Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

Version Changes Viewer - Older ArcSDE

PeterNemec — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:35:34 GMT

Will this work also when connecting to older (9.2, 9.1) ArcSDE?

re: Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

ssalas — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:14:54 GMT

In the Beta program, I asked if it was possible for this to report on all changes, not just for the data in the map document. The reasoning is that editors may tell the person performing the quality control and/or reconcile and post that they only edited one feature class, when they may have accidentally modified something else to which they have edit rights. Can you explain if this is or is not practical (performance limitations, etc.) as this is something I would still like to see. In any case, this is still a nice addition to ArcMap for those of us who regularly review other user's work in a versioned geodatabase.

re: Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

brentardenpierce — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:04:25 GMT

Peter,

This tool will work with earlier releases of ArcSDE (9.2, 9.1, etc...), just need 9.3 ArcGIS Desktop installed.

-Brent

re: Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

brentardenpierce — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:08:56 GMT

This tool was intentionally designed to work with the layers that are in the table of contents (TOC) of a map document. That being said, you can still get the changes of layers which are currently "turned off" or "unchecked" in the TOC. With this in mind, it is possible to create a map doc of all the layers and have them all remain unchecked so you do not encounter the rendering cost.

Hope this helps,

-Brent

re: Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

claradair — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:10:39 GMT

This will be a great addition to core functionality! Currently, with the Version Differences tool, there is an error message returned when the database contains more than one FDS with the same name (but owned by different profiles). I am wondering if this tool is able to work around that particular limitation? Our Agency has data standards in place so that any number of separate units will each own a Feature Dataset with the same name. Being able to use this tool under those circumstances would be an excellent improvement! Thanks, Clara

re: Road Ahead - Version Changes Viewer

brentardenpierce — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:29:42 GMT

Clara,

Thanks for the feedback, we are hoping that this functionality will improve the overall experience when working with versions in ArcGIS.

In our testing the Version Changes Viewer worked fine if you model your data in this way. Please let me know if you see behavior to the contrary.

Thanks,

-Brent