Attribute Rules Blog

My colleague Koya has just published a blog detailing how you can performing snapping with Attribute rules. Wherever you are, web, mobile, Pro, edits you make can be made more accurate, and it is configurable.

Amazing the stuff you can do with attribute rules.  

Give it a read! 

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/utility-network/arcade/snapping-with-attribute-rules 

Alot of customers came to me after the demo I did on the UC 2025 asking for the recording (Which we don't do), so I promised a blog post with code and data instead. 

Hereit is https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/data-management/batch-work-order-generation-wit...

Attribute Rule Authoring and Configuration Tips and Best Practices

FeatureSetByName needs a literal string to determine statically the dependency graph of required classes and tables. Passing a variable will cause a failure, we discuss what this error is, how to fix it and why does FeatureSetByName needs a literal string.

Quickly Disable and Enable attribute rules without altering the rule

TLDR: It is a bug that is fixed exposing incorrectly written scripts. 

On March 8th 2023 Dev Summit Plenary my colleague Anne Fitz and I delivered a talk on the power of Arcade language. I did an attribute rules demo where I showed how you can service water to homes with a single click which creates all laterals, fittings and services to the homes and update the attributes accordingly. 

Many of you requested the script so I'm putting this together this quick post to share it. My colleague Mike Miller is the original author of the base script that I took and extended. The script can be found here along side rich collection of examples in this repo.

https://github.com/Esri/arcade-expressions/blob/master/attribute_rule_calculation/CreateLateralDevSu...

Editing snapping with Attribute rules

This property has caused lots of questioning in the attribute rules community and I thought its about the time I write a post on it.

This blog post has a collection of recommended best practices for Authoring attribute rules