JTX Overview
Overview of
Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX)
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Key Features
• Workflow Management
• Analysts immediately productive
• Steps (tasklist) ensure no step is missed.
• Streamlined workflow = Time savings
• Version Management
• Handles complex geodatabase tasks behind the scenes by
creating and managing versions
• Job Tracking/Documentation
• Detailed history of job actions is automatically recorded
providing a play-by-play of how the job was completed.
• User provided comments and notes supplement job history
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Key Features
(cont’d)
• Transaction Management
• Supports historical tracking of all feature edits (adds,
modifies, deletes) made in a job version
• Tracks geographic and field-level changes
• Stores (in XML) field and/or geometry changes along with
before/after values
• Occurs when version is posted back to the database
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Key Features
(cont’d)
• Transaction Management (cont’d)
• Custom Tools
– JTX Transaction Inspector
– Load Job Transactions
• Framework/API provided for storing Feature and Field level
metadata with the JTX Transactions
• Can be warehoused for comprehensive history log
• Can be used to apply Transactional Updates
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Transactional Updates
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What is a Job?
• A unit of work to be performed by one
or more people on a set of data.
• Examples:
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Update hydrant at specified coordinates
Create transportation map
Add new features in Area X per updated aerial photography
Your workorder here…
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Anatomy of a Job
• Job Properties
• Unique Identifier, Description, Status, Due Date, Project, Priority
• Job Types
• Specific workflow (steps) for each job type
• Set of Arcmap layers (and symbology) for each job type
• Users
• Who is the job assigned to?
• Individual users
• User groups / queue
• Tracking and Documentation
• History – automatically logged as user works job
• Notes, Comments – supplements job history with user input
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Anatomy of a Job (cont’d)
• Geodatabase Version
• For jobs that require editing
• Keeps job edits separate from other users until data is
explicitly integrated.
• One per job, for life of job
• Area of Interest
• Assigns a geographic area to the job
• One per job, for life of job
• ArcMap Document (mxd)
• Portable (saved in database with job).
• Allows users to save their “session”.
• One per job, for life of job
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Framework
• Geodatabase Implementation
• JTX System tables
– Stores configuration values
– Repository for job information
• Integrated with ArcGIS
• Arcmap Extension
– Persists job information (allows for “job aware” MXD)
– Automates setup tasks (load layers, configure GUI)
• Arcmap and ArcCatalog tools
• JTX Application
• Standalone exe
• Main user interface
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Framework (cont’d)
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Business objects expose the full range of functionality necessary
for creating, managing, and working with jobs.
• Built using Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM)
technology and extends ESRI's ArcObjects framework.
• Customize the default JTX Application
– Existing JTX Application and tools are written on top of this
business tier
• Integrate JTX into existing applications
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JTX API
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Framework (cont’d)
• Configuration Manager
• Stand-alone application for managing the JTX system tables
• Configuration exchange
– Copy configuration from one machine to another
• Job utilities
– Deleting job and components
– Reassigning jobs
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JTX Configuration Manager
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JTX Main Application
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JTX Main Application (cont’d)
Job History
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JTX Main Application (cont’d)
Steps/Workflow
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JTX Main Application (cont’d)
Comments
(supplement history)
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JTX Main Application (cont’d)
Notes/Communication
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Defining an Area of Interest
Three Methods
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Defining an Area of Interest (cont’d)
Custom Area
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Defining an Area of Interest (cont’d)
Source Extents
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Defining an Area of Interest (cont’d)
Predefined area/grid
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AOI as management tool
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Editing data with JTX
Repetitive setup tasks automated
JTX Transaction Tools
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View stored transactions (adds, modifies, deletes) for Job
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JTX Transaction Tools
Get edit details and history of a feature
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Who can benefit from JTX?
• Any organization that needs to complete
enterprise GIS tasks while tracking staffing, other
resources, tasks, time schedules, and more.
• Anyone who needs to track and store feature
history (changes to the database).
• Anyone with a need for a workflow management
system that integrates with their GIS and other
business applications.