idea 'setnewalias' method for fieldInfo objects in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/setnewalias-method-for-fieldinfo-objects/idi-p/963810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>fieldInfo objects are pretty neat but it seems to me they are missing a pretty important method. Currently, you can get field names, assign new names, set visibility, establish split policy, remove fields and return a list of the visible. I noticed you can't set a new field alias though.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />If you can set a new name using the setnewname() method, you should also be able to set a new alias using a setnewalias() method. I mean, names and alias' go hand-in-hand.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Without this method, the only alternative to do this in python is to iterate through the fields after export and use the AlterFields tool. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000005EbS --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:35:49 GMT JohnDye 2014-08-01T13:35:49Z 'setnewalias' method for fieldInfo objects https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/setnewalias-method-for-fieldinfo-objects/idi-p/963810 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>fieldInfo objects are pretty neat but it seems to me they are missing a pretty important method. Currently, you can get field names, assign new names, set visibility, establish split policy, remove fields and return a list of the visible. I noticed you can't set a new field alias though.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />If you can set a new name using the setnewname() method, you should also be able to set a new alias using a setnewalias() method. I mean, names and alias' go hand-in-hand.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Without this method, the only alternative to do this in python is to iterate through the fields after export and use the AlterFields tool. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000005EbS --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:35:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/setnewalias-method-for-fieldinfo-objects/idi-p/963810 JohnDye 2014-08-01T13:35:49Z Re: 'setnewalias' method for fieldInfo objects - Status changed to: Closed https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/setnewalias-method-for-fieldinfo-objects/idc-p/1333229#M26357 <P>Thank you for your idea! Broadly speaking, the FieldInfo object isn't as heavily used as some other approaches to achieve this goal. We recommend using&nbsp;<SPAN><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/arcpy/functions/alteraliasname.htm" target="_self">arcpy.AlterAliasName</A> on the resulting dataset in order to make the requested change. &nbsp;This is not as elegant as your suggestion, but it should be effective.</SPAN></P> Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:30:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/setnewalias-method-for-fieldinfo-objects/idc-p/1333229#M26357 ShaunWalbridge 2023-09-28T02:30:20Z