topic Adding field with data source? in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/adding-field-with-data-source/m-p/244234#M10724 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I work with an agricultural consultancy that has mapped individual clients in their own map documents for years. We'd now like to begin bringing this information together. I used&nbsp;a script to walk through our client folder and pull a layer with a selected name (FIELDS_1) from each client into a single new map. Of course all the layers in&nbsp;the new map have the same name, but further, we did&nbsp;not include the farmer name in the attribute table for each original shapefile.</P><P></P><P>The only&nbsp;tie I can find to the&nbsp;farmer name is through Layer Properties. Here,&nbsp;the Data Source window contains the file path where I retrieved each shapefile. If I could put this string into a new field on the attribute table, I could parse to find the client name - it is always at a predictable location. Is this possible?</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="screenshots of table of contents and data source" class="image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="/legacyfs/online/433592_Append field question.PNG" />&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:07:54 GMT EricSauder 2019-01-17T17:07:54Z Adding field with data source? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/adding-field-with-data-source/m-p/244234#M10724 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I work with an agricultural consultancy that has mapped individual clients in their own map documents for years. We'd now like to begin bringing this information together. I used&nbsp;a script to walk through our client folder and pull a layer with a selected name (FIELDS_1) from each client into a single new map. Of course all the layers in&nbsp;the new map have the same name, but further, we did&nbsp;not include the farmer name in the attribute table for each original shapefile.</P><P></P><P>The only&nbsp;tie I can find to the&nbsp;farmer name is through Layer Properties. Here,&nbsp;the Data Source window contains the file path where I retrieved each shapefile. If I could put this string into a new field on the attribute table, I could parse to find the client name - it is always at a predictable location. Is this possible?</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="screenshots of table of contents and data source" class="image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="/legacyfs/online/433592_Append field question.PNG" />&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:07:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/adding-field-with-data-source/m-p/244234#M10724 EricSauder 2019-01-17T17:07:54Z