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Add Expand Container By Attribute Rule (Network Diagram Tools)

Summary

Adds a diagram rule to the rule sequence specified on a diagram template to automatically expand container contents during diagram buildings. The containers to expand are filtered by attributes from a given container source class or object table.

Learn more about expanding containers in network diagrams

Caution:

This tool is a configuration and administration tool.

Note:

This tool impacts the consistency of any existing diagrams based on the input diagram template. All of the existing diagrams become inconsistent and open with a consistency warning icon until they are updated.

Usage

  • This tool is not supported when working with a utility network or trace network service. You must use either a utility network or trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase, or a database connection to a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase. When working with an enterprise geodatabase, the following are requirements:

  • The Expand Container rule is used to expand diagrams by adding content features or objects that adhere to the following:

    • They are contained in a container in the diagram input.

    • They share the same container as content in the diagram input.

    The Expand Container rule expands the containers by source class or object table, or by network categories. When the rule is configured to process on a container network source class or object table, you can filter out these containers by attributes.

    You can use this tool to configure the Expand Container rule to run by attributes. This mean that you can configure the expansion of diagram features based on a particular container source class or object table by filtering the container features or objects based on their attributes.

Parameters

Label Explanation Data type

Input Network

The utility network or trace network containing the diagram template that will be modified.

Utility Network; Trace Network

Input Diagram Template

The name of the diagram template that will be modified.

String

Active

Specifies whether the rule will be enabled when generating and updating diagrams based on the specified template.

  • Checked—The added rule will become enabled during the generation and update of any diagrams based on the input template. This is the default.

  • Unchecked—The added rule will not become enabled during the generation or update of any diagrams based on the input template.

Boolean

Keep containers visible

Specifies whether the containers stay visible after they are expanded.

  • Checked—The containers will stay visible after they are expanded. This is the default.

  • Unchecked—The containers will be hidden after they are expanded.

Boolean

Container Source

The container source class or object table that references the containers to be expanded.

Table; Feature Class

Expression

(Optional)

An SQL expression that will be used to select the subset of containers in the container source class or object table that will be expanded in the generated diagrams.

SQL Expression

Description

(Optional)

The description of the rule.

String

Derived output

Label Explanation Data type

Output Network

The updated utility network or trace network.

Utility Network; Trace Network

Output Diagram Template

The name of the diagram template.

String

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

  • Basic: No
  • Standard: Yes
  • Advanced: Yes