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Representation Class properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for representation classes. The Dataset property group is also supported.

Describe properties for representation classes can be obtained from either the representations property or the children property of a geodatabase feature class.

For a representation class, the Describe dataType property returns a value of "RepresentationClass".

Properties

Property Explanation Data Type

overrideFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the Override field.

String

requireShapeOverride

(Read only)

Indicates whether a shape override is required for feature representations.

Boolean

ruleIDFieldName

(Read only)

The name of the RuleID field.

String

Code sample

Representation class properties example

The following stand-alone script displays properties for all the representation classes in a feature class:

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/moad.gdb/Water_Bodies")

# Print RepresentationClass properties for each representation
#   in the feature class.
for child in desc.representations:
    if child.datasetType == "RepresentationClass":
        print(child.name)
        print("\t%-25s %s" % ("Override field name:", child.overrideFieldName))
        print("\t%-25s %s" % ("Shape override required:", child.requireShapeOverride))
        print("\t%-25s %s" % ("RuleID field name:", child.ruleIDFieldName))