Scenario Overview:
Editors are spending multiple hours resolving conflicts during reconciliation.
Key points:
Conflicts are detected by attribute (not by object).
Traditional versioning is used.
Weekly compression and weekly reconcile/post workflows are in place.
Why Reconcile and Post Daily?
Conflicts occur when multiple editors make overlapping edits. The longer versions remain unreconciled, the more conflicts accumulate, leading to time-consuming resolution.
Daily reconciliation and posting minimizes the number of changes between the parent and child versions, reducing the likelihood and volume of conflicts.
(ArcGIS Documentation: Reconcile and Post)
Key Benefits of Daily Reconciliation:
Fewer Changes to Compare: With fewer edits accumulated in each version, conflict detection is faster.
Less Complex Conflicts: Simplifies resolution since changes are smaller and more recent.
Improved Editor Productivity: Editors spend less time resolving conflicts, freeing up time for other tasks.
Alternative Options:
Option A: Detect conflicts by object
While this may reduce conflict granularity, it can lead to overwriting valid edits at the object level, which may not be acceptable in collaborative workflows.
Option B: Compress the geodatabase daily
Compression reduces the state tree and improves performance but does not directly reduce the number of conflicts during reconciliation.
Therefore, implementing daily reconciliation and posting is the most effective way to reduce conflicts and improve editing efficiency.