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0:01 Good afternoon and welcome to the

0:03 Understanding ArcGIS Schematics live training seminar.

0:06 My name is Rick Anderson, and I'm the product manager

0:09 for ArcGIS Schematics.

0:11 Joining me today is Ardeshir Behi,

0:13 who is a product engineer on the schematics team.

0:15 Both of us are located here at corporate headquarters

0:18 in Redlands, California.

0:22 During the seminar today we'll cover the following topics.

0:25 We'll start off by taking a look at the ArcGIS Schematics basics.

0:29 Then we will step in and look at how Schematics works

0:33 based on data with logical connectivity,

0:36 so data that represents things that are not physically connected.

0:41 There's no wires or pipes between them,

0:43 but they're logically connected,

0:44 maybe because of a relationship,

0:46 or some sort of a spatial type of relationship.

0:50 Next, we'll go through a complete start-to-finish example

0:54 of using Schematics with data based on physical connectivity,

0:59 so utility type of network, where there are pipes and wires.

1:03 And the final topic of the day will be Schematics on ArcGIS Server.

1:08 So today I will be using version 10.1 of ArcGIS.

1:13 But keep in mind that the first three topics that we'll cover today,

1:20 you could do this with version 10.0 of the software as well.

1:24 And really for that matter, you could do it with 9.2, 9.3.

1:27 Things are quite a bit simpler at 10 now,

1:31 and we'll talk about some of that along the way.

1:33 But the final demonstration on Server,

1:35 that will new functionality that is only available to you

1:38 at version 10.1.

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1:40 So the format for these various topics,

1:43 we'll go through a few slides,

1:45 then we'll follow that up with a demonstration,

1:47 then we'll come back for a review,

1:50 and a Q&A session on each topic.

1:52 Please send in your questions during the presentation.

1:55 So to get started we'll look at the basics for ArcGIS Schematics.

2:00 So what is a schematic?

2:03 This is a generic question,

2:05 not anything to do with ArcGIS Schematics at this point.

2:08 Just a generic definition of what a schematic is.

2:11 So typically people think of it as a drawing,

2:14 or a diagram that is trying to explain how something works.

2:18 Maybe it's just a drawing showing relationship between things.

2:23 Oftentimes, schematic diagrams omit details

2:26 that really aren't relevant for the story that you're trying to tell.

2:30 And really the goal of a schematic is to help somebody

2:34 understand the way things are connected

2:36 and the way that they operate.

2:38 So the example that we see on the screen

2:40 is a good representation of that.

2:43 So here we have a diagram from a utility network.

2:46 On the right side of the diagram

2:48 we see some transmission substations,

2:50 on the left side we see some distribution substations,

2:54 and in the middle

2:55 we have the details for one particular substation.

2:58 Now in the real world, these things are miles apart.

3:01 They could be hundreds or thousands miles apart.

3:04 So if you tried to look at this information to figure out

3:06 how the system works in its correct geographic location,

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3:13 all of the detailed inner workings of this network.

3:16 Also we've omitted quit a few of the details,

3:20 for example, between the transmission substations

3:23 and the distribution substations.

3:26 There's a lot more equipment in the network,

3:27 but it wasn't relevant so we omitted it.

3:30 But now you can see with a schematic diagram

3:32 we don't have to worry about the

3:34 correct geographic representation,

3:35 we can make a nice concise diagram

3:38 that makes it easy to understand how this works.

3:40 So what is ArcGIS Schematics?

3:44 So what do we add to those generic definitions

3:47 we just looked at?

3:48 Well, the most critical point is what you see in the diagram now.

3:53 ArcGIS Schematics is just part of the overall ArcGIS system.

3:57 Now that's an important key point here.

3:59 Oftentimes customers that are doing schematics today

4:03 and not using ArcGIS Schematics

4:04 are using tools such as CAD or Visio

4:08 or some other diagramming tool.

4:10 The problem, the main problem with those systems is,

4:13 that once you create your diagrams

4:15 you are in a disconnected system.

4:17 As your GIS data changes,

4:19 that can't automatically be reflected

4:21 into your schematic diagrams.

4:23 You have no way to co-locate things from your GIS data

4:27 over to your schematic diagram, and vice versa.

4:29 You can't identify between them.

4:33 You're really in a disconnected environment.

4:35 So with ArcGIS Schematics,


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4:37 we are built into the ArcGIS system

4:40 and we are able to do all of those things

4:42 which you'll see in the upcoming demonstrations.

4:45 It is a data-driven solution,

4:47 so as your GIS data changes your schematic diagrams

4:51 can automatically reflect those changes.

4:54 It's a rules-based system.

4:56 We'll cover rules in the first demonstration a bit more.

4:59 But basically rules can be used to modify

5:02 what gets shown on a diagram.

5:04 It can omit things, or something like a node reduction.

5:08 We can also add things, but it's done because of a rule.

5:11 People that are using things like CAD or Visio,

5:14 it's sort of left up to the drafting technician.

5:17 They're the ones deciding what goes in or what doesn't go in.

5:20 But oftentimes that leads to inconsistency and inaccuracy

5:24 across various designers in an organization.

5:27 With our system, those type of modifications are done with a rule,

5:31 so it's built in,

5:33 and when users generate diagrams

5:34 those rules are automatically applied,

5:36 some more accuracy, more consistency.

5:39 It's a flexible system, and by flexible we mean,

5:44 it's very flexible in the type of data

5:46 that we can generate diagrams from.

5:49 So we already mentioned logically a little bit,

5:52 but we can deal with logically connected data

5:55 where there's relationships between things,

5:57 like physical relationship classes

5:59 or maybe just a spatial relationship.

6:02 We can deal with data that's physically connected so,

6:05 pipelines or wires, et cetera, or connecting things.


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6:09 We can deal with tabular data.

6:11 So, basically data that just has some sort of

6:14 from and to type of information.

6:16 It doesn't have to be spatial data at all,

6:18 just some records and a table that tell me that something

6:21 is connected to something else.

6:22 Could be an org chart for your company, for example.

6:25 And finally, we can also use XML.

6:28 We have our own XML format that describes the contents

6:31 of a diagram and we can generate from that, so quite flexible.

6:34 It's also very extendible.

6:37 As you'll see in the upcoming demonstration,

6:39 we have quite a few algorithms, layout algorithms

6:44 that modify the placement of things on your diagram,

6:47 that come with the system.

