topic Re: transfer metadata to SDE in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/cc/m-p/175070#M6935 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>CC,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The 'simplest' method is to export your updated PGDB FC metadata to XML (or desired format) and then import each file into the respective FC in SDE.&nbsp; Anything 'easier' will have to be programmed.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If your organization updates metadata often, you may want to consider updating metadata in SDE since that will copy over to your export.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Note that replications will not help your situation:&nbsp; "Metadata for the feature classes and tables you choose to replicate is copied during the replica creation process. However, changes to the metadata are not applied during replica synchronization."</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:04:38 GMT RickMomsen 2011-06-10T03:04:38Z CC https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/cc/m-p/175069#M6934 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is there a way to create metadata offline and transfer it to SDE data?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>We use the EPA Metadata editor to create the metadata in a copy of the SDE database to a personal geodatabase. I'd like to be able to transfer the metadata to the original files in the SDE. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Is this possible?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Or, is there a better simple solution, not involving complicated programming?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CC</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:36:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/cc/m-p/175069#M6934 CCCornett 2011-02-11T19:36:42Z Re: transfer metadata to SDE https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/cc/m-p/175070#M6935 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>CC,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The 'simplest' method is to export your updated PGDB FC metadata to XML (or desired format) and then import each file into the respective FC in SDE.&nbsp; Anything 'easier' will have to be programmed.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If your organization updates metadata often, you may want to consider updating metadata in SDE since that will copy over to your export.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Note that replications will not help your situation:&nbsp; "Metadata for the feature classes and tables you choose to replicate is copied during the replica creation process. However, changes to the metadata are not applied during replica synchronization."</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:04:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/cc/m-p/175070#M6935 RickMomsen 2011-06-10T03:04:38Z