https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/textfield-in-merged-feature-class-only-contains/m-p/1533386#M87830 <DIV>I have created (in ArcGIS Pro 3.1.3) four point feature classes in a .gdb-file, and to each seperately added a text field called 'existence' that contains a status description ("NEW", "UNCHANGED", "UPDATED" or "DELETED").</DIV><DIV>The fields are correct when I open their attribute tables.<BR /><BR />When I merge these feature classes they merge correctly, apart from the text field 'existence' which is truncated to the first letter only ("N", "D" or "U").<BR /><BR />I have tried changing the field properties Length to 32, and changed the Merge rule from 'First' to 'Maximum' (just to try something), but that doesn't seem to change anything. Does someone have an idea what could be wrong?<BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="merge_model_prob.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113982iF6C6F34252B3B051/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="merge_model_prob.png" alt="merge_model_prob.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="updated_attribtab.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113984iFEC5EEBD82607852/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="updated_attribtab.png" alt="updated_attribtab.png" /></span><P> </P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="merged_attributetable.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113983i1954A786E86B5C6C/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="merged_attributetable.png" alt="merged_attributetable.png" /></span><P> </P><BR /><P> </P></DIV> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:06:16 GMT Ben_Ba 2024-08-30T15:06:16Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/textfield-in-merged-feature-class-only-contains/m-p/1533386#M87830 <DIV>I have created (in ArcGIS Pro 3.1.3) four point feature classes in a .gdb-file, and to each seperately added a text field called 'existence' that contains a status description ("NEW", "UNCHANGED", "UPDATED" or "DELETED").</DIV><DIV>The fields are correct when I open their attribute tables.<BR /><BR />When I merge these feature classes they merge correctly, apart from the text field 'existence' which is truncated to the first letter only ("N", "D" or "U").<BR /><BR />I have tried changing the field properties Length to 32, and changed the Merge rule from 'First' to 'Maximum' (just to try something), but that doesn't seem to change anything. Does someone have an idea what could be wrong?<BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="merge_model_prob.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113982iF6C6F34252B3B051/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="merge_model_prob.png" alt="merge_model_prob.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="updated_attribtab.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113984iFEC5EEBD82607852/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="updated_attribtab.png" alt="updated_attribtab.png" /></span><P> </P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="merged_attributetable.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/113983i1954A786E86B5C6C/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="merged_attributetable.png" alt="merged_attributetable.png" /></span><P> </P><BR /><P> </P></DIV> Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:06:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/textfield-in-merged-feature-class-only-contains/m-p/1533386#M87830 Ben_Ba 2024-08-30T15:06:16Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/textfield-in-merged-feature-class-only-contains/m-p/1538482#M88270 <P>I have this same issue! Very annoying.</P> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:14:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/textfield-in-merged-feature-class-only-contains/m-p/1538482#M88270 icfemmabrenneman 2024-09-13T19:14:11Z