What Can You Not Do From The Select Data Source Dialog Box

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Data sources can be associated with several components in several Esri Mapping and Charting solutions. In addition to feature layers, data sources tin be defined for Reviewer checks and map series. All of these need a geodatabase that can exist referenced as a information source, which can be a characteristic class in a personal, file, or enterprise geodatabase.

Properties for each item include the following:

Type—The type of item that is using the data source reference
Display Name—The name of the feature course being referenced as it is displayed in the table of contents or the Reviewer check
Version—The database version being referenced
Name—The name of the feature class beingness referenced, which includes the full path if you are using an enterprise geodatabase
Unqualified Name—The proper name of the feature class
Workspace Path—The total path to the current workspace being referenced

In terms of personal and file geodatabases, you can modify the workspace associated with all the items listed in the Prepare Data Source dialog box or just one of them. For example, if you are missing a data source for a layer, you can associate information technology with whatever geodatabase or dataset that contains it, fifty-fifty if it is not the aforementioned as the others.

Commencement ArcMap.
If necessary, load information in the map.
Add the Set Data Source tool by doing the post-obit:
1. On the master card, click Customize > Customize Mode.
  The Customize dialog box appears.
2. Click the Commands tab.
3. In the Categories list, click Product Framework.
4. Click and drag the Set Data Source button to a toolbar.
5. Click Close.
Click the Set Data Source button .

The Set Data Source dialog box appears.
Optionally, click the Sources drop-downward arrow and choose the source blazon for which you want to alter the data source.
Optionally, to view only invalid information sources, check the Bear witness Invalid Information Sources Only check box.
This removes whatever of the valid data sources from the list on the Fix Data Sources dialog box.
Choose an detail in the tabular array.
If you do not want to change the data source for multiple sources, uncheck the Prove "Change Data Source" alarm cheque box.
Only the layer you cull will accept its data source changed.
Click Change Data Source.
The Select Data Source dialog box appears.
Navigate to the feature class you want to acquaintance with the item you lot selected.
Click OK.

The Choose Repair Choice dialog box appears.
Choose an selection for updating the information source.
- To update all the sources that have the same path equally the data source you are updating, cull the Employ to all matching Paths option.
  For case, if y'all take tables and feature classes that are in the same workspace, the paths will be updated for both.
- To update all the sources for all the information sources that match the type you chose on the Sources drop-down listing, cull the Apply to all matching Types option.
  For instance, if y'all choose Tables in the Sources drop-downwards list, only the paths for tables listed on the Fix Data Source dialog box are updated. Feature classes that are too listed would non have their paths inverse.
- To just update the path for the data source you chose in footstep 7, cull the Apply to selected Item simply option.
Click OK.
Click OK to shut the Ready Data Source dialog box.