Feature Class Context Menus

In the Data Model explorer, right-click a feature class and click a command, as shown in the following table:

Create Feature Class

Creates a new feature class under the current one (sub feature class). See also Data Model: Feature Classes.

Create Label Definition

Defines a new label definition. For label feature classes only. See also Label Properties.

Create Auto Labels

Creates labels for features that have auto-label definitions but are missing labels. For example, if you disabled label triggers during a data import, you can create the missing auto labels.

This operation is not available for label feature classes.

Add Attributes

Adds a column to the Oracle table. See also To add a feature class attribute.

Edit Feature Class

Edits the feature class properties. See also Working with Feature Classes.

Rename Feature Class

Renames the feature class, changing the caption.

Empty Feature Class

Deletes all features of the feature class (TRUNCATE); Oracle feature class table is maintained.

Drop Feature Class

Drops all features in the current feature class. The Oracle feature class table is also deleted (DROP).

Edit Feature Rules

Defines a set of feature rules (rule base) for each feature class. See also Feature Rules Reference.

Compound

Process compound feature classes. See also Data Model: Compounds.

Spatial

Processes spatial indices.

Create Or Replace Spatial Index

Creates or replaces spatial indices.

Drop Spatial Index

Drops spatial indices.

Triggers

Processes triggers of the feature class tables. There are sub-commands to create or replace, drop, enable or disable all triggers.

Compound Triggers

See Data Model: Compounds.

Optimization

Uses sub-commands for database optimization (DBMS_STATS*). For more information see Oracle® Spatial User’s Guide and Reference.

Optimize Feature Class

Runs the DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS([USER], [Table], cascade=>true) command for the feature class tables. This procedure gathers table, column, and index statistics.

Update Label Text

Updates the label texts. Available only for label feature classes. See also Data Model: Labels.

Update Length Attribute

Calculates the length again; available only for feature classes with LENGTH column.

Update Area Attribute

Calculates the area again. Available only for feature classes with AREA attribute.

Intersect With

Calculates the intersection of one feature class with another. Available only for feature classes that are allowed to be intersection primary feature classes (which are at the moment polygon and line string). See also Data Model: Intersections.

Form Designer

Customizes the form. See Form Designer Reference.

Job Enabled

A hook indicates that the selected feature class is job-enabled.

Properties

Displays the properties that you can edit. Right-click the label definition. Click Properties. See also Label Properties.

Drop

Drops the label definition. Right-click the label definition. Click Drop.