Direct Spatial Updates

The Direct Spatial Updates tool allows users to directly update a Lucity record from a feature that shares a location with the lucity linked feature without updating the lucity linked feature itself.

Relationships and Direct spatial relationships both update a Lucity record with a value from a feature that shares its' location. You will want to choose which tool to use based on what is best for your situation.

Spatial Relationships	Direct Spatial Relationships
Updates a Lucity record and Lucity-linked feature from a feature in another feature class that shares a location. Does this by updating the Lucity linked feature , which then updates Lucity. This requires the Lucity module to be related to a feature class as this is how the spatial update is calculated.	Updates a Lucity from from a feature in another feature class that shares a location. It does this without updating the Lucity-linked feature class that is linked to Lucity. This requires the Lucity module to be related to a feature class as this is how the spatial update is calculated.
Requires the user to be in an ArcMap edit session	Does not require the user to be in an ArcMap edit session.
Slower than direct spatial relationships	Quicker than a spatial relationship update.
Automatically performed on a feature when it is added or edited.	Manually run by a user.
Multiple Spatial Relationships can be setup and are run automatically.	Multiple Direct Updates can be setup and run all at once.
Multiple Spatial Relationships are stored in the geodatabase configuration	Direct Updates are saved so they can be run in the future.

Spatial Relationship vs Direct Spatial Update

direct spatial updates

Enables the user to select a Lucity feature class from the map to indicate which Lucity module will be updated by the Direct Spatial Updates tool.

If there is a set of records you wish to run the tool against, select the set.
On the Lucity GIS Editor toolbar, click the button. The following window appears:
Select a Lucity Feature Class. This drip-down displays all feature classes in the map that are related to Lucity.
Click the + button to add a relationship.
Enter the name of the Related Feature Class. Click the ... button for a list of all feature classes in the map.
Select the Relationship Type and fill out the Distance value if required.
Select the Related Feature Class Field. Click the ... button for a list of fields.
Select the Lucity Field to Update. Click the ... button for a list of possible Lucity fields.
Mark any desired settings.
Select the desired Process Option.
Check the Include Setting in Run? box for one or more Direct Spatial Relationships.
Click Run Updates. The process log appears to display the status of the operation.

+	Adds a new Relationship to the grid.
-	Removes the selected Relationship from the grid.
Include Setting in Run	Directs the system to include this relationship when the Run Updates button is clicked.
RelateID	Represents the system-defined, unique ID for the relationship. (Completed automatically.)
Related Feature Class	Indicates the feature class in the map that that will serve as the source of the update values.
Relationship Type	Specifies the rule upon which the update is based. From Intersect: Finds any features in the Related Feature Class that intersect the From Point of the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. This relationship works only for Polyline, Edge, or Complex Edge features. To Intersect: Finds any features in the Related Feature Class that intersect the To Point of the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. This relationship only works for Polyline, Edge, or Complex Edge features. Contained by: Finds any features in the Lucity Feature Class that are contained by features in the Related Feature Class. The Related Feature Class must be a Polygon feature class. Intersects: Finds the first feature in the Related Feature Class that intersects the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. To Intersect Distance: Finds the first feature in the Related Feature Class that intersects the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. Then, it calculates the distance along the related feature between the Intersection Location and the To Point. If the Lucity Feature Class is of a Polyline geometry type, the To Point of the Lucity feature must intersect the related feature. This relationship type requires the Related Feature Class to be a Polyline geometry type. From Intersect Distance: Finds the first feature in the Related Feature Class that intersects the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. Then, it calculates the distance along the related feature between the Intersection Location and the From Point. If the Lucity Feature Class is of a polyline geometry type, the From Point must intersect the related feature. This relationship type requires the Related Feature Class to be a Polyline geometry type. Midpoint Intersect: Finds any feature in the Related Feature Class that intersects the midpoint of the feature in the Lucity Feature Class. This relationship requires the Selected Feature Class to be a Polyline, Edge, or Complex Edge feature and the Related Feature Class to be a Polygon feature. Force Feature to Self-Update: Finds any features that intersect the feature in the Lucity Feature Class and adds them to the Edit Cache so that they are synced to Lucity even if the records have not changed. This option is used primarily for the Street Segment feature class (as Selected Feature Class) and the Street Intersection feature class (as Related Feature Class). This relationship type forces the system to automatically recalculate the intersection configurations for the diagram in the Lucity Intersection module when Street Segments are changed. Is Within a Distance of: Finds all features in the Related Feature Class that are with a specified distance of the feature in the Lucity Feature Class.
Distance Value	Specifies the distance around the feature that the tool will search for when the Is Within a Distance of option is enabled. The unit of measure is based on the map units used in the .mxd map document.
Related Feature Class Field	Identifies the field in the Related Feature Class that will be used to update a field in Lucity.
Lucity Field to Update	Identifies the the field in the Lucity module that will be updated. Note: This field cannot be linked to a feature class; therefore, such fields are excluded from the drop-down. This restriction prevents data from getting out of sync.
Calculate Lucity ID	When enabled and the field being updated is the code or type portion of a pick-list field, this option directs the system to look up and complete the other half of the pick-list field (code or type). This feature also applies when the field being updated is a field that stores a Lucity record number for a parent record. When this type of field is updated, the system looks up the parent's Common ID.
Do not overwrite a non-null value	Tells the system not to overwrite any pre-existing data in the Lucity Field to Update.
Update value to null if no relationship is found	Directs the system to update the Lucity Field to Update as NULL when it cannot identify a relationship between the Lucity feature and a feature in the related feature class.

All Records in Lucity feature class	Runs the tool against all records in the Lucity Feature Class.
Selected features in Lucity feature class	Runs the tool against all selected records from the Lucity Feature Class.
Selected features in related feature class	Runs the tool against the selected records from the Related Feature Class, identifies the Lucity records that meet the Relationship Type, then updates only those Lucity records.

Run Updates	Performs all updates that have the Include Setting in Run box checked. Saves all updates that were created.
Cancel	Cancels use of the tool.