topic Re: How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362327#M2339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't think there is a tool available that does specifically this without creating a new feature class. If I need to accomplish this without creating a new feature class I use python to drop and re-add the fields in the needed order. If its okay to create a new feature class I tend to manipulate a fieldmappings object to specify my needed field order in the newly create feature and then append the previous data into it.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>ArcGIS Idea to add this functionality</STRONG></P><P><STRONG><A href="http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000087wgAAA">http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000087wgAAA</A></STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:20:16 GMT FreddieGibson 2015-07-14T16:20:16Z How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362326#M2338 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone</P><P></P><P>How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:10:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362326#M2338 JoseSanchez 2015-07-14T16:10:32Z Re: How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362327#M2339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't think there is a tool available that does specifically this without creating a new feature class. If I need to accomplish this without creating a new feature class I use python to drop and re-add the fields in the needed order. If its okay to create a new feature class I tend to manipulate a fieldmappings object to specify my needed field order in the newly create feature and then append the previous data into it.</P><P></P><P><STRONG>ArcGIS Idea to add this functionality</STRONG></P><P><STRONG><A href="http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000087wgAAA">http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=0873000000087wgAAA</A></STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:20:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362327#M2339 FreddieGibson 2015-07-14T16:20:16Z Re: How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362328#M2340 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings Jose,</P><P></P><P>A while back I developed a custom script tool which could be used in ModelBuilder to reorder the fields in a shapefile. The tool uses the GDAL/OGR library from OSGeo4W.</P><P></P><P>If you are interested in diving in to custom Python script tools and open source, let me know and I can share my script.</P><P></P><P>Micah</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:06:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362328#M2340 MicahBabinski 2015-07-14T17:06:57Z Re: How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362329#M2341 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Creating a new...or overwriting an old...is the only way to do it with the methods listed above.&nbsp; Should want to incorporate scripting in your model, reordering fields in NumPy arrays&nbsp; is trivial.&nbsp;&nbsp; See NumPyArrayToFeatureClass and FeatureClassToNumPyArray in the help plus others.&nbsp; For an example see <A href="https://community.esri.com/migration-blogpost/54633">Before I forget ... # 3 ... Doing stuff with tabular data in array form</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:34:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362329#M2341 DanPatterson_Retired 2015-07-14T17:34:52Z Re: How to reorder fields in a feature class with model builder https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362330#M2342 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It would be nice if the arrows on the <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">Feature Class to Feature Class</SPAN> tool actually did what they look like they're supposed to do.</P><P></P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" height="419" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/128345_pastedImage_0.png" style="height: 419px; width: 496.354px;" width="496" /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:01:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/how-to-reorder-fields-in-a-feature-class-with/m-p/362330#M2342 JasonBalmut 2015-09-25T17:01:42Z