idea Re-order a Domain in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Re-order a Domain

PeterRussell — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:50:41 GMT

While the new domain tools in 10.1 are a good addition I would like to be able to manually re-order a domain that is not in any alphabetical order such as below.
The Domain Tools from http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geodatabase/details?entryID=D62A883B-1422-2418-8873-5721AB32134D that could be added to previous arcgis versions were great. Something similar to how that would allow you to manually-ish reorder a domain would be a useful tool.
I wasn't able to get that sample to work in 10.1.

Domains

RonFrisbie — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:08:17 GMT

On domains it would be helpfull to be able to reorder your "Coded Values" and also be able to insert new values into your "Coded Values" list.

Re: Domains

DuncanHornby — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:26:39 GMT

This is exists in ArcGIS 10.1 as a tool called Sort Coded Value Domain. Try looking in Help.

Re: Re-order a Domain

MartinaHörauf — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:38:30 GMT

Yes please, integrate manually sorting the values of a domain. Not alphabetically, but manually. When editing in ArcMap, we would like to have the mostly used values on top of the drop down list. The only way to achieve this is to manually sort the domain and put the most important values on top of the list. Thanks a lot!
Martina Hörauf

Re: Domains

AndrewQuee — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:17:56 GMT

I just had to work with this this yesterday. The dialog canot be resized, scroll bars are fiddly, along with all the issues you've listed here. You cannot double-click to fit column width to data, and for extra-long entries, you cannot even drag out past the window, you have to click-drag over and over and over and over... It's a terrible, horrible interface.

..and it gets worse! Not only it is impossible to sort any of the columns, if you edit a subtype, ArGIS slaps it back to the bottom of the list. This means after a number of edits, the list makes no sense at all, and is a mish-mash jumble of items in a random order.

In order to actually sort the domain, you must edit each and every entry, then manually edit them all in order. One. At. A. Time. Pressing. Apply. After. Each. And. Every. Edit.
...and then hope you've got it right, becuase if not... you get to do it all again! Whee! /s

Yes, I did try the ArcTool. It failed, saying the DB was locked, despite me being the only user connected.

Re: Re-order a Domain

MichaelVolz — Thu, 30 May 2019 17:19:03 GMT

My org is using a Domain Sort Add-In tool that had been downloaded many, many years ago which still works in 10.5.1 and hopefully still works in 10.7. The link for the download from the OP does not work (not surprising as it is 7 years old).

Would anyone know if this functionality is already/will be built into ArcMap's successor ArcPro? This is really a core tool for GIS admins so it would be important to make it available to Pro so org's can make a complete migration to Pro.

Re: Re-order a Domain

AndrewQuee — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:26:54 GMT

(Coded value) Domain sorting is supported out of the (tool) box with the Domain Toolset

This doesn't help Peter Russell or anyone else who wants to manually order a domain.

Re: Re-order a Domain

ThomasColson — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 15:57:39 GMT

If you feel like hacking there's this....https://community.esri.com/blogs/HackingArcSDE/2014/12/31/re-order-attribute-domain-values

Re: Re-order a Domain

MichaelVolz — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:44:33 GMT

Are you using this hack in Pro? This hack allows you to place coded value domains in any order you like? This is the use case that I am looking at as my org does not have all coded value domains in alpha-numeric order for business reasons. This would be a needed tool if we migrated our SDE admin tasks to Pro, as the Add-In currently used is only available for ArcMap/ArcCatalog.

Re: Re-order a Domain

AndrewQuee — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 03:05:28 GMT

For a bit of manual 'hacking' it is possible to manually reorder a domain, but it's a real PITA. Hence why this idea is important.

Find the domain
Go through all subtypes in numerical (or preferred) order and rename with '.' at the beginning or ending
Press OK, close window
Open subtypes on domain again to see the new order
Now, start at the beginning and remove the '.' from the item you want to the the very first one (and rename it if needed)
Apply
Do 2nd entry
Apply
Do 3rd entry
Apply
etc etc ad nauseum for the rest of the domain

Each time you rename a subtype, it will be tossed to the end of the table, and this is how it will be presented to LE users.

