Generate Schema Report tool feedback

[JonathanMurphy]

Hey Everyone!

We've added the Generate Schema Report tool to ArcGIS Pro 3.2 and want to hear your feedback about it. I've posted a blog post to add context to the project with a brief history and also a look at where we'd like to take it in the future.

We know X-Ray was a much-used tool and hope this can help with some of the same workflows. Moving forward we'll be addressing a key workflow many of you have asked for: The ability to make schema changes in the Excel output and then reimport to create a new geodatabase with those updates. We're hoping to get this into Pro 3.3.

The Schema Report is available now but it's also a work in progress and we'd very much like to hear from you:

• What do you like and maybe want to see more of?
• What is missing?
• What could be improved?
• What are your workflows?

Here are some links to related content:

• Geodatabase Schema Reports - Blog post
• Generate a schema report in ArcGIS Pro - Short Vid
• What's new with geodatabases in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Blog post
• Generate a schema report - Help topic
• Generate Schema Report (Data Management) - Geoprocessing Tool Help
• What's new in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 - Help topic

I hope you find the tool helpful. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Cheers!
Jonathan

[phess_luckstone]

@JonathanMurphy is it in the roadmap to add the Generate Schema report to the arcgis server / notebook server arcpy modules?

[SSWoodward]

Thanks for the question @phess_luckstone 

Generate Schema Report is currently available in ArcGIS Enterprise version 11.3 and higher. If you are not seeing the tool, check your version, an upgrade may be required. 

[MichaelClement]

One of the features of the Xray tool export is that it would grab the feature class description and put it within the info about the feature class.  It would be nice to have the ability to pull fields from the Metadata for a feature class (Description, Summary ect.) and put it in this export document.

Also is there a way to sort the feature classes by name? Mine seem randomly sorted.