Warn user when configuring fields via layer list
My idea is for ArcGIS Pro to display a warning message when the user opens Fields view either via a layer in the layer list or via the catalog. The message would say something to the effect that field configurations for a layer and field configurations for a feature class (like in Catalog) are unrelated. Maybe use wording like what is used in documentation on this page: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geodatabases/overview/create-modify-and-delete-fi...
Here is a screenshot of the part I'm referring to:
I have been using Pro for a long time, but I only learned this just today, the hard way. I put a lot of time into configuring aliases and data types (e.g. I specified that a numeric field should be percentage with only one decimal place) for a layer. I need to use this data in a different file geodatabase and aprx (for this project, I have sort of "dev" and "prod" aprx's and file geodatabases). It was only after I had copied the feature class to the new geodatabase and tried to configure symbology in the new map that I discovered that none of my field configurations were there. I did a lot of troubleshooting to try to figure out what happened. I did online research and eventually found the above documentation. So I guess I have to do all that work over again. That's super frustrating. I feel like the part that I shared a screenshot of, above, should be way higher up on that documentation page! It's almost near the bottom. How is anyone going to know about it?
I really wish that field configurations/aliases were not disconnected between a layer and the source feature class. I have no use for this scenario, myself, and I feel honestly sad that if I were to do further tidying-up of fields in a feature class (source data) in the future, the changes would not carry through to a map I'm already using the layer in.
Anyway, if this functionality stays in Pro, it would be EXTREMELY helpful to make it more apparent to users. Thanks for reading.
