InventoryManager: Create New Features

General

• InventoryManager supports the creation of new spatial features (e.g., Stands, Plots) via heads-up digitizing in the Map Panel.

• When a layer has been configured to allow new feature creation, there will be a gray pencil icon to the right of the layer name in the map legend.

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• Click the pencil icon once to enable feature creation (the pencil will turn orange). Two additional buttons will appear in the upper left corner of the map under the zoom buttons (+/-).

• Click the top button (either a point marker or a polygon) to begin creating a new feature.

• Note that feature creation mode will persist until it is disable. To disable feature creation and return to typical map interaction, click the pencil icon once more (icon will change from orange back to gray).

• Alerts are delivered to the user along the top of the map if additional, undirected clicks are made in the map while in edit mode as a reminder for the user to disable.

Points

• To create a point, click the pencil icon, then click the point marker icon in the top left corner. Click the desired location on the map. If the marker location is acceptable, click Submit on the left hand side to create the point, otherwise click the small garbage can above it.

When you Click the garbage can you are asked to select the feature to remove, then select Save to delete or Cancel to keep.

If there are rules established for where features can be placed you will get an error message similar to this: 

Polygons and Lines

Click the desired location in the map to start creating a polygon feature. Continue clicking to set  the location of each vertex. To finish the feature, click the first vertex again to complete the shape. Note that additional buttons appear next to the polygon icon in the upper left corner of the map to assist in feature creation. These buttons allow users to delete the last vertex (undo), cancel/discard the feature, or finish the polygon.

Select the Add Polygon button after drawing an initial shape to create a multi-polygon feature.

Select Submit to complete drawing and fill out a form of feature attributes.

Fill The Form

When the feature geometry creation is complete, click Submit to begin saving the data. A data entry form will pop-up for the user to fill out. Fill out the form completely; all fields presented to the user in this form are required. Some fields require manual entry with the keyboard, while others can be filled using drop-down menus (coded value domains in the Esri data model). Some fields may be restricted to only accept numbers, or a limited number of characters.  Note that for plot creation, Parent_ID is pre-populated from its parent feature (stand), and is read only.  Similarly, when creating a new Stand polygon feature, you may see an area field (e.g., Acres) which is auto-populated by the system and read-only.