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Esri / data-assistant

ArcGIS Pro Add-in that assists in emergency management, local government and state government data aggregation workflows.
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Using Alias Names in Data Mapper #198

Open JRosenfeldIntern opened 7 years ago

JRosenfeldIntern commented 7 years ago

Potential enhancement brought up to me by @pLeBlanc93 .

Currently, Data Mapper uses the true field names for mapping, though the xml saves the Alias Names for the fields as well. It doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult technically to give the user the option to choose between the alias name and real name of the fields while they are mapping.

Would this be a worthy enhancement?

Secondly, there are two formats I can think of that could work. One where both fields are changed with one check box or one where you can choose source field and target field individually (see pictures below). Which would be better?

Option 1: image

Option 2: image

pLeBlanc93 commented 7 years ago

Now that I'm thinking about it, alias doesn't have to be unique like field names (though I can't imagine why someone would have duplicate field aliases). Internally the names are still used of course. If someone has 10 fields all aliased as foo.... We can still make it work since it's positional.

ChrisBuscaglia commented 7 years ago

@JRosenfeldIntern @pLeBlanc93 This was something that we had an enhancement for, but can't find the original issue. Definitely worth pursuing.

MikeMillerGIS commented 7 years ago

I like option two, but probably just use option 1 as this is consistent with arcmap/pro. This should convert both source and target.