Forcing Features to Synchronize with Lucity

The Force Synchronization tool will update the desktop with the data from the selected features in the geodatabase without making any changes to the features.  

This tool DOES NOT update the geodatabase with information from the desktop.

To force features in the map to be synchronized with the desktop:

1. In ArcMap, start an edit session.
2. Select the features you wish to have synched.

   

3. Click the Force Synchronization tool on the Lucity GIS Edit toolbar.

   

4. You will receive a message similar to the one below.  This verifies how many features are currently selected.  To continue, click "Yes".

   

5. A status bar will appear in the lower right hand corner of ArcMap showing the progress of the synchronization.  After the status has reached 100% you must save your edit session to finish the synchronization process.

This tool is most commonly used for the following situations:

1. To update the desktop with edits made to features outside of an edit session, such as running the ESRI calculate tool on a field outside an edit session.
2. To update the desktop with edits made to features during an edit session in which the Lucity GIS Extension was NOT loaded.  
3. In situations where the feature didn't get synched to the desktop due to an error in the software.

The Force Synchronization tool WILL NOT update the desktop correctly if the following edits were made in an edit session in which the Lucity GIS Extension was not loaded: Line Splits, Line Merges, Flow Direction Changes, Renumbering Features, Feature Deletes. These types of edits MUST be made during an edit session in which the Lucity GIS Extension is loaded.