topic Re: Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output in ModelBuilder Questions

Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output

HWhitty — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:11 GMT

I have a process I'd like to automate, and the first step is importing a table into my project gdb. I've been using Table to Geodatabase. When I drop this tool into ModelBuilder, the output is the gdb. However, I want that newly imported table (not the gdb) to be the output so that I can plug it into the next tool. But that tool doesn't seem to allow anything other than a gdb as the output.

How can I get around this? Is there a different tool that would accomplish the same thing but give me the table as the output? (I'm new to ModelBuilder-- apologies if there's an obvious solution that I'm just not seeing.)

Re: Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output

BobBooth1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:41:58 GMT

Try the Export Table tool.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/export-table.htm

Re: Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output

HWhitty — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:27:24 GMT

This works. Kind of counterintuitive to use an export tool to import data. Thank you.

Re: Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output

BobBooth1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:14:31 GMT

The older tool to do this is Table to Table, which is a clearer name.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/conversion/table-to-table.htm

That tools is now deprecated and they recommend the Export Table tool.

Re: Tools for importing table in ModelBuilder -- Provide table as output

HWhitty — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:28:42 GMT

Got it. Thanks @BobBooth1