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Field Aliases and Template from shapefile

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:06:18 GMT

I have a couple of question that I want to discuss about.

1. I'd like to clean up the field aliases especially when I do made the joined tables. These sometimes can cause problems when you need to do many joins later on. I googled it but could not find in depth information..

2. I have an existed shapefile that needed to be clean up and has all the field I need. Is there a way that can I copy the template from that existed shapefile. This is what I am planning to do is copy and paste the newly polygons from the existed shapefile because that shapefile needs a new information that I will be doing some table joined from an excel file. What is the best way to do that ? I recalled there was one that can be done in Geodatabase ?

Re: Field Aliases and Template from shapefile

MitchHolley1 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:10:52 GMT

For 2, if by template you mean schema, there is a way to do this in a geodatabase. See here : Exporting a geodatabase schema to an XML workspace document—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS for Desktop.

Then, you can import the XML document to a database and load data into it.

Re: Field Aliases and Template from shapefile

DEAF_PROBERT_68 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:40:46 GMT

That work however it is best to use Import XML Workspace Document and change it to Schema Only as an export Options and this is what I wanted !