idea Allow Fields to be Reordered when Exporting a Layer in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Allow Fields to be Reordered when Exporting a Layer

JohnDye — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 00:06:30 GMT

Deleting a large amount of fields from a Feature Class using the Delete Fields tool takes an excessively long time.

One of the tricks I use to speed this up is to simply turn the field visibility off in the Layer properties and then export the Feature Layer to a new feature class retaining only the visible fields. It's a lot faster (perhaps you guys should alter the Delete Fields tool to just make a feature layer and then export to a new Feature Class?).

In any case, in the Feature Layer properties, you can also reorder fields. However, because Feature Layer's are in-memory, those changes aren't committed to the source dataset. Cool, I get that.

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It would be fantastic if the Feature Layer's field order was honored on export, essentially creating a way to reorder fields in ArcMap by reordering the fields in the Feature Layer properties, then exporting the Feature Layer to a new FC or Shapefile.

Re: Allow Fields to be Reordered when Exporting a Layer - Status changed to: In Product Plan

DrewFlater — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:54:08 GMT

The enhancements described are being incorporated in a redesign of export tool/dialogs in ArcGIS Pro 3.0.

Re: Allow Fields to be Reordered when Exporting a Layer - Status changed to: Implemented

KoryKramer — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:38:12 GMT

This functionality has been added in ArcGIS Pro 3.0. When you have re-ordered fields in a table view, the Export Features or Export Table tools preserve that order in the field map.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/export-features.htm

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/export-table.htm

See to see this and all of the other ideas you can look forward to when you upgrade.

Also be sure to check out the What's New documentation: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/get-started/whats-new-in-arcgis-pro.htm