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Tested workflows

To ensure workflows are useful for system design purposes, they need to represent real user experiences and the actual steps users take when interacting with the system. These workflows represent some of the foundational activities required to maintain and access parcel and cadastral data. The workflow content was defined by working with experienced staff and Esri customers to identify the specific steps, sequencing, and types of activities involved in each workflow.

Developing workflows as detailed, stand-alone sets of steps allows them to be repeated, iterated on, or adjusted to improve performance or user experience. Once each workflow is clearly defined, it is used consistently throughout the remainder of testing to establish the performance baseline and conduct load tests.

We worked with real customers and Esri experts to define these workflows to make sure they portrayed parcel information management tasks realistically. However, your organization’s workflows may have different or additional steps, like running a Least Squares Analysis.

If your organization does not have clearly documented, standard workflows with individual steps defined, consider using these workflows as a starting point that can be adjusted based on your needs. To learn more about documenting your systems’ workflows, see the blog post describing how to Unlock your ArcGIS system’s ROI through workflow-centered design.

This implementation of the Land Information Management System’s reference architecture was load tested for the following eight (8) workflows:

These workflows support both editor and general-user personas.

Editor workflows

Editors maintain the geometry and attributes of the land parcels. Editors may range in expertise and overall comfort with technology, so having the steps documented can have a positive impact on their work. These workflows represent the work done to maintain parcel information.

Merge parcels

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to combine two or more parcels into one.

  1. Open Project
  2. Locate tax name
  3. Zoom to selection
  4. Create and change version
  5. Create record
  6. Merge parcels
  7. Toggle historic
  8. Save
  9. Reconcile
  10. Post
  11. Change version to default

Split parcel

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to split a parcel using metes-and-bounds descriptions.

  1. Open Project
  2. Locate Tax Name
  3. Zoom to selection
  4. Create and change version
  5. Create Record
  6. Traverse edit
  7. Create seeds
  8. Build extent
  9. Consistency check
  10. Align Parcel
  11. Clip Parcel
  12. Update attributes
  13. Validate topology
  14. Error inspector
  15. Save edits
  16. Reconcile
  17. Post
  18. Change version to default

Adjust boundary

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to adjust adjacent parcel boundaries.

  1. Open Project
  2. Locate tax name
  3. Zoom to selection
  4. Create and change version
  5. Create record
  6. Copy lines to record
  7. Copy parallel
  8. Delete old line
  9. Validate topology
  10. Save
  11. Reconcile
  12. Post
  13. Change version to default

Import subdivision

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to import subdivision layout into the existing fabric.

  1. Open Project
  2. Create and change version
  3. Locate
  4. Zoom to parcel
  5. Create record
  6. Import subs
  7. Copy lines to
  8. Build active
  9. Consistency check
  10. Align parcels
  11. Clip
  12. Sequential numbering
  13. Highlight
  14. Validate topology
  15. Save
  16. Reconcile
  17. Post
  18. Change version to default

Shrink to seeds

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to reduce complex polygons to their core “seed” points, making it easier to modify the lines that define parcels.

  1. Open Project
  2. Locate
  3. Zoom to parcel
  4. Create and change version
  5. Select parcel
  6. Activate record
  7. Shrink to seeds
  8. Select line
  9. Delete line segment
  10. Create parcel line
  11. Reconstruct from seed
  12. Validate topology
  13. Save
  14. Reconcile
  15. Post
  16. Change version to default

Move parcels

Represents the set of steps an editor persona performs to shift several parcels to better align to a control network or aerial imagery.

  1. Open Project
  2. Manage record
  3. Zoom to record
  4. Create and change version
  5. Select polygons
  6. Move parcels
  7. Build extent
  8. Save
  9. Reconcile
  10. Post
  11. Change version to default

General user workflows

General users are typically considered “viewers” within the system and primarily discover and use content created by others in the organization. These workflows represent activities users perform to access and view parcel information to answer questions and make decisions in their work.

Summarize parcels

These steps represent a use case where an ArcGIS Dashboard is open on a screen and refreshes every 30 seconds.

  1. Sign in to ArcGIS Enterprise
  2. Open dashboard - Keep dashboard running for test duration - Layers are set to refresh every 30 seconds

View parcels

Represents the set of steps a general user persona performs to query parcel information to find lots that match certain criteria.

  1. Sign in to ArcGIS Enterprise
  2. Open web application
  3. Enter tax name in search
  4. Zoom to tax parcel
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