topic Archiving changing domain values in one GDB (suggestions?) in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/archiving-changing-domain-values-in-one-gdb/m-p/234070#M13285 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am working on organizing an annual archive of our datasets (annual feature datasets within one geodatabase...ArcSDE 10.2.x) .&nbsp; I have quite a complex set of domain files that occasionally change.&nbsp; I just finished major update in my master, and still have a separate GDB with the "older" set.&nbsp; Each archived set has the same field names and associated domains.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Before I update the domains in my Archive SDE database, anyone know or have a suggested "easy" way to assign the older domain values to the associated fields instead of keeping them in a domain table?&nbsp; I see a bit a discussion of getting the value to a table (FCtoFC in 10.2.x) but not within a FC.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've thought about changing the name of the archived domains by adding a year designation, but with about 75 potential domains (some broken down but subtype) for each year, this would become an administration nightmare fairly quickly.&nbsp; Since, in theory, the archived data should not change, hard coding the domain informtaion for the archive may not be a bad option, at least for most of the&nbsp; "shorter" field lengths.....assuming this is something I can automate (with python/arcpy).&nbsp; Just looking for suggestions or samples if anyone has come accross this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for any suggestions.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:42:47 GMT RebeccaStrauch__GISP 2014-06-09T21:42:47Z Archiving changing domain values in one GDB (suggestions?) https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/archiving-changing-domain-values-in-one-gdb/m-p/234070#M13285 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am working on organizing an annual archive of our datasets (annual feature datasets within one geodatabase...ArcSDE 10.2.x) .&nbsp; I have quite a complex set of domain files that occasionally change.&nbsp; I just finished major update in my master, and still have a separate GDB with the "older" set.&nbsp; Each archived set has the same field names and associated domains.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Before I update the domains in my Archive SDE database, anyone know or have a suggested "easy" way to assign the older domain values to the associated fields instead of keeping them in a domain table?&nbsp; I see a bit a discussion of getting the value to a table (FCtoFC in 10.2.x) but not within a FC.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've thought about changing the name of the archived domains by adding a year designation, but with about 75 potential domains (some broken down but subtype) for each year, this would become an administration nightmare fairly quickly.&nbsp; Since, in theory, the archived data should not change, hard coding the domain informtaion for the archive may not be a bad option, at least for most of the&nbsp; "shorter" field lengths.....assuming this is something I can automate (with python/arcpy).&nbsp; Just looking for suggestions or samples if anyone has come accross this.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for any suggestions.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:42:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/archiving-changing-domain-values-in-one-gdb/m-p/234070#M13285 RebeccaStrauch__GISP 2014-06-09T21:42:47Z