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Reading nested domain subtypes from feature service or SDE

  • April 8, 2026
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giulianexus
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Hello,

I found more people who raised the same question, but it was 4 years ago, and I don’t know if it has been resolved and/or how.

I am in the following situation: I need to read subtype domains from an ESRI enterprise geodatabase, and I would like to see the domain descriptions, not just the codes. I’ve tried using the new ‘feature service’ reader (enterprise configuration) and enabled domain resolution and exposing subtype_name, but I didn’t get the expected result.

While reading the documentation, I saw that the .sde reader offers more options in the constraints, including “Resolve Subtypes.” Is it actually possible to obtain subtype descriptions this way?

Am I missing something when using the feature service?

Thanks :)

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ebygomm
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  • April 8, 2026

Did you expose arcgisfeatureservice_subtype_name?

 


giulianexus
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  • April 8, 2026

Hi ​@ebygomm !!Yes,as wroted in the comment.. and still nothing...


jamatsafe
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  • April 14, 2026

Hi ​@giulianexus, both readers have documented support for this. It may be worth checking first whether the _resolved attributes are appearing under Unexposed Attributes?

If you are reading directly from an enterprise geodatabase, you would use the ArcSDE Geodatabase Reader. This reader includes both Resolve Domains and Resolve Subtypes parameters and you can manually expose the format attribute geodb_subtype_name if you need the subtype label itself exposed in the workspace. 

If you are reading the data through an ArcGIS Enterprise feature service, use the Esri ArcGIS Feature Service Reader. That reader includes the Resolve Domains parameter and the documentation notes that coded domains defined within subtypes are supported. The subtype itself can be exposed through the format attributes arcgisfeatureservice_subtype_code and arcgisfeatureservice_subtype_name.

  • Could you confirm your FME build (Help > About FME Form) and Esri ArcGIS Connector package version (FME options > FME Packages)?
  • Could you verify presence of subtype domains within ArcGIS Pro itself and within the feature service layer’s REST metadata?
  • Does the case sensitivity of the subtypeField value in the REST metadata matches the actual field name?
  • Are all domains consistently unresolved or are some domains resolving correctly while others are not?


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