Key Features

The key features of Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) are

• Work Flow Management
• Version Management
• Job Tracking
• History Tracking and Change Detection

Work Flow Management

Data maintenance managers and mapping engineers can use the full range of tools available to do their jobs more efficiently.

Every job the data maintenance manager and mapping engineers face involves tracking the smaller steps and pieces that make up the whole job. Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) simplifies the tasks of tracking staff allocation, resource use, changes to data, and project progress and status.

In addition, Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) can help managers assign the tasks and work units in an efficient and orderly way by offering tools needed to get quick updates of who is working on what, what the progress is, how an individual or team is progressing, and more.

Job Tracking

Any action performed on the job, such as executing an edit feature step, is captured and logged in the administration database. Every user's interaction with a job is tracked, meaning any modification of the job's properties - changes to state of the job, execution of a step or task, and so forth - is captured.

This means a user or manager can see a complete listing of what has been done to the job since its creation. In the same way, a time-stamped list of comments can be logged, creating a chronological registry of job-related information such as notes to the quality control team, issues addressed, clarifications, and other comments.

Version Management

Using the version management tools in Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX), the team working on one aspect of a project can address even long and complex geodatabase transactions without disrupting the work of another team. Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) simplifies creation and maintenance of geodatabase versions. It can associate a version to a job, for the life of the job, and provides tools to ensure data is always referenced from the appropriate version. It is through the version management tools that Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) can perform detailed tracking of edits to individual features.

History Tracking and Change Detection

The types of changes and the specific attributes changed for individual features are noted. In the case of spatial edits, both the before and after geometries are stored.

 

Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX) delivers rich support for the capture and storage of feature-level transactions, which are ascertained when the job version is reconciled and changes are posted back to the master database. Only permanent edits to the data are captured and saved, rather than intermediate edits made in the process of completing the job.

A JTX transaction record stores the details of the change in an Open Geospatial Consortium-based XML format that leverages industry-standard models for features. The transaction records of changes to individual features can be queried by job number, date, date range, or Global Feature Identifier to support QA process requirements.