{"id":1242772,"date":"2021-05-27T03:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1242772"},"modified":"2021-06-09T03:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:53:13","slug":"attribute-rules-and-group-templates","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/data-management\/attribute-rules-and-group-templates","title":{"rendered":"Attribute rules and group templates"},"author":234712,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[43131,302212,27971,760622],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-1242772","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-arcade-expression","tag-attribute-rules","tag-editing","tag-group-template","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Automatically derive attribute values of group template component features from the primary template upon creation, using attribute rules.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Group templates<\/a> are one way to create multiple features in one go by sketching just one feature. They have one primary template and one or more component templates. You can sketch and create a feature for the primary template, and the features for the component templates are created automatically, in accordance with the properties you set for that group template.<\/p>\n

Normally you would then go to the attributes pane and set values to each new feature’s attributes. You can remove this manual step for any attributes that component templates have in common with the primary template using attribute rules<\/a>. You can also use this in cases where you want to derive or calculate the component template\u2019s attribute value from the attributes of the primary template.<\/p>\n

This blog explains how you can achieve that.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Sample use case<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take the example of an Address Data Management project that you can access here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is a group template named Site Address Group Template in the example data that contains the Current Address template with the Point at beginning of line primary builder.<\/p>\n

It also has two other builders:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Driveway Entrance template with the Point at every vertex, except start and end builder<\/li>\n
  2. The Address Point template with the Point at end of line builder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Current Address features contain two fields named Site Address ID and Address Point ID.<\/p>\n

    Upon creation, you want the Driveway Entrance feature\u2019s Site Address ID field to have the same value as that of the Site Address ID field of the Current Address feature. Similarly, you want the Address Point feature\u2019s Address Point ID field value to be the same as the Address Point ID field value of the Current Address feature.<\/p>\n

    See the following example.<\/p>\n