Common Fields

LocationDescription

text

This field provides flexibility in describing the location of a feature. For instance, an editor may capture a location note such as "behind the big bush on the southwest corner of the building." This field acts as a specialized "comments" field, in that it always captures a note about the location of a feature in the field. This is not a required field and can be deleted if it is not useful to an organization.

Owner

text

This field stores the owner for a particular feature. It may store values for external organizations that own the feature mapped by your organization. This field can also store values for groups internal to the organization that may own the feature. An example would be the electric, traffic and IT groups within a municipality. This field is not required and may be deleted if it is not useful. If this field is implemented, a domain of valid owners should be assigned.

Comments

text

Comments can be tracked in this field, but it should not be used as a substitute for accurately capturing information in other fields. This field should be reviewed periodically to determine whether new domain values or new attributes are needed in the model. This field is not required and may be deleted. Many organizations find that this field provides a way to capture data that may be dynamic and not accurately represented elsewhere in the data.

SymbolRotation

double

This field is used to track the value for the angle at which a point feature symbol is displayed on the map. This field is required for rotating symbols, otherwise they will all be oriented to the North. This field is required for point and junction features.

CreationUser

text

This field stores the name of the editor that created the feature in the GIS. It is populated using a standard ArcFM autoupdater, such as ArcFM User Name or ArcFM Login User Name.

CreationDate

date

This is the date that the feature was created in the GIS. This field is populated using the ArcFM Current Date autoupdater.

LastUser

text

This is the name of the last user to update an attribute of an object. The update can occur on any attribute field, including the shape field for features. This field is populated using a standard ArcFM autoupdater, such as ArcFM User Name or ArcFM Login User Name.

DateModified

date

This is the last date that the feature or object was changed. This change can occur on any attribute field, including the shape field for features. This field is populated using the ArcFM Current Date autoupdater.