6:49 But if for some reason, those don't meet your needs

6:52 for your organization, your industry, et cetera,

6:55 you can extend and add your own custom algorithms

6:58 right into our system.

6:59 So where does ArcGIS Schematics work?

7:03 This image here shows that ArcGIS Schematic diagrams

7:07 can be part of engine applications,

7:10 desktop applications, and server applications.

7:13 So a user is able to generate, update,

7:16 and modify diagrams in those.

7:18 And finally how does ArcGIS Schematics work?

7:23 So basically we take some input data,

7:27 the user selects some data, they run a trace,

7:30 they do a spatial query, something like that,

7:34 and they get some data

7:35 that they want to generate a diagram from.

7:37 Then they click the Generate Diagram button,


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7:40 and that starts our diagram-generation process.

7:43 Now behind the scenes,

7:44 there is a configuration that takes place

7:47 for every schematics application out there.

7:49 So that configuration consists of three different pieces.

7:53 The first part and the only part that is actually required,

7:57 is our concept of a builder.

7:59 Now keep in mind as we cover this, by the way,

8:01 that the configuration is done by one, maybe two people

8:05 in an entire organization.

8:07 And the end users that generate diagrams,

8:10 are just simply using that configuration

8:12 that was already done for them.

8:14 So back to the builder.

8:15 The builder is what understands

8:17 the type of data that it's going to expect to be

8:20 coming into the system.

8:21 So is it physical networks, is it logical networks,

8:25 is it XML, et cetera?

8:26 After the builder processes the data coming in,

8:30 we have the basis for the diagram.

8:33 The next optional thing are those rules

8:35 that we previously mentioned.

8:37 So again, rules can remove things, rules can add things.

8:41 And then finally, there can optionally be a layout.

8:45 This is our layout algorithm.

8:46 So do you want the diagram to look exactly like the GIS data did?

8:51 Or maybe you want to apply a smart tree, or a ring,

8:54 or one of the other algorithms that we have.

8:57 So to the end user again,

8:59 they select some data, they click Generate Diagram,

9:02 all this builder rules and layout happens behind the scenes,


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9:06 and they end up with the output schematic diagram.

9:09 So in this case, we had a builder that understood that data,

9:12 we ran rules here to reduce the red squares

9:17 that you see in the input data,

9:19 and finally we had a layout algorithm,

9:21 and this happened to be the smart tree layout algorithm,

9:24 in an orientation from right to left.

9:27 So the user selected the data, clicked Generate,

9:30 and gets the output diagram.

9:31 And with that we'll go ahead

9:34 and move on over and show you a software demonstration.

9:38 For this demonstration,

9:40 we will be using some transportation data

9:44 that comes from the Network Analyst tutorial data.

9:48 What we're looking at on the screen here,

9:50 is a multimodal network dataset.

9:54 So this is some streets and subway system in Paris, France.

10:00 There is a route that is already part of this data,

10:04 we can see kind of in an orangeish-yellow color here.

10:07 If I turn off that layer,

10:09 you'll see it get removed and then you can just see the metro

10:12 and streets underneath it.

10:14 I'll turn that layer back on.

10:16 Not going to go into the details of how Network Analyst works,

10:20 but basically you solve a route to get between various points.

10:23 So I'm going to right-click on the route layer,

10:26 and tell the . . . I'm going to right-click on the tour layer

10:31 and tell Network Analyst to go ahead and solve this route.

10:34 So find the fastest way to get between all of these points.

10:37 Now, as the schematic user, I'm simply going to click the

10:41 Generate the New Schematic Diagram button.

10:43 Here you can see it's pointing to something


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10:47 called the schematic dataset.

10:49 A schematic dataset is where all the configuration happens,

10:52 and where all your diagrams end up living.

10:54 Then we use a template.

10:57 The template is what has the builder, the rules,

11:00 and the layout that we just covered in the slide.

11:02 So I'm going to use this demo default template.

11:05 You can see it already sees tour two that we just solved,

11:09 and now I'm going to give this diagram a name.

11:11 I'll call this Demo Simple.

11:16 When I click OK, that passes this information

11:19 into the schematics generation part,

11:21 and our builder takes over and generates the diagram.

11:25 So now we have an exact replica, if you will,

11:29 of the route that we just saw on the basemap.

11:33 Now you'll notice over here in the table of contents, or the TOC,

11:36 that schematics by default opens up in a new data frame.

11:41 So think of this as a separate map,

11:43 and the user can flip back and forth between them as needed.

11:45 So now everything that we see here is

11:48 in the exact geographic location,

11:50 all the points are in correct x,y, all the links have the vertices.

11:54 We could in fact drag and drop this on to the basemap,

11:58 and you would see it exactly as it was on the map.

12:01 But typically a schematic user wants to modify this.

12:05 So they use the schematic editor,

12:07 they start editing the diagram,

12:08 and then they use one of our layout algorithms.

12:12 So in the drop-down box here,

12:14 you see all of the layout algorithms that come with the product.

12:17 So these are the out-of-the-box things,

12:19 and remember it's an extendible system.


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12:21 You can create your own layout algorithm

12:25 and it will show up in this list.

12:26 So I'm going to pick the Hierarchical - Smart Tree,

12:29 click the Apply button,

12:31 and very quickly now we have a much more simplified version

12:35 of this data.

12:36 If I zoom in on here a little bit,

12:39 now you will see the walking directions for somebody

12:44 to get between all the points here.

12:46 So at first they are walking down some streets

12:48 that are sort of in black there,

12:50 we can see that they go into a metro station,

12:53 they get on to the metro line at a particular stop,

12:56 they cross over, get off, transfer to a different metro line,

13:00 and then out of the subway back onto the streets, et cetera.

13:03 I'll stop editing on this diagram and save my changes.

13:07 So that's the basics of diagram generation.

13:10 Select some data, generate a diagram, apply algorithms.

13:14 It's all based on that configuration;

13:16 in this case it was very simple.

13:18 So let's get a little more complex.

13:20 Maybe as a user, my requirements are

13:24 that I don't really need to see all these intermediate stops

13:28 along the metro line.

13:30 What I really need to know is, where do I get on,

13:32 and where do I get off?

13:33 The intermediate points really don't matter to me;

13:36 I'm already on the line,

13:37 I don't need to know what all those stops are.

