Populating field descriptions

[ShaunLangley]

Does anyone know if it's possible to populate the field descriptions on a hosted feature layer from metadata or otherwise publish it from Pro?

[EthanABroadfoot_CDC]

I have the same question. Following for responses.

[I_AM_ERROR]

Adding on here, is this exposed in the python or REST API? Would love to use this but manual entry is too time consuming.

[LisaBerry · Accepted solution]

Hi all, 

Here is a python3 script that can add alias names, field descriptions, and field value type to the REST service, and also updates the popup decimals and thousands separators in bulk. https://github.com/lisaberrygis/AliasUpdater