topic Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

SunniBoulton — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 01:09:38 GMT

Pro Version 2.6.2 not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

I am Intersecting three feature classes, two of which - LZN_20200702 and LZN_20210630 - have the same field names.

I have ticked the “Fields > Maintain fully qualified field names” but the output is only labelling the FID for each feature class, and not maintaining qualified field names. I need to know which original feature class the field "SYM_CODE" is from to enable a definition query.

Have I missed something ?

Screenshots of the dialog boxes:

1. The intersect feature Parameter settings

2. Environment settings

3. Resulting fields

Thank you!

Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

DanPatterson — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 06:15:42 GMT

both Intersect and Pairwise Intersect are supposed to support qualified field names, but give

Pairwise Intersect (Analysis)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

a try. Make sure you don't have any unsaved edits in any layers before running any tools just in case

Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

Robert_LeClair — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:46:32 GMT

In addition to Dan's response, I see you're using ArcGIS Pro 2.6.2. The current release of ArcGIS Pro is 2.8.1 - you may want to update your ArcGIS Pro to the latest release to take advantage of improvements, new tools, new workflows and BUG fixes too.

Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

SunniBoulton — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 01:27:34 GMT

Hi Robert, unfortunately because I'm working for local government I can't control our upgrade schedule. It has to tie in with our Digital Tech Section's list of work. However I have the latest version on my home PC so I will try it there, cheers

Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

SunniBoulton — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:49:57 GMT

Hi Dan, thanks for suggesting this, but sadly, it didn't solve the problem (for Pro 2.6 anyway). I have yet to try it at home, will let you know if this solves it!

It is baffling, because Arcmap (V10.6.1) is doing the same thing - I'm certain that prior to this version it reliably prefixed fields with the original table name.

Cheers,

Sunni

Re: Pro not maintaining fully qualified field names during intersect - even though box is checked

RolandDuhaime — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 20:07:57 GMT

I am using version 2.8.3 and am experiencing the same issue. I have confirmed that the setting is checked to "Maintain fully qualified field names." Also, the output of the Intersect is being written to a file geodatabase.