13:39 So we can use a node reduction rule

13:42 to automatically get rid of those things.

13:44 We'll also do the same rule on the streets.


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13:47 I don't have the labels turned on for the streets here,

13:49 but if I did you'd see there are some duplicate street names.

13:53 So I'll use a node reduction rule that says,

13:56 if the two street names are the same,

13:58 go ahead and reduce the point between them

14:01 and simplify this thing.

14:02 So remember in the map, in the real map,

14:04 I have that route still solved.

14:07 All I'm going to do here is click Generate Diagram again.

14:11 This time I'm going to pick a different template.

14:13 So in my diagram template drop-down

14:16 I'm going to pick DemoWithRules,

14:18 I am going to give this a different name.

14:20 So I'll call it, DemoRules, and click OK.

14:24 So this time the system has the same builder,

14:28 but it applied rules.

14:30 Hopefully, you can already tell that this initial picture

14:34 has far fewer little nodes, dots, and labels than we saw before.

14:40 So just like we did before, I'll start an edit session.

14:43 I will pick the smart tree layout algorithm and apply.

14:48 Now, hopefully, you can see that this is greatly simplified

14:52 compared to the last time.

14:53 I'll stop editing. Save this.

14:55 And now, if I zoom back in to that same area here,

14:59 you can verify that we have removed all those

15:03 intermediate vertices.

15:04 We see where we get on to a metro line,

15:06 we see where we get off.

15:07 Much more simplified view.

15:09 In fact, if I change back over to the other data frame,

15:13 here you can see all those stops that were along the green line,

15:17 and now if I switch back over, much, much simplified view.


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15:22 So, that shows the builder and the rules,

15:26 so that third step on that last slide that we looked at

15:30 was the layout.

15:31 You notice in both of these cases,

15:33 I as the end user in the map,

15:35 still had to start editing and apply the layout algorithm.

15:38 Well, if we know that this is the way that it needs to be every time,

15:42 we can fix that in configuration.

15:44 We can tell the system to automatically apply the smart tree.

15:47 So now, I'm going to generate another diagram.

15:51 I'm going to pick the third template.

15:53 So this template has the builder,

15:56 it has the same rules as we just saw in our demo rules diagram,

16:01 but it also has the automatic layout algorithm for the smart tree.

16:04 So I'll call this one DemoLayout.

16:08 Now, as an end user, I click OK,

16:11 and right out of the box immediately this is my diagram.

16:16 I no longer need to start the edit session and do anything to it.

16:19 It automatically did the node reduction,

16:22 it automatically applied the algorithm, and this is the final output.

16:25 So with that, we will review, just for a moment.

16:33 So, remember that a schematic diagram

16:35 really is just another view of your data.

16:37 It's another way for you to see your GIS data.

16:40 And ArcGIS Schematics is part of your overall ArcGIS system.

16:45 With that, I'll hand it over to Ardeshir for some Q&A.

16:48 Thank you, Rick.

16:50 We have a couple of questions here.

16:52 Mike from Portland, Oregon, asking,

16:55 Our company has strict rules regarding anything of GIS data.

17:00 Does ArcGIS Schematics make any changes to our existing data

17:04 behind the scene?


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17:06 And Mike, no, ArcGIS Schematics doesn't make any changes

17:10 to your data.

17:12 It connects to your data and use your data,

17:15 but not changing anything.

17:17 It stores all ArcGIS Schematics tables in a schematic dataset,

17:24 the separate dataset.

17:26 And even if you want, you can store this dataset

17:29 in a separate database.

17:31 Tom from Iowa asking,

17:34 When we quit multiple diagrams from saying GIS data,

17:39 can we then do anything at all to the diagrams at the same time?

17:43 The answer is yes, you can edit in all those diagrams

17:48 at the same time.

17:49 When you generate the diagram, it connects to your data,

17:55 GIS data, but it doesn't have any connection to other diagrams

18:01 that generated from the same GIS data.

18:03 So you can edit in all those diagrams at the same time.

18:08 Mary from Solvang asking,

18:11 What kind of specialist do we need for developing

18:15 our own custom algorithm?

18:17 Mary, you need a developer that knows .NET and ArcGIS API

18:25 and ArcGIS Schematics API.

18:27 Eric from Memphis asking,

18:32 Does ArcGIS Schematics have CAD-like tools

18:35 that make it easy to do editing in digitizing?

18:39 With ArcGIS Schematics, you get a lot of out-of-the-box

18:43 CAD-like tools, like Node Alignment, Move Vertices,

18:48 Remove Vertices, and so on.

18:51 However, you get a lot more with ArcGIS Schematics,

18:56 like a lot of out-of-the-box algorithms

18:59 that make it easy to modify layout automatically

19:05 without any manual interactions.


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19:09 Alice from Irvine asking,

19:13 In some cases we need to keep our diagrams

19:17 even if we make changes to ArcGIS data.

19:22 Will the changes we make in our GIS data apply automatically

19:26 into all diagrams or can I decide which diagrams

19:29 get updated and which diagrams stay as they are?

19:33 Alice, you can set up the update versions as you want it.

19:38 Some of our users want to update their diagrams in ArcMap.

19:44 Some other want to use our GP tool,

19:48 and bulk update all the diagrams during the night.

19:51 Or, some others, just make their configuration in a way

19:55 that diagrams are always updated.

19:58 Michelle from Charleston, Virginia, asking,

20:03 Labeling is very important part for our diagrams.

20:08 How easy is to add and modify labels

20:12 on diagrams in ArcGIS Schematics?

20:15 Michelle, from ArcGIS 10,

20:19 using ArcMap core labeling and symbology,

20:24 so it is as easy as ArcMap labeling using geographic features.

20:32 Harlan asking, Does ArcGIS Schematics work with ArcSDE?

20:37 Harlan, of course ArcGIS Schematics work

20:39 with all ArcSDE databases.

20:42 And Harlan from Redlands, asking also,

20:47 Can I customize ArcGIS Schematics?

20:49 If you mean by customize is adding your own layout algorithm

20:54 or you develop some rules, yes you can.

20:59 If you mean you want to customize UI,

21:03 you can even double up your own application using Engine

21:09 or you can just build something

21:14 and use our functionality to Engine or to our API.

21:17 So you can do that.

21:19 This is all the time we have for questions for this topic.


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21:24 Back to you Rick.

