topic Re: Populating field descriptions in ArcGIS Online Questions

Populating field descriptions

ShaunLangley — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:00:21 GMT

Does anyone know if it's possible to populate the field descriptions on a hosted feature layer from metadata or otherwise publish it from Pro?

Re: Populating field descriptions

EthanABroadfoot_CDC — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:17:31 GMT

I have the same question. Following for responses.

Re: Populating field descriptions

I_AM_ERROR — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 01:28:40 GMT

Adding on here, is this exposed in the python or REST API? Would love to use this but manual entry is too time consuming.

Re: Populating field descriptions

LisaBerry — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:13:35 GMT

Hi all,

Here is a python3 script that can add alias names, field descriptions, and field value type to the REST service, and also updates the popup decimals and thousands separators in bulk. https://github.com/lisaberrygis/AliasUpdater