Validating a topology

Once you have created a topology and loaded data, at any time, you can run a validation against the feature class contents of the topology. Validate performs the following processing tasks:

Once a new topology has been validated, subsequent edits are noted with dirty areas that identify subsets of your feature dataset that require revalidation. This saves time and improves performance, because only the areas that need to be revalidated can be processed.

Ways to validate a topology

Tips on topology validation

3/4/2014