https://community.esri.com/t5/attribute-rules-ideas/attribute-rules-copy-paste-error-handling/idi-p/924086 <P>I've been using ArcGIS Desktop Attribute Assistant to augment address management for 911 data that I maintain for our county and the local PSAP.&nbsp; I finally devoted some time to porting the rules over to ArcPro's Attribute Rules and have had decent luck recreating most of the tasks.&nbsp; At one point I began using the ability to Copy/Paste rules because I had a lot of similar intersecting feature rules and only needed to make minor tweaks to each in order to get them set up properly.&nbsp; All looked good...green squares next to all rules and was able to save.&nbsp; No worries!&nbsp; However, as I began testing to confirm that the rules were working properly I suddenly found myself unable to complete any edits.&nbsp; Didn't matter if I double-clicked after creating a new feature, or hit F2, or pressed Finish on the edit toolbar...no love.&nbsp; Features were stuck in "sketch" mode.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So I de-activated all rules and started going back through them one by one.&nbsp; When all were de-activated, I could complete an edit again.&nbsp; Then I went back through each rule, turning it on and checking that I still had ability to complete an edit.&nbsp; Eventually I came across an intersect rule created with the Copy/Paste method and noticed that I failed to change the field reference (the copied rule pointed to a different layer than the&nbsp;original one and the new target layer didn't contain the referenced field name).&nbsp; So I updated the field name and all was right again.&nbsp; Chalk that one up to user error.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Problem is that it took a while to sort out what the issue was.&nbsp; My experience with creating Attribute Rules is that they won't save if there's any kind of problem with the rule logic, but Copy/Paste seems to circumvent that.&nbsp; To be honest, I actually like the old Attribute Assistant behavior where broken/bad rules simply don't fire off but if we're going to go with preventing non-working rules in ArcPro as the standard behavior, it would be nice to make sure that Copy/Pasted rules don't slip past rule validation checks.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:12:48 GMT RayWeiser1 2022-10-19T22:12:48Z https://community.esri.com/t5/attribute-rules-ideas/attribute-rules-copy-paste-error-handling/idi-p/924086 <P>I've been using ArcGIS Desktop Attribute Assistant to augment address management for 911 data that I maintain for our county and the local PSAP.&nbsp; I finally devoted some time to porting the rules over to ArcPro's Attribute Rules and have had decent luck recreating most of the tasks.&nbsp; At one point I began using the ability to Copy/Paste rules because I had a lot of similar intersecting feature rules and only needed to make minor tweaks to each in order to get them set up properly.&nbsp; All looked good...green squares next to all rules and was able to save.&nbsp; No worries!&nbsp; However, as I began testing to confirm that the rules were working properly I suddenly found myself unable to complete any edits.&nbsp; Didn't matter if I double-clicked after creating a new feature, or hit F2, or pressed Finish on the edit toolbar...no love.&nbsp; Features were stuck in "sketch" mode.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>So I de-activated all rules and started going back through them one by one.&nbsp; When all were de-activated, I could complete an edit again.&nbsp; Then I went back through each rule, turning it on and checking that I still had ability to complete an edit.&nbsp; Eventually I came across an intersect rule created with the Copy/Paste method and noticed that I failed to change the field reference (the copied rule pointed to a different layer than the&nbsp;original one and the new target layer didn't contain the referenced field name).&nbsp; So I updated the field name and all was right again.&nbsp; Chalk that one up to user error.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Problem is that it took a while to sort out what the issue was.&nbsp; My experience with creating Attribute Rules is that they won't save if there's any kind of problem with the rule logic, but Copy/Paste seems to circumvent that.&nbsp; To be honest, I actually like the old Attribute Assistant behavior where broken/bad rules simply don't fire off but if we're going to go with preventing non-working rules in ArcPro as the standard behavior, it would be nice to make sure that Copy/Pasted rules don't slip past rule validation checks.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:12:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/attribute-rules-ideas/attribute-rules-copy-paste-error-handling/idi-p/924086 RayWeiser1 2022-10-19T22:12:48Z