idea Permanently rename fields with the field alias in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idi-p/938690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>I would appreciate if there was a geoprocessing tool that will permanently rename the fields in a feature class with the field alias.<BR /> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000brNx --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:20:39 GMT MarkVolz 2011-08-17T20:20:39Z Permanently rename fields with the field alias https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idi-p/938690 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>I would appreciate if there was a geoprocessing tool that will permanently rename the fields in a feature class with the field alias.<BR /> <!-- content transformation source ID: 08730000000brNx --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:20:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idi-p/938690 MarkVolz 2011-08-17T20:20:39Z Re: Permanently rename fields with the field alias https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idc-p/938691#M4900 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>It would be pretty straight-forward to do this through Python with Field Mapping, but the issue would be Field Aliases don't have the same restrictions as field names do such as&nbsp;names with spaces, contain invalid charaters not to mention you can have multiple fields with the same alias name. <!-- content transformation source ID: 00a3000000BLeey --> </BODY></HTML> Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:39:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idc-p/938691#M4900 ChrisFox 2011-08-20T01:39:04Z Re: Permanently rename fields with the field alias - Status changed to: Implemented https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idc-p/1226274#M21918 <P>This can be accomplished using the "Use field alias as name" parameter in Export Features.</P><P><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/export-features.htm#GUID-D4C68514-1D1E-483B-B239-D4208BF0E847" target="_blank">https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/export-features.htm#GUID-D4C68514-1D1E-483B-B239-D4208BF0E847</A></P> Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:44:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/permanently-rename-fields-with-the-field-alias/idc-p/1226274#M21918 DrewFlater 2022-10-27T17:44:17Z