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Do attachments in AGOL prevent joinging another layer?

AlfredSchaeffer — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:34:24 GMT

I have been trying to join two layers or a table to a layer in AGOL. The target layer has attachments. Do the attachments prevent the join from being successful? If so, how do I work around that? Do I disable the attachments, do the join, then enable the attachments?

Any thoughts?

Re: Do attachments in AGOL prevent joinging another layer?

shan_sarkar — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:53:21 GMT

Alfred,

When you enable attachments on a table it simply creates an additional table which has a relationship with the parent table based on the OBJECTID field. So, the relationship is established between the parent table and the child table based on the OBJECTID (parent) and REL_OBJECTID (child).

Now having said that it should not matter if you perform a join with the parent table with any other table. So, to answer you query you will not have to remove / disable the attachments to perform a join.

I hope this helps!

~Shan

Re: Do attachments in AGOL prevent joinging another layer?

AlfredSchaeffer — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:53:00 GMT

Shan-

Thanks, that does help. It will save me a lot of time experimenting.

Re: Do attachments in AGOL prevent joinging another layer?

shan_sarkar — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 04:54:35 GMT

I am glad I was able to assist. If you are satisfied with the response, I'd request you to mark this query as resolved.

~Shan

Re: Do attachments in AGOL prevent joinging another layer?

AlfredSchaeffer — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:14:00 GMT

Shan-

I'd be happy to do so if I could figure out how. I'm new to GeoNet.