Basic navigation

After you have installed GeoAdministrator, the GeoAdministrator tab is shown on the ribbon in ArcGIS Pro.

GeoAdministrator tab

This table describes the buttons on the GeoAdministrator tab:

Button Description
Connect/Disconnect Logs in to the Operations and Regulations database. You must specify a valid user name and password.
Preferences Shows the preferences dialog box, which manages system preferences such as field mappings, QAQC settings, and logging.

See Setting preferences.
Display Selected O&R Records Shows the records in the Operations and Regulations database that correspond to one or more selected map features, such as an address record or an asset inventory record. The information is displayed in the appropriate Infor Operations and Regulations InfoViewer.
Clear Selected O&R Records Clears the selected features on the map.
Expire Selected O&R Records Expires selected records in Operations and Regulations and optionally deletes their map features.

See Expiring records and deleting features.
Create O&R Inventory Records Creates new records in the Operations and Regulations database for selected map features, such as creating an asset inventory record for an existing asset on the map.

See Create records.
Create Assets Along Linear Asset Creates a new asset at a specified location along a selected linear asset.

See Creating assets along a linear asset.
Lookups Used to search for Operations and Regulations records and show them on the map.

See Looking up information in GeoAdministrator.
Tools The Tools menu includes these options:
  • Associate Inventory: Creates associations between records in the Operations and Regulations database by selecting the map features that represent them.

    See Associating Operations and Regulations records.

  • Join Selected Network Assets: Joins two network assets, such as water or sewer, storm mains, with the option to remove the middle point asset and geometry, combining the two lines in GIS into one single feature.

    See Joining network assets.

  • Split Selected Network Assets: Splits network assets, such as water or sewer mains, with options to create new features or rename either side of the split.

    See Splitting a network asset.

  • Flip Line Selected Network Assets: Flips the end points of a network asset such as a water mains, changing the direction of flow and switching the from and to nodes in Operations and Regulations).

    See Flipping a network asset.

  • Capture Endpoint of Selected Network Assets: Identifies the point assets, such as manholes, that server as endpoints for a network asset such as a sewer main.

    See Capture End Point Information tool.
Synchronize Database Fields Synchronizes data between the Operations and Regulations database and the geodatabase.

See Synchronizing data.
QAQC GeoAdministrator’s QAQC tool. Compares records in the Operations and Regulations database and the geodatabase to ensure that all data is consistent.

See QAQC.
Help Shows the GeoAdministrator help

Create Features

GeoAdministrator also adds buttons to the Create Features pane, which is shown when you click Create on the Edit tab in ArcGIS Pro.

A Create button is shown on each layer in the Create Features pane that corresponds to a type of record in Operations and Regulations. For example, the Create O&R Address button is shown when you select an address layer.

Create O&R Address button

See Create records.