Latest Contributions by AndrewQuee

@PhallyGNP  to expand on Xander's good answer and the linked documentation, if you want to go down the "sequence as unique ID" route you need to create a database sequence (and will need rights to do so)  in the schema the dataset is in. e.g.  CreateDatabaseSequence(Connection.sde, MyNewSeq_name, {seq_start_id}, {seq_inc_value}) where optionally start_id is the start number and inc_value is the increment.  If you have no existing values you want to use, these can be omitted.  In my work we are often importing/migrating existing incrementing IDs/sequences, so we absolutely do not want to overrun sequences and reuse IDs. Pair this with a calculation rule as Xander mentioned.  Here's a simple example to get you started: Note!  In this case Exclude from Application evaluation must be enabled  for reasons which I hope are obvious.  This case is for a persistent ID that does not change through the life of the feature.  If you wanted a unique ID for every change, tick trigger on Update as well.   Finally it's also worth mentioning (reviewing your original question) that Pro supports Add GlobalID which is a unique ID generator completely managed by the system.  You don't have to do anything with it and it requires no rules or Arcade. It Just Works if uniquely identifying features is what you're looking for, don't need to match/customise existing sequences and don't care what the ID is or looks like.  (It'll be a UUID which is like  a Windows GUID and look a lot like "0fa8df96-4742-11ec-81d3-0242ac130003") ... View more

@PhallyGnean if you're using it, Data Reviewer offers this as a Unique Field Value check without needing customising. As @XanderBakker said, you can also write your own validation or use a sequence.  Their advice is pretty much what we're implementing for data integrity/validation. ... View more

Good suggestion, I was going to recommend you take it to http://ideas.arcgis.com/  Over here though they say that GP FC to FC actually strips attribute rules, which seems to be want you want.  I just used it to copy a FC from one enterprise GDB to another, and confirm attribute rules were not copied.  I don't see any switch in there I might have toggled but it seems to do the job you're asking.  ... View more

Thanks for that link to the manual - as far as I know this is the only reference to it.  It would be good if it was available from the tool ribbon. PerfTools for Desktop had a neat function for randomly generating extents for sampling and testing from a feature class.  Does this add-in support that feature? ... View more

I have to admit that I had second, third and even fourth thoughts about making suggestions to the legendary @DanPatterson but I thought "well, there might be just the tiniest chance they may not know one of those things (I'm still find ing new features in Pro all the time) and this content may help someone who doesn't know."  The phrase "teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs" comes to mind. :) I agree the way the favourite tools work isn't great - you will get more and more tools on there until you end up with almost a copy of the toolboxes.  I'm not sure why Esri got rid of the ability to build your own custom toolboxes of standard tools, that was actually pretty neat.  Something something feature equivalency, Esri? :p As another option, you can create your own toolbars with groups of favourite tools, but this doesn't seem much better than saving them into the GP pane.  I also can't find a way of turning the groups on and off.  I guess you could have one tab per GP toolset but that would lead to tabspam and I don't think that's really what you're looking for. "You do not have permission to upload images" - really, Esri?  Uploaded as video instead. ... View more

In Desktop you have always been able to make your own toolboxes and customise them to suit your needs, so you might have one toolbox for spatial geoprocessing, another for statistical analysis, etc. https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/analyze/managing-tools-and-toolboxes/adding-tools.htm#GUID-CA99C4ED-DB43-4038-8C2E-2099F173F3F0 In Pro, although you can still make new toolboxes, it looks like Esri has deprecated that functionality and they now cannot contain copies of built-in tools, only ones you make yourself (unless you copied the python source and duped them).  The new system appears to be either favouriting a GP tool, or adding it to the analysis banner pane.  You can also add tools directly to the access bar, but none of these appear to be project-based so eventually you will end up with dozens of tools pinned, which may not be what you're looking for. There's a third option I've seen done quite a bit in Esri demos and I use myself: Search tools history or toolbox.  Just like Windows Start search, throw the first couple of letters in there, then pick the result you want which will be in the top few returned.  In practise I actually find this far faster than bobbling through toolbox names as it learns what I use most frequently. ... View more

I don't want to be negative but Esri has form with wiping out all community content/resources every few years, leading to massive frustration as years of work/solutions/highlighted problems are irrevocably lost and we have to start again fro scratch.  Also sometimes legacy resrouces need to be revisited.  I know of projects still using VB6/VBA under ArcGIS 9... I look forwards to being pleasantly surpised this time, but we shall see. ... View more