Invisible Fields Become Visible After Create New Layer From Selection

Question

I have a point dataset, with many of the fields invisible.

I create a selection on that point dataset, and use selection=>create layer from selected features. That works, but now all the fields which had been invisible now become visible. Why? That doesn't seem logical. I didn't want them to display in the old dataset, and it is unlikely that I want them to display in the new subset.

Not a big deal, but more pointing and clicking. I seem to do much pointing and clicking with arcmap. Too much.

RobertStevens · Answer

Amen to your last two sentences.

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

Robert... I am not an apologist by any stretch of the imagination (just ask some of the esri peeps that have been around since 1998)

I just organize my workflow differently than you

I have not expectations for anything, so I plan accordingly.

It mitigates surprises and disappointments

RobertStevens · Answer

Dan, I have frequently found your posts most useful, and I thank you for them. This is a pretty small potatoes issue, certainly, but I really think you are being an apologist for a second best ESRI design decision. If I have fields invisible in the original dataset, it is more likely that not that I wish them to rmain invisible in some new dataset created from it by the operation described.