An overview of the Templates toolset

The Templates toolset contains tools for creating attribute rules with predefined ArcGIS Arcade templates. An understanding of Arcade is not required to create an attribute rule. The Arcade logic can be modified after rule creation.

Learn more about working with attribute rules

Tool	Description
Calculate Geometry Fields Attribute Rule	Generates an attribute rule that calculates a feature's geometry information and writes it to a given field. Geometry attributes represent the spatial or geometric characteristics and location of each feature, such as length or area and x-, y-, z-coordinates, and m-values.
Generate ID Attribute Rule	Creates an attribute rule that generates a unique value for a field from a query.
Generate Spatial Join Attribute Rule	Generates a .csv file with an attribute rule for an input based on field values queried from one or more feature classes.
Generate Symbol Rotation Attribute Rule	Generates an attribute rule specific to symbol rotation logic. The tool outputs a .csv file containing an ArcGIS Arcade attribute rule based on the inputs provided.
Generate Update Related Attribute Rule	Generates an attribute rule that updates related records in other classes when updates are made to an input table. This can be based on one or more of the following: utility network associations, relationship classes, match fields, and spatial relationships.

Related topics

• An overview of the Attribute Rules toolset

• Attribute rule fundamentals

• Create and manage attribute rules

• Evaluate attribute rules