Problem promoting multiple features

Hi Rob,

For now, only non-collection feature can be promote to a multiple single feature in the same time. As you reported, for a collection feature, it will promote all selected/fenced elements to a single collection feature with multiple sub-features.

For now, what I can suggest to you, if it is a possibility in your project to make that change, is to change feature type from collection-polygon feature to polygon feature. Then, we will be able to promote all these in one click.

Sorry for that weak option, I will try to find you a better solution by consulting colleagues.

I hope that will help you.

Sébastien Lefrançois
Associate Software Quality Analyst - Geospatial Products
Bentley Systems Inc.

 

Hi Rob,

For now, only non-collection feature can be promote to a multiple single feature in the same time. As you reported, for a collection feature, it will promote all selected/fenced elements to a single collection feature with multiple sub-features.

For now, what I can suggest to you, if it is a possibility in your project to make that change, is to change feature type from collection-polygon feature to polygon feature. Then, we will be able to promote all these in one click.

Sorry for that weak option, I will try to find you a better solution by consulting colleagues.

I hope that will help you.

Sébastien Lefrançois
Associate Software Quality Analyst - Geospatial Products
Bentley Systems Inc.

 

Thanks Sébastien,

Is there a way to do that by updating the features in the GSA or do I need to create new features? I tried changing the type for my collection feature to polygon- so now I have a polygon feature with a polygon subfeaure. I updated the placement commands and the command manager after the change. I can now promote multiple features correctly and view/edit their individual attributes, but I can't post them to Oracle- no errors, just 'Post Complete (0 features)'. Also, the polygons don't get the feature symbology.

These are Oracle Spatial features, so the polygon-collection with a subfeature is automatic when I register features from the database.

I guess there are three possible paths forward:

- register polygon features from Oracle without creating collections (I don't see an option to allow this)
- change the collection features to normal polygons after registration (unless I've got something wrong this doesn't seem to work, as above)
- manually create polygon features without subfeatures and register them as Oracle Spatial features (not aware of a way to do this)

If you have any thoughts or advice, I'd definitely appreciate it.

-Rob

Rob,

To convert the shapes you've created into individual structure_existing_area_collection feature instances, you should be able to use the following workflow:

1. Use your originally defined schema that contains the structure_existing_area_collection feature class definition, including the structure_existing_area subfeature.
2. Process your linework and create your shape elements on the structure_existing_area level which matches the level defined for your structure_existing_area subfeature. This allows the Bentley Map DFS (Dynamic Feature Scoring) functionality to infer the feature class of your shapes based upon their level.
3. Using the fence option, perform a "Tools > Geospatial > Utilities > Reset Feature" command to convert the inferred feature instances to native feature instances with any defined business properties. In your case, the result should be individual structure_existing_area_collection feature instances.

After performing the FEATURE RESET command, you should be able to edit and post your structure_existing_area_collection feature instances into Oracle Spatial as desired. If this process does not produce the desired result, please let me know.

Regards,

Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

That works, thanks Jeff!

Followup to this: We've been able to promote and post some elements but are seeing some converted into shapes and associative regions, which won't post and can't be attributed.

I've been trying to create a consistent reproduction of the problem but haven't had much luck. I can fence some buildings, use Reset Feature, use ctrl-z if they aren't converted to real shape features, then Reset Features again without re-placing the fence, and it will work properly (sometimes).

 Any thoughts? I'm guessing that something I do is affecting the scoring mechanism, but I'm at a loss to explain it.

 See attached screenshots.

followup #2: For lines/linestrings it appears the XFM promote methods for each line feature are the way to go. I haven't had any luck using Reset Feature to turn lines into features. Is that correct?