topic Re: Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another

ZL217 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:46:24 GMT

I need to find the best way to add attachments from one layer to another in Pro. Basically, I have two polygon layers. One with all of my attribute information and building footprints: Buildings. And another with all of the attachments: Images. I am looking for an easy way to copy the attachments from Images to Buildings. The two layers do have a field in common: Name.

I tried using the Merge tool, but this won't work because the features are not in the same layer.

Open to any suggestions here, please help!!

Re: Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another

Eugene_Adkins — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:08:26 GMT

This attachment tool may help.

Re: Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another

RhettZufelt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:36:58 GMT

What type of FeatureClass is the Images FC? Are the images just attached to building center point or something?

Re: Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another

ZL217 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:03:43 GMT

Thanks for the response! Yeah. Basically I tried to create a new "dummy" polygon layer to store the attachments. I'm open to other ways of doing this also.

The reason I don't want to add them directly to each of the Buildings polygons is because the Buildings layer comes from a CAD file. An updated file gets sent to us periodically, and so, to my understanding, when we get a new CAD, the attributes would not transfer over and I would have to manually add them all again. Big picture, I am looking for a way to have the attachments stored somewhere that I can easily and efficiently reupload to the Buildings layer each time we get new CAD data. Hope that makes sense. I'm still new to all the terminology.

Re: Adding Attachments From One Layer to Another

RhettZufelt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:06:07 GMT

You still didn't say what type of/what features the images are attached to.

If it is the footprints with attachments, but without the attributes, you could use the Join Field tool to join the attributes to the Images FC, then rename that as the new Buildings layer.