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  • What are geometric networks?
  • A quick tour of geometric networks
  • Essential geometric networks vocabulary
  • Creating and managing geometric networks

    • About creating geometric networks
    • Building a geometric network
    • Creating new feature classes for your geometric network
    • Loading new features into your geometric network
    • Geometric network connectivity rules
    • Adding a new weight to your geometric network
    • About Verify Network tools and commands
    • Identifying geometric network build errors
    • Performance considerations
    • Managing a geometric network

    Editing geometric networks

    • Overview of editing geometric network features
    • Connecting network features
    • Disconnecting network features
    • Editing geometric network features
    • Repairing geometric network connectivity

    Analyzing geometric networks

    • Opening a geometric network
    • Symbolizing geometric network features
    • Adding geometric network features
    • Enabling and disabling features
    • Using the Utility Network Analyst toolbar
    • Flow direction
    • Tracing on geometric networks

    Geometric networks and versioned geodatabases

    • Geometric networks and versioned geodatabases
    • Rules for reconciling with geometric networks
    • Rules for conflict management with geometric networks
    • Guidelines for minimizing conflicts with geometric networks

    Enabling and disabling features

    ArcMap 10.8
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    ArcGIS Desktop is in mature support and will be retired March 1, 2026. There are no plans for future releases of ArcGIS Desktop, and it is recommended that you migrate to ArcGIS Pro. See Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro for more information.

    Available with Standard or Advanced license.

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    While network features can be both created and edited in ArcGIS Desktop Advanced and Desktop Standard, they are read-only in Desktop Basic.

    Any feature in a geometric network can be enabled or disabled. An enabled feature allows flow to pass through it, while a disabled feature does not. Disabling features allows you to treat them as if they were disconnected from the network without actually removing the topological connections that they have to other features in the network. By default, all features in a geometric network are enabled when you create the network.

    To enable or disable a feature, its Enabled attribute must be edited in the Attributes dialog box.

    1. Click the Editor menu on the Editor toolbar and click Start Editing.
    2. Click the Edit tool Edit Tool on the Editor toolbar.
    3. Click the feature that you want to enable or disable.
    4. Click the Attributes button Attributes on the Editor toolbar.
    5. Click in the cell next to the Enabled property.

      A list box opens showing all the valid codes for this attribute (as defined by the coded value attribute domain for the Enabled attribute).

    6. Click True to enable the feature or click False to disable it.
    7. Click the Editor menu on the Editor toolbar and click Stop Editing.
    8. Click Yes to save your changes.
    9. Tip:
      You can also enable or disable a feature by changing the value of its Enabled attribute in the attribute table. Open the attribute table for the feature's feature class, find the feature in the table, and edit the value for this attribute.

      Learn more about working with attribute tables

    Related topics

    • Adding geometric network features
    • Connecting and disconnecting geometric network features
    • About symbolizing geometric network features

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