https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1174207#M3746 <P>When you are doing the append are the two fields that are set to default included in there?</P><P>If they are and they are null (or an other value) it will fill the default with that value or null</P> Mon, 16 May 2022 15:38:54 GMT RobertBorchert 2022-05-16T15:38:54Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1173991#M3743 <P>When I use the append tool, the default values for fields that are not included in the target layer are not calculated.</P><P>Although the default values for the target layer are already defined.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="AhmedWaheed1_0-1652525837758.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/41379iF3BA64BAA6ABF79B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="AhmedWaheed1_0-1652525837758.png" alt="AhmedWaheed1_0-1652525837758.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 18 May 2022 09:16:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1173991#M3743 AhmedWaheed1 2022-05-18T09:16:46Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1174207#M3746 <P>When you are doing the append are the two fields that are set to default included in there?</P><P>If they are and they are null (or an other value) it will fill the default with that value or null</P> Mon, 16 May 2022 15:38:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1174207#M3746 RobertBorchert 2022-05-16T15:38:54Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1174975#M3752 <P>In this example I included only one field and the data was transferred successfully but the rest of the fields that were not included appeared "null" even though a default value was set for them in the layer settings.</P><P><SPAN>What I mean is that when I use the copy and past tool the default values are calculated for each field but when I use the append tool the default values are not calculated.</SPAN></P> Wed, 18 May 2022 09:19:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/append-tool-and-default-values-for-fields/m-p/1174975#M3752 AhmedWaheed1 2022-05-18T09:19:53Z