List of Available Edit Actions

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Specifies the List of Available Edit Actions. This way, the administrator may control how objects of the edit layer can be changed by the user.

Edit actions configuration

Property	Description
Name	Name of the edit action. The following table briefly describes the function for each configurable edit action.
Default edit action?	Specifies the default edit action. If multiple edit actions are configured as default edit action, then the first edit action in the list is used as default edit action

Property

Description

Name

Name of the edit action.

The following table briefly describes the function for each configurable edit action.

Default edit action?

Specifies the default edit action. If multiple edit actions are configured as default edit action, then the first edit action in the list is used as default edit action

Edit actions properties

Property

Description

Create

Use this edit action for creating new objects.

Edit

Use this edit action for changing (i.e. editing) existing objects (geometry and attribute data).

See chapter Edit Layers for how to control whether the user is only able to edit object attribute data, object geometry or both.

Copy

Use this edit action for copying an existing object of the edit layer.

Delete

Use this edit action for deleting one or multiple objects of the edit layer.

Split

Use this edit action for splitting an existing polygon or line (for polygon or line feature class only).

Merge

Use this edit action for merging two existing polygons or lines.

•The attributes of the object selected first in the merge process determines the attribute data of the resulting merged object.

•On edit-layer level it is possible to define whether features have to be adjacent to allow merging.

CopyFrom

Using this edit action, the user is able to copy objects from a reference layer to the edit layer. This way the user is able to quickly create exact geometry.

•Both layers involved must be based on data from an SDE. Either a single object can be selected for copying or several objects can be selected by drawing a rectangle on the map with the left mouse button pressed.

•If the data structure of the reference layer and the edit layer is the same (field name, field type, field size must be identical) then the attribute data gets copied from the reference layer along with the object geometry.

•You can copy from references layers of the same geometric type like the edit layer only.

•See chapter Copy from Layers as well for specifying the set of reference layers available for copying data from.

•In order to use the edit action copy from the reference layer to be configured must be identifiable/searchable. See chapter Define Selectable/Identifiable Layers for more information.

CopyFromTemplate

This edit action allows you to copy objects from a template list of a template layer. The difference to the Copy from edit action is that you do not select the object to be copied inside the map but from a drop down list in the ribbon menu. After selecting an object from a template list, the object must be manually placed in the desired position on the map.

•If the data structure of the template layer and the edit layer is the same (field name, field type, field size must be identical) then the attribute data gets copied from the template layer along with the object geometry.

•You can copy from template layers of the same geometric type like the edit layer only.

•The edit action Copy from template is only available for WebOffice core client.

See chapter Layers (with Templates) as well for specifying the set of template layers available for copying data from templates.

CopyFromM

This edit action allows you to copy sections of linear objects (polylines) from another layer to the edit layer.

This requires m-values to be active on both layers. The selection of the source object can be done spatially by box selection or via a drop down list of all objects on the source layer.

In the dialog box that appears, the required section of the object can be set with exact m-values (km). The values for the minimum and maximum m-values are written directly in the dialog box.

•If you exceed the minimum or maximum m-value in the input, a corresponding message appears in the client.

•The number of decimal places displayed for the m-values can be influenced by the configuration result precision in the Common Settings.

The values of edit fields, which also exist in the source layer, are automatically prefilled with the values of the source object.

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After clicking on Submit editing a new object is created at the edit layer, whereby the geometry of the new object corresponds to the selected section of the source object.

The geometry cannot be freely edited within the scope of this edit action.

•You can copy from references layers of the same geometric type like the edit layer only.

•See chapter Copy from Layers as well for specifying the set of reference layers available for copying data from.

•In order to use the edit action copy from M the reference layer to be configured must be identifiable / searchable. See chapter Define Selectable/Identifiable Layers for more information.

EditByM

This edit action allows you to edit linear objects (polylines) that correspond to segments of linear objects on another layer.

This requires m-values to be active on both layers. The selection of the object at the target layer is done by a spatial selection.

The edit attribute form starts with the drop down list of the source object and input fields for the m-value range.

The geometry can be changed by selecting another m-value range, but always corresponds to a section of the source object - it cannot be freely edited within the scope of this edit action.

•The m-values are always taken from the edit object, but are overwritten by m-values of the new possible output object if there is a field assignment.

•To edit the values from the m-value range, a source object must be selected from the drop down list.

Cut_MultiPart

Using this edit action, the user is able to cut out a polygon-object from an existing object. If the extent of the cut-polygon is inside the extent of the existing object, the result is a hole. Otherwise the intersecting part will be cut out of the existing object. If the existing object is a line feature, it will be divided in two segments, which are handled as a multipart feature. Deleting the whole existing object by drawing a cut-polygon completely covering it, isn't allowed. Therefor use the delete function.

Merge_MultiPart

This edit action allows you to build one multipart feature based on multiple existing (selected) objects. The objects used to create the multipart feature could be spatial separated or overlapping each other. In the second case the overlapping borders of the features are dissolved and the result is a consistent feature. You are also able to add a multipart feature or single feature to an existing multipart feature. In case of using a multipoint feature class it is also possible to merge point objects to multipart features. In every case you make a multipart feature, a new object will be created and the root-objects will be deleted (also physically).

•The attributes of the object selected first in the merge multipart process determines the attribute data of the resulting multipart object.

•To deselect an already selected object, another selection has to be made to this object.

Explode_MultiPart

With explode multipart you are able to explode existing multipart features. Therefore you have to select one before.

edit action - description

The edit action Create is not supported when using an Inner Join (ArcGIS option: Keep only matching records).

•See chapter Edit Layers for details about the configuration of edit layers.

•See chapter Editing for details about editing in the WebOffice core client.

•See chapter Editing for details about editing in the WebOffice flex client.