idea Maintain Global ID's when loading data from one feature class to another. in ArcGIS Pro Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idi-p/953798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>GLOBALID's are randomly generated so that they will always be unique.&nbsp; So why does ArcGIS software need to renumber all my features' GLOBALID's when i import the features from one feature class to another? &nbsp;<BR /><BR />We frequently export data from our SDE to make schema changes (use VISIO to create a blank schema) then load the data back in, so having the option to mainain exisitng GLOBALID's would make my job a lot easier.<BR /> <!-- content transformation source ID: 0873000000088ag --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:45 GMT AndrewRudin 2010-05-14T15:56:45Z Maintain Global ID's when loading data from one feature class to another. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idi-p/953798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>GLOBALID's are randomly generated so that they will always be unique.&nbsp; So why does ArcGIS software need to renumber all my features' GLOBALID's when i import the features from one feature class to another? &nbsp;<BR /><BR />We frequently export data from our SDE to make schema changes (use VISIO to create a blank schema) then load the data back in, so having the option to mainain exisitng GLOBALID's would make my job a lot easier.<BR /> <!-- content transformation source ID: 0873000000088ag --> </BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 May 2010 15:56:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idi-p/953798 AndrewRudin 2010-05-14T15:56:45Z Re: Maintain Global ID's when loading data from one feature class to another. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idc-p/953799#M7700 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Agreed...any workarounds to retain existing GlobaIIDs?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:35:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idc-p/953799#M7700 TonyViveiros1 2017-06-20T21:35:15Z Re: Maintain Global ID's when loading data from one feature class to another. https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idc-p/953800#M7701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ArcGIS renumbers GUIDs in the entire feature class you are appending to?&nbsp; I've never heard of that nor have I seen it happen;&nbsp; I've appended thousands of records to feature classes as well as tables that have global ids.&nbsp; The only thing I use Global ids for is replication.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:32:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/maintain-global-id-s-when-loading-data-from-one/idc-p/953800#M7701 JoeBorgione 2017-11-03T00:32:57Z