ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting properties (Maritime Charting)

When working with ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting, you can configure how certain tools behave and what rules they should use. These properties are set once after Maritime Charting has been installed. These properties are not to be set again unless using different database connections or a new version of Maritime Charting is installed. The following properties are set on the Nautical Properties pane of the Production Properties dialog box.

Production Properties dialog box

The following table shows which settings are configured by the install and which settings require a user input. All of the settings can be changed if necessary.

Property	Options/Description	Default setting	Configuration required
Cascade Master/Slave Deletes Activated	False—You are asked each time you delete a master feature if you want to delete the associated slave features. True—All associated slave features are deleted automatically when a master feature is removed.	False	No
Compilation Scale Value	The value set determines the default value to be populated in the compilation scale field for an inserted feature during an edit session.	0	Yes, but only for the enterprise production environment.
Group Soundings Type	Off—Creates a unique group and places new or modified sounding features; features are not put into an existing group. First Match—Groups a newly created or modified sounding feature arbitrarily with the group first found as a match for attributes, regardless of proximity to the sounding. Nearest—Adds a newly created or modified sounding feature to the closest group in proximity that also matches its attributes. User Defined—Displays a list of sounding groups with matching attributes, allowing you to choose into which group to place the newly created or modified sounding feature.	OFF	No
Show Compilation Scale Message Box	True—A message box notifying you of the compilation scale you will be editing in (according to the compilation scale value you set) appears each time you start or stop editing and when you save edits. False—Turns off the message box.	True	No
Agency/FIDS Property	Indicates what naming/numbering convention features use when they are created.	Null	Yes
Product XML file location	Location where all the product XML configuration files are stored.	Populated based on installation location	No
SCAMIN XML file location	The location of the XML file that defines the set of rules used by the SCAMIN tool.	Populated based on installation location	No
Scratch Workspace Location	During certain processes like creating a nautical product, a scratch workspace location is needed when building the specific output.	Populated based on installation location	No
Unit Conversion	Unit conversion and rounding rules allow data values to be stored as different units without the loss of information when imported and/or edited in the geodatabase.	N/A	No, unless your organization requires values to be converted to different units.
Nautical Information System (NIS)	When creating products in an enterprise environment using the product library, this property should be pointing to your Nautical Information System (NIS) database so the different processes in the product library can access the central database (NIS) to extract data and create the replica connections from NIS to the product.	Null	Yes, but only for the enterprise production environment

The table below shows the nautical properties and options or descriptions for setting them.