Keeping track of change: Geodatabase Archiving

Keeping track of change Miriam Schmidts Lesson 5

Editor tracking

Creator

Creation_Date

M.Schmidts

5/7/2012 11:10:32 AM

Last_Editor D.Hopkins

Last_Edit_Date 6/12/2012 4:37:18 PM

Geodatabase functionality Default attribute values Subtypes Single-user

Multiuser Attribute domains

Attachments

Relationship classes

Topology

Types of geodatabases

ArcGIS Server

ArcGIS Desktop Enterprise Personal (Access)

File

Desktop

Workgroup

Storing editing history (file geodatabase) How would you approach this scenario? -

1st year: growing one species in one stand

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2nd year: Stand is split into two -

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Growing different species in each new stand

3rd year: the two stands + another stand are merged back together -

Growing one species in the new stand

Storing editing history (ArcSDE geodatabase) •

Geodatabase Archiving -

Enabled on a versioned feature class

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Separate archive class created storing time stamps for each feature

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Accessed in ArcMap through Geodatabase History toolbar

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Can be queried to display features for a specific data or historical marker

Keeping track of change: Geodatabase Archiving

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Videos

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http://training.esri.com/Courses/ts_VersionedGDB/player.c fm

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http://geochannel.esri.com/index.cfm?event=video.view&c hannelId=1&videoId=2623#