3 Data Compilation and Editing

Right-click the feature to open its attribute dialog box and correct the value.

Right-click the selected feature and click Attributes to

correct the invalid value.

If more than one feature is selected, the message tells you how many features have invalid values; only those features
remain selected. Select one of these features and run Validate Features again to get an explanation of why the feature is
invalid (or just open the Attributes dialog box for the feature and see for yourself).

You can select multiple features before

running Validate Features. The message
will indicate how many features have
invalid values. Features with no errors
are unselected, leaving selected only the
features having invalid values.

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To open the Attributes dialog box, click the Attributes button on the toolbar, or right-click one of the selected features
and click Attributes. The selected features are listed in the left panel; click a feature in the list to display and edit its
attributes.

Select a feature from the

list in the left panel of
the Attributes dialog box
to display the features
attributes and correct any
errors.

Validate Features checks for the different types of errors sequentially, so if a feature has errors of more than one type
it will generate a message if you run it again. For example, if a feature has an invalid subtype and an invalid domain
value, it will generate an error when the invalid subtype is encountered. If you x the error and re-run Validate Features,

a message will be generated when the invalid domain value is encountered.

Validating relationship classes and network connectivity

Validate Features will check to make sure any relationship class rules youve set up in your geodatabase are not broken.
For example, in an electric network, there may be a relationship class between substations and feeders, with a rule that
a substation cannot have more than two feeders. Validate Features will check to ensure there are no violations of the
rule (a substation has no more than two feeders associated with it). Select the feature or features to validate, then click
Validate Features on the Editor drop-down menu. Validate Features displays a message indicating that all features are
valid, or that it has found a rule that has been broken, and the cause. In this case, the tables or features would have to be
edited to modify the relationships between the features.

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Validate Features can be used to check for

relationship class rules that have been broken.
In an edit session, select the feature to validate
(using the Edit tool on the Editor toolbar). Then
select Validate Features on the Editor dropdown menu. In this example, four feeders are
connected to a substation, when a maximum of
two are allowed.