https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/possible-to-get-gdb-level-metadata/m-p/1314289#M11553 <P>I'm trying to read some of the geodatabase-level metadata from the GDB using the FGDB API.</P><P>I know how to do this for tables, using, for instance, Table.GetDefinition().</P><P>In particular, I'd like to get the "character set" the GDB is using.&nbsp; I've attached a screen snap from ArcCatalog showing how I can see this in ArcCatalog in the screen snap, the GDB is using "utf8".</P><P>To get to this screen in ArcCatalog:</P><P>Click the GDB, then click the "Description" pane at the top, then the "Edit" pane at the top.</P><P>Then I click on "Details" under "Metadata".</P><P>Is it possible to get this info using the File GDB API?</P><P>thanks!</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="snap.jpg" style="width: 895px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/77018i565766A362559255/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="snap.jpg" alt="snap.jpg" /></span></P> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:02:32 GMT TimStone 2023-08-01T20:02:32Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/possible-to-get-gdb-level-metadata/m-p/1314289#M11553 <P>I'm trying to read some of the geodatabase-level metadata from the GDB using the FGDB API.</P><P>I know how to do this for tables, using, for instance, Table.GetDefinition().</P><P>In particular, I'd like to get the "character set" the GDB is using.&nbsp; I've attached a screen snap from ArcCatalog showing how I can see this in ArcCatalog in the screen snap, the GDB is using "utf8".</P><P>To get to this screen in ArcCatalog:</P><P>Click the GDB, then click the "Description" pane at the top, then the "Edit" pane at the top.</P><P>Then I click on "Details" under "Metadata".</P><P>Is it possible to get this info using the File GDB API?</P><P>thanks!</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="snap.jpg" style="width: 895px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/77018i565766A362559255/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="snap.jpg" alt="snap.jpg" /></span></P> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:02:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/possible-to-get-gdb-level-metadata/m-p/1314289#M11553 TimStone 2023-08-01T20:02:32Z