idea New File Merge tool in Data Management Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/new-file-merge-tool/idi-p/921824 <P>&nbsp;When merging files some fields may have different data length values. This results in an error and the file process is stopped. It would be nice if the highest value were used as the default for the new output shapefile. &nbsp;Not sure how ET Tools get's around the issue but their's does seem to work....for a price.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087300000008JIk --> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:10:55 GMT jimhansen 2022-09-01T19:10:55Z New File Merge tool https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/new-file-merge-tool/idi-p/921824 <P>&nbsp;When merging files some fields may have different data length values. This results in an error and the file process is stopped. It would be nice if the highest value were used as the default for the new output shapefile. &nbsp;Not sure how ET Tools get's around the issue but their's does seem to work....for a price.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087300000008JIk --> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:10:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/new-file-merge-tool/idi-p/921824 jimhansen 2022-09-01T19:10:55Z Re: New File Merge tool https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/new-file-merge-tool/idc-p/921825#M56 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>Also, perhaps letting the user choose which shapefile to use for the data length values.&nbsp; Most likely, a user would choose the highest value, but maybe there are circumstances where this would not necessarily be the case.<BR /><BR />By default the user would get the highest value, but they would have some flexibility with the ability to select which shapefile to use as the basis for the merge. <!-- content transformation source ID: 00a30000009arPL --> </BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:31:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-ideas/new-file-merge-tool/idc-p/921825#M56 MichaelVolz 2011-02-02T21:31:07Z