Using the Find Diagrams command

The Find Diagrams command allows you to search diagrams stored in a given schematic dataset that verify one of the following criteria:

• Diagrams containing schematic features associated with a set of geographic features currently selected in the map, or with the schematic features currently selected in the active schematic diagram
• Diagrams where schematic features have been removed/added during their last update

This command is useful in several cases:

• When geographic features' status has changed and you want to identify all the diagrams that contain schematic features associated with those geographic features
• When you want to retrieve all generated schematic diagrams that contain a particular set of schematic features, whether these diagrams are contained in the same schematic dataset or not
• When the updates of your diagrams are batch-processed and you want to get the list of the diagrams where schematic features have been removed/added during update

1. Start ArcMap.
2. If you want to use the command to retrieve all the diagrams containing schematic features associated with some other features, you first need to select those features by doing one of the following:
   • To search for diagrams containing schematic features associated with a particular set of geographic features
     1. Add the geographic features in your map.
     2. Select the desired geographic features.
   • To search for diagrams containing schematic features associated with schematic features in another diagram—that is, associated with the same geographic features as another diagram's schematic features
     1. Open this diagram.
     2. Set the diagram as the active diagram.
     3. Select the desired schematic features.
3. Click the Schematic drop-down arrow on the Schematic toolbar and point to Find Diagrams.

   The Find Diagrams dialog box opens:

   

4. Choose the schematic dataset in which you want to execute the search from the Schematic Dataset drop-down list. All the schematic datasets stored in the geodatabase or geodatabases from which features are currently displayed in the MXD file are contained in this list.
   • If diagrams are already open, all the schematic datasets related to those open diagrams are also available in this list, and the schematic dataset selected by default is the one related to the active diagram.
   • If no diagrams are open, no schematic dataset is selected by default among those available in the list.

5. If no schematic dataset is selected by default or none of the referenced schematic datasets correspond to the one in which you want to execute the search, click the Browse button at the right . The Select schematic dataset dialog box opens; select and browse to the desired schematic dataset and click Add.
6. The options on this dialog box allow you to choose the type of search you want to process:
   • Choose That contain schematic features associated with the selected features if you want to search for diagrams containing schematic features associated with the currently selected features.
   • Choose That last update has added or removed schematic features option if you want to search for diagrams where schematic features have been removed/added during their last update.
7. Click Find to execute the search in the specified schematic dataset.

   When using the That contain schematic features associated with the selected features option:

   • If the active data frame contains geographic selected features, the search operates from those selected geographic features.
   • If the active data frame doesn't contain selected features, the search works from the schematic features currently selected in the active diagram (whether that active diagram is in the active data frame or in any inactive data frame).
   • If no schematic or geographic features are selected in your document, the search returns no diagrams.

   Note:

   The Find button is unavailable when no schematic dataset is selected in the Schematic Dataset drop-down list.

   When the search operation ends, there are two possible configurations:

   • Case 1: No schematic diagrams are found.

     In this case, a message appears to inform users.

   • Case 2: Schematic Diagrams are found.

     In this case, the detected diagrams are displayed in the Select Schematic Diagram(s) To Open area. This area is organized as a table with three columns:

     • Name column: Shows the name of each detected diagram
     • Schematic Folder column: Shows the schematic folder where each detected diagram is stored
     • Schematic Diagram Template column: Shows the name of the schematic diagram template related to each detected diagram
     The screen shot below shows how the Find Diagrams dialog box appears at the end of the search in case 2.

     

     Tip:

     • Clicking a column heading causes the entire column's content to be sorted in alphanumerical order (or in reverse alphanumeric order).
     • To open one or several detected diagrams, click the desired diagram name from the Select Schematic Diagram(s) To Open area and click OK.
     • Clicking a diagram name in this area causes its entry to be displayed in bold. Clicking the diagram name in the list again causes the diagram to be unselected and its entry to return to its initial state.

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