I spent couple of hours creating report from scratch using report wizard adding only certain fields of feature class that I would like to see on that report. I save and close report.
A few weeks later I realized that I needed an additional field added to the existing report.
I was only able to achieve this by re-creating report from scratch and adding the missing field at the beginning. This can be really time consuming.
Is there a way to add new field to existing report?
Give 'loading a report' a shot Loading a report—Help | ArcGIS Desktop because it says...
Loading a report allows you to make changes to the existing design of a report. This makes it easy to add additional fields, footnotes, or images to a report without having to create a report from the wizard each time you want to make a modification
I think the only way to Add field is creating a new report, however Dan link says add additional fields .
This fields is for layout and not attribute fields.
Agreed, the report designer doesn't let you add brand-new fields to the report - ones that weren't originally chosen to be available during setup with the report wizard.
As a workaround, I was able to open up the ".rlf" and add additional available fields by imitating the syntax for existing fields under the headings <SourceFields> and <ReportFields>:
<SourceFields> <Field Name="OBJECTID" SafeName="OBJECTID" Type="6" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="GlobalID" SafeName="GlobalID" Type="10" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="Street_Number" SafeName="Street_Number" Type="4" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="Street_Name" SafeName="Street_Name" Type="4" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="SORT" SafeName="SORT" Type="0" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="MAP" SafeName="MAP" Type="4" SortAsc="True" /> <Field Name="PHOTO" SafeName="PHOTO" Type="4" SortAsc="True" /> </SourceFields> <ReportFields> <Field Name="Street_Name" /> <Field Name="Street_Number" /> <Field Name="SORT" /> <Field Name="MAP" /> <Field Name="PHOTO" /> </ReportFields>
I'm using ArcGIS 10.0 if that matters and no Dan, the link you suggested does not help. Because once you load existing report I can't find the way how to add new field. May be ArcGIS 10 does not support that functionality
Perhaps, the help is for 10.5.. other versions can be accessed on the main help page, but I am not sure if 10.0 is even listed anymore