Aviation feature-linked annotation

The Create Feature-Linked Annotation tool creates annotation for features for a specific product if it does not already have annotation. During the annotation creation process, this tool also deletes new pieces of annotation that have no label or whose text element is null.

This tool is enabled in ArcMap when you are not in an edit session. A feature-linked annotation layer will only be displayed in the annotation layer list if its source feature class is loaded in the table of contents.

This tool can also be run as a CreateFeatureLinkedAnnotation ArcPyProduction function.

Viewing statistics on the annotation

After the annotation has been created, the Create Feature-Linked Annotation dialog box appears and displays information about the annotation that has been generated or deleted.

Results from the Create Feature-Linked Annotation tool

The fields in the dialog box include the following:

• Annotation Sublayer—The name of the annotation layer and subtype that has been processed. The name of the annotation layer is given as <layer name>.<sublayer name>.
• Features to Annotate—The number of pieces of annotation that have been generated.
• Placed Annotation—The number of pieces of annotation that could be placed on the map.
• Unplaced Annotation—The number of pieces of annotation that could not be placed on the map.
• Deleted Annotation—The number of pieces of annotation that have been deleted from the annotation layer or sublayer.
• Errors—If errors occur during the creation of annotation, this column is populated with one of the following errors.

  Errors and resolutions when annotation is added

  Error	Description	Suggested Action
  Setting MapIds	Error setting MapIds for the newly created annotation features	Delete the annotation with Null MapIds and rerun the Create Feature-Linked Annotation tool.
  Updating Annotation	Error updating annotation	Run the Update Annotation tool.
  Converting Multipart	Error converting the annotation to a Multiple Text Element	Check if the text string is a valid XML.
  Updating Mapscale	Error updating the size of the annotation based on the map scale	Run the Update Annotation tool.
  Running Post Process	Error running Update Background Symbol Color for annotation features	Run the Update Annotation tool.