https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1480631#M83956 <P>Hey there, I know this is an old post. Did you ever figure out the solution to this? I'm running into the same issue. Thanks!</P> Thu, 30 May 2024 00:05:10 GMT DanielWinters 2024-05-30T00:05:10Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1338588#M74055 <P>I have a workflow where I am selecting different subsets of features from a dataset, adding and calculating new fields for them, then merging them back together.</P><P>If I make a model that selects the subsets of data, adds and calculates the fields, then I add those into the merge tool in the geoprocessing pane, that works fine, and the four new fields I added and calculated look like this:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="YusefSamari_0-1697549424202.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/83217iDF8E75D949981CF6/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="YusefSamari_0-1697549424202.png" alt="YusefSamari_0-1697549424202.png" /></span></P><P>However, if I include the merge step in the model, the end result of that model shaves all but the first character of the text off in the new fields:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="YusefSamari_1-1697549850992.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/83218iB5F4CF01699859C2/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="YusefSamari_1-1697549850992.png" alt="YusefSamari_1-1697549850992.png" /></span></P><P>Can anyone advise as to what is going on here? The new fields are text fields with a character length of 512. The only difference I can see between the two approaches is running the merge field in the model or not.</P><P>Any help appreciated, thanks!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:43:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1338588#M74055 YusefSamari 2023-10-17T13:43:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1480631#M83956 <P>Hey there, I know this is an old post. Did you ever figure out the solution to this? I'm running into the same issue. Thanks!</P> Thu, 30 May 2024 00:05:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1480631#M83956 DanielWinters 2024-05-30T00:05:10Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1538483#M88271 <P>Same issue here</P> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:14:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/merge-tool-in-modelbuilder-erasing-text-from/m-p/1538483#M88271 icfemmabrenneman 2024-09-13T19:14:42Z