Preserving GlobalID Values

Question

The ArcGIS Pro Append GP tool has an option to preserve GlobalID values - which seems quite useful.  Am wondering if this is available somewhere in the SDK?

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thx,

Ed

EdwardBlair · Answer

Well yes.   I presume that Append uses the Python API.  Was just wondering

if a similar thing was present in the .NET API.  Apparently not.

Thanks for the info!

Ed

RichRuh · Answer

You definitely cannot specify a global ID when creating a new feature.

One possible idea would be to copy the source table using Append (which preserves IDs) and then make your edits to that new table.

--Rich

EdwardBlair · Answer

Hey Rich -

I was hoping to be able to create UN features in an edit operation and be

able to assign a global ID value from a source feature.  Reason being would

be that this could preserve global ID values set in a staging database that

were used for building associations.  Without this I'm thinking I would

need to build staging database associations and then post-process to update

from/to global ID values in the associations.

As below.  (And as always, I may be missing something)

await QueuedTask.Run(() =>

{

var createOperation = new EditOperation();

createOperation.Name = "Load features";

createOperation.SelectNewfeatures = false;

var atts = new Dictionary<string, object>();

atts.Add("SHAPE", myShape);

atts.Add("GlobalID", myGlobalID);

createOperation.Create(myfeatureLayer, atts);

return createOperation.Execute();

}

Thx,

Ed