Model Builder tool with in-line variables won't "add to display"

CherylTrine

Hi all,
I???m creating a tool using model builder but have run into a snag???I can???t get my results to add to the display when running as a tool. 

In model builder it works fine with ???Add to display??? checked, but when I run it as a tool I can???t get my results to add to the display. It seems, perusing the forums, that this is a not uncommon problem, but I haven???t found a solution that works.  

I have made a simplified model that illustrates the problem.

I have a line feature that I want to convert to a polygon and I want the resulting feature class to be named using in-line variable substitution (in my full model I use this variable for other things as well).  So in this example, the only tool used is ???Feature to Polygon??? and a model variable called ???Name???.  I pass the name of the original line feature class as a Parameter and ???Name??? is also a parameter.
In Geoprocessing options, ???Add results of geoprocessing operations to the display??? is checked.
For the results feature, ???Add to display??? is checked and ???Model Parameter??? is checked (although I would prefer it not to be a model parameter, this seems to be required of tools for "add to display")

The resulting file gets named properly but it doesn???t automatically add to the display.  If, instead, I don???t use the model variable ???Name??? and instead make the Output Feature Class a parameter, it will add to the display when finished.  Consequently, it appears that the in-line variable has something to do with the problem.

Any ideas?

Cheryl

Christian_Wells

This behavior is expected when using the "Add To Display" documented here:

If you run the tool by clicking OK, the model will run. The output of the model will not be added to the ArcMap table of contents, even though Add To Display was checked for the output variable. The reason is that when a model is run from its tool dialog box, the Add To Display setting is ignored. To add the output to the display, you must make the output variable a model parameter.

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//002w0000007v000000


However, if you would like to see this functionality added to ModelBuilder, please promote this idea on the ArcGIS Ideas site.

http://shar.es/T4lf6