Latest Contributions by JeffDuMez1

With Field Calculator (python parser) you can convert a string field from a format using YYYYMMDD (example 20190522) to a date field (5/22/2019) using this expression: (datetime.datetime.strptime( !OwnershipDate!,'%Y%m%d')).strftime('%m/%d/%Y') My field named OwnershipDate is formatted as a string with values YYYYMMDD, in this example 20190522. My reply is a bit redundant but after reading though many forum posts, everyone had slightly different requirements so the other examples threw me off.  This is for people who want to do what I specifically needed:   To calculate a date field from a string field formatted YYYYMMDD. Hope this adds clarity and helps someone! ... View more

YES!  Great, super idea... I have spent the last several days trying to clean up almost 1 million annotation records and get the symbol IDs all squared away.  This SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED worse than just about anything I've ever tried to accomplish using Esri tools.   Esri DEFINITELY needs to fix up the way they handle annotation, and make the anno feature classes and symbols easier to manage. ... View more