Our organization uses the merge tool for many types of parcel updates including consolidation of ownership/property parcels and changes to local zoning parcels. Typically, during these updates, we want to preserve the attributes of one of the parcels, while also creating a historic version of both parcels so that the original state of both the parcels can be maintained.
Currently, the options with the Merge tool are:
The workflow we are using to ensure that we get the history for both parcels that are being merged while not having to re-attribute the merged parcel is:
Ideally, we would like to have the option to create history and preserve the attributes of one of the parcels. If the ‘Existing Features’ option had the ‘Keep original features’ checkbox that the ‘New Feature’ option has, we would be able to create history and preserve the attributes we need which would greatly simplify our workflow.
Hello @CatherineRoloson
I think what you want to be able to do with Merging into New Feature can be done. If you uncheck the "Use Template" check box and then you can choose which feature to preserve the attributes by selecting the feature in the "Feature to merge" box.
Let me know if this is what you want to have happen.
-Jason
Wow, @JasonCamerano that's a sneaky fix !
We've tested this on our end and it did exactly what we were hoping for which is marking the two original parcels as historic and creating the new parcel with the attributes of the one we selected.
Thank you so much for your prompt response. This worked like a charm.
I wonder if this could be added to the parcel edit help for others? https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/data/parcel-editing/mergeparcels.htm
Thanks again!
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