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Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

MDB_GIS — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:29:27 GMT

I have a script that exports a feature class from geodatabase A to geodatabase B. Geodatabase A is our primary editing environment and the feature class has multiple attribute rules configured.

Geodatabase B frequently has ArcMap users that access it. No editing occurs on this database at all. It is strictly a view only database. The problem I am having is that exporting the feature class from A to B also brings across the attribute rules. Since ArcMap doesn't support attribute rules this just breaks the layer for those users until I manually go into the attribute rules for geodatabase B and disable them. Is there anyway to configure that export to not include attribute rules?

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

DanPatterson — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:02:22 GMT

Disable Attribute Rules (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

does this work?

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

MDB_GIS — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:24:11 GMT

Unfortunately not. All that does is disable the rule. ArcMap cannot read a feature class if any attribute rule is present, even if it is disabled.

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

avonmoos — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:00:20 GMT

This might not be the best approach but create a script that exports the data to .shp and then imports those into your other gdb.

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

MDB_GIS — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:02:58 GMT

I had tried that but it truncates the field names which can cause issues for the end users maps that are already configured to use the original non-truncated field.

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

JayCary — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:33:32 GMT

How about deleting the attribute rules in the exported feature/object classes (followed by deleting the error layers)?

Delete Attribute Rule (Data Management)

Re: Is there a way to strip out attribute rules when exporting a feature class to a new file geodatabase?

DanPatterson — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:09:58 GMT

field name length is a limitation of shapefiles

Geoprocessing considerations for shapefile output—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Field names cannot be longer than 10 characters.