21:25 Alright, thanks.

21:27 So the next topic that we'll dive into is

21:31 how schematics can work on data

21:33 that's based on logical connectivity.

21:36 So again, logical connectivity really just means

21:40 things that aren't physically connected.

21:42 So, typically our physical networks deal with

21:46 transportation networks, like in the last example,

21:51 where there's streets and things like that.

21:53 Or utility networks, based on a geometric network,

21:56 where there's physically pipes and lines.

21:59 Logically connected data though is quite different.

22:02 So this example we're seeing here,

22:04 which we will actually do a demo on in just a moment,

22:07 is a disaster management scenario.

22:10 What this is showing is the concept of a disaster response team

22:14 that you see in the center of the diagram.

22:16 That disaster response team is responsible

22:19 for coordinating activities for a number of counties.

22:23 So these are actually counties within the state of California,

22:27 it's up in Northern California.

22:28 So those are the middle ring there.

22:31 The outer ring are various agencies that are inside of

22:36 those particular counties.

22:38 So, the DRT, the counties, the agencies,

22:42 aren't physically connected.

22:43 There's no wire between them.

22:46 Yeah, there's probably roads,

22:47 but they're not really physically connected

22:49 like a train line or a transportation line.

22:52 These things are just logically connected,


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22:54 because they're spatially coincident

22:57 or maybe there happens to be a relationship class

23:01 between these things built into the geodatabase.

23:04 We'll again, we'll actually go through this demonstration here

23:08 in a moment.

23:09 Another good example of a logical network is a social network

23:13 or a criminal analysis.

23:14 So this particular example is . . .

23:18 could be a police-type organization trying to solve a murder,

23:23 in this case.

23:25 So the things that we see on this diagram

23:27 are not physically connected.

23:29 People aren't physically connected together,

23:31 but logically they might be.

23:33 Somebody saw somebody,

23:34 somebody is the leader of something,

23:37 or is a known member of something.

23:39 So Schematics just gives us a nice,

23:42 almost a whiteboard approach to be able to visualize this data.

23:46 Now, of course, some of this data might actually have

23:49 physical geographic locations,

23:51 so we could look at it on the map,

23:53 but oftentimes that might be pretty difficult to really see

23:57 how these things are connected,

23:59 especially if all the correct geographic locations

24:02 are very close to each other.

24:03 So again, the goal of schematics

24:05 is to be able to get a better view of this

24:08 and understand how things operate,

24:09 so we lose the spatial constraints here

24:12 and lay this thing out the way that we want,

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24:17 and understand the connectivity of things.

24:19 So that's the basics of what logical connectivity means to us.

24:24 And from there, we'll just jump right on in

24:27 and take a look at a software demonstration.

24:29 So we will go ahead and look at the

24:33 disaster management example that we saw there.

24:36 So the map that that we're looking at happens to show

24:39 an earthquake that happens up in Northern California.

24:42 So we can see by just looking at this map

24:46 that there's a number of counties involved.

24:49 I could turn on labeling so I could a little more easily

24:52 see the counties.

24:54 The agencies are on the map,

24:56 but that starts to get a little more problematic

24:58 because many of them are close together,

25:00 so at map scale they're directly on top of each other.

25:03 I don't get a good picture.

25:05 So typically a user might go through the process of

25:09 identifying various things,

25:11 so we identify and tell it to go ahead

25:14 and drill down into all the available layers.

25:17 Now we can see that this data

25:20 actually had a bunch of relationship classes in it

25:23 and we see that because this tree view is able to be expanded.

25:28 So where I clicked happened to be on one county

25:31 here in Northern California.

25:33 Within that county, if I open it up,

25:36 we can see that there are relationship classes

25:39 to various agencies.

25:41 So that county had a sheriff's office.

25:43 It has a public health department.

25:45 And we can also see it has a relationship


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25:48 to a disaster response team.

25:50 You might not be able to see that flashing on your screens,

25:53 but it's just a little bit south of this particular disaster area.

25:58 So you can see that the data is all related together,

26:02 so logically it's all connected,

26:04 but for an end user to really figure out what counties

26:08 are involved and what agencies are there

26:10 that might be able to help in a disaster effort,

26:12 it's a little difficult to go through this route.

26:15 I could continue identifying

26:17 and maybe hand write some notes down,

26:19 but not really a very simple way to look at this data.

26:23 So that's where schematics comes in.

26:25 I already have a schematic dataset configured,

26:29 so as the end user, again,

26:32 I don't need to know what's going on in that configuration.

26:34 I just need to know that that's the configuration I use

26:37 to generate diagrams for disaster response.

26:42 So I select the polygon for the earthquake,

26:44 I click the Generate Diagram button.

26:48 This time the schematic dataset happens to be in a

26:51 different database than the base data.

26:53 So as the user, I need to simply point to that database,

26:59 so here it's in the Schematics.mdb,

27:02 and now I give this a name.

27:05 So I'll call it DisasterDemo, and now I click OK.

27:10 Behind the scenes, there's a builder being run,

27:13 there's some rules being applied,

27:15 and there's an automatic layout algorithm

27:18 being applied to this data.

27:19 So, as you saw, in just a couple seconds

27:22 from clicking the OK button,


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27:23 the system has gone through, looked at the relationship classes,

27:27 looked at the spatial relationships,

27:29 applied an algorithm, and generated a diagram,

27:32 and this is the output, exactly like we saw in the slide

27:36 just a couple of moments ago.

27:38 So this could be expanded further, of course.

27:41 This is just an example.

27:43 So for example, the other piece of important information

27:46 might be that I could see here that Tahama County

27:50 has a fire department,

27:51 but I don't know what kind of capabilities that fire department has.

27:55 So you could extend this a little bit further.

27:58 In this particular example, we have some nonspatial, tabular data

28:04 in the database that tells us all of the capabilities

28:07 for these different agencies.

28:10 So I'm going to go ahead and open up the diagram

28:14 that has already been created for that Tahama Fire Department.

28:17 And now, when I open up this diagram,

28:20 we can see all of the actual capabilities.

28:24 So I can see, for example, that they have a helicopter,

28:27 they have one helicopter and it's available right now.

28:30 They have a pumper-type of a fire truck and it's available.

28:34 They also have a boat, but in this case, it's not available,

28:38 so it's, you know, out of commission, it's being worked on,

28:42 or it's out on some other sort of call.

