Set "Update Length/Area" Flag to True

All Line and Polygon features within a feature class have either a Length or Area component. Within the geodatabase configuration, there is an option to Always Update Length/Area flag for each feature class configuration. This option determines whether the field in the feature class that is linked to the Lucity Length/Area field should be updated with data from the ESRI shape Length/Area whenever the geometry is modified in the map.

In previous versions, when a new feature class configuration was added, the Always Update Length/Area flag was set to False by default, and administrators had to change configurations individually . Because Lucity recommends that this property is set to True for all feature class configurations, we provided this tool to make it easy for administrators to change the value globally.

How To Set the Length/Area Flags to True

  1. Select the desired geodatabase from the tree on the left side of the Geodatabase Configuration dialog.
  2. Right-click on the geodatabase node and select Set Update Length/Area Flag to True.

    Note: This option is not available for replica geodatabases.

  3. The following confirmation dialog appears. Click OK to update the field on every feature class configuration within the selected geodatabase connection.

    update length area message

    Note: All new feature classes added will have the Update Length/Area flag set to true by default. This tool will typically only be used to update older geodatabase configurations.