idea Redefine field in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idi-p/960045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Bring back Redefine capability. &nbsp;Arcinfo used to allow you to create a "redefine" field, which would allow you to treat adjacent characters in multiple fields as a single field, or break up a single field into component fields, without actually creating new fields. &nbsp;For example, if I have two fields called MajorCode and MinorCode, each 4 characters, allow us to create a Redefine field called FullCode consisting of all 8 characters. &nbsp;Without having to add a new field and calculate it.<BR />&nbsp; <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000CxTq --> </BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 May 2015 20:34:54 GMT MiguelGarriga2 2015-05-11T20:34:54Z Redefine field https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idi-p/960045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Bring back Redefine capability. &nbsp;Arcinfo used to allow you to create a "redefine" field, which would allow you to treat adjacent characters in multiple fields as a single field, or break up a single field into component fields, without actually creating new fields. &nbsp;For example, if I have two fields called MajorCode and MinorCode, each 4 characters, allow us to create a Redefine field called FullCode consisting of all 8 characters. &nbsp;Without having to add a new field and calculate it.<BR />&nbsp; <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000CxTq --> </BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 May 2015 20:34:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idi-p/960045 MiguelGarriga2 2015-05-11T20:34:54Z Re: Redefine field https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idc-p/960046#M8226 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>I agree or at least support RDBMS calculated columns since SDE edit sessions currently do not support these field datatypes. <!-- content transformation source ID: 00aE000000C3OSp --> </BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 May 2015 21:15:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idc-p/960046#M8226 RonnieRichards 2015-05-11T21:15:47Z Re: Redefine field https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idc-p/960047#M8227 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>While it may not be an exact answer to the request, Attribute Assistant for ArcMap&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://solutions.arcgis.com/shared/help/attribute-assistant/" title="http://solutions.arcgis.com/shared/help/attribute-assistant/">Attribute Assistant | ArcGIS Solutions</A>&nbsp;allows these types of dynamically triggered field calculations. &nbsp;It does require having a field in the table to populate.</P><P></P><P>Similar functionality will be coming to ArcGIS Pro through the use of Attribute Rules. &nbsp;I don't have links to documentation as this is planned functionality that is not yet released.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Jun 2017 18:57:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/redefine-field/idc-p/960047#M8227 KoryKramer 2017-06-14T18:57:33Z