How to plan when two or more events have the same location
Here’s the problem
You need to create an event
preplan in an area that already has one or
more existing events and you can't tell what
features belong to new event versus the
existing one(s) when editing. You
want to hide everything except my
new event - but don't want to delete
them.
Here's the solution
This workflow
consists of using the Coincident edit
mode and associated Coincident
Event
Planning layer for adding and
editing the new event in isolation. Only
events set
to the Coincident edit mode will
show in the Coincident Event
Planning layer - all other events are
essentially filtered out. For GIS
minded users - Both event editing are
layers connected to
the same table: Special
Event Planning and Coincident Event
Planning. So, if you
hit delete, it’s gone from both
layers.
Details
The Special Event
Planning workflow stays largely
the same - but now using Coincident
edit mode and
associated Coincident Event
Planning layer.
Here are the differences and steps
- After adding the new Special Event point and creating the Event Name,
change the edit mode
to Coincident, and Save
- Once the Special Event Point is
saved, turn off the Special Event
Planning layer and ensure that the Coincident Event Planning layer is
the only one that is turned on. This
will
make all features in Normal EditMode "disappear" from the
screen and you now can only edit features
in Coincident EditMode.
- Use the Coincident Event
Planning layer to build
out the plan - adding additional
points, lines, areas and
labels.
- Once you are finished editing, you can
either
leave the mode as Coincident or Normal; the regular editing
service will display both events but they
will populate in the display services
as usual. The only reason you would
need to change the EditMode back to Normal is if you needed to edit a
different Event in the same
location.

Note: This field controls
what layer you see data in. There are
two options: Normal and Coincident. No matter
the value (Normal or Coincident), all events will show up in the Special
Event Planning layer. The other layer – Coincident Event Planning – will only
display
those incidents in the Coincident edit
mode. This field ONLY needs to be
updated on the Event Point, a backend
process will update this value for all
features tied to the main event by Event
Name.
