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002147: Feature-linked annotation may introduce editing limitations in your geodatabase.

Description

Feature-linked annotation creates a relationship class between the annotation feature class and the base feature class. An ArcGIS Pro feature-linked annotation feature class will affect the ability to edit the base feature class in different versions of ArcGIS Desktop.

The following table describes how annotation is supported:

ArcGIS version

ArcGIS Desktop annotation

ArcGIS Pro annotation

ArcGIS Desktop

10.x

Full read, modify, and write access

Not supported. Any feature class linked to it, or in the same feature dataset, will be read-only.

ArcGIS Pro

1.x

Read-only access

Not supported. Any feature class linked to it, or in the same feature dataset, will be read-only.

ArcGIS Pro

2.x

Read-only access

Full read, modify, and write access.

Solution

Ensure that you understand where and how the data will be used, and make decisions accordingly.

If you need to continue to use the feature class in ArcGIS Desktop, make a copy of it and link the ArcGIS Pro feature-linked annotation to the copy.