Optional Additional Configurations

Related video tutorial: CrescentLink Desktop: Optional Database Configurations

• Customize Fields, Subtypes, and Domains

• • Edit the SDM gdb by adding any fields not already present or in a different field type than the original data. Loading the data requires (in most situations) the 'from' and 'to' fields to be the same type: long integer, short integer, double, date, string (text), etc.

• • Add subtypes to splice points, additional cable, support structures, path, and path access as needed
    Note: symbology and the “Create Features” templates will need to be adjusted afterward

• • Edit the domains and values to incorporate your data: owner, equipment type, used as, used by, etc

• Add your existing data

• • Load your data into the SDM gdb using the Load Objects tool. Assign original feature class fields to SDM feature class fields in order to transfer data in addition to features

• Set up an Enterprise Geodatabase

• • Please view our article on requirements for setting up an enterprise GDB

Continue to the next article in the User Guide series: An Introduction to the CrescentLink Extension