28:44 So anyway, as you can see between these two different types

28:48 of diagrams here, it just gives you a much better visual way

28:53 to drill down into this kind of data.

28:55 And again, this data is just logically connected.

28:58 And this second diagram that we're looking at is

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29:07 don't have necessarily a spatial position.

29:11 It's just a tabular record sitting in a database

29:14 and Schematics can make use of that to generate

29:17 these type of diagrams.

29:19 With that we'll jump back over to the slides.

29:23 So in review, Schematics can be used on data with

29:28 logical connectivity and data doesn't have to have any

29:32 spatial information, such as that second example

29:34 that we just looked at.

29:36 With that I'll hand it back over to Ardeshir for some more Q&A.

29:39 Thank you, Rick.

29:41 Peter from Victorville asking,

29:43 We have ArcGIS Schematics 9.3.1.

29:46 Can we still generate those diagrams that Rick showed us?

29:50 If yes, then what we can't do in 9.3.1

29:55 that we can do in 10 and 10.1?

29:58 The answer is yes, you can generate all those diagrams

30:02 that Rick showed you.

30:04 However, we recommend that you upgrade to 10.1.

30:09 Since we made a lot of changes,

30:14 major architectural changes in 10

30:17 and we add additional capability in both 10 and 10.1.

30:21 I can mention a couple of those changes that we made;

30:25 however, we don't have time to go through all of those,

30:28 so you need to go on arcgis.com to read about it.

30:34 One of the changes we made,

30:37 we have more integration of ArcGIS Schematics diagrams

30:41 into the ArcGIS core.

30:43 So pre-10 diagrams are custom layers.

30:48 From 10 diagrams are composite layers.

30:53 And with that, also pre-10 we had our own engine for labeling

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31:01 But from 10 we use ArcGIS core ArcMap labeling and symbology

31:06 for schematics diagrams.

31:12 We rewrote our configuration application

31:14 to make it easier for our user to get a better user experience

31:19 to configuration.

31:22 And we wrote our API to give developers an easier way

31:31 to create their custom codes, on top of ArcGIS Schematics.

31:39 And we added more out-of-the-box algorithms

31:45 to make it easier for our users to get the desirable results,

31:51 without any manual interaction,

31:53 automatically get those results.

31:56 And also we added schematics Server capability in 10.1,

32:01 so from 10.1 you can create schematic services.

32:08 John from Phoenix, Arizona asking,

32:10 We create our diagrams with different symbology and labeling

32:14 depending on what we need to use our diagrams for.

32:17 Can you have some preset settings for symbology and labeling

32:22 that we frequently use?

32:24 And if the answer is yes, how easy is it to change between

32:28 those preset symbology and labeling ArcGIS Schematics?

32:31 The answer is yes, you can set as many preset settings

32:37 for your labeling and symbology as you want.

32:39 And it is really easy to change between them.

32:43 The way it works, you make changes into your diagram

32:49 about labeling and symbology,

32:53 and then you change your diagram as a layer file.

32:56 And then you can go ahead and import that layer file

33:01 into your diagram template, using our configuration application.

33:05 Or you can import that layer file directly

33:09 into your diagram in ArcMap.

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33:19 then every time you generate the new diagram,

33:21 you get the labeling and symbology settings that you want,

33:29 or you created.

33:30 But if you do that in ArcMap, then you need to import,

33:35 every time you generate a new diagram,

33:38 you need to import that setup to your diagram.

33:43 So by that, let's move to next topic. Back to you, Rick.

33:50 Thanks. I did see one other question on there

33:53 that I think's important to answer.

33:54 Somebody asked what license level you need for Schematics.

33:58 So Schematics, you can use that with our

34:03 ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, or our new terminology is

34:07 Basic, Standard, and Advanced.

34:08 Just know that to generate diagrams, to update diagrams,

34:14 and to edit diagrams, to apply algorithms, et cetera,

34:17 you are actually creating, deleting, modifying features

34:21 and their position. So by the nature of that,

34:25 you must have at least ArcEditor or ArcInfo,

34:29 or the new terminology is Standard and Advanced.

34:32 Okay, so on to the next topic here.

34:37 We're going to take a look at a start-to-finish example

34:41 based on physical connectivity.

34:43 So again, physical connectivity means

34:45 there's something connecting, something physical

34:48 connecting things together, like a wire or a pipe, et cetera.

34:52 So we will go through a complete desktop example.

34:56 We're going to create a new schematic dataset.

35:01 We're going to configure the schematic dataset

35:04 based on some tutorial data, and then we'll go back over

35:08 as a user and we will generate a diagram

35:11 based on the configuration, we'll apply an algorithm to it,

35:14 and we'll save our changes.


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35:16 We will be using the Brazil tutorial data

35:20 that comes with the Schematics tutorial,

35:22 so if you install ArcTutor and include schematics,

35:25 you will get the data.

35:26 And the picture that you're seeing on the screen now

35:29 are some representations of that data.

35:32 So with that, we'll jump right on in to the demonstration.

35:36 So first off, we'll take a look at the map.

35:38 So this is a very simple geometric network.

35:42 And, by the way, most of our customers with physical networks

35:46 do use a geometric network.

35:48 These are typically utility companies.

35:50 Transportation customers use those network datasets,

35:54 like we saw in the first example,

35:56 but the typical physical ones are geometric networks.

35:59 So again, gas pipeline, simple network.

36:01 This is off the coastline of Brazil.

36:03 The important thing to keep in mind

36:06 when you're about to start your configuration is,

36:08 it makes it easier to set up a map document

36:12 that actually has the symbology the way

36:15 that you would like to see it, on your schematic diagrams.

36:18 So just set it up the way you think your users want the symbology,

36:22 one time, save that map, and then we'll use that map

36:25 in our configuration.

36:27 So the next thing we do is bring up ArcCatalog

36:31 and go to the database

36:33 where we want the schematic dataset to live.

36:35 So keep in mind, somebody asked the question earlier

36:39 about SDE.

36:40 The schematic dataset can live in any of our geodatabases.

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36:47 or any of the supported SDE databases.

36:50 So once I've got the database that I want,

36:53 I just right-click there, and I choose New Schematic Dataset.

36:58 This creates our schematic dataset entry into the database.

