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Trying to keep attachments after a spatial join

Marie-JoëlleDesgagné

Hi,

I have a layer containing multiple attachment and when I do a spatial join, my attachments disappear. How could I make sure it is kept from my initial layer? I tried to add attachments but it is still not working. I also enabled the attachments to my spatial join layer.

Thank a lot !

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l_al-sabbagh

Try using Add Spatial Join (Data Management) tool instead of using Spatial Join (Analysis) tool. Remember that the first tool offers a temporary join, meaning you'll need to export your feature class to save it in your geodatabase.

Marie-JoëlleDesgagné

Yes, sure, thanks a lot for you help.

This is the original feature class with the attachments: Points_ISA_2020

This is the result of the spatial join (without attachment) : Points_ISA_2020spatialjoin

Then I joined Points_ISA_2020spatialjoin to Points_ISA_2020 and it adds the fields I want and still has the attachments:

But then when I try to make a permanent join, I tried to do a feature class to feature class but no success (I checked the Maintain attachment).

And the result : no attachment!

Here is a screenshot of what my GDB looks like:

Thank you for your time !

DavidPike

Strange, it should export the joined features. Are you able to take some screenshots of the table and also the fieldmap and output from Feature Class to feature Class?

Marie-JoëlleDesgagné

Joining the table to the FC with attachments work, but then when I try to make a copy or feature class to feature class, the joined part of the table won't join.

DavidPike

Possibly a table join between your new FC (without attachments) back to the old FC (with attachments), then make the join permanent with Copy or Feature Class to Feature Class Maintain Attachments (Environment setting)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

then clean-up duplicate fields etc. (or better to do this at the field mapping stage in the table join).

This is just a wild idea but maybe worth a go, as I don't see any issues with it theoretically (though not saying that there's not a better way I'm missing).

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