topic Re: Programmatically activate traditional versioning of a feature class in Python Questions

Programmatically activate traditional versioning of a feature class

MattHowe — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:11:11 GMT

I have a fair number of feature classes in an enterprise geodatabase where I'd like to programmatically walk through each one and register it as versioned (traditional). As we're not using feature datasets, is the only way to do this manually or are there any ways to do it using arcpy for example?

Re: Programmatically activate traditional versioning of a feature class

AlfredBaldenweck — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:02:17 GMT

Yup! Register As Versioned (Data Management)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

The documentation is a little confusing because dataset doesn't always mean "Feature Dataset"; it can also mean feature class or table.

Re: Programmatically activate traditional versioning of a feature class

TonyAlmeida — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:52:58 GMT

Something basic,

mport arcpy # Enterprise geodatabase connection workspace = r"***/***/***/enterprise.gdb" arcpy.env.workspace = workspace # List all feature classes feature_classes = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses() # Loop through each feature class and register as versioned for fc in feature_classes: try: full_path = os.path.join(arcpy.env.workspace, fc) print(f"Registering {fc} as versioned...") arcpy.RegisterAsVersioned_management(full_path, , "NO_EDITS_TO_BASE") except Exception as e: print(f"Failed to register {fc}: {e}")

for editing tracking maybe try, https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/enable-editor-tracking.htm

# Editor tracking configuration created_user = "CREATED_BY" created_date = "CREATED_DATE" edited_user = "LAST_EDITED_BY" edited_date = "LAST_EDITED_DATE" fields = [f.name for f in arcpy.ListFields(full_fc)] tracking_enabled = arcpy.Describe(full_fc).editorTrackingEnabled if not tracking_enabled: arcpy.EnableEditorTracking_management( in_dataset=full_fc, creator_field=created_user, creation_date_field=created_date, last_editor_field=edited_user, last_edit_date_field=edited_date, add_fields="ADD_FIELDS", record_dates_in="UTC" )

Re: Programmatically activate traditional versioning of a feature class

MattHowe — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:32:47 GMT

Thanks @TonyAlmeida . I'm ok with the code, it just wasn't clear as to whether it could be done at the feature class level as the documentation says feature dataset or table view. Thanks again!