Browse features—ArcGIS Pro

Available with ArcGIS Pro Standard and Data Reviewer licenses.

The Browse Features tool allows you to identify errors on existing features. You can use this tool to manually review features selected in your map and commit error results for features that fail visual review. The errors found during visual review are stored in the attribute rule error tables. This tool is available for file geodatabases, mobile geodatabases, and branch versioned feature services in an enterprise geodatabase.

Note:

This tool is different than the Reviewer workspace-based Browse Features tool. This tool uses attribute rule error tables and does not require a Reviewer workspace.

You can use the Browse Features tool to browse through any feature or feature class, even if visual review is not enabled. However, you cannot commit features as errors. Error layers must also be added to your map if you want to commit features as errors.

Caution:

If visual review is disabled for a feature class, all visual review errors created by the Browse Features tool are deleted.

Identify errors on existing features

To use the Browse Features tool to commit error features that fail visual review, complete the following steps:

Ensure that the feature class has global IDs, editor tracking, and visual review enabled.
In the Contents pane, right-click the layer that you want to review and click Add Error Layers.
Error layers are added to the map.
On the Edit tab, click Manage Quality to open the Manage Quality tab.
On the Manage Quality tab, in the Semi-Automated Review group, click Browse Features .
The Browse Features pane appears.
Tip:
If other features are selected in the map, click Refresh to display the new set of selected features.
Select one or more features by clicking Select one or more features or Select by Rectangle and click Refresh .
The features selected in the active map appear in the Browse Features pane.
Click Next Feature or Previous Feature to browse through the set of selected features and evaluate each feature's geometry and attribution.
Tip:
For multipart features, click Next Part or Previous Part to zoom to each of the feature's parts.
To change the selection, click Change the Selection and make a new selection. Click Refresh to update the selected feature list.
Click features while pressing the Ctrl key to select multiple features from the same feature class.
Browse through the selected features and continue with the rest of the steps to commit a selected feature as an error result.
Note:
If you do not select a sketch geometry option, the feature's default geometry is committed as an error.
In the result details section, click the Error Type drop-down arrow and choose the option that best describes the error.
The error type is selected, and the Description text box is automatically populated according to the error type.
Note:
To change the subtype, click Change Subtype to and type the new subtype name in the Description text box.
Optionally, click the Severity drop-down arrow and update the error feature's severity rank.
Click Commit to write the feature as an error result in the error table.
The Commit option is only enabled for a common selection of visual review enabled layers.
Tip:
You can commit more than one feature as an error by selecting multiple items in the selection list or by selecting the layer name with the same error type.
Click Save Edits on the Edit tab and click Yes to save your edit.

Identify errors on existing features using sketch geometry tools

To use the Browse Features tool to commit error features that fail visual review using the sketch geometry tools, complete the following steps.

Note:

Error features that are sketched significantly far from their source feature will be discarded.

Ensure that the feature class has global IDs, editor tracking, and visual review enabled.
In the Contents pane, right-click the layer that you want to review and click Add Error Layers.
Error layers are added to the map.
On the Edit tab, click Manage Quality to open the Manage Quality tab.
On the Manage Quality tab, in the Semi-Automated Review group, click Browse Features .
The Browse Features pane appears.
Select one or more features by clicking Select one or more features or Select by Rectangle and click Refresh. .
The features selected in the active map appear in the Browse Features pane.
Click Next Feature or Previous Feature to browse through the set of selected features and evaluate each feature's geometry and attribution.
Choose one of the following sketch geometry options to create an error feature:
- Point Error —Sketch error point features.
- Line Error —Sketch error polyline features.
- Polygon Error —Sketch error polygon features.
Note:
If multiple features are selected, the sketch geometry icons appear disabled. You cannot sketch an error geometry for multiple features.
In the result details section, click the Error Type drop-down arrow and choose the option that best describes the error.
The error type is selected, and the Description text box is automatically populated according to the error type.
Note:
Errors must have different geometry types and error types to prevent duplicate errors. Duplicate sketch geometries will get discarded.
Optionally, click the Severity drop-down arrow and update the failed feature's severity rank.
Navigate to the location where you want to add your error in the active map and begin sketching.
Note:
Sketched geometries are not stored in the error layers until the error is committed. If a sketch geometry is created, but not committed, and a new sketch is created on that same feature (of the same or different geometry type), the first sketch geometry is discarded.
Note:
Curve geometries are not supported geometry types for sketch geometries.
On the construction toolbar, click Finish to finish sketching the error feature.
Click Commit.
The error is committed and displayed in the Error Inspector pane.
Note:
Commit the sketched geometry for each feature individually or select multiple features from the same feature class to commit errors. Only the selected features are committed.
Click Save Edits on the Edit tab and click Yes to save your edit.