topic Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcPro not letting me save field view

DrewD — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:55:52 GMT

While in field view I turn off/on certain fields, however when I go to save this change it doesn't let me.

Then when I try to exit from the field view tab I see this.

Is there another way to turn off and on field visibility?

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

JakeSkinner — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:16:46 GMT

Hi Drew,

What version of ArcGIS Pro are you using? Also, what type of layer are you working with (i.e. enterprise geodatabase feature class, shapefile, feature service)?

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DrewD — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:20:29 GMT

I'm working with ArcPro 2.0.0, working on a polygon layer within a file gdb

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

JakeSkinner — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:42:23 GMT

Is this reproducible on other feature classes in the same File Geodatabase? In a different File Geodatabase? In a new ArcGIS Pro Project?

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DrewD — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:53:18 GMT

Yes, it happens on every layer in my FGDB (including different geometry types). I have not tried with another FGDB however

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:28:38 GMT

Somewhat strange... but here is the scoop

Toggle the field off.. unchecking Read Only if necessary.

Save your edits otherwise you get the warning

Close the table

Open the table and the field should be hidden.

Otherwise, just right-click on the field name, and 'hide' field. this isn't permanent and the field will reappear when reopened.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DrewD — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:36:35 GMT

Thanks Dan,

The issue for me is that I am unable to save after making any changes, but the popup warning confirms that changes have been made, despite the save button being greyed out

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

JakeSkinner — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:39:27 GMT

I would try another File Geodatabase to see if it's something specific with this geodatabase. Also, 2.0.1 is available for ArcGIS Pro. I would recommend upgrading to that version by clicking Project > About.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:51:47 GMT

Forgot to mention... I was using 2.0.1....

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

MervynLotter — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:06:18 GMT

Drew, do you have any active feature edits that are not saved under the map view?

If there are outstanding unsaved edits under the map view then Pro wont let you make changes to the attribute table under the table view.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DrewD — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:15:38 GMT

Thank you Mervyn, that solved my problem.

My add-in updated the table of attributes but did not save afterwards, preventing me from saving my changes to the tableview.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

TylerSchwartz2 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:30:41 GMT

A pop-up stating that there are unsaved changes pending before the "edit field" interface even comes up would easily solve this problem. Having a button greyed out with no indication as to why is very frustrating and isnt the most intuitive from a UI design perspective.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

HeatherSavage — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:17:14 GMT

If you hover over the save field changes icon, a banner comes up stating that there are unsaved feature edits. You're right though, this is not at all intuitive and took me awhile to figure out.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

jennilight — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:01:06 GMT

Thanks - I had that question too!

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

Douglas_Sauer — Thu, 03 May 2018 18:27:33 GMT

outstanding edits saved > still unable to save new fields added...

check/uncheck visible a fix for me...

yup... a pop-up or something more intuitive/instructional than greyed out would greatly assist UX.

Ridiculous how steep this 'migrate prod env to pro' curve is proving...

hoping the long term efficiency gains are worth the short term pains and inefficiencies

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

MikeKlassen — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 20:04:35 GMT

Running 2.2.2, and have this same issue. It seems like a bug to me - You first have to save the edits before making a field visible or not? Makes me miss the ArcMap fields tab.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

JohnMarino — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:20:56 GMT

In case anyone else discovers this in the future, just to be clear: this pertains to unsaved changes to any layer in ArcGIS Pro, not just the target layer to which you are attempting to change the schema.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DianneYunker1 — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:58:47 GMT

I can't find how to save feature edits

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

KoryKramer — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:09:12 GMT

Hi Dianne,

You've likely made edits to features either in a map or scene. So click on the map tab, and you should see an Edit tab become available on the ribbon. In the edit tab, Save and Discard should be enabled if you have outstanding edits.

Mine are grayed out as I don't have any pending edits.

I hope this helps.

Re: ArcPro not letting me save field view

DanCourcelles — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 01:55:21 GMT

Mine are grayed out too but I apparently still have unsaved feature edits. I checked and I cannot see anything that would be unsaved.

Any other possible issues I am missing?