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Geodatabase Table properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for geodatabase tables. The Editor Tracking, Table, and Dataset property groups are also supported.

For a geodatabase table, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "Table".

Properties

Property Explanation Data Type

aliasName

(Read only)

The alias name for the table.

String

defaultSubtypeCode

(Read only)

The default subtype code.

String

extensionProperties

(Read only)

The properties for the class extension.

Object

globalIDFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the GlobalID field.

String

hasGlobalID

(Read only)

Indicates whether the table has a GlobalID field.

Boolean

modelName

(Read only)

The model name for the table.

String

rasterFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the raster field.

String

relationshipClassNames

(Read only)

The names of the relationship classes that this table participates in.

String

subtypeFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the subtype field.

String

versionedView

(Read only)

The name of a versioned view for a versioned feature class.

String

Code sample

Geodatabase table properties example

The following stand-alone script displays some properties of a geodatabase table:

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the GDB table.
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/chesapeake.gdb/munich")

# Print GDB Table properties
print("%-22s %s" % ("AliasName:", desc.aliasName))
print("%-22s %s" % ("DefaultSubtypeCode:", desc.defaultSubtypeCode))
print("%-22s %s" % ("GlobalIDFieldName:", desc.globalIDFieldName))
print("%-22s %s" % ("ModelName:", desc.modelName))
print("%-22s %s" % ("RasterFieldName:", desc.rasterFieldName))
print("%-22s %s" % ("RelationshipClassNames:", desc.relationshipClassNames))