topic Re: Turn off the visibility of fields in all layers in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/turn-off-the-visibility-of-fields-in-all-layers/m-p/661369#M51377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The only way that I can think to do this would be to author each layer with all the fields turned off, save that to a layer file and then use arcpy.mapping UpdateLayer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm not sure about use use case but if you had 2 layer files for each layer, you could automate the turning on and turn off field visibililty.&nbsp; If this is a one time only thing, then automating this with updatelayer doesn't make sense.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:37:36 GMT JeffBarrette 2011-11-10T14:37:36Z Turn off the visibility of fields in all layers https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/turn-off-the-visibility-of-fields-in-all-layers/m-p/661368#M51376 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to write something that will turn off the visibility of all my fields in all my layers in my current mxd. Can anyone help?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:35:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/turn-off-the-visibility-of-fields-in-all-layers/m-p/661368#M51376 MDTMontana 2011-11-09T17:35:55Z Re: Turn off the visibility of fields in all layers https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/turn-off-the-visibility-of-fields-in-all-layers/m-p/661369#M51377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The only way that I can think to do this would be to author each layer with all the fields turned off, save that to a layer file and then use arcpy.mapping UpdateLayer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm not sure about use use case but if you had 2 layer files for each layer, you could automate the turning on and turn off field visibililty.&nbsp; If this is a one time only thing, then automating this with updatelayer doesn't make sense.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:37:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/turn-off-the-visibility-of-fields-in-all-layers/m-p/661369#M51377 JeffBarrette 2011-11-10T14:37:36Z