topic Re: Join attributes when file names *beginnings* are the same in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/join-attributes-when-file-names-beginnings-are-the/m-p/118014#M4092 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I haven't tested this but when you use the add join field you field names change from field name to feature class name"."field name so i think you could use the add join then iterate over the table using the naming convention you may also need to test for fields that are named the same in both feature class the second occurrence may have the suffix "_1"&nbsp; added to it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:18:01 GMT WesMiller 2015-07-30T12:18:01Z Join attributes when file names *beginnings* are the same https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/join-attributes-when-file-names-beginnings-are-the/m-p/118013#M4091 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>In my geodatabase there are point and feature classes. I would like to join one field of the point feature class into the lines. Points and lines must start with the same name:</P><P></P><P><STRONG>data_2014_scope_week_1</STRONG>__Project</P><P><STRONG>data_2014_scope_week_1</STRONG>_Lines</P><P></P><P><STRONG>data_2014_scope_week_2</STRONG>__Project</P><P><STRONG>data_2014_scope_week_2</STRONG>_Lines</P><P></P><P>...</P><P><IMG alt="PointsLines.PNG" class="image-1 jive-image" height="237" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/119880_PointsLines.PNG" style="width: 327px; height: 236.945823927765px;" width="327" /></P><P></P><P>How to do this in model builder? Join Field would do the trick but how to do it in an iterative way? </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:54:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/join-attributes-when-file-names-beginnings-are-the/m-p/118013#M4091 ManuelFrias 2015-07-30T08:54:27Z Re: Join attributes when file names *beginnings* are the same https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/join-attributes-when-file-names-beginnings-are-the/m-p/118014#M4092 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I haven't tested this but when you use the add join field you field names change from field name to feature class name"."field name so i think you could use the add join then iterate over the table using the naming convention you may also need to test for fields that are named the same in both feature class the second occurrence may have the suffix "_1"&nbsp; added to it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:18:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/join-attributes-when-file-names-beginnings-are-the/m-p/118014#M4092 WesMiller 2015-07-30T12:18:01Z