If you want to rename an entry (e.g. 'South Esk Water' to 'Deprecated') and keep its order, you must use the above procedure to rename that subtype and all subsequent subtypes. Do not ask why, just thank Esri for this 'feature'!

Re: Re-order a Domain

DanielWebb — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:10:58 GMT

It would be a nice feature to manually re-arrange the domain values. But I was able to re-order the domains this way:

Re-name the domains with numbers at the beginning in the order you want them to appear (e.g. 3 domainvalue, 1 domainvalue, 2 domainvalue, etc).
Run the 'Sort Coded Value Domain' tool. This will re-order the domains numerically.
Re-name the domains and remove the numbers.

Hopefully this helps someone. But I'd still like to be able to manually move them, too.

Re: Re-order a Domain

JosephPheil — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:48:43 GMT

Hello,

I usually don't post on forums, but I was struggling with this same issue, and I "believe" I found a very simple solution that is working flawlessly for me so far *knock on wood*. For a Condition Domain it was being ordered High > Low > Moderate, but I wanted it to be High > Moderate > Low.

I tried a lot of the ideas on this thread, but what eventually worked best for me was to: open up the domain in ArcGIS Pro, select the domain that I want to reorder, then change the "Code" column to 1, 2, 3 (the order I want the list to appear), saved it - reopened the domain - and the order was exactly how I wanted it to be. You can make the Description column whatever you want.

Before:

Code: HIGH Description: High

Code: MOD Description: Moderate

Code: LOW Description: Low

After:

Code: 1 Description: High

Code: 2 Description: Moderate

Code: 3 Description: Low

Hopefully the simplistic Code values won't cause any unforeseen issues, but with how simple this was to reorder domains, it will definitely be the method I use unless I run into any issues as a result of this method.

Hope this helps someone!

Allow drag and drop sorting for domains

MarkVolz — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:11:51 GMT

Hello,

It would be useful if we could reorder the domain code entries manually. In the example below I would like to move "OOJ" to the last entry of the coded value domain table.

Thanks!

Re: Re-order a Domain

PaulCote — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 12:05:26 GMT

Hey Gang,

I think I have a solution.

Create a table withthe code and description and a numeric sort field.
Sort the table using the Sort tool.
Create the domain using the Table to Domain tool.

Seems to work in ArcGIS Pro 2.8.

Have fun!

--pbc

Re: Re-order a Domain

GoWest — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:45:29 GMT

Please add manual sorting of a Domain.

Re: Re-order a Domain

Brian_Colson — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:46:18 GMT

Especially when working with something like #utilitynetwork, this would be very useful. I like @DanielWebb solution, but there is no way to do that within geoprocessing scripting within Python. You have to do it within the UI.

A GP tool, that allows you to set the order, so it could be scripted would be very useful.

Domain Sort, Manually

MrRamonG — Mon, 13 May 2024 16:55:33 GMT

It would be very useful if domains could be sorted or ordered manually by dragging the coded values from one location in the list to another.

Re: Re-order a Domain

mthompson — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:36:59 GMT

I agree it would be very helpful for a drag and drop reordering for scenarios where you want almost all of a long list ordered alphabetically, but would like a single value at the top/bottom (list of street names with off-road or N/A at the top).

Re: Re-order a Domain

Laura — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:40:27 GMT

Agree. I have sizes and would like them ordered 2x2 up to 2x23. However it when sorting A-Z it sorts 2x23, 2x23, 2x3 rather than sticking 23 at the end. I need to be able to move the codes manually!

Re: Re-order a Domain

KShak — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:49:59 GMT

Tried updating a domain today in Pro 3.3.2 and yes, there is the option to sort alphabetically but I (and others in this thread) need my "unknown" and "not applicable" domain choices to be at the bottom of the list, not in the middle. It is customary for us to put the default domain at the top of the list and the unknown and NA at the bottom. Sorting alphabetical doesn't help this.

This thread has been going for a long time and this suggestion seems simple and important.

Yes, the table to domain tool will work but it would be MUCH EASIER to drag and drop or use a tool to reorder the domain table that already exists that is partially editable just not fully editable like we are suggesting.

Thank you for considering Esri 😉