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I want to create a calculated field that will auto populate whenever a new row is inserted into a feature class. I can do this with the Field Calculator, but that requires manual intervention.

Is there anything like the calculated column in MSSQL where you enter a formula and the result is calculated on a read, but not persisted?

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    Welcome to GIS SE! As a new user please take the tour to learn about our focused Q&A format. What exactly is your question? Please edit your question to include how you've calculated your new field, and a bit more info about what you're trying to do and where you are stuck. What is your feature class stored in - shapefile, file geodatabase, enterprise geodatabase?
    – Midavalo ♦
    May 8, 2017 at 19:52
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    I'm pretty sure the only way to do this is by using an actual database as the backend for your feature class and doing the automatic calculation there.
    – Dan C
    May 8, 2017 at 21:12

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You could look into Attribute Assistant for this as long as you are editing within ArcMap and not though ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Pro. My organisation uses it predominately for grabbing the attributes of a nearby feature and population a field within the one we are editing.

This is the description of Attribute Assistant

"The Attribute Assistant Add-In is an editor extension that uses a series of predefined methods to populate attributes when you create new features or edit existing features in a geodatabase."

Depending on your experience level it could be quite a learning curve but the benefits of it are great. This is a list of all the methods (things it can do). You could probably use the "Expression" method adn set it to the "on create rule".

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