topic Can Arcade be used to UPDATE a feature's geometry? in Developers Questions

Can Arcade be used to UPDATE a feature's geometry?

ToddTurner — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:09:21 GMT

I observe that Arcade can be used to READ a feature geometry. It can be used to CREATE a feature geometry. But, is there a way to UPDATE a feature geometry? Can I alter a point's X and Y values through Arcade?

Re: Can Arcade be used to UPDATE a feature's geometry?

DanPatterson — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:15:34 GMT

Updates to geometry in any environment are done in an edit session

Re: Can Arcade be used to UPDATE a feature's geometry?

DavidBlanchard — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:08:59 GMT

No, Arcade cannot be used to modify geometry in a dataset.

The only Arcade profile which allows edits is Field Calculate. However, modifying the SHAPE field will only result in data corruption.

You should instead look into Python and specifically ArcPy as this scripting language has powerful geometry editing capabilities.

Re: Can Arcade be used to UPDATE a feature's geometry?

Jake_S — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:52:20 GMT

May be late to the party here but this functionality exists. Here is some documentation for you.