idea Color coding for file names in Data Management Ideas

Color coding for file names

HenryGlick — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:14:13 GMT

As far as I know, ESRI has not released a best practices document on file naming, other than length, no special characters, no spaces, etc.. Until this exists -- and it may never -- it will be difficult to organize disparate data in one geodatabase. As a highly "visual" software, where many users rely less on text than on imagery, I would love to see the ability to color code file names, as is possible on a Mac. Instead of searching though 200 names looking for a file with an obscur name, you know to look for purple.

Re: Color coding for file names

KimOllivier — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:45:29 GMT

I would not be happy with colours unless they are accessible as a descriptive attribute for programming.

My experience with users colour coding cells in Excel has been awful. It is impossible to convert the colours to codes for scripting analysis without very low level coding if at all. I had to go through and add more classification columns and then add a legend to show what they meant.

Re: Color coding for file names - Status changed to: Closed

SSWoodward — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:27:55 GMT

This idea has been closed as a duplicate of the ArcGIS Pro Idea linked below. Don't worry, you can still show your support by commenting and adding kudos to the open idea. Thanks for your contributions!

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/color-coding-for-file-names/idi-p/969600