What's new in editing for Esri Production Mapping (Production Mapping)

In ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop, major enhancements have been made to editing functionality as well as to the product library within Esri Production Mapping. With this version, several new tools and enhancements have been made to the editing interfaces within Production Mapping to improve the ease of use.

New at 10.1 SP1

At 10.1 SP1, some enhancements have been made to the sketch halo, loading templates from views, and the Create tab on the Manage Features window.

Sketch halo

The sketch halo has been enhanced and now allows you to create several different halos that can be displayed at once in the map. This allows you to create halos for different distances when data is being extracted for several different feature classes at once. The sketch halos have also been enhanced to automatically adjust to the projection and location in the map.

Sketch halos can be created and configured on the Editing pane on the Production Properties dialog box.

Loading templates

At 10.1 SP1, the Load Selected Templates From View command has been added, which allows you to load only certain templates in the view instead of all of them. You can also choose to append them to the current layers listed on the Create tab or replace templates on the current layers with those selected on the Load Selected Templates From View dialog box.

A new property called Validate templates on load has been added to the Editing tab on the Production Properties dialog box. This property indicates whether the templates are validated before they are added to the Create tab when the templates are loaded from a view.

Create tab

Groups on the Create tab can now be collapsed and expanded as necessary. This is useful if there are several layers loaded in the Manage Features window and you only want to work with specific ones.

Feature Manager

• When representations, annotation, or dimensions are selected, a tab appears in the Update Attributes window. This allows you to edit various attributes for the feature directly in the Feature Manager.
• You can now use the Sort Domains By Value command to sort domain values in ascending order on the Create Attributes, Update Attributes, and Metadata Attributes windows. The order can be reverted to the schema order using the List Domains as Defined command.
• The Update tab now provides a flat list view.
• Several enhancements have been made to the performance of the Feature Manager.

Other editing tools

• The Production Merge tool has been deprecated in favor of the ArcGIS Merge tool.
• The Merge tool has been moved to the Production Editing toolbar.

Product library

• The Field Configuration Manager and Associate Batch Job commands have been removed from the Production Editing toolbar. Instead, you can now access the Manage Field Configurations and Associate Batch Jobs commands from the Product Library window at the data model version level.

Field configurations

• The field configurations are now stored in a field configuration settings (.fcs) file instead of a table. They are still saved in the product library.
• The new Ignore Paste setting prevents the selected field's value from being pasted when multiple fields are copied in the Create Attributes or Update Attributes windows.
• You can now use a custom date format for date or string fields.
• You can now create new versions of the field configurations when a change is made. This setting can also be overridden by checking the Overwrite Current Version check box.
• You can now create attribute groups when defining field configurations. This feature provides the ability to display your attributes in groups when viewing in the Manage Features window.

Associate Batch Jobs

• You can only set the severity for the batch job if it is an Attribute batch job. If it is a Spatial or Reviewer batch job, the severity cannot be set.

Geoprocessing

The Data Mapping toolset in the Production Mapping toolbox provides a tool that allows you to load data into a geodatabase based on mapping information.

• The Load Data geoprocessing tool loads data from a source to a target workspace and applies data mapping rules described in a cross-reference database.