This is the last, and the longest, chapter in this book. It is here where you will feel that you are working with a real project. You almost snap from the feeling of example development into the realistic project requirements. In this chapter, we will introduce the concept of an excavation design. A construction designer can create a new design and add multiple excavations that belong to one design. The Excavation Manager should then calculate the total cost of all excavations. This way the designer can compare multiple designs and their cost, and decide which one should be implemented. There will be reporting, editing, and deleting involved, so stay tuned and get ready for some serious ArcGIS coding.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
Preparing the design table
Creating the design manager button
Opening existing designs
Deleting designs
Generating the excavation design report
Searching for designs