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How to prepare an Excel table to write field aliases to a GDB?


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According to https://community.safe.com/s/article/working-with-geodatabase-field-aliases , when reading aliases from a GDB, an additional attribute with fieldname_alias is created, containing the alias. When writing to a GDB, this field is used to write the corresponding field's alias.

 

So I figured formatting an Excel table like below would work, but the fields are written to the GDB normally, and there don't seem to be any options to flag the fields as alias fields.

 

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The attributes with _alias shouldn't be specified on the writer under Attribute Definition, otherwise they will be written.

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The attributes with _alias shouldn't be specified on the writer under Attribute Definition, otherwise they will be written.


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ebygomm wrote:

The attributes with _alias shouldn't be specified on the writer under Attribute Definition, otherwise they will be written.

Great, thanks.


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