Extended properties

This topic applies to ArcGIS for Desktop Standard and ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced only.

Extended properties are used to allow each individual organization to store different business-specific properties dependent on their needs. These properties are configured by job type because it is likely that different types of work will have different properties associated with them.

ArcGIS Workflow Manager for Desktop allows the configuration of 1–1 relationships (extended properties) and 1–M relationships (linked/related properties).

Before you begin, make sure you have added the extended properties tables to your Workflow Manager repository.

Once the relationship is configured, your Workflow Manager system is now ready to be configured to use these properties. Within the Job Type dialog box in Workflow Manager Administrator, navigate to the Extended Properties tab. At this point, you should see the tables you created relationships for in the list on the left.

The top-level elements in the tree view on the left-hand side represent the tables related to the Jobs table. The elements in the level below these tables represent each of the fields in the table. By checking the box next to these fields, you are making that field visible from within Workflow Manager for that job type.

You can set the order in which the tables selected appear in the application by moving the order around.

Extended Properties

As you click through the fields and the tables, information about the currently selected node will appear in the right-hand panel. When a table is selected, a list of the fields currently configured for the job type will appear. You have the ability to set the order the fields will appear to your users when viewing the extended table properties.

Extended Properties Table
Choose the order the fields in this table appear to the user in the Workflow Manager client application.

When you click on a field element, the following information is available:

Field Properties
Configure how the user will be able to interact with the extended properties in the Workflow Manager client application.

Once all the properties have been configured to your needs, click OK and the property configuration is saved. This needs to be done independently for each job type.

Advanced Extended Properties

ArcGIS Workflow Manager provides a mechanism for you to configure complex rules into your extended properties fields. In this section you will focus on how to configure extended properties that filter the values that are displayed to the user based on the previous selection.

If you have already configured a job type and already have the Job Type dialog box, skip to step 4 below.

Steps:
  1. Open the Workflow Manager Administrator and connect to your Workflow Manager database.
  2. In the Administrator, navigate to the Job Type folder under Job Components.

    The list will show the currently configured job types.

  3. Right-click and click Edit Item.

    The Job Type dialog box appears.

  4. Switch to the Extended Properties tab.
  5. Select the field from the list of extended properties tables.
  6. For Display Type, select Multi-level Table List.

    The list of tables in your workflow manager repository is displayed in theTable drop-down list.

  7. Select the desired table from the list.
  8. Check the check box next to the fields that you want to use for filtering your display.
  9. Select the field in the Store Field drop-down list whose value will get populated to the extended properties.
    Multi-level Extended Properties
  10. Click OK to apply changes.

    The selected fields will be available for the user to select from when a job of this type is created.

    Multi-level Extended Properties
9/10/2013