I have a polygon and have created several other polygons within it. now i want to join these smaller polygons to the main polygon. I initially tried the relates tool but didnt get what i wanted because i will want the contents of all the smaller polygons to appear in the attribute table of the main polygon. How do i do this?
relates and joins are between layers ... not within ... if you want to combine the geometry to create a multipart geometry... you can do that ... if you want to combine the attributes, one multipart geometry can only contain the one set of attributes. Editing the attributes may be the fastest
Dan, i will try this to see how it works out. Earlier i used the merge tool and it seemed to have worked, i am not sure whether the output structure is correct, though. For instance the structure of the attribute table changed. Thanks for the response.