topic Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP? in ArcGIS CityEngine Questions

Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

LR — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:01:54 GMT

Exporting (Export > Export Selected Shapes) models to shp adds settings from the rules as attributes, while exporting to GDB adds only barebone information (start rule + rule file). Why?

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

RobertBorchert — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:48:07 GMT

What specific tool are you using and method? it should not do that if you do it the right way. I have worked with thousands of shape files and have never seen this.

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

LR — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:22:02 GMT

There's no tool, just the export option under File. As for the GDB export, there's a single checkbox for the object attributes, not much you can do wrong there.

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

RobertBorchert — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:31:55 GMT

OK where are you doing this?

In ArcMap under file there is no Export option. There is a Export Map option.

In ArcCatalog there is no export option under File

Use the Tool Feature Class to Geodatabase (multiple).

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

LR — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:09:57 GMT

This is the CityEngine section, so CityEngine

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

CherylLau — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:27:22 GMT

Exporting to GDB does not export rule attributes. You need to write reports in cga that report the values of the desired rule attributes in order to have this data in the GDB.

Re: Why does exporting to GDB export fewer attributes than exporting to SHP?

LR — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:32:48 GMT

It doesn't, but why? Seems inconsistent. Adding reporting does work but also always adds summary fields which I need to remove again.