Changing Field Names for required Indoors Fields

[GISMaryWagner]

Our organization has been working on integrating the Indoors into our asset management software and for other internal business uses.  Currently all our floorplans live in our GIS and we're looking to try and recycle field names where we can.  Some field names are used in the assessment software and we're hoping for as little disruption as possible. 
anyways my question: are the field names the indoors model has built in required?  So for example - Could FACILITY_ID be called BUILDING_ID  as long as its consistent with the other indoors feature classes?  

I'm not finding any documentation that explicitly states that the FIELD NAMES must remain as they are to work with the indoors functionality.  I have a feeling this is the case, but just thought I would verify before making a decision.

Thanks!

Mary

[SophieFrank · Accepted solution]

Hi @GISMaryWagner -- Some functionality in Indoors tools in ArcGIS Pro as well as the Indoors apps requires the schema created by the Create Indoor Dataset / Create Indoors Database tool so I'd recommend not changing the field names. That said, if you want different terminology for display purposes, you could change the field alias but leave the field name as is. 

[LeviCecil]

Does this also apply to the Indoors dataset itself? Do the sub layers have to be called Units, Levels, etc, or can we change the names of those?