37:04 All of your configuration goes inside of this schematic dataset,

37:09 and then as your end users actually start generating

37:12 new diagrams, all of those diagrams will also get stored

37:16 and persisted inside of the schematic dataset itself.

37:19 So once I have my dataset, I right-click and choose Edit.

37:24 This brings up our Schematic Dataset Editor application,

37:29 so this is the application that you do all your configuration.

37:32 Again, please keep in mind that what we're about to do

37:36 is only done by one, maybe two people, in an entire organization.

37:40 All your typical users that are using and generating diagrams

37:44 just use this configuration.

37:46 They never need to know about this configuration,

37:49 they don't ever need to come inside of this tool.

37:51 So now we're in the Dataset Editor.

37:53 First thing I need to do is

37:55 create a new schematic diagram template.

37:58 So remember back as we were generating diagrams

38:01 along the way, that Generate Diagram form

38:03 had me pick the template I wanted to use.

38:06 That's how this starts.

38:07 So I click New Schematic Diagram Template,

38:11 I can give this a name.

38:13 We'll call it DemoBrazil, that'll be the name of our template.

38:16 Now if you remember all the way back to our slide

38:20 about how schematics works,

38:22 step one on that slide was a builder.

38:24 So here, sort of front and center on this screen,

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38:30 So if we hover over Standard Builder, it pops up and says,

38:33 Use this builder for geometric networks.

38:35 Of course, we've got a network dataset builder

38:38 for our network dataset customers

38:40 and we have our XML builder.

38:42 And then there's some other various combinations

38:45 of these things when we start talking about

38:47 custom query capabilities that I mentioned,

38:50 where we can just query nonspatial data out of tables.

38:53 But since I know that this Brazil data is

38:57 based on a geometric network, it is the standard builder

39:00 that I need, so all I need to do is click OK here.

39:03 Now, this DemoBrazil diagram template is over here.

39:07 Next, I need to tell it what data to expect

39:10 to have coming into the system.

39:12 The best and easiest way to do that with geometric network data

39:16 is to right-click and then choose Import from Feature Layers.

39:20 Now I use the Import from Feature Layers dialog

39:24 to point to and select the map document

39:27 that is going to be coming in.

39:29 So for that, I'll go back to the tutorial data section

39:32 and pick that Brazil map document we were looking at.

39:35 Very quickly, that parses that map document

39:38 and it looks for a geometric network.

39:40 So here you can see it found the pipeline network

39:43 and all the feature classes that are in it,

39:45 and it's automatically selected those things.

39:48 We can see that there were a few other layers in that map

39:51 that are not part of the geometric network.

39:54 So we could include those in our schematic diagrams,

39:57 but since they're not part of the network, if you do that,

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40:03 you get some strange results

40:05 because those things aren't physically connected

40:07 with everything else that's in the diagram.

40:09 So in its simplest case, we'll just leave it with the network.

40:13 I click OK.

40:14 Now in the tree view, we can see all of the

40:17 schematic feature classes that are going to be created

40:20 in the database.

40:20 So it's a one-to-one mapping.

40:22 There's one schematic feature class

40:24 for each of your real GIS feature classes

40:28 that are going to be represented.

40:29 So when I hit the Save button,

40:31 this is actually going to go into the geodatabase

40:34 and create the necessary tables.

40:36 Now that's all I'm going to do for configuration for this demo,

40:39 but real quick-like,

40:40 just to point out that if we were going to take this further

40:43 on those other steps of how Schematics works,

40:46 the next step was rules.

40:48 So when I've got my template selected, I have a Rules tab.

40:52 I can go into that tab, click the Add Rule button,

40:55 and then go ahead and configure a node reduction rule

40:58 or a spatial query rule or the various other rules that we have.

41:01 And then in that final step in the how Schematics works,

41:05 was the layout.

41:06 So on the Properties tab,

41:08 you'll see that we have a Layout drop-down.

41:11 So this gives a list of all of those layout algorithms

41:13 that come with the product.

41:14 I could pick one of these and then when my user generates

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41:20 it would automatically apply this layout algorithm,

41:23 and also the rules, if there were any of those things set.

41:27 In this case, I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to close.

41:30 We've already saved it.

41:31 Now the user just goes back to the map

41:33 and just like we've seen in the other demonstrations,

41:36 they select some data, generate a diagram.

41:38 So I'll go ahead and zoom down into an area down here.

41:43 I am going to select a small piece of this data.

41:48 I could run a trace, because this is a geometric network.

41:51 I could do a select by attributes or location.

41:54 It doesn't really matter. We just need data selected.

41:57 We click Generate Diagram button.

41:59 You can see here in the template,

42:01 there's the DemoBrazil that we just created.

42:04 It's the only one there, so there's nothing else in the drop-down,

42:07 and now I give this diagram a name, and click OK.

42:13 Quickly parses that selection set, and again,

42:17 opens up the new diagram in a new data frame

42:20 in the table of contents.

42:22 So by default, diagrams coming from the standard builder

42:26 are what we call geoschematic diagrams.

42:29 What that means is that all of the nodes that you see

42:32 in this diagram are in the exact, correct x,y location.

42:37 In fact, let me go ahead and drag and drop this diagram

42:40 over to my other data frame, jump over there,

42:43 and if I turn off the real network,

42:46 now we're looking at our schematic diagram

42:48 directly on top of the basemap.

42:50 So I'm going to go ahead and remove that

42:53 and go back to the schematic diagram itself.

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42:59 but the links themselves have been simplified.

43:02 There's no vertices. So it's a straight line.

43:05 Another probably, easier way to see that is to identify the link,

43:09 and then when I bring up the Identify Editor,

43:13 we can see a couple of different things.

43:15 First, at the top level, when I click on it,

43:18 you'll see that flash the geometry for the schematic feature itself,

43:23 and the fields that we're looking at are information

43:26 that schematics is keeping track of.

43:28 But, remember when we talked about schematics being live

43:32 and connected to your data? It's not a disconnected diagram.

43:36 Here's a good way to look at that.

43:38 Now we can open this up the rest of the way

43:41 in the Identify dialog and when I click on the lower level,

43:45 you should hopefully be able to see flashing on your screen

43:49 the actual, digitized vertices, or the digitized geometry

43:55 of the real feature that was in the geometric network.

43:58 Not only are we able to see that flash, but now in the fields here,

44:02 we are actually looking at the underlying data

44:06 coming from the real GIS feature.

