About Working Offline in an Enterprise Industry Model

Working offline allows you to take a subset of enterprise industry model data in Edit Set mode and work with it while not being connected to a server. This lets you work on parts of the model while in the field.

Note: Working offline is not well suited for batch operations such as a large data set import. It is designed for the interactive editing where a manageable number of features are modified or added before merging the updates. Offline mode does not prevent you from modifying a large number of features except that the merge tool may take more time to handle the changed data.

When you specify the subset of data you want to edit, the display model defines the list of classes that are copied. The current zoom area further constrain the data spatially by only copying the data within the zoomed area.

Note: There is a limitation on how industry model data and FDO data, when used together, are handled while in edit set mode. By default, when industry model and FDO data are added to the same drawing, both sets of data are in automatic update mode. Toggling the Automatic Update button off will change the mode of the industry model data source to queued edit mode. However, the FDO data source remains in automatic update mode. For example, if Automatic Update is off and you add an SDF layer to the list of industry model layers, the changes to the industry model data get saved locally while the changes to the SDF layer are saved to the source SDF file.

When you come back to your office, you can re-connect to the server and merge your changes. More than one person can work cooperatively on content and edit the same set of data at the same time.

When you work offline, you must select an industry model template if one is not already selected for the drawing. The name of the template is stored in the enterprise industry model, and with the drawing that is created for your offline editing session. It ensures that you are working with the same set of data when you open this project from different clients. You can only associate a template with an enterprise industry model that contains a single project.

If you attempt to work offline and your drawing is not associated with an industry model template, you are directed to select one. An industry model template can also be assigned by your administrator from the Infrastructure Administrator. For more information regarding Industry Model Templates, see the AutoCAD Map 3D toolset Administrator Guide.

Note: Templates are not available for enterprise industry models that contain multiple industry models.

When you specify the subset of data to work with, you can specify an existing job.

When you re-connect to the server, you can merge your edited content with the source content. The Merge Changes dialog box helps you merge your content to the server.

Note: If conflicts are detected, they must be resolved for the merge process to be completed.

Jobs

Both feature locking types (optimistic and pessimistic) of an enterprise industry model are supported by Queued Edit- and Offline mode. Compared to Direct Edit mode, the modification of features do not display any immediate information, such as the insertion, deletion, or update of a feature outside a perimeter, or modify a feature which is locked by another job in Direct Edit mode. This is all managed during the change merging process.

Note: In the case of a job which has a perimeter defined, be aware that you can only check-in modifications which are inside the perimeter during the change merging process.

Pessimistic Feature Locking

In Queued Edit- and Offline mode, no features are locked. This is true for direct modifications or for locked features which are taken into Queued Edit- and Offline mode. You are notified during the change merging process whenever you check-in a feature which is already locked by another job in Direct Edit mode.