Join table view to feature class - not working

Question

Hi All,

I have a feature class (Sewer Mains) in my SDE which has a field ASSETID. I have another database (financial management) that I have linked to my SDE by way of a view. So essentially in my SDE I have a table which as far as I can tell acts exactly like a table that resides within the SDE (I could be mistaken!)

This is a screenshot of the fields within my View Table... note AssetID_CQ is the primary key which I would like to join my feature class in order to do further jobs with.

This is a simple model I have just created, in which I would like a new feature class be created based on the AssetID Join... But I am getting an error, I have screen shotted the error also, does anyone know how to fix this? I understand my VIEW does not have an ObjectID, but thats because it is a view, not a table. Is there a way around this error?

Thanks for your time.

ZacharyOrdo1 · Answer

It is also possible, if you have any custom code in your model, that this will fix it...

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JayantaPoddar · Answer

Hi Ben,

Try Using Add Join (Data Management) instead of Add Field, in the model.

ArcGIS Help 10.1

Thanks,

Jay

NeilAyres · Answer

Have you tried to do this simply in ArcMap rather than a model.

The view join doesn't seem to be active at all. It's not coloured blue.