Hi,
Sometimes when I drag surfacing features up the feature tree, I get this message:
Prior to letting go of the mouse click to drag it, I have the blue arrow
Which I’ve always taken to mean ‘OK to move’
Not the black hazard sign which I’ve taken to mean ‘NOT ok to move’
The two options in the dialogue don't offer me what I want, which is to be able to decide to not move the feature after all if it's going to cause trouble. What you might use 'Cancel' or Ctrl+Z for in other circumstances.
The consequence moving it to the wrong place this can often be this awful cascade of broken and disrupted relations that messes-up the model.
So my question is please: is there a way to not move them higher than is safe to do so, OR a way to undo the damage it causes and prevent the chain-reaction of messed-up relations.
Many thanks!!!
D
Hi Daniel,
This is a very generic dialog that comes up whenever the FeatureManager tree is rebuilding and encounters a new error. A new error in the tree can be triggered by a large number of different operations. So trying try implement a cancel button on the dialog that would undo the last thing that you did generically would be very difficult to do. Users also don't want us to make the reordering so strict that it will prevent all possible downstream errors; it used to be a lot more strict and you'd simply get the black (re-order) in more cases, but it made modeling very inflexible.
If you choose "Continue (Ignore Error)" can you not then hit undo (Ctrl-Z) to get back to the state before you did the re-order?
Thanks,
Jim