Transfer ownership of network diagrams

Transferring ownership of network diagrams is changing the owner of stored network diagrams. This may be required in situations such as the following:

• A user leaves the company—In this case, all or part of the stored diagrams he owns must be transferred to one or several other network diagram owners.
• Users are in charge of producing and maintaining network diagrams related to specific geographical zones and the assigned zones change—In this case, all or part of the stored diagrams related to each zone may have to be reassigned to a different owner.

Legacy:

Change Diagrams Owner cannot process utility network datasets created earlier than ArcGIS Pro 2.4, even if they have been upgraded.

Note:

Changing the network diagram owner modifies the Creator field in the diagram feature class. You can access and verify this field value when displaying the network diagram layer properties or through the Find Diagrams pane after displaying the Creator column.

The sections below detail workflows to transfer network diagrams owned by a particular user to another user. They all use the same Change Diagrams Owner geoprocessing tool.

Requirements

The following prerequisites must be met to transfer ownership of network diagrams:

• This operation must be executed from either a utility network or trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase, or a database connection to the utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase. When working with a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase, you can't work from a service.
• For the case of a database connection to a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase, you must connect using the credentials of the database network owner; that is, using the database utility network owner or database trace network owner credentials.
• When working with a database connection to a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase, you must sign in to your ArcGIS Enterprise portal using the credentials of the portal network owner; that is, using the portal utility network owner or portal trace network owner credentials.

Check the utility network created version

When working with a utility network, since transferring ownership of diagrams cannot be processed on utility network datasets created earlier than ArcGIS Pro 2.4—even if they have been upgraded—do the following:

1. Start ArcGIS Pro.
2. When working with a utility network in an enterprise geodatabase, sign in to your ArcGIS Enterprise portal using the credentials of the portal utility network owner.
3. Load your project or create one.
4. If there is a map referencing the network feature service in the project, make this map the active view. If not, add the network service to a new map.
5. Verify the utility network created version:
   1. In the Contents pane, right-click the utility network layer and click Properties.

      The Layer Properties dialog box appears.

   2. Activate the Network Properties tab.
   3. In the General section, ensure that Created with ArcGIS Pro Release is 2.4.
6. In the Contents pane toolset, click List by Data Source . Switch to each version your user owned or worked with, and then reconcile and post each version so all their stored diagrams are the default.
7. Close the map.

Transfer all network diagrams owned by one user to another user

Prerequisite:

Check the prerequisites listed in the Requirements section above.

1. Depending on the geodatabase you want to work with, do one of the following:
   • When working with a utility network or trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase, add the file or mobile geodatabase to the project.
   • When working with a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase, add the database connection file to the project or create one.

     Caution:

     Make sure the utility network or trace network is registered as branch versioned and you are connecting using the credentials of the database network owner—that is, using the database utility network owner or database trace network owner credentials.

2. Open the Geoprocessing pane, click Toolboxes, and expand Network Diagram Tools.
3. Double-click the Change Diagrams Owner tool.

   The Geoprocessing pane loads the Change Diagrams Owner tool.

4. Click the Browse button next to Input Network or Network Diagram Layer. Click Project, click Databases, and select the database connection file you just added to the project. Then, browse to and select the network data element and validate.
5. Click the Target Owner drop-down list and select the network diagram owner to whom you want to transfer all the network diagrams currently owned by the source owner.

   The target owner must already exist as the owner of at least one stored network diagram in the dataset to appear in this list.

6. Click the Source Owner drop-down list and select the current owner of the network diagrams to be transferred.
7. Click Run.

When the process completes, all the diagrams owned by the specified source owner are owned by the specified target owner.

Change ownership of network diagrams listed in the Find Diagrams pane

Prerequisite:

Check the prerequisites listed in the Requirements section above.

1. Depending on the geodatabase you want to work with, do one of the following:
   • When working with a utility network or trace network in a file or mobile geodatabase, add the file or mobile geodatabase to the project.
   • When working with a utility network or trace network in an enterprise geodatabase, add the database connection file to the project or create one.

     Caution:

     Make sure the utility network or trace network is registered as branch versioned and you are connecting using the credentials of the database network owner—that is, using the database utility network owner or database trace network owner credentials.

2. In the Catalog pane, on the Project tab, under Databases, expand the file or mobile geodatabase or the database connection and browse to the network data element. Right-click it, click Add To New, and click Map.
3. On the utility network or trace network tab set, in the Diagram group, click Find.

   The Find Diagrams pane appears.

4. Use the Find Diagrams pane functions to identify the diagrams for which you want to transfer ownership; that is, do one of the following:
   • If the current owner of the diagrams for which you must transfer ownership is in charge of producing and maintaining network diagrams related to a specific geographical zone, you can use the active map to identify all diagrams that cover a given geographical extent or reference particular network features.
   • If the diagrams for which you want to transfer ownership can be easily queried among all the existing diagrams, you can work with the SQL tab to set up SQL expressions to identify these diagrams.
   • You can also combine Find Diagrams settings to refine your network diagram search.
5. When the diagram list in the Find Diagrams pane shows the diagram names for which you want to change ownership, click the diagram item or items you are interested in so they become checked in the list, and then right-click anywhere in the list and click Change Owner in the context menu.

   Note:

   This command is unavailable in the context menu when working with a network service or when the user connected to the portal is not the owner of the related network.

   The Geoprocessing pane appears and loads the Change Diagrams Owner tool.

   The Input Network or Network Diagram Layer and Diagram Names parameters are already set according to the Find Diagrams settings from which the tool was loaded.

6. Click the Target Owner drop-down list and select the new owner to be assigned for all diagrams specified in the Diagram Names list.

   The target owner must already exist as the owner of at least one stored network diagram in the dataset to appear in this list.

7. Ignore the Source Owner parameter, since the tool process will ignore it anyway, and transfer ownership for each specified network diagram, whoever its current owner is.
8. Click Run.

When the process completes, all the specified diagrams are owned by the specified target owner.