topic Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0. in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

BugPie — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:09:47 GMT

Hello! I was asked how to edit the metadata on a geodatabase feature class both created in and trying to edit in Pro 3.0. When I was trying to give a demo on how to do this, I was kind of surprised to see this message displayed in the metadata tab. "This item has metadata in HTML format. It can't be displayed or edited in ArcGIS Pro"

Additionally, when you right click > Edit Metadata this error displays "This document already has a 'DocumentElement' node." We have adjusted the backstage > Options > Metadata Style and that doesn't seem to work either.

I'm striking out in he documentation trying to understand how to change HTML to .....? Anything that will work. All the metadata manage tools in the menu are grayed out. Anyone able to tell me both why this happened and how to fix it so we can edit the metadata?

Officially stumped.

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

kmsmikrud — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 05:58:47 GMT

Hi!,

I am also experiencing the same message when viewing a couple of feature class metadata descriptions.

Did you find a way to remove the HTML?

Thank-you!,

Kathy

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

BugPie — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:01:19 GMT

Unfortunately I did not. We just kind of swept this under the rug until it piles up too much and we trip over it.

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

LouiseWedley1 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:22:12 GMT

Has Esri still not done anything to fix this problem? Any update? I have the same issue!

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

MelissaSalich — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:37:46 GMT

Did anyone find a workaround? I ran into this problem today with Pro 3.1.4

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

CRennyGIS — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:32:53 GMT

This is also happening to me in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.1

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

CarynAshbay — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:29:27 GMT

I’m experiencing the same issue. Has there been any resolution?

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

AdminNCCMA — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:31:54 GMT

Also having this issue, even if I could completely reset the metadata and ad it in again that would work but I can't find a way to achieve that either.

Re: Unable to edit/view HTML metadata in Pro 3.0.

AnninaHirschiWyss — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:12:05 GMT

Same here... I couldn't find a way to modify, overwrite or delete the metadata, even when exporting to another FC the error persists.

Even export to shp didn't solve it.

The only workaround that did the job was to create a new FC, select all the entities from the original ones in edit mode and paste them into the new FC... (probably append would work also?)