Export symbology over-writes form

[JohnZimmerman]

I exported symbology for 2 shapefiles in ArcGIS 10 to work in ArcPad 10.  Much to my dismay, it over wrote my custom forms.  Is there any way to get it to just export symbology and leave forms alone?

[GarethWalters]

Hi John,

The best way I can think of is to:

• rename your custom form APL


• export the symbology to another APL


• In ArcPad Studio or notepad combine the best bits from both


• Save that a customone.APL somewhere


• then in the data manager, use customone.apl as a template for the layer and it will always have the symbology and form you defined.

To use a template in the data manager, you click the tick box twice on the layers part of the wizard. This will open a dialog that you can select existing APL's

Hope this helps.

[JohnZimmerman]

Thanks Gareth.  I had thought of cutting and pasting text so will do that if necessary.  It seems unnecessarily convoluted however.  There ought to be options on export to export only symbology, symbology plus edit form etc.  There ought to be at least a warning that it is going to over-write an existing edit from/APL.