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Improve how file geodatabase aliases can be set

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  • August 9, 2018
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chriswilson
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Right now the process of assigning an alias to a file geodatabase field when writing is a bit laborious:

https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/22423/working-with-geodatabase-field-aliases.html

It would be neat if when providing attribute names without underscores, the File GDB writer could take these and set them as the aliases for those fields as well as doing its usual thing of adding the underscores for the real field names. A 'use aliases' parameter may be needed in the feature type or writer parameters.

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chriswilson
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  • November 22, 2019

I don't normally like to bump my own ideas, but I feel that setting aliases could so easily be added as a default behaviour in the file gdb (and SDE geodatabase) writer. This is particularly pertinent when creating the dataset and would save time in then having to go and replace the aliases later.

 

In slight contrast to my original idea, if attribute names are provided with underscores then the alias could simply be these names without the underscores.


dannymatranga
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Agreed, please implement this!


mgg_beca
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  • November 7, 2023

I would like to see an option to set aliases in either attribute manager, the writer parameters or a dedicated AliasSetter transformer would be great.