I am wondering what is the best/easiest way to present/print information about my geodatabase schema. Currently I am entering info about feature classes and domains into an Excell spreadsheet, but am unhappy with how much work that is and how it is a process which requires additional synchronizing work any time I edit the schema.
If you have any tips or can direct me to good info please do.
Thanks,
Adrienne
Adrienne, it is always best to create a new thread with an appropriate title in a case like this where the contents of your question is unrelated to the thread's current topic. You will have a better chance of someone answering your specific question. Alternatively, you can send a Private Message to someone if you have a question that you would like to have answered by someone specific (mind though, not everybody allows this, it is a personal setting in your ESRI profile).
Anyway, I think the following Help link should answer your question quite well:
Documenting your geodatabase design
And especially the therein referenced "Geodatabase Diagrammer"
Another "not to miss" resource by ESRI are the lesser known
System Design Strategies
webpages, which give great insights into system design strategies in general, performance scaling and bench marks for ESRI software, in combination with certain (server) hardware and network configurations.