The vast majority of the time, I have no use for any of the fields in my source data when doing a spatial join. I usually only want the count appended to my polygon feature.
However, even if I remove all source fields, they all appear in my output table. If I wanted them all, I would have left them all, so why do they show up after I go to the effort of removing them? If I leave just one, only that one transfers -- easier to do that and deal with having a random field than deal with the gunk that comes with joining a layer with dozens and dozens of extraneous fields.
My preference would be to not have to abide by this silly workaround.
Thanks for this Idea. Could you let us know which geoprocessing tool you are using to complete this workflow? Join Features or Spatial Join?
Thank you for submitting this @wayfaringrob We are looking at this as a bug internally.
When considering whether an issue should be submitted as an idea vs. a bug, if something is not working as expected or is generating an error, that may be a better candidate for a bug (I do realize that there is sometimes room for that to be a judgement call and we'll do our best to manage submissions accordingly).
This is outlined in the ArcGIS Ideas Submission Guidelines and Statuses
Thank you for your engagement. We'll look into this one, but not as an idea to be voted on by the community.
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