My workplace is made up of 4 computers, each running windows 7 and ArcGIS 10.2.1.
Up until now, all of our projects have been shapefile based, organised into various folders. All of the data we work with is held on our server. We all access parts of the data and make edits all the time (obviously we cant edit the same shapefile at the same time, so we check with each other that a shapefile is free to edit before continuing).
We are now migrating to file geodatabases as they are supposedly quicker (see my other thread about slow selecting with shapefiles!), and it is the standard format for Arc projects nowadays.
The first geodatabase project we have set up has encountered problems however. But first here is the structure of the project in question:
FILE GEODATABASE 1
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Feature.....Dataset....A......------------------......Feature......Dataset.....B
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Feature Class 1....Feature Class 2....................Feature Class 3.......Feature Class 4
Now, on the ESRI resource website, it says a file geodatabase can have 'many readers or
one writer per feature dataset, stand-alone feature class, or table'. So my understanding of this is that User 1 can make edits within Feature Dataset A, whilst User 2 can make edits within Feature Dataset B. correct?
However, at our office this is not the case. Our issue is that if User 1 is editing a Class within Dataset A, User 2 can NOT make any edits within Dataset B! An error will appear on his screen 'No editable layers':
Attachment 34326
Why does this happen when the ESRI resource website says that each dataset can have its own writer?
thanks in advance for any help.
Theo