https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/losing-data-when-exporting-to-feature-layer/m-p/1273948#M67430 <P>Greetings!</P><P>I'm finally migrating to Pro, using 3.1. I'm used to working with enormous datasets in Map that need to be clipped or divided into sub-layers to be manageable. I've tried that a few times in Pro, but some of the times that I do it, I lose some of the data out of the attribute table that I need for my map analysis, or it changes from text to code.</P><P>For instance, I'm working with the Nat'l Hydrography Dataset, so I clipped it to a geo area, and exported the selection to a shapefile. That worked fine. But then I created another selection out of that, and it didn't work. I selected the features I was interested in, created a new layer, and then Exported Features, just like always, and the resulting feature layer lost some of the info out of the attribute table.&nbsp; I'll paste a before and after image of just little snips of the attribute tables.&nbsp; In this instance, the text is replaced with codes. Of course there's no official code table in the metadata for ready translation. I can figure it out, but it's annoying and time-consuming to deal with during mapping and analysis.&nbsp;</P><P>Any advice would be very appreciated!</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66897iC5FA54C439063A52/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" alt="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" /></span></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66898i9101677B1568C19F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" alt="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:00:09 GMT AvaFarouche 2023-03-31T03:00:09Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/losing-data-when-exporting-to-feature-layer/m-p/1273948#M67430 <P>Greetings!</P><P>I'm finally migrating to Pro, using 3.1. I'm used to working with enormous datasets in Map that need to be clipped or divided into sub-layers to be manageable. I've tried that a few times in Pro, but some of the times that I do it, I lose some of the data out of the attribute table that I need for my map analysis, or it changes from text to code.</P><P>For instance, I'm working with the Nat'l Hydrography Dataset, so I clipped it to a geo area, and exported the selection to a shapefile. That worked fine. But then I created another selection out of that, and it didn't work. I selected the features I was interested in, created a new layer, and then Exported Features, just like always, and the resulting feature layer lost some of the info out of the attribute table.&nbsp; I'll paste a before and after image of just little snips of the attribute tables.&nbsp; In this instance, the text is replaced with codes. Of course there's no official code table in the metadata for ready translation. I can figure it out, but it's annoying and time-consuming to deal with during mapping and analysis.&nbsp;</P><P>Any advice would be very appreciated!</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66897iC5FA54C439063A52/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" alt="AvaFarouche_0-1680231262959.png" /></span></P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66898i9101677B1568C19F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" alt="AvaFarouche_1-1680231299197.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 31 Mar 2023 03:00:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/losing-data-when-exporting-to-feature-layer/m-p/1273948#M67430 AvaFarouche 2023-03-31T03:00:09Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/losing-data-when-exporting-to-feature-layer/m-p/1274082#M67451 <P>It looks like you are dealing with a geodatabase coded value domain: <A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geodatabases/overview/an-overview-of-attribute-domains.htm" target="_blank">https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geodatabases/overview/an-overview-of-attribute-domains.htm</A></P><P><EM>The coded value domain includes both the actual value that is stored in the database (for example, 1 for pavement) and a more user-friendly description of what that value actually means.</EM></P><P>Shapefiles do not support coded value domains and export the actual code value in the source field not the substituted description. You can however set a geoprocessing Environment that exports the description text in new fields in the output shapefile.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="BarryNorthey_0-1680271629347.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66930i116E82BE7BC27799/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="BarryNorthey_0-1680271629347.png" alt="BarryNorthey_0-1680271629347.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:15:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/losing-data-when-exporting-to-feature-layer/m-p/1274082#M67451 BarryNorthey 2023-03-31T14:15:46Z