Exporting a schematic dataset

Legacy:

The export process detailed below describes the new export function installed with ArcGIS 10.2.1 for Desktop. This new function is more flexible than the one installed within 10.0 and 10.1 since it allows you to filter out the set of diagrams you want to export. Because of the new filtering options, you can now do the following:

• Export only the diagrams you are interested in from the input schematic dataset to your output schematic dataset.
• Execute several export operations based on different subsets of diagrams in parallel, and so export your schematic dataset content faster than you did in 10.0 or 10.1.

Steps:

1. Start ArcCatalog.
2. Right-click the schematic dataset you want to export in the Catalog tree.
3. Point to Export and click To Geodatabase.

   The Export Schematic Dataset to Geodatabase dialog box opens:

4. Click browse next to Output Geodatabase or Schematic Dataset to select the output geodatabase or schematic dataset.
5. If you have chosen a geodatabase, type a name in the Output Schematic Dataset Name box for the output schematic dataset.
6. Check Definitions in the Output Activity section if you want to export the schematic dataset configuration parameters.
7. Check Diagrams in the Output Activity section if you want to export schematic diagrams contained in your schematic dataset.

   The Specify filters and Overwrite existing diagrams check boxes appear:

   1. Check Specify filters if you want to filter out the schematic diagrams to export; that is, if you want to export a subset of schematic diagrams in the output schematic dataset.

      The Edit button appears. Clicking this button allows you to open the Filter Diagrams dialog box where you can configure powerful filtering rules on the diagrams to export.

      Learn about specifying filters for the diagrams to export

      Caution:

      Filtering diagrams may be useful when you have a large number of schematic diagrams in the input schematic dataset you want to export or when you want to export specific diagrams into the output schematic dataset.

   2. Check Overwrite existing diagrams if you want schematic diagrams in the input schematic dataset to be overwritten in the output schematic dataset. Diagrams existing in the output, but missing in the input, are maintained.

      If you keep the Overwrite existing diagrams box unchecked, only those diagrams contained in the input schematic dataset but not already existing in the output schematic dataset will be exported. In this case, only those diagrams are considered during the export process.

   Note:

   When the Definitions and Diagrams boxes are both checked, the process exports both the schematic dataset configuration parameters and schematic diagrams.

   Caution:

   If the schematic dataset you want to export contains a large number of diagrams, it may be useful to operate two distinct phases for its complete exportation:

   • PHASE#A—Run an export operation with only the Definitions option checked to export the schematic dataset configuration first.
   • PHASE#B—Run several parallel export operations with only the Diagrams option checked, each parallel export operation working on different subsets of diagrams.

8. Specify the parameters in the Associated Data Options section as follows:
   1. Check Reattach to a different geodatabase if you want the associations, custom queries, and query attributes configured in the input schematic dataset to be automatically redirected to another geodatabase in the output schematic dataset.
      • With reference to associations between schematic feature classes and feature classes and object tables, the process operates on the names of the geographic feature classes or object tables contained in the specified geodatabase. When no geographic feature class and object table with the same name exists in the specified geodatabase, the related schematic feature classes are exported with no association.
      • With reference to custom queries and query attributes, the process automatically redirects their related data sources to the specified geodatabase.

      Note:

      The definition of schematic feature classes that already exist in the output schematic dataset before exporting is not impacted by the export; that is, the associations, custom queries, and query attribute definitions are not modified during the export.

   2. By default, when the Reattach to a different geodatabase box is checked, the export works with the geographic feature classes and object tables contained in the geodatabase specified in the Output Geodatabase or Schematic Dataset field (use output geodatabase). But it can also operate on another geodatabase. To specify another geodatabase, click the Open button at the right and browse to the desired geodatabase.
   3. When Reattach to a different geodatabase is checked and schematic diagrams contained in the input schematic dataset are exported (Diagrams option checked), you will need to specify how the association between the schematic features contained in the input schematic diagrams and their related GIS features and objects should be redirected for the exported schematic diagrams:
      • Choose Use associated objects Global ID if you want the schematic features contained in the exported schematic diagrams to be redirected according to their associated feature and object GUIDs. In this case, the process attempts to map the GUIDs of the features and objects associated with the schematic features contained in the schematic diagrams to the GUIDs of the features and objects in the specified output geodatabase.
      • Choose Databases are identical, use same FCID and FOID if you want the schematic features contained in the exported schematic diagrams to be redirected according to the feature class ID and feature object ID (FOID) of their associated features and objects.

      Note:

      The Use associated objects Global ID and Databases are identical, use same FCID and FOID options are available only if the Reattach to a different geodatabase box and the Diagrams option are both checked.

      Legacy:

      In 10.0 and 10.1, when exporting diagrams, you would systematically export the schematic dataset definitions during the process. In this case, whatever the options you checked in the Associated Data Options section, the process ends with the exported schematic diagrams whose contents were consistent with the schematic dataset definitions in the output schematic dataset.

      In 10.2, in the Export Schematic Dataset to Geodatabase dialog box, you can export your schematic dataset configuration and your schematic diagrams at different times. In this case, make sure you always use the same options in the Associated Data Options section during each export process. If you don't use the same options, you will have inconsistencies between the migrated schematic diagrams and the schematic dataset configuration in your schematic dataset and will lose your diagrams after updating.

9. Click OK to start the export.

   The Export to Geodatabase dialog box opens. It sums up the different phases during the execution process.

10. Check the Close this dialog when completed successfully check box if you want this dialog box to be automatically closed at the end of the process, or click Close at the end of migration to close it.

At the end of the export process, the dialog box closes.

Learn more about the options related to diagram export

Learn more about the Associated object classes options

Learn about exporting schematic datasets