Which parameters in FME will enable the display and sorting capability based on the "alias" field in a shapefile?
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Thanks David. I have been able to rename the attributes using the AttributeRenamer transformer in FME but ideally I would like to import the attributes directly from an ESRI shapefile using the alias field (screen shot attached)
+31- Influencer
@kirsten I think the alias option is only available in an ESRI Geodatabase, not in shapefiles.
This tutorial may be of some help: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/22423/working-with-geodatabase-field-aliases.html
+15- Contributor
Alias is also available using shapes. (I often do this, when I'm too lazy to reprocess the data...). Mostly when creating map-books with queries and map-queries for output.
But you can't access it trough a shape reader because afaik it is not information in the shape file but in the mxd.
So as per @cartoscro hint, you'll need to save the data into a geodatabase wich would make it accessible trough the gdb reader.