topic Field Aliases in ArcGIS API for Flex Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/field-aliases/m-p/469022#M10781 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a general question.&nbsp; I have an mxd which has many many layers repeated several times for different scales.&nbsp; This is our operational layer service.&nbsp; This is an old mxd that was created years ago, prior to us establishing consistent aliases.&nbsp; The problem is that the old non-aliases are still showing up in the field definitions in the mxd, and therefore showing up in the service.&nbsp; Does anyone have a method of syncing up the aliases?&nbsp; I would really think that esri would come up with a solution for this.&nbsp; Like check when I open the mxd to see if there are new aliases and ask if I would like to update them.&nbsp; Or give me a button in the field tab in the mxd.&nbsp; Or create a python function to do this.&nbsp; I am thinking that a python function may exist, but I don't use python very much, so I thought I would start here.&nbsp; Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:05:12 GMT CaseyBentz 2010-12-09T15:05:12Z Field Aliases https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/field-aliases/m-p/469022#M10781 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a general question.&nbsp; I have an mxd which has many many layers repeated several times for different scales.&nbsp; This is our operational layer service.&nbsp; This is an old mxd that was created years ago, prior to us establishing consistent aliases.&nbsp; The problem is that the old non-aliases are still showing up in the field definitions in the mxd, and therefore showing up in the service.&nbsp; Does anyone have a method of syncing up the aliases?&nbsp; I would really think that esri would come up with a solution for this.&nbsp; Like check when I open the mxd to see if there are new aliases and ask if I would like to update them.&nbsp; Or give me a button in the field tab in the mxd.&nbsp; Or create a python function to do this.&nbsp; I am thinking that a python function may exist, but I don't use python very much, so I thought I would start here.&nbsp; Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:05:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-flex-questions/field-aliases/m-p/469022#M10781 CaseyBentz 2010-12-09T15:05:12Z