idea Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules in Attribute Rules Ideas

Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

ScottLounsbury — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:29:21 GMT

It would be great if there was a simple way (button) to pause all attribute rules so that field calculations or other processes can be done. Right now doing any table calculation is extremely slow when there are attribute rules. I have 24 attribute rules in my address point file and in order to pause them I have to stop each one individually which takes a lot of extra time.

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

SSWoodward — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:28:46 GMT

Thanks for the Idea @ScottLounsbury ,

This work is under consideration already for a future release! I've updated the Idea status to reflect that.

While this is being considered, I wanted to share a quick python example that will allow you to skip disabling rules one by one. This example is a slightly modified version of an example in the disable attribute rules GP tool doc.

It is not as simple as a button, but it will allow you to use the python window to disable all your rules much faster.

import arcpy fc = "C:\\MyProject\\MyDatabase.sde\\pro.USER1.Data" desc = arcpy.Describe(fc).attributeRules for rule in desc: if rule.isEnabled == True: print("Disabling rule: {}".format(rule.name)) arcpy.DisableAttributeRules_management(fc, rule.name)

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules - Status changed to: Under Consideration

SSWoodward — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:28:02 GMT

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

ScottLounsbury — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:16:26 GMT

Glad to hear that this is under consideration. Thank you!

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

ChaimSchwartzIroads — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:27:58 GMT

Good to hear that this is under consideration. A simple functionality that would help here would be the ability to select multiple rules at once.

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

PeterHanna — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:39:30 GMT

@SSWoodward in an environment where there is multiple editors logged in, would the python script disable rules for them and then would you need to enable the edits for when you are finished?

Re: Simple way to quickly pause all attribute rules

ChelseaRozek — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:26:15 GMT

I would also like this functionality from Attribute Assistant to be brought over. A simple on/off button so you can do bulk calculations quickly and without potentially firing off unintentional update triggered rules.