Name of the parameters in shapefile change in numbers when uploading in ArcGIS Online Web Scene

Question

Good morning. I have a shapefile which is referred to a building, in this shapefile i joined a table of attributes referred to the overall building, and i have on visualizing the names and the values of them in ArcGIS Pro. When i use Feature class to shapefile to create a folder, which i upload in my Content page in ArcGIS Online, the names of all the parameters, both the ones already existing both the ones deriving from the join change into numbers. Do you have any idea on what should be the motivation? Thanks in advance.

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jcarlson · Answer

In a GDB, it will still be truncated if it's longer than 64 characters, but otherwise, yes.

That's why I suggest moving it to a GDB first. In the Fields view, you should also be able to modify the field names, so that instead of "RVTtoPRO_Overall_ExcelToTable.FDIFC_ID", you could change it to just "FDIFC_ID".

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UmbertoCarenzo · Answer

Thank you for your answer again. I did as you suggested and, as you can see, the field name has the structure RVTtoPRO_Overall_ExceltoTable."name of the Parameter from Revit", so it has not any kind of numbers in the name, as shown in ArcGIS Online.

I'm now trying to publish directly from ArcGIS Pro, fingers crossed i hope it will work!

And for the last point, you are saying that, for example, the name of the field of a certain parameter would be expressed completely and not truncated using that inside of a GDB,correct?

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jcarlson · Answer

The screenshot looks like it's showing aliases. A field name in a shapefile cannot exceed 10 characters, and shouldn't allow spaces, so "Particella catastale" is almost certainly not the field name as it is being stored in the file.

Right-click the layer and go to Design → Fields, then see what the field names are being stored as.

And to that final point: in a GDB, a feature class's field name can go up to 64 characters instead of 10, allowing you a bit more freedom in naming your fields prior to publishing, so that you're not left with confusing abbreviations, as can often happen with SHP fields.