Apply Symbology from Layer to apply the formatting of fields to the Map Layer

[LeandraGordon]

The workflow for altering the number formatting in ARCPro is fiddly and time consuming.

Layer Files (.lyrx) seem to store the number formatting e.g.:
{
"type" : "CIMFieldDescription",
"alias" : "SR",
"fieldName" : "AllData_SR",
"numberFormat" : {
"type" : "CIMNumericFormat",
"alignmentOption" : "esriAlignRight",
"alignmentWidth" : 0,
"roundingOption" : "esriRoundNumberOfDecimals",
"roundingValue" : 2,
"useSeparator" : true
},
but using 'Apply Symbology from Layer' does not update the number format in the target features.

This should be part of the functionality of Apply Symbology from Layer or available.

[KoryKramer]

Related to Change table display for multiple tables quickly - GeoNet, The Esri Community  which is asking for a way to transfer layer properties associated with attribute table display, similar to number formatting.

[LeandraGordon]

Note that if there was an option to do this https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/copy-number-formats-across-multiple-fields-in-fields-... in ArcPy (and as a geoprocessing tool) this would solve the problem as well.

[LeandraGordon]

@KoryKramer - I'm not sure if this question is referring to ArcGIS Desktop rather than ArcGIS Pro, my idea is for Pro.

[KoryKramer]

Thanks @LeandraGordon Yes, all ideas now are for ArcGIS Pro, as that is where desktop development is focused.  While there are a number of ideas that were requested for ArcMap, as new functionality is considered moving forward, ideas will be implemented in ArcGIS Pro.  Hope this helps.