44:08 So again, schematics is live, it's connected to your data

44:12 and it doesn't become stale.

44:15 As that data changes, you'd automatically see it reflected

44:18 here in the diagram itself.

44:19 So, next thing that we would do,

44:22 just like we did in the other demos,

44:23 is probably start an edit session on this

44:26 and then apply a layout algorithm, so I'll run a smart tree.

44:30 This time though I'm going to go ahead

44:32 and use the Root Node tool and tell the system

44:35 which node I want to be the start of my layout algorithms.

44:39 I'll go into the properties.


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44:40 Every one of the layout algorithms has an

44:43 Algorithm Properties page where you can modify the behavior,

44:47 the look and feel.

44:48 This time I'll choose to go from the top to the bottom

44:51 instead of the default left to right.

44:53 And I'll click OK and then apply this layout algorithm,

44:57 and very quickly we have a much different view of that data

45:02 than we did in its correct geographic position.

45:05 I'll go ahead and stop editing and save this.

45:08 So, another thing I can show you real quick

45:11 while we're here is another one of those dynamic interaction

45:15 type of things that we have with your GIS data

45:18 that you would not have if you were using CAD or Visio

45:22 or some other system.

45:23 To show that, I'm going to go ahead and use a viewer window,

45:27 so on the menu bar in ArcMap, I clicked on Windows,

45:32 and then Viewer. That opens up our Viewer window.

45:35 This is a little hard to show you on a single monitor

45:38 during a presentation like this, but for your actual users

45:42 at your corporation, if you've got a dual monitor setup,

45:46 you can imagine I could put this schematic diagram

45:49 that's in a viewer window on one monitor,

45:51 and then on the other monitor I actually put my real GIS data.

45:56 Now, I can show you some of that interaction.

45:59 I can, for example, select some things that are over here

46:02 on my schematic diagram.

46:04 I can then click a button that says,

46:06 Propagate the Schematic Selection to the Map,

46:08 or basically, go find these things in the real world

46:12 that I've got selected on my schematic diagram.

46:15 So I'll click that button, and very quick on the map now,

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46:22 So again, even though the diagram is not

46:24 in the correct geographic location anymore,

46:27 we know what the source features were,

46:30 so we can jump back and forth.

46:31 Likewise, I could select something over here

46:34 on the geographic side and click the other button that says,

46:38 Go ahead and locate that on the schematic.

46:41 And now when I click that button,

46:42 very quickly we should see that selection move

46:45 over to the schematic diagram itself.

46:48 Do it one more time, click something else here,

46:51 push it back over to the other side.

46:52 So again, very dynamic in nature.

46:55 I can have as many of these diagrams as I want.

46:58 Maybe I have multiple shown in different viewer windows,

47:01 propagate the selections back and forth,

47:04 the various diagrams laid out different,

47:05 so I get a much better understanding of my network.

47:08 So with that we will review quickly.

47:13 So Schematics can be used on data with physical connectivity,

47:17 as we just saw, a geometric network in that case.

47:20 There is a onetime configuration of a schematic dataset.

47:24 Again, done by one or two people in an entire company,

47:27 and then the real end users in the map simply select data

47:31 and then generate and manipulate their diagrams.

47:34 With that, I'll hand it back to Ardeshir.

47:37 Todd from Alabama asking,

47:39 What type of person do we need for configuration part?

47:43 Todd, you need a person who understands your data model,

47:46 data network, and knows your company's needs

47:50 regarding creating new diagrams.

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47:56 Can we use as many rules as we want for a diagram template?

48:01 Jennifer, there is no limitation in number of rules

48:05 in ArcGIS Schematics.

48:08 However, most of the time, one or two rules are enough

48:13 to achieve that desirable result.

48:17 So if you pass the number of 10 rules,

48:22 then probably it is a good idea to look at your configuration

48:26 and see if you can simplify something there.

48:29 Michelle from Nashville asking,

48:32 We are still using ArcGIS Schematics 9.3.1.

48:35 Can we use our 9.3.1 datasets and diagrams in 10 and 10.1?

48:40 Michelle, you can use your 9.3.1 datasets

48:48 and diagrams in 10 and 10.1, but only as Read only

48:54 and View only.

48:55 So if you want to modify or generate new diagrams,

48:58 you need to migrate your datasets and diagrams to 10 or 10.1.

49:03 So, as I mentioned, we did a major architectural changes in 10.

49:11 So all pre-10 datasets and diagrams need to be migrated

49:16 if you want to do something else than viewing only.

49:20 To add to that just a little bit,

49:23 so when we looked at the dataset itself in ArcCatalog,

49:27 I right-clicked to go into the editing.

49:29 If you were on a 10 or 10.1 machine and you right-clicked

49:33 on a dataset from 9.3.1, you would see in that pop-up list there,

49:39 you would see a Migrate to version 10 or 10.1 option.

49:43 You click that, follow through the wizard,

49:45 and that migrates your data.

49:46 It is really easy, and it's a good idea if you plan your migration

49:52 if you have a lot of datasets and diagrams.

49:56 Joe from San Diego asking,

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50:05 Do you recommend we create one

50:07 or should we just start using ArcGIS Schematics without one?

50:11 Joe, you can use ArcGIS Schematics without any network.

50:17 If you remember, Rick showed you disaster management

50:23 sample application

50:25 and that application was not using any network at all.

50:31 It was just using spatial queries and relationship classes.

50:36 However, having networks have lot of benefits.

50:42 You know, you check your data connectivity and data quality.

50:47 So the decision is something you need to make,

50:50 analyzing your data

50:52 and also your company's needs for a network.

50:56 Back to you Rick.

51:00 Okay, thanks.

51:03 So now we'll step into our final topic of the day,

51:06 which is ArcGIS Schematics on Server,

51:10 or Schematics for ArcGIS on ArcGIS for Server.

51:14 So, as I mentioned at the beginning of the presentation,

51:17 this is new at 10.1, so again, just to be very clear,

51:22 everything you've seen to this point you could do on version 10,

51:26 and in fact you could do that on 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.3.1.

51:32 But now this section is only available at 10.1,

51:36 and the reason for that is we had to modify

51:39 Server capabilities a bit, we had to build our own

51:43 schematics server object extension, really.

51:47 So, schematics is now a new capability of the standard

51:50 ArcGIS Server's map service.

51:53 So, the image that we see here is what a user would see

51:59 when they try to publish a map service.

