WebEditor is a web based application that facilitates editing spatial data as well as their associated attributes over the web. Edits are made on a temporary copy of a data layer and later posted to the master data source, such as a shapefile or SDE layer.

ArcCatalog creates text columns as NVARCHAR data type and somehow GeoServer doesn’t like NVARCHAR fields. For all future data management tasks using ArcCatalog, ArcSDE 9.2 configuration will need to be tweaked as follows. The following has to be added to the dbtune.sde file: UNICODE_STRING "FALSE" . Then the contents of this file have to be imported into the DBTUNE table using the sdedbtune command. This setting forces ArcSDE to create text columns as VARCHAR data type. For existing GeoDatabases, the easiest method is to copy and paste feature classes to be edited, then delete the old feature classes and rename the copy to have same name as old.