Editing the parcel fabric using manually created jobs

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

You have the option to edit the parcel fabric using manually created jobs. Instead of working with parcels directly in the map, you select and extract the parcels into a job. Manually created parcel fabric jobs are often used to represent tasks, for example, creating a parcel fabric job for a block subdivision or parcel merge.

Enabling manual mode

To edit parcels in fabric jobs, the parcel fabric edit mode needs to be set to manual. The parcel fabric edit mode settings are found under the Advanced tab on the Parcel Editor Options dialog box. By default, the Advanced tab is not available. To enable the Advanced tab, the ShowAdvancedOptionsPage registry key needs to be created and set to 1.

To create and set the ShowAdvancedOptionsPage registry key, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. Click the windows Start menu and click Run.
2. Type Regedit in the Run dialog box.
3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \\Software\\ESRI\\Desktop10.1\\ArcMap\\Cadastral.
4. Right-click the Cadastral folder, point to New, then click DWORD value.
5. Type ShowAdvancedOptionsPage as the DWORD name.
6. Double-click the DWORD to edit it.
7. Choose the Decimal option.
8. In the Value Data field, enter 1 to display the Advanced tab. (Entering 0 hides the tab.)
9. Click OK to create the registry key.

Once you have created and set the ShowAdvancedOptionsPage registry key, manual mode can be enabled by choosing Manual under Edit Mode on the Advanced tab of the Parcel Editor Options dialog box. To open the Parcel Editor Options dialog box, click the Parcel Editor menu on the Parcel Editor toolbar and click Options.

Note:

When Manual is chosen as the parcel fabric edit mode, job-workflow commands become available on the Parcel Editor menu.

Job workflow commands

Extracting parcels into a job

To open a selection of parcels in a job, click the Parcel Editor menu, then click Modify. The selected parcels become available for editing and the surrounding parcels are dimmed.

Extracting parcels into a job

Creating a fabric job manually

You can manually create parcel fabric jobs before extracting and opening parcels for editing. When manually creating jobs, you can explicitly define which parcels are to be edited without having to open the job. The Create New Job dialog box is used to specify the parcels that will be edited as well as any surrounding reference parcels. Metadata such as a job title, operator name, description, and so on, can also be added.

When adding parcels as edit parcels to a manually created job, parcels neighboring your edit parcels are added to the job by default. You can add parcels using a radius buffer or by manual selection on the map.

Creating a job and specifying the parcels to be edited

To manually create a parcel fabric job, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. In an edit session, click Parcel Editor > Create Job.
The Create New Job dialog box appears.
2. Enter a job name, description, and so on. A job name is required to open a job from the Create New Job dialog box.
3. Click the Select Parcel Features tool on the Parcel Editor toolbar and select the parcels you want to edit in the fabric job.
4. Click the Add button next to the Edit Job Parcels list.
The selected parcels are added to theCreate Job dialog box as edit parcels and are colored in red. The default surrounding neighboring parcels or reference parcels are colored in blue.
Tip:

Edit parcels are edit locked, which prevents any overlapping jobs on an ArcSDE multiuser geodatabase from editing their dimension attributes. Neighboring parcels are unlocked.

5. To add additional surrounding parcels using a radius buffer, click the Parcels within option and type a radius in the empty box below the Parcels within option. Click the drop-down arrow to specify the radius units.
6. Click the Get button to add surrounding parcels that lie within the radius you specified.

A buffer line is drawn on the map, and all parcels intersecting the buffer line are added as surrounding job parcels.

7. To add parcels manually, click the Choose parcels manually option and select your parcels using the Select Parcel Features tool.
8. Click the Add button next to the Job Parcels list.
9. Click the Include parcels to fill gaps in the selection option if there are reference parcels that have not been added to the fabric job separating the parcels that are part of the fabric job. The parcels that have not been added to the fabric job are added during the extraction process.
10. If you want to open the fabric job, check the Open job when I click OK option. Leave this option unchecked if you want to save the job to the job book and not open the job.
11. Click OK to either save or open the job.
12. If you have opened the job and want to save your job edits, click Parcel Editor > Finish Job.
The job is listed in the job book and can be opened for continued editing.

Saving and closing parcel fabric jobs

To stop and save edits in a fabric job, click the Parcel Editor menu and click Finish Job. All edits made in the fabric job are applied to the parcel fabric as a single edit transaction when the job is finished. You need to save the edit session to commit the changes from the fabric job to the geodatabase. You can discard the changes made to the latest extract of a parcel fabric job by clicking the Discard Changes command on the Parcel Editor menu. The parcel fabric job will revert to the last submitted version of the job.

Job book

All automatically and manually created jobs are saved in the Job Book and can be reopened for continued edits. To open the Job Book, click Parcel Editor > Job Book. To open a job on the Job Book dialog box, you can either double-click the job row or right-click the job row and click Open. You can also right-click a job row and click Properties to view the parcels in the job and customize the job with a description, title, and so on.

Job Book displaying jobs created in manual mode

Note:

If the parcel fabric edit mode is changed to automatic mode, jobs in the Job Book cannot be reopened for continued editing.