topic Alter Field is not changing the alias name. in Python Questions

Alter Field is not changing the alias name.

MarcusSilva1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:12:37 GMT

Example, Original field/alias - STATUS/STATUS. Want to change to: STATUS/Status. The case diference in the alias name is not "seem" by AlterField, so it won't change the alias name.

Has anyone faced this situation already? Any ideas? I was using arcobjects to perfom this task but with this new resource at 10.2.1 I thought I replace the previous approach.

Thanks in advance,

Marcus Silva

Re: Alter Field is not changing the alias name.

LukeSturtevant — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:23:19 GMT

I'm having the same issue with the field alias not changing case. I think the only way around this is to change the alias name to something different like STATUS/tempName then back to STATUS\Status.

Re: Alter Field is not changing the alias name.

MarcusSilva1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:56:12 GMT

Thanks Luke,

great idea! I'll try it right away.

Regards,

Marcus

Re: Alter Field is not changing the alias name.

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:10:42 GMT

Marcus, remember to mark Luke's response as correct if it works for you. I would have suggested the same type of solution....fieldnames/aliases may be case sensitive in some settings, but when naming/renaming it doesn't seem to ever see a difference.