Append — Load XY table into point FC as point features

[Bud]

ArcGIS Pro 3.0.3

I have a point feature class. And I have a standalone table with X & Y columns.

I want to load the rows from the XY table into the point FC as point features/geometries using the Append tool.

Currently, the Append tool's Field Matching functionality doesn't allow mapping XYs to a shape column. Could that functionality be added?

I'm aware there are other ways to do it. I'm hoping for functionality that lets me do it directly in the Append tool without needing additional pre-processing steps.

Thanks.

[DrewFlater]

@Bud we have been working on an append capability that may land in the Pro 3.5 release. It accomplishes the same thing as this idea but in the reverse way. You still won't be able to Append and select X and Y fields to construct a shape field for loading into an existing point feature class. Although that might align with this: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/enhance-append-tool-to-allow-python-arcade/idi-p/1195...

The new append capability will put an option into tools like XY Table To Point, so instead of creating a new output feature class, you can load the new points into an existing point feature class. This append option will be present on a number of feature processing tools. 

[DrewFlater]

What I described is available in the Pro 3.5 Beta. XY Table To Point supports appending the new points into an existing feature class.

[MargaretCrawford]

Hi Bud, we are going to mark this idea as implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.5. As Drew mentioned, several geoprocessing tools have a new Overwrite Options drop-down list when the specified output dataset already exists.  This new option is available in the XY Table To Point tool, and you can use it to "append" the tools output as new rows of data to an existing dataset. 

You can read more about Overwrite Options here:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/analysis/geoprocessing/basics/run-geoprocessing-tools....