Traverse / COGO direction field format

[JeffWilcox1]

Hello!

I am using ArcGIS Pro 2.0 to digitize (COGO) some large areas of land. I have set the project's units to DMS and Quadrant Bearings in the Options.

Problem: Although the digitization is working as intended, I noticed that the Direction field in the attributes table gets entered in north azimuth format. I'd like to be able to label the boundary bearings to match the survey map, which is in DMS format.

TLDR: In ArcMap, COGO writes direction field in DMS format; is it possible to have the direction field attribute set to DMS in ArcGIS Pro?

Thanks in advance!

[JeffWilcox1 · Accepted solution]

Update in case this may help others:

COGO Direction Field in the Attribute Table was set to Number format, which appears to be the default when the Enable COGO Data Management tool is run. So after running this tool, but before starting a traverse, be sure to right click the COGO Direction field in the Attribute Table, select "Field" and change this value from Number to Direction. I have noticed that if you are actively editing, stop, save edits, finish traverse and then try to modify the field, it bugs out and doesn't save the change to that Field.

I'll chalk this up to not being terribly familiar with ArcGIS Pro.

It would be great to see the COGO Direction Field attribute mirror the setting under Options > Project > Units > Direction Units.