Latest Contributions by AllenDailey1

My idea is to allow users to choose to view all metadata elements, from all supported metadata standards, at once, in ArcGIS Pro.  This means everything that's in the metadata XML, but in a user-friendly GUI in Pro. When you go to Options in Pro and select a metadata standard, it seems like none of the standards will show you all of the existing metadata elements in the Esri metadata.  I know that the Esri metadata includes all elements that would be needed for any of the supported metadata standards, but that each standard is a smaller subset of metadata elements.  This is great.  But it would be extremely helpful to be able to view all of the Esri metadata elements at once, without having to go to Options to switch standards enough times so that you think you've probably come across all the elements somewhere along the line, or without having to deal with the XML. This occurred to me when I had to check and update metadata for many, many feature classes in my organizations enterprise geodatabases.  Some of the metadata was written many years ago by former employees using different metadata standards.  But now we are using Item Description format.  So it was just by chance (I don't remember exactly how I came across this) that I discovered that for some feature classes, very outdated metadata exists in some obscure metadata fields used in FGDC or something.  To find such things, it would make a big difference to be able to view every single metadata element for a feature class, all at once, in one place, in Pro.  This would be the content that's in the XML, but more user-friendly. ... View more

My idea is for ArcGIS Pro to display a warning message when the user opens Fields view either via a layer in the layer list or via the catalog.  The message would say something to the effect that field configurations for a layer and field configurations for a feature class (like in Catalog) are unrelated.  Maybe use wording like what is used in documentation on this page:  https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/geodatabases/overview/create-modify-and-delete-fields.htm Here is a screenshot of the part I'm referring to: I have been using Pro for a long time, but I only learned this just today, the hard way.  I put a lot of time into configuring aliases and data types (e.g. I specified that a numeric field should be percentage with only one decimal place) for a layer.  I need to use this data in a different file geodatabase and aprx (for this project, I have sort of "dev" and "prod" aprx's and file geodatabases).  It was only after I had copied the feature class to the new geodatabase and tried to configure symbology in the new map that I discovered that none of my field configurations were there.  I did a lot of troubleshooting to try to figure out what happened.  I did online research and eventually found the above documentation.  So I guess I have to do all that work over again.  That's super frustrating.  I feel like the part that I shared a screenshot of, above, should be way higher up on that documentation page!  It's almost near the bottom.  How is anyone going to know about it? I really wish that field configurations/aliases were not disconnected between a layer and the source feature class.  I have no use for this scenario, myself, and I feel honestly sad that if I were to do further tidying-up of fields in a feature class (source data) in the future, the changes would not carry through to a map I'm already using the layer in.   Anyway, if this functionality stays in Pro, it would be EXTREMELY helpful to make it more apparent to users.  Thanks for reading.   ... View more