ESRI AttributeAssistant

The AttributeAssistant works in ESRI ArcMap to help keep complex attributes up to date.

I use it in Clatsop County to help the cartographers enter attribute data when they edit taxlot and other layers.

You create a table (non-versioned) in your geodatabase called DynamicValue.
You put rules in it.
When you edit, it executes the rules and updates attribute columns for you automatically.

This is a snapshot of the rules used in Clatsop as of 7/19/2018.

You can have it fire rules under different conditions and you can have it run a snippet of (ready for this?) VB Basic.

You can have it affect individual tables or all (* wildcard).

I created the Auto* rules before I learned that's really built into ESRI geodatabases now.

Where do I get it?

It's a clicky clicky thing. Download and click.

Goto ArcMap->Customize->Addin Manager and look for Attribute Assistant. The version number is there (1/17/2018)

From the download page they don't reveal the version, you have to download it, unzip it, and look at the date on the file.

AA uses a config file that is here: $APPDATA/ArcGISSolutions/ConfigFiles/loaded.aa.config

Someone is still working on it. The latest one came out in Jan 2018. It's in github, see https://github.com/Esri/local-government-desktop-addins but don't expect much documentation there, it's just a drop of the code.