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Geodatabase Design & Structure Guide

This document provides templates for designing a geodatabase, including forms for feature datasets, feature classes, tables, domains, subtypes, and relationships. The templates include fields for naming the geodatabase and feature classes, specifying feature class types and field details, and configuring domains, subtypes, and relationships between tables and feature classes.

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Geodatabase Design & Structure Guide

This document provides templates for designing a geodatabase, including forms for feature datasets, feature classes, tables, domains, subtypes, and relationships. The templates include fields for naming the geodatabase and feature classes, specifying feature class types and field details, and configuring domains, subtypes, and relationships between tables and feature classes.

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Geodatabase design forms

Geodatabase name
Feature dataset name
Feature classes:
Type Feature class name Alias

Type: Indicate if this is a PoiNT, Line, or POLYgon feature class.


Name: Enter the name of your feature class.
Alias: Describe the contents of the feature class.
Tables worksheet
Feature class or Nulls Default Domain name or
table name (lookup) Field name Key Field type Alias (Y/N) value subtype field (S) or (D)

Field type: Long Integer, Short Integer, Text, Floating Point, etc…
Alias: Alternate field name (may contain spaces)
Nulls: Are null values allowed?
Default value: Most common value
Domain/Subtype: Indicator of which domain or subtype is applied to this field
Key: Primary Key, Foreign Key, Lookup Key, etc…
Domains worksheet
Coded values / Range
Domain name Description Field type Domain type Code / (Min) Desc /(Max)

Name: Name of domain


Description: Description of domain
Field type: Must match the field to which this domain will be applied
Domain type: Coded values (text) or range (numbers)
Code (or minimum): Code used to represent value OR low end of numeric range allowed
Desc (or maximum): Description of code OR high end of numeric range allowed
Coded values / Range
Domain name Description Field type Domain type Code / (Min) Desc / (Max)

Name: Name of domain


Description: Description of domain
Field type: Must match the field to which this domain will be applied
Domain type: Coded values (text) or range (numbers)
Code (or minimum): Code used to represent value OR low end of numeric range allowed
Desc (or maximum): Description of code OR high end of numeric range allowed
Subtypes worksheet
PRESET DEFAULTS
Subtype name Code Description Field Domain name Default value

Code: Integer values


Description: Description of code
Field: Field names for which defaults or domains may be assigned
Domain: Name of the domain that may be applied to this field
Value: Default value of the associated field
Relationship worksheet

Name of the relationship class:

Origin table/feature class:

Destination table/feature class:

Relationship type: Simple (peer to peer) Composite

Labels:
Origin to destination:

Destination to origin:

Message propagation: Forward Backward Both None

Cardinality: 1-1 1-M M-N

Attributes: No Yes - Table name:

Add to the tables worksheet

Primary key field Foreign key name

Origin table/feature class: :

Destination table/feature class: :

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