topic How do you dynamically provide the zone fieldname to Zonal Stats as Table in Model Builder? in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-do-you-dynamically-provide-the-zone-fieldname/m-p/446263#M15028 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a model, which contains a sub-model (see attached attached).&nbsp; The main model iterates through feature classes in a gdb and operates on them by passing them to sub-models.&nbsp; One of these sub-models takes the FC, uses its name to find a corresponding raster, then uses zonal statistics as table to calculate some summary data, join it to the FC and finally delete the join.&nbsp; At least, that's what I want it to do.&nbsp; If I use this sub-model on its own and provide the fc and zonal field manually, it works fine.&nbsp; The problem is I can't figure out how to use the model to provide the field name.</P><P></P><P>I went to the trouble of ensuring that every FC the main model will encounter has a field simply called 'name', which is a unique field I want to use as the zone field.&nbsp; I tried to just put 'name' as the zone field in the sub-model's Zonal Stats process, but it gets deleted once I click away from that field.&nbsp; I tried using a variable, but that didn't seem to work either.&nbsp; Surely there is a way to do this, but I don't see anything about this in the documentation.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:24:59 GMT ForrestFollett1 2020-04-09T18:24:59Z How do you dynamically provide the zone fieldname to Zonal Stats as Table in Model Builder? https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-do-you-dynamically-provide-the-zone-fieldname/m-p/446263#M15028 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a model, which contains a sub-model (see attached attached).&nbsp; The main model iterates through feature classes in a gdb and operates on them by passing them to sub-models.&nbsp; One of these sub-models takes the FC, uses its name to find a corresponding raster, then uses zonal statistics as table to calculate some summary data, join it to the FC and finally delete the join.&nbsp; At least, that's what I want it to do.&nbsp; If I use this sub-model on its own and provide the fc and zonal field manually, it works fine.&nbsp; The problem is I can't figure out how to use the model to provide the field name.</P><P></P><P>I went to the trouble of ensuring that every FC the main model will encounter has a field simply called 'name', which is a unique field I want to use as the zone field.&nbsp; I tried to just put 'name' as the zone field in the sub-model's Zonal Stats process, but it gets deleted once I click away from that field.&nbsp; I tried using a variable, but that didn't seem to work either.&nbsp; Surely there is a way to do this, but I don't see anything about this in the documentation.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:24:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-do-you-dynamically-provide-the-zone-fieldname/m-p/446263#M15028 ForrestFollett1 2020-04-09T18:24:59Z