Creating a Feature Class From a View

You can include Oracle views in enterprise industry models and use them like any other feature class tables. For example, you can use views to combine data from different feature classes in one table. Define reports containing this data or Feature Search definitions based on the view. You can use views to stylize features in the Display Manager. Alternatively, you can use expressions to query attributes from multiple feature classes.

Note:

You can only register a view once. If a view has already been registered as feature class, it is not displayed in the Existing Views list.

View definitions

When you define a view that can be used as feature class, the following conditions must be met.

• The views must contain the attribute FID. A view that does not contain the FID is not displayed in the Existing Views list.
• If you want to be able to edit the features, the view must contain FID and GEOM that come from the same feature class. Then, the view will be registered as a feature class that handles geometries.