Available with Location Referencing license.
While ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing is designed to be an authoritative linear referencing system within an organization, event data from other systems may not be able to be moved into the geodatabase and managed by ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing. To keep this external data in sync with the LRS as it changes over time, ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing provides a workflow to keep external systems in alignment with the LRS.
External events
You can configure external events with or without a connection file.
If the external events are stored as tables in an external relational database management system (RDBMS) or as feature classes in an enterprise geodatabase, you can establish a read-only connection to the external system using the Configure External Event With LRS tool. This allows ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing to see the route and measure information for the external event data from the source table or feature. As the routes are edited in the LRS over time and event behaviors are applied to events within the geodatabase, ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing keeps a record of these edits to support pushing the updates out to the external system when it's ready to sync with ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing.
You can also configure external events without linking to a source table or feature layer by using the Configure External Event Behaviors With LRS tool. This creates an external event without any route, event, or measure information. ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing supports pushing the updates from route edits out to this type of external event.
Refer to the Relocate Event operation section below to learn more about syncing the two types of external events using ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing.
Relocate Event operation
The Relocate Event operation is used to initiate the sync process to determine the updates in the LRS that should be shared with the external event system. You can call the Relocate Event operation as frequently as you want to sync the external event configured with the LRS. When the operation is called, the route edits that have occurred within the LRS since the last time the tool ran are gathered by ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing. Comparing these route edits with the route and measure information from the external event, the operation determines which of these events would need to be updated to stay in alignment with the LRS. The Relocate Event operation then provides this updated information to the external event system so it can make the updates to the records.
Note:
The Relocate Event operation does not update the data in the external system. It provides a comprehensive list of event record updates that would need to be made by the external system to keep the event records aligned with the LRS.