Latest Contributions by BryanBloch

You should be able to click on the dynamic table and edit it when you click start editing. ... View more

Brandon-we use versioned data but our AA tables are not versioned. Sorry if I cant relate to you there. ... View more

Brandon, Sorry I am in a meeting right now and I cant dive into the details of updating the AA table. So in your mxd, you have the feature classes you edit that have rule created on them as well as the AA table. When you go to edit, you need to edit the table, when you first click start editor. There you can add/edit items in your AA table. Hopefully I am descriptive enough. ... View more

Yes, haha. AA is great for auto-filling fields that don’t change spatially that much like municipal, zip code, and depending on occupation a company’s service territory boundaries. The intersect is great because it makes data more streamline being consistent like having a piped system on a certain pressure. Obviously pressure has to be the same for a system and what better than pulling it off existing features. AA is great because it reduces human error entering items in manually (unless there is an error already in the original data) and saves time because it is automated. But overall after playing with it, it is useful. I have the guys I watch over running it including myself and it helps out a lot. And we all run on a different version. ... View more

Alison, I just have the dynamic table in the mxd I am working in. When we are editing, we just edit on versioned data. So the dynamic table yes, is not editable. But since it is on and in the mxd you’re in. Any rules set, run in the backend. But yes you do need the tables in your mxd. ... View more

We use AA in a versioned environment. The data being edited is versioned, not the Dynamic and Generate ID tables. When creating rules, create them based on Feature names, not aliases. Also when using SDE feature classes use the feature class name after “.SDE.” of the feature not the entire databasename.SDE.featureclassname. If you are running AA and need to make a manual edit yourself, for good judgement turn AA off (square box will be red) and enter your edit. ... View more

Hi, I work in the gas utilities, we utilize AA as a tool in two ways: to auto fill spatial info and as a quality check.  We auto fill spatial fields like zip codes, city, state, company, and service territory info.  We use it as a quality check as well.  An example is we have a rule that for any new pipe installed it pulls off the pressure from the existing pipe it is connected too.  It helps verify our pipe is connected and makes sure the pressures are the same. ... View more