https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/setting-index-of-an-attribute/m-p/1236837#M9135 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/628386">@Meroni</a>,&nbsp;</P><P>You cannot modify the order of table attributes at the database level, but you can change them at the LAYERS level at any time.</P><P>To modify the attributes' order at the database level, we recommend to clone and reorder the original attributes into a new table as&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="csharp">private static void CloneAndReorderFields(Geodatabase geodatabase, TableDefinition oldTableDefinition) { SchemaBuilder schemaBuilder = new SchemaBuilder(geodatabase); // Old table description TableDescription oldTableDescription = new TableDescription(oldTableDefinition); // Old table's field descriptions List&lt;FieldDescription&gt; oldTableFieldDescriptions = new List&lt;FieldDescription&gt;(oldTableDescription.FieldDescriptions); // Reordered field descriptions List&lt;FieldDescription&gt; reorderedFieldDescriptions = new List&lt;FieldDescription&gt;() { // Change the order of attribute fields from index 2, 1, 0 (old) to 0, 1, 2 in the new table oldTableFieldDescriptions[2], oldTableFieldDescriptions[1], oldTableFieldDescriptions[0] }; // Creating a new reordered table TableDescription reorderdTableDescription = new TableDescription($"{oldTableDefinition.GetName()}_Reorder", reorderedFieldDescriptions); // Build the new table schemaBuilder.Create(reorderdTableDescription); bool buildStatus= schemaBuilder.Build(); }</LI-CODE> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:02:11 GMT Aashis 2022-12-01T16:02:11Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/setting-index-of-an-attribute/m-p/1236737#M9131 <P>Hi, is it possible to change the order of attributes in a table? If not, how would I go about cloning a table into a new one, but with reordered attributes?</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:35:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/setting-index-of-an-attribute/m-p/1236737#M9131 Meroni 2022-12-01T09:35:42Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/setting-index-of-an-attribute/m-p/1236837#M9135 <P>Hi <a href="https://community.esri.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/628386">@Meroni</a>,&nbsp;</P><P>You cannot modify the order of table attributes at the database level, but you can change them at the LAYERS level at any time.</P><P>To modify the attributes' order at the database level, we recommend to clone and reorder the original attributes into a new table as&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="csharp">private static void CloneAndReorderFields(Geodatabase geodatabase, TableDefinition oldTableDefinition) { SchemaBuilder schemaBuilder = new SchemaBuilder(geodatabase); // Old table description TableDescription oldTableDescription = new TableDescription(oldTableDefinition); // Old table's field descriptions List&lt;FieldDescription&gt; oldTableFieldDescriptions = new List&lt;FieldDescription&gt;(oldTableDescription.FieldDescriptions); // Reordered field descriptions List&lt;FieldDescription&gt; reorderedFieldDescriptions = new List&lt;FieldDescription&gt;() { // Change the order of attribute fields from index 2, 1, 0 (old) to 0, 1, 2 in the new table oldTableFieldDescriptions[2], oldTableFieldDescriptions[1], oldTableFieldDescriptions[0] }; // Creating a new reordered table TableDescription reorderdTableDescription = new TableDescription($"{oldTableDefinition.GetName()}_Reorder", reorderedFieldDescriptions); // Build the new table schemaBuilder.Create(reorderdTableDescription); bool buildStatus= schemaBuilder.Build(); }</LI-CODE> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:02:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-sdk-questions/setting-index-of-an-attribute/m-p/1236837#M9135 Aashis 2022-12-01T16:02:11Z