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What's new in Schematics Designer 9.3 |
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Release 9.3
Last modified June 5, 2008 |
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About the new XML builder
Schematic builders are used to generate schematic diagrams. Schematics 9.3 provides a new schematic builder, the XML builder, which allow you to generate schematic diagrams from input XML files based on a specific XSD file.
Learn about the XML builder
About the new Expand Links rule
Schematic rules are used to simplify a schema or create new elements, such as containers that are related to the elements contained in a schema, before creating and displaying the diagram resulting from a specified set of features in the map on which a schematic builder operated.
Schematics 9.3 provides a new schematic rule, the Expand Links rule, which allow you to generate schematic diagrams after all links or some particular links related to a given schematic element type have been expanded into several links based on specific values. These values may be brought by the original links themselves or by any other attributes brought by other elements contained in the diagram.
Learn about the Expand Links rule
About the PropertySet attribute
PropertySet attributes are attributes retrieved from a property set blob in the schematic database. They are associated with a specific property inside that property set. The PropertySet attribute already existed in 9.2—it was automatically created for link element types associated with diagram types managed by the Standard builder and the Network Dataset Builder. But if in 9.2 such attributes were completely managed by schematics and you had no way to create your own PropertySet attribute within Designer, this is now possible with the 9.3 version.
The property values inside a property set may be managed-that is, stored, removed, updated from the schematic database-by any schematic rule such as the standard Expand Links rule, any schematic builder such as the Standard builder or the Network Dataset builder, or any other custom component.
Learn about PropertySet attribute
About the Script attribute
Script attributes are attribute whose values is returned by a VB script. This type of attribute may be used instead of a Function attribute in many cases. With the previous versions, if you didn't want to use the exact values coming from a field but these field values divided by 100, or if you wanted to work with categories based on particular grouped values, you had no other choice than to develop your own function in a custom component and create a Function attribute. For such simple cases, the Script attribute is now an easier way to operate.
Learn about Script attribute
About datasources management
When editing a project within Designer, the Data Sources entry displayed on the left in the Designer Editor window. With 9.3, the SDE GDB datasources that connect the same Server/Instance/Database are now regrouped under a same Designer tree subbranch. This enhancement in the datasource management allows you to quickly report the connection properties changes on all the data sources regrouped under an entry if needed; for example, when the server related to those regrouped data sources shut down and you want to reconnect them to another server where a backup of the data is available.
Moreover, specifc icons have been added to clearly show the status of data sources (open/close). At the project loading, you can also activate a specific mode to automatically open all the data sources referenced in a schematic project or not. For some schematic projects which contain an important number of data sources (such as SDE project shared by several users), opening all data sources can be very costly in time... Disabling the automatical opening of the data sources at the schematic project loading can be interesting in that case.
Learn more about data sources management