52:01 When they do that now, and Schematics is involved,

52:04 they can click on the Capabilities section

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52:11 When they turn on the schematic capability,

52:15 then they see the image, or the part of the image

52:17 that's on the right side of this example here.

52:20 Basically, the only thing you need to worry about

52:23 are the two check boxes for Query and Editing.

52:25 If you just simply want to produce a service to allow people

52:29 to view the diagrams that you're going to publish,

52:32 then the only thing that you need is the Query check box checked,

52:35 and that's the only one by default.

52:37 Now, if you want to allow users to generate diagrams

52:41 or update diagrams or modify diagrams, apply algorithms,

52:45 then you need to enable the Editing check box,

52:48 which allows you to do editing on the web.

52:51 So, along with this new capability,

52:55 we are providing a complete sample Silverlight

52:58 application at 10.1.

53:01 So, in fact let's just jump right on into the demonstration here,

53:06 because I am going to use that sample for the demo.

53:09 With that, I am going to bring up our Resource Center.

53:14 So, real quick, since I've got it here,

53:17 this is resourcesbeta.arcgis.com.

53:21 This is the new beta resources for 10.1.

53:24 It's available now for everyone. A lot of information out here,

53:27 so, you know, feel free to spend some time and dig around.

53:30 There's more videos that dig a little deeper into these topics,

53:34 links into the help system, and forums, et cetera.

53:38 But what I really want to get to

53:40 is scrolling down here to the Gallery section.

53:43 So the Gallery has a bunch of applications.

53:46 The one that I want to show you today

53:48 is the Schematics Configurable Web Application.

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53:56 For the developers, you can actually come in here,

54:01 click on the link, and download all the source code.

54:04 So you could use this application exactly like

54:07 I'm going to show you today, or you can take the source code

54:09 and modify it for your own needs,

54:11 make it fit in your organization a little better.

54:14 So I'm going to click Open and view application.

54:18 This will load up the Silverlight application,

54:21 notice I'm in a browser here,

54:22 I'm just in a tab in the browser window.

54:24 It's got a dual pane view.

54:27 It's set up to have a geographic side and a schematics side.

54:30 I click Connect to Geographic.

54:32 These are public services that are out there for demo purposes,

54:36 so I connect and connect to my geographic.

54:38 That will load the geographic data,

54:41 there's no basemap in this case, but it's a utility network example.

54:45 Now I click Connect to Schematic,

54:47 change to my schematics service and connect to it.

54:51 Now it shows me a list of diagrams,

54:53 so I can drill down in here and look at various diagrams

54:57 that have been published, so on and so forth.

55:00 The one I want to show you that's kind of interesting

55:03 based on this network, is this basic structure entire network.

55:07 So this diagram is a very, very simplified view of all the data

55:12 that's over on the left side.

55:14 So there's a bunch of node reduction rules

55:17 that have been run on this data to simplify it

55:19 to get to the diagram that we have now.

55:21 So we can do things similar to like we did over on the map.

55:25 For example, I can select some features on the schematic side,

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55:32 and you'll see that here it looks like I only had two features,

55:35 but now over on the map side,

55:37 you can see there were many features.

55:39 So that just shows you how much simplification there was.

55:43 Likewise, I could make a selection over on the geographic side,

55:48 click the other button to push that over to my schematic diagram,

55:52 and now up here on the top we'll see that.

55:55 So just like we did in the map, we can propagate the selections.

55:59 Now, real quick, I want to show you editing on the web.

56:03 So I can start an edit session here

56:06 and just like we did in ArcMap,

56:10 I can pick one of my layout algorithms, I'll pick smart tree,

56:14 I can change the direction to go top to bottom,

56:17 I can set a root node, and now I can apply the layout algorithm.

56:22 And as this applies, we'll start seeing it animate a little bit.

56:26 I can see I didn't quite get the exact root node I wanted,

56:29 so I'll change to this other root node, reapply it.

56:33 Now I can zoom to the full extent.

56:37 I could, by the way, this allows me to open up the window

56:40 so I'm only looking at schematic.

56:44 And here, just because I know this data quite well,

56:46 I know that there's some overlaps going on in here.

56:49 You see I have pink, green, blue, and yellow down at the bottom,

56:52 but I don't see that at the top.

56:54 That's because we've got some overlaps

56:56 due to the node reductions.

56:58 So very quickly here, I'll run another algorithm called

57:02 Separate Overlapping Links, and now you should be able to

57:06 see that separate out.

57:07 So, don't have time here to do a generate or an update,

57:11 but just know that basically everything

57:13 that I've shown you on ArcMap is pretty much capable


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57:17 of being done right here in a server context.

57:19 And with that, we'll review quickly.

57:24 At 10.1, schematics is a new capability of a map service

57:27 and a sample Silverlight application is available.

57:30 Back to you, Ardeshir.

57:32 Matt from New York asking,

57:35 What functionality don't we have on Server

57:38 that we do have on Desktop?

57:40 Matt, we have all the schematics functionality available

57:45 on Server, Desktop, and Engine.

57:48 The differences between those are that we have a lot of

57:54 out-of-the-box tools in Desktop, but with Server and Engine,

58:00 we provide you some samples

58:03 that have some of those functionality that you see in Desktop,

58:07 available some of the tools available on Server and Engine.

58:11 The rest of those, you can build it yourself using our API.

58:16 So the difference is just number of out-of-the-box tools.

58:21 The other question from Jamie from DC,

58:26 Can we digitize through a client application

58:29 using ArcGIS Schematics services?

58:33 Yes, you can digitize through a client.

58:36 However, you need to build a client application yourself.

58:43 You can use our API and build it.

58:46 Robert from Maryland asking,

58:49 Can I have diagrams on my web service only for viewing?

58:54 When you create your schematic service using our

59:00 Schematics SOE, you can decide to enable editing capability

59:07 or not. You can just not check that enable editing capability,

59:12 and then your service will be read-only.

59:16 Back to you, Rick.

59:17 Okay, unfortunately we are running out of time here,

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59:26 I would like to point out a few more resources.

59:29 The video series that we showed on the

59:32 Resource Center of schematics, the tutorials and the forums

59:34 that I all mentioned earlier.

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59:48 We hope you enjoyed today's seminar.

59:50 On behalf of Esri, I'd like to thank you all for attending.


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