topic Re: FeatureClassToShapefile column issue in Python Snippets Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879766#M669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>but&nbsp;if the names aren't too long look at<EM>&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-feature-class.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-feature-class.htm">Feature Class to Feature Class—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;because as it says in&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-shapefile.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-shapefile.htm">Feature Class To Shapefile—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</EM>the FC2FC allows greater control over field names because of field mapping options</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:29:25 GMT DanPatterson_Retired 2016-08-25T20:29:25Z FeatureClassToShapefile column issue https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879764#M667 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Im using arcpy.FeatureClassToShapefile_conversion to create a shapefile from two joined layers.&nbsp; The resulting Shapefile has columns named "Input_FC, Input_FC1, Input_FC2, etc." Is there a way to retain the original column names?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:24:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879764#M667 chrisdonnelly3 2016-08-25T19:24:46Z Re: FeatureClassToShapefile column issue https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879765#M668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Most likely this is because your FC field names are too long and the names are being truncated.&nbsp; Shapes still use .dbf format to they have to comply with the fieldname restrictions allowed there.&nbsp; I'm sure someone has a quick link to when the specs are and will be supplying that soon.&nbsp; <IMG src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/happy.png" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:55:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879765#M668 RebeccaStrauch__GISP 2016-08-25T19:55:02Z Re: FeatureClassToShapefile column issue https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879766#M669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>but&nbsp;if the names aren't too long look at<EM>&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-feature-class.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-feature-class.htm">Feature Class to Feature Class—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;because as it says in&nbsp;<A class="link-titled" href="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-shapefile.htm" title="http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/conversion-toolbox/feature-class-to-shapefile.htm">Feature Class To Shapefile—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop</A>&nbsp;</EM>the FC2FC allows greater control over field names because of field mapping options</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:29:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-snippets-questions/featureclasstoshapefile-column-issue/m-p/879766#M669 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-08-25